On Saturday morning I caught the start of the 5km Parkrun that starts at Rye Farm Meadow at 9am. The race director welcomed runners from lots of different places including Didcot, Oxford, and the University of Birmingham. He also gave an update on the course conditions, and a notice about lost property.

Then he lined them all up

and they were off …

The runner with the fastest time, from Headington Road Runners, came in at 17:46. The last and 349th runner to finish had a time of 51:37.

Also there watching the race was Paul Gustaffson, the author of the Eggbert’s Adventures books. I saw him later that morning at the Charter where the Abingdon Community Hospital Friends had a fund raiser. Paul has been organising the World ‘Eggbert’s Adventures’ Egg and Spoon championship on 15th April in the Abbey Meadows. He was scouting out the 5km run at Rye Farm in case the venue needed to be changed to somewhere bigger.