Hastings 5K Park Run

I arrived at the start of this Saturday's 350th 5K Hastings Parkrun, which I have written about a few times before (eg blog), and 'twas a beautiful morning for it. 😎

420 participants completed the run, and final times can be found at the website.

Nice one folks, runners and volunteer facilitators! 👍

Hastings Park Run and O.W.E.N.S

Hastings Park Run was held this morning, as usual on a Saturday starting at 09.00 at West Marina Gardens, 2.5 Km along the seafront to just beyond Hastings Pier and back again. I took my photographs just as they were passing the Azur Pavilion the first time, looking down on the lower promenade; they return on the upper promenade. 262 runners took part, with 17 achieving personal bests, respect to them, young and not so young, and to all volunteers who help to make this a fun 5 Km run (website).

On my return to the town centre I ventured into O.W.E.N.S as it was open, and, apparently, at least for weekends and school holidays anyway, it is open from 09.00am to 11.00pm, so feel free to visit!

20 Mile Walk along the Seafront!

Hastings Parkrun Early Leaders 

This included the same landmarks I mention in last week's blog, but my brother and I doubled the distance on the Saturday just gone by walking on to Pevensey Bay and back. This was the calm before yeaterday's 'storm' and did start off a wee bit damp, but soon cleared up, and was a very fine afternoon indeed!

And they keep on passing us! 

I have written about Hastings Parkrun a number of times before, eg blog, and on Saturday, despite the miserable early conditions, 282 runners completed the run, the first finisher completed the 5 km in 17 minutes and 36 seconds, my respect to all the runners! See their website for full results.

OK, so we obviously went on beyond Bexhill this Saturday, our lunchtime turning point being at Pevensey Bay, where we admired Sandcastle, an early example of when art deco meets the modern (wowhaus website), indeed it was built the year before building work was commenced on the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill (website), which I found enlightening! We also walked a wee bit beyond Sandcastle.

Of course we had to have a drink at the 16th century Castle Inn in Pevensey (website) and a couple of pints of Harvey's Sussex Best before heading back eastwards...

Walking Home, way over there!

So another enjoyable walk along the seafront and refreshing too, cheers!