Team Armstrong

When I started running, it was with Family. Kim and Alan guided me from being someone who could barely stagger 1k, to completing 10k within 6 weeks (that's 1k to 10k in six weeks, it didn't take me 10 weeks to run 10k.) I ran my first race (Bupa Manchester 10k) with them and still do run with them regularly.

 

Not long into my parkrun 'life' I was already telling anyone who would listen about the wonder that was a weekly timed 5k, and I happened to mention it to Kev who works for Armstrong.

 

Not long afterwards, I stopped going to parkrun, I hadn't quite built the habit of parkrunday.

 

It was only in a chance conversation a couple of months later that I realised that some of Kev's colleagues had started parkrunning. I turned up the following week, but they weren't there.

 

The following week they were though and I started to run with them weekly. Graham, Laura, Sally, Ian, Matt, Jonathan and Helen have all turned up, barcode in hand on a Saturday morning. Little did I know, but a lot of Armstrong staff are runners, and Team Armstrong run in races.

 

In 2012, Team Armstrong were running the Salford 10k and I was asked if I would like to join them as an honourary member. I was delighted and agreed, since then, I've been adopted and run with Team Armstrong members regularly either at parkrun, or in races.

 

This year we've taken on the Trafford 10k and the Chester Half Marathon, next week the Manchester 10k is on and then the We Luv Mancester 10k.

 

Team Armstrong is the reason I started parkrunning again, and running with friends makes it much more fun.

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