Dancing At Lunacy

parkrun#410 event#114

Sometimes things just fall your way – a Saturday where I wasn’t working, had access to the car, and the sun was shining. Time to reclaim my regionnaire status and head to Lisnaskea in beautiful Fermanagh.

Access:

The course is run at Lough Head nature walk just on the outskirts of the village.

Facilities:

Plenty of car parking, I didn’t see any loos onsite.

Crowd:

I was at event number 23 and came in just ahead of the tailwalker taking position token 47. They had over 100 on New Years Day, but the average attendance is around 50. Dog and buggy friendly.

Course:

The usual course is a 2 lap figure of 8, but due to ongoing construction work the course I ran was 4 laps of the nature walk. Gravel all the way, flat apart from the odd culvert. Lots of pleasant views and birdsong.

Time:

I was trotting along with Toby, stopping to take photos, and playing parkrun trumps with the voluntoruing tailwalker. Happy enough with my time of 52 minutes.

Gear:

I was trialling my amusing “Saturday Running Club” sweatshirt that I’d recently got on Vinted. Fine for walking, bit too warm when running. Cow bobble, Saucony trainers.

Afterwards:

There are a number of cafes in town, but none of them dog friendly. Instead we stopped at Unhitched in Augher, for some excellent coffee and their famous cheese toasties. Note – one of these is enough to split between 2, and then you would have room for one of their tasty looking traybakes. Fancy stuff like overnight oats also available.

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