Shadowing Practice: PARKRUN REVIEW: Preston parkrun - Event #586 - Learn English Speaking with Video

Good morning my name is Grant this is Endorphin Empire and welcome to Preston Parkrun

If 2025 is going to be remembered for anything it will be remembered for being the dry hot year

and speaking of heat Preston Parkrun is bringing all the heat

today this place is absolutely stunning I don't know what I was expecting

but it definitely wasn't this this place is wonderful

so far first impressions very very very very good the park

is beautiful it's big there's a few elevations here it looks very modern

and there's lots of good facilities

and it looks like it attracts some quick runners as well the record here is low 15s

so it is potentially quite a quick course

so i'm going to find out about that today and

if you've not seen these videos before how they work is

i do a little bit of pre-run admin sort of what shoes you need to bring things like

that we get into a course overview following

that i get into the run i zoom it up

so you can kind of see the course quite quickly

and obviously by the end the most important part of my

week the highlights of my weekend is the cafe review where

we try to find some carrot cake fundamentally that's the most important part

and then possibly some good breakfast as well in terms of

preston i know it's a jubilee city made a city in 2002

so it's been a city for a

while now lovely place to visit it seems

so far not been here before in the northwest a bit

of a drive to get over here for me today

but it was for a reason probably the furthest west i've been i don't know

if that's true or not but it's a fact

if i say it's a fact

and in terms of free run admin first of all underfoot it is surface path

so you can wear your road shoes i'm wearing some new

shoes today i'm very excited to give them a go then

in terms of toilets there are toilets beside the start finish area they're a bit basic

but it's all you need and then getting here there's loads of of information, the people who run this place are very on it.

So the information on the Parkrun website and the 5k app tells you how to get here, obviously by public transport, so by bus,

how to get here by train as well.

You can cycle here and there's cycling lock-up facilities right beside the start finish area

and in terms of driving here there's loads of different parking availability options on the 5k up to.

But without any further ado let's get straight over to the course overview

and then following I'll get straight to the start line.

Let's go.

30 seconds course overview.

It's a three lap course so one mile per lap pretty much

which makes it very easy for you to hopefully pace yourself

if there wasn't an enormous hill which there is and it's steep

but then you get a pretty much descent for the rest

of the lap the hill starts straight away it's quite congested

first lap then you can just pick people off as long as you've paced yourself correctly

and that is the trick to this course pacing

if you can hold back the excitement at the start you're on to a winner

so bear that in mind going forwards

but let's get to the course overview now and you can see if i did a decent job at that so

Hello from roughly half a way round Preston Park and gonna go out on a limb and say, not a PB course?

That hill is pretty big, but we're approaching halfway now.

It's very well volunteered.

There's a very well oiled machine here, and I think they get everything sorted straight away.

The only issue is they're a bit congested at the start, but isn't every parkrunner.

Thank you.

So, I'll leave you just now with time, to the end of the course it is a beautiful this course

so i hope you enjoy it and i'll see you at the finish line ciao so

Keep moving,

she's fine.

Hello, thank you very much.

Preston Parkrun, done and understood.

You can see the finished vinyl just walking in behind.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, this is a very well-oiled machine.

The volunteers here are magnificent.

So thank you so much.

So far, surely a contender for the top 10 parkruns i've done this is event number 102

and it's magnificent now we have to get to the cafe though that's where it will make

or break so thanks to the volunteers let's pray for carrot cake decent bacon

or sausage buddies and a decent black americano let's go Cafe review time at Preston Park.

In the moment you've all been waiting for.

And in terms of coffee it was decent, so can't complain at all.

Quite quick service considering how busy it can get in there.

The sausage buddies were okay, the nice white bun.

I think it was sort of a sausage bun is what they might call it over here.

But the staff were lovely, very chatty which is great

and then obviously the most important part of my week the highlight of my week is the carrot cake

but they didn't have any i had a honeycomb

and chocolate tiffin instead which is okay

but it has failed in the carrot cake regard you can

see all the cake options here there are a few muffins

and other things to choose from

and there were a few um packeted like sweet treats as well

but i don't really go for them

but no decent little cafe right beside the start finish area

all very convenient this spot i really really rate it

and there you have have it cafe review done course overview

done pre-run admin done the actual run itself done thank you

to anyone who said hello i appreciate you i chatted to

a few of you today all the way over here in preston over two hours away from home

so thanks for watching

if you've enjoyed it please remember to like comment share subscribe

it means a bunch to me in the description for this

video below you'll find a link to my strava account so

if there's any further details such as how much elevation there

actually is on this course you can go over there

and have a look and then as always say thank you to the volunteers

and please remember one pizza will make you fat

100

one park run won't make you fit you get out there enjoy your running

101

and i'll see you next time from a new location ciao

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