Finnish Spring is spoiling us with excellent weather. 53 participants and 10 volunteers could enjoy their Saturday morning dosage of parkrun atmosphere is perfect conditions. Warm, sunny, gentle breeze, can't get better than that.

Thank You to all the volunteers this week. You are the backbone of parkrun events.

We had a good number of visitors coming again this week. From Ireland we had half-a-dozen visitors with family. Visitor from Estonia who was in a hurry on the route and also after the run to catch the train to Helsinki and ferry. Hope you made it! We are also enjoying the visitors coming from Turku but it would definitely be a time to have an event there as well. And a parkrun wouldn't be a parkrun without few English friends too. It was great to meet you all!

To our regular participant Tobias we bid farewell. He is now moving back home after a while in Tampere. It has been a pleasure meeting you and all the best to your future endeavors and parkruns!

Several congratulations are also in order for few Tiilikka family members. Julia joined Joonas in the 10 parkrun junior club. Jarmo and Juha were on a bit longer route while they participated in Karhunkierros NUTS. Congratulations!

Finally few reminders:

• parkrun founder Paul Sinton-Hewitt is visiting us tomorrow on the 27th May (Monday) at 12:00. You are all warmly welcomed to the Tampere parkrun start location to meet him in person and have a little chat with the guy who started it all.



• Next week is the end of the school year and volunteers are desperately needed. If you can join and volunteer next week it would be very much appreciated.

What else is there to say but if you are a Liverpool fan we feel your pain. Hopefully you can forgive Loris Karius. Joining parkrun will definitely make you feel better!

Tätä kirjoitettaessa on sunnuntai 13.5. eli äitienpäivä. Eilen ei vielä äitejä parkrunissa onniteltu, mutta nyt onnitellaan.

PALJON ONNEA KAIKILLE ÄIDEILLE!

ALL THE BEST TO ALL THE MOTHERS!

Tässä parkrunin vapaaehtoiset vilkuttavat Äideille onnea!

Äitienpäivän sää on kuin eilinenkin aivan täydellinen kevät- tai pikemminkin kesäpäivä. Yli 20 astetta lämmintä ja aurinko paistaa miltei pilvettömältä taivaalta. Näistä säistä kannattaa nauttia niin parkrunissa kuin muutenkin!

Ihailkaapa vaikka tätä videota parkrunin kääntöpaikalta!

Ja mikä on myös mahtavaa on, että hienot osallistujamäärät jatkuvat. 54 loistavaa osallistujaa ja 8 aina yhtä mukavaa vapaaehtoista olivat paikalla Laukonsillan kupeessa lauantaiaamuna. Reitti ja kelit alkavat olla niin hienossa kunnossa, että melkein jäisi mielellään istuskelemaan penkeille nauttimaan kesän etenemisestä.

Tätä parkrunia järjestää kyllä mielellään, kun tapaa teidänlaisia ihmisiä ja voi nauttia siitä kauniissa kesäsäässä!

Tällä kertaa meillä oli myös mieluisia vieraita, sillä Martin ja Jakob olivat tulleet käymään Leipzigistä Saksasta. He olivat perustamassa ensimmäisiä parkruneja Saksaan, jotka aloittivat muutaman viikon Suomen jälkeen ja hienosti heilläkin kuulemma menee. Eikä siis ihme, että Saksaan syntyy uusia parkruneja miltei viikottain. Yksi parkrun jonka aloittamista Tampereella kovasti odotellaan on Bremenin parkrun, joka Martinin ja Jakobin mukaan on aloittamassa muutamien viikkojen sisällä. Ehkä meidän pitäisi tehdä Tampereelta matka Bremeniin jossakin vaiheessa.

Erilliset kiitokset vielä Cristianille, joka takimmaisen (tailrunner) ominaisuudessa piti vielä portugalin ja suomen keskustelutuntia.

Lopetetaan tämä blogikirjoitus tällä kertaa parkrunin "viralliseen" tulosraporttiin niin ehtisi vaikka lähteä äitienpäivälenkille.

Tampere parkrun
Event number 30
12th May 2018
This week 54 people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 12 were first timers and 13 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 5 different clubs took part.

Tampere parkrun started on 14th October 2017. Since then 446 participants have completed 1,421 parkruns covering a total distance of 7,105 km, including 292 new Personal Bests.

First things first. Former route record holder 17 year old Mikko Eerola has been busy this year. He crossed the finish line after a 120% effort at time 17:08. Good luck Mikko to your orienteering efforts this season!

We also had several guests visiting parkrun. Perhaps the most noteworthy appearance was from Moomin, who after a long Winter season had come to check how we were doing. And we are doing great. 80 participants and a bunch of volunteers greeted Moomin in a bit chilly Spring morning. Luckily things warmed up after Moomin sent parkrunners on their way.

We had several other visitors from all around too. Rosemary Egbe, titled as "#1 femaly parkrun tourist in the world" visited us with friends. Also enjoyed meeting Wonky Bear Jr :). From Poland we had a blogger Agnieszka, Brian, Tom, Glyn, Paul, Iwona, Melanie, Nicola, David, Lynn. Hope we rememmbered you all. You really brought warmth to our chilly morning with your friendly faces and greetings at the starting place and on the route. Hoping to meet you all again some day!

One particular guest we would like to highlight and at the same time we challenge the residents of City of Turku. Lorna is now taking the bus from Turku on Saturday morning to Tampere parkrun. As much as we like having her at our friendly parkrun we do believe that it is time that Turku gets a parkrun of it's own.

This is now a request to all readers. Please share this to your friends in Turku area.

There must be active, enthusiastic people in Turku that would like to participate in a organizing parkrun there!

TURKU: CHALLENGE HAS BEEN MADE. LET'S SEE HOW YOU RESPOND!

To wrap things here are few after parkrun pictures from the parkrun Sauna and coffee house Sanna's which we were glad to see got a full house with parkrunners queuing to get in!