…… have had a strange relationship. When I was a keen runner I was all about road, cross-country and fell running. parkrun wasn’t even around. I ran my last really competitive race as a v55 in the World Masters Champs on the fells above Keswick, in 2005.

From well before I stopped competing I had been coaching athletes at my club (Barnet and District AC) and they in turn were track, road and cross-country runners, although some gradually took to parkrunning – often saying it was going to...