Running Roberts Park parkrun after Storm Dudley & Eunice. Flood Course. Saltaire World Heritage Site

[@reelrun]

Another great video and Parkrun - first time I've ever seen a juggling Parkrunner!

[@NicolaRuns]

Thank you! Ralph is in my running club so we're lucky and get to see him joggling around Leeds a fair bit 😃🤹‍♂️ I've never seen anyone run ridiculously fast while joggling though?! It's such a skill! I was impressed when Ralph was running round a corner, juggling AND noticed, and thanked, the marshal! Incredible from both of them 🤹‍♂️🤹‍♂️

[@reelrun]

@@NicolaRuns Incredible!

[@katiepillar]

I always like the way Poppy really looks at things and appreciates her surroundings. Nature child!

[@NicolaRuns]

Definitely! I'm so lucky because I never would have spotted that mouse, I swear it was TINY! 🐁❤️😍

[@Tutongbwn]

Congratulations on ur milestone 550. U & poppy an inspiration to all. 😍

[@NicolaRuns]

Awwwww that's just a super lovely thing to say. Thank you so much ❤️

[@MrCol104]

Thanks Nicola. What a beautiful park. Haven't got round to running this ParkRun yet but I will do on my next free Saturday. Congratulations on ParkRun 550. Absolutely incredible. I was wondering how many you'd done and now I know. Ashamed to say I did my 50th last week. 😆 Event director 'marathon' Sam. She does so much for the local community. She's an absolute superstar. Massive well done to her and the team for getting the event on and keeping everybody dry. Joggler Chris is a brilliant runner and a multi-marathoner. I see him at lots of events. Crazy but awesome. It's a shame you didn't have time to show us around the mill. I've always wondered what it's like in there. Ps. When Saltaire was build, Sir Titus included schools, work places, housing and a church, but pubs were completely banned. Nowadays there is a brilliantly named pub called ....... Don't tell Titus. 😆

[@NicolaRuns]

Oh brilliant, I'll have to go for a drink in there next time! 🤣 Sam awwww what a gem she is! ❤️ Definitely get over to run there, I'm sure you've run through on tons of grim events. Chris and his joggling blew me away! SOOOOOOOOOO fast! 😱 Congratulations on your 50... Be proud not ashamed! 🎉🎉🎉

[@alanmcdougall8228]

Great video as always. Learned a new word - joggler. Never heard that before 😀

[@NicolaRuns]

Thank you 🤗 Ooh yay! Every day is a school day! 🙃 Jogglers are amazing! 🤹🏃‍♂️

[@geraldinepugh4093]

Come back in the summer. The park is glorious!

[@NicolaRuns]

I'd love to 😍 Although I thought it was rather lovely now! But we could spend the day there and picnic etc so that would be ace! 😃

[@NickyJones99]

Another lovely video of a wonderful park in the north. Good bit of extra training there carrying Poppy! By the way Walter and Wendy Worms are back in stock!!

[@NicolaRuns]

Are they?!??!!?!! This is AWESOME news! Thank you so much! I really hope one of my local stores has them! 😃😃😃

[@NickyJones99]

@@NicolaRuns They are here in Bucks anyway! Let us know if you want some posted 📮

[@NicolaRuns]

Awwwww thank you so so much! Fingers crossed I can get some. If I get desperate I might have to take you up on that but I'm feeling lucky so 🤞

[@thebuttonmushroom]

Those statues looks more like llamas than alpacas. I think you were right the first time!

[@NicolaRuns]

This made me laugh... I was so hopeful you were right that I looked it up 🤣 they're definitely alpacas 😫😂

[@richsullivan1950]

Love you carrying Poppy through that puddle, proper made me chuckle. Also glad to see a YT video that stops to highlight a snicket. Yorkshire at it's finest 😄

[@NicolaRuns]

Your comment properly made me laugh! 😂 I've been here so long that I forget that I never used to know what words like snicket and ginnel meant 🤣

[@lukedaniel7669]

Love a snicket!

[@NicolaRuns]

@@lukedaniel7669 gotta love a snicket! It's such a good word! 🙃

[@katiepillar]

Snicket made me homesick!

[@NicolaRuns]

@@katiepillar awwwwww sending hugs 💛💛💛 where are you from? I can't figure out exactly where snicket is from. Because I think Leeds is ginnel but snicket is totally accepted dialogue to me so I think that is here too 🙃

[@bladgb1]

Love the video and thank you for coming to our lovely park - all the volunteers look forward to seeing you guys again soon 😊

[@NicolaRuns]

Thanks for having me! And thanks for a wonderful morning 🤗 I'm pleased you liked the video 😃

[@davidmilton6366]

Congratulations on 550, not far behind you, approaching 150 (ha ha). Another very enjoyable video and a fun time had by you and Poppy.

[@NicolaRuns]

Thank you 🤗 You're pretty close, only 8 years if you don't miss any?! 😜🤣 Thanks for the lovely comment ☺️

[@barnabynorman157]

Oh oh I been there - well we went to the mill after Chevin last year - we only got as far as the canal - amazing what you see there, running jugglers and Poppies in stocks rolling their eyes! Great looking park and great video - thanks for sharing.

[@NicolaRuns]

I'm always obsessed with joggling! It's such an amazing skill! 😃😃😃

[@AllenMulliss]

Lovely video, thank you very much for sharing. Fantastic effort by the volunteer team to sort out a course at short notice. Well done on your arbitrary 550th and good to see your 500 milestone shirt on the final lap! Nice park. How the weather turned!

[@NicolaRuns]

Thanks Allen. Oh my goodness the weather that day was crazy! The snow fell so heavily and settled so quickly. We were super lucky to get away with a dry and bright parkrun! The team were absolutely wonderful 💛💛💛

[@lukedaniel7669]

Nice to finally put a face to the famous Neil Holloway! I really like the way you and Poppy do parkrun, and kudos to the jogglers.

[@NicolaRuns]

The jogglers were 😱😱😱 awesome weren't they?! Lol, Neil Holloway. He's lovely but VERY shy as you saw 😜🤣 Out of curiosity how do Poppy and I do parkrun? 😊 Do you mean that we just have fun and look for mice 😃😃😃

[@lukedaniel7669]

@@NicolaRuns the run seems entirely incidental to your parkrun adventures 😃 I'm jealous, Elliot & I both being autistic just can't have the same sort of approach to it all.

[@NicolaRuns]

@@lukedaniel7669 it's hard to imagine what other people's experiences are like 🙃 I do think that maybe Poppy and I have slightly more parkrun madness on our adventures than most but we're both really excitable 🤣🤷🏻‍♀️ I read the word incidental in your comment as identical and reread it 5 times as identical and I didn't understand at all... I think I must be tired! 🤦‍♀️🤣 When I finally read incidental then I finally got it. Lol! Yeah I think to get kids engaged it needs to be about the journey and not the destination. We could be doing 3km or 10km... The important bit is that we're together and outside and having fun and exploring new places and seeing new things 🥰

[@lukedaniel7669]

@@NicolaRuns totally this. Elliot's much happier volunteering at 5k than running at the moment, I'm happy to facilitate him doing that. It's also worth seeing the look on RDs faces at different events when they ask if he'sokay doing whatever job and then realise a ten year old has more volunteering experience than their entire team put together 😂

[@NicolaRuns]

@@lukedaniel7669 that's brilliant 😃 it's so good for kids confidence too and a great skill set to have! parkrun is just a brilliant way to have time outside together as a family on a Saturday morning isn't it?! That's one of the reasons I love it so much! ❤️

[@Tonyr2]

Those 500 tops look really nice 🤩. As does that parkrun course. I really need to do more up north. I have done Middlesbrough, Wakefield and Bolton but need to up my parkrun tourism. Well run guys.

[@NicolaRuns]

Thanks Tony 🤗 as always there's too many parkruns not enough parkrundays! It is a great place for a parkrun though so I'd definitely recommend a visit 😊

[@Tonyr2]

And it looks like June 18th might be the the weekend. A TT, a car group i am in, are having a meet in the Leeds area that Sunday so could incorporate a parkrun too that makes a weekend of it. Time will tell.

[@NicolaRuns]

@@Tonyr2 that's a better time to visit than February 😜🤣

[@Tonyr2]

And 18th June it is. Hotel booked, although 3 hour drive up and straight to Roberts Park for parkrun from home. Looking forward to it.

[@richardbuck1729]

That snow in the afternoon was pretty intense!

[@NicolaRuns]

It was crazy! These storms 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ I went for a run in it and it was nuts! Fell in 2 hours and settled heavily. Traffic at a standstill etc. Then started melting so fast it was super slippery and a nightmare to run on 🤣 crazy weather!!!

[@ricd2821]

Congrats on 550, that puddle was a monster! I am one of the jogglers haha 8:15 thanks for the shoutout and honoured to feature in a Nicola Runs video!

[@NicolaRuns]

Thanks 🤗 You are SOOOOOOOOOO fast! 😱 I got some stick as someone was like "you're getting overtaken by someone juggling" I was like "he wasn't overtaking... He was LAPPING us'" 🤣 Super impressive. Awesome running and fantastic to see. Thanks for the inspiration, Poppy wants to learn to juggle now after seeing you and Ralph! 👍😃

[@ricd2821]

@@NicolaRuns haha awesome 👍🤹‍♀️

[@NicolaRuns]

Oh and have you read the run report on Roberts Park parkrun page? 😃 I gave you silver! 🥈🙃

[@FrugalMrB]

I didn't get to Burnley today as planned - but I did Roberts park instead. It was a different course than the one in this video - I really enjoyed it and managed to get a new PB (I'm on a 2 week PB streak!) Same RD (Sam) when you were there. I'll definitely go back

[@NicolaRuns]

Aren't the team there fantastic! It's a bit of a running joke that there's a different route every time you run there 😜🤣 I absolutely love it there 😃

[@FrugalMrB]

@@NicolaRuns Yes, great volunteers - I'll be back later in the year (and who knows, the course might be different again! 🤣)

[@johnbates4389]

Nice to meet you on Saturday, well done on the 550. I am returning this Saturday for hopefully the proper course and a #20 for Wilson. Agree that a great course and super friendly volunteers (and banter on facebook page)

[@NicolaRuns]

Thank you 🤗 ooh I hope you get to run the original route but I'm not sure that it will be ok after seeing the pictures of the flooding on Sunday 😱😱😱 I'd definitely like to return in the summer. We're in Norfolk this Saturday. Have a great parkrun and please tell the alpacas that I'm sorry I called them llamas... TWICE! 🤦‍♀️🙄🤣🤣🤣

[@bren70ssss94]

Well done on your 550 , I just found this video so I'm sure the number is way more , that hot chocolate looked amazing 🤤

[@NicolaRuns]

Thanks, I am counting down the weeks to 600 now 😃 think I've got 12 to go... Something like that anyway 🎉🎉🎉

[@orange77_]

Lovely video, thank you very much for sharing and for joining us. I need to plan it better so that next time I'm not walking when you run past me!! What camera do you use please? It looked ace!

[@NicolaRuns]

Thanks 🤗 Lol, that's funny. I sometimes say to Poppy "I'm about to film" because she prefers when she's running than walking 🤣 it's the DJI Osmo Pocket 2. I think it's ace... Apart from not being waterproof! Otherwise I love it 👍

[@2nailchallenge636]

Great video .

[@NicolaRuns]

Thank you 🤗

[@emmarunyeard6832]

What a majestic and beautiful park, oop north looks lush x when does your marachallenge start? X

[@NicolaRuns]

Gorgeous isn't it?! 😍 It starts on the 14th March... Eek! But I need to get through the next 5 days and finish running the date first and then I'll have 13 days to recover before 5 in 5 😱😱😱🤞

[@emmarunyeard6832]

@@NicolaRuns just think of all the cake that 5 in 5 entitles you to!!! That's got to be worth a caterpillar cake at the end of, surely! 🐛🎂X

[@NicolaRuns]

@@emmarunyeard6832 end of each day?! 🐛🍰😃

[@emmarunyeard6832]

Oh yes, well maybe smaller cakes on the first 4 but a proper caterpillar cake after the 5th with 5 candles x

[@NicolaRuns]

@@emmarunyeard6832 who should I speak to so that this is arranged?! Is there a form I fill in or something... Because if there is then I'm on it! 😃🤤🍰🤣

[@MichaelTinker-dt1rp]

you had me laughting at this one when carrying Poppy though the water on path bit and i never knew this was not far from Bingley on my to do list now Phillips park for me this Saturday though

[@NicolaRuns]

Oh my goodness the team here are the absolute best kind of crazy! It's such an awesome parkrun to visit 😃😃😃

[@MichaelTinker-dt1rp]

@@NicolaRuns had a fab 10k with Grim Up North last night at Bingley we started at the top of the 5 rise locks i did the 10k in 46 mins coming 4th out of 17 runners had 2 6 min miles and the rest 7 even managed to run up the hill at the locks to the finish we ran past where you did when you did the marathon from Leeds up to Saltare the race director we had is the same one you had at the Bingley marathon you did and also remember seening the chap at 5k turnround last night was also on your clips was going to do phillips park park run tommorrow but cancelled due to fallen trees so off to Clarence park instead

[@MichaelTinker-dt1rp]

@@NicolaRuns guess what today went to Whitley bridge as there was a bus and truck show on at the car boot place just next to J34 of M62 and a family i follow on you tube for the 1st time i came face to face with them should a lovely family and one of their 4 little girls is called Poppy who gave me a postcard with a scan picture on to follow them

[@NicolaRuns]

@@MichaelTinker-dt1rp awww that's lovely 😊

[@MichaelTinker-dt1rp]

@@NicolaRuns it was to meet someone of you tube was well worth the visit o and i had a hot dog there from a food stall lovely just put in for the Stainland 10k trail not done it for a few years so ready for it

[@virtuocitygowf7272]

Can 550 ever be called arbitrary?! Well done. Looks a nice run and a lovely park for a summer picnic, although the hot chocolate looked mega too. Nom.

[@NicolaRuns]

Well you don't get a milestone t-shirt so 🤷🏻‍♀️ but I wanted to celebrate anyway 😃 because it's a LONG way to 1000... At least another 9 years for me! 😱 I'd love to return in the summer for a picnic 🥰

[@avinashbhogun]

Park run/Sherpa/poppy duties. :)

[@NicolaRuns]

Lol... This is exactly my life 🤣🤣🤣 but I love it ❤️

[@sr6424]

Are the stocks there to discourage runners from crossing the finish line twi:e?

[@NicolaRuns]

Exactly that. They put them there after Doris' performance at Wetherby a few weeks ago 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@michealblackgoldcoasteryou3117]

Hello I'm micheal from Goldcoast Qld Australia I do main beach parkrun on Goldcoast Australia's first parkrun

[@NicolaRuns]

Hi Michael 👋 You're just showing off because it's cold, snowy and stormy here 😜🌨️❄️ I want your sunshine! The closest we've got to your parkrun is Noosa parkrun... We LOVED the scribbly gums! 😍🌳

[@claretaylor5031]

I keep seeing my mum pop up

[@NicolaRuns]

Awww hi mum 👋👋👋😃

[@dannynorman4717]

ARBITRARY!

[@NicolaRuns]

Excuse me!!! I shouted arbitrary! I thought you'd comment about the mouse. I mean... Did you see how fricking cute it was?! 😱😱😱😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️🐁

[@dannynorman4717]

@@NicolaRuns I was joining in the shout. And yes, cute mouse. And they tend to be small.

[@NicolaRuns]

@@dannynorman4717 this made my laugh so loud I was worried I'd wake Poppy up 😂😂😂 I know they're small but this was TINY!!! ❤️🐁❤️

[@stevengarden2640]

A snicket? Wot's a snicket? Sounds like a made-up word.

[@geraldinepugh4093]

Only snickets in Bradford! 😊

[@61js]

A snick is a little passageway between say a wall or fence.

[@NicolaRuns]

Lol, that's brilliant! It reminds me of moving up north 20 years ago and people kept talking about snickets and ginnels and I was sure they were having me on... But they weren't! It's totally a thing up here! 🙃