Unfortunately, due to some technical difficulties, the show wasn’t recorded this week. All being well, we’ve fixed the issue and next weeks’ will be.

Just a quick update to share that the parkrun Cancellations map now also shows english events that have received permission to restart on 5th June. These are shown as orange dots. The requests for permission was sent on 27^th April and at the time of writing 139 of the 589 parkruns in England have received permission to return - about 24%.

You may be aware that I’m currently in Derby studying for a degree in Sound, Light and Live Event Technology with the hope of entering the TV industry in the future. It’s been a bit weird (to say the least) studying what is meant to be a practical course remotely. So when my Programme Leader asked me if I was around and wanted to do some voluntary tech work - I jumped at the chance.

Before I start, you can read the full transcript for yourself by clicking here or you can watch it below.

If, like me you may use your Google Drive space for almost everything, you may find it fills up from time to time. This happened to me recently with Drive warning me:

This week 185 people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 30 were first timers and 31 recorded new Personal Bests. The first finisher this weekend was James Crisp with a new PB of 18:19. Ellie Sherriffs was the first female finisher, also with a new PB, in 20:41. Michael Hiscocks had the highest age grade of the weekend with 79.21% with a PB of 21:34.

Obviously the big news from the last hour was the first Conservative gain in Blyth Valley by 712 votes following a batch recount.

• Conservative - 368 ⬆️ 51
• Labour - 191 ⬇️ 71
• SNP - 55 ⬆️ 20
• Liberal Democrats - 13 ⬆️ 1
• Plaid Cymru - 3 ⬇️ 1
• Green - 1
• NI & Speaker - 19
• 86 Conservative Majority

This weekend 208 people ran, jogged, walked and slipped around the course, of whom 33 were first timers and 28 recorded new Personal Bests. Well done to all the staff, students and parents from Ernulf and Longsands Academies who joined us this morning.

In June 2019, I started a project to investigate the Realtime Trains (RTT) api. I used python as that was the language I was most proficient in. It was initially just a small file getting a station’s departures and displaying them.

This weekend was our first weekend back on the winter course. While slightly slippy, I think most people made it round before it started raining properly. This week 145 people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 13 were first timers and 26 recorded new PBs.

This weekend was certanly a slippery affair. Despite the trecherous conditions 139 people made it round the course. 20 people chose this for their first time visiting Pocket but another 20 managed new PBs!

This weekend, 186 people took part in this weekend’s Pocket parkrun including 33 first timers and 21 people who achieved new PBs. Owen Edwards was the first finisher this week with a time of 19:15 and Natalie Jane Morgan was the first female finisher in 21:32. Meriel Howe had the highest age grade with 78.82% and a new PB of 30:13

This weekend, 259 walkers, joggers and runners joined us for our 66th event here in Pocket park. Among them were 36 new tourists and 11 people running their first parkrun. This weekend we were joined by members of Kettering Town Harriers, who seemed to have a really nice morning

This weekend, 229 people ran, jogged and walked Pocket parkrun. Among them, 34 people joining us for the first time and 14 first time parkrunners. 41 people recorded new PBs this weekend. Chris Butterworth was this week’s first finisher in a time of 17:44 and Scarlet Dalrymple was the female first finisherin 20:41. Richard Holland acheived the highest age grade with 83.36% and a time of 19:14.

Over the last few months, I’ve been producing a map showing the cancellations of parkruns for the upcomming weekend. parkrun HQ recently has overhauled the parkrun website and the events map. Doing this has changed the source of the locations of parkruns around the world.

After last weekend’s high winds causing over 70 cancellations in across the UK, today was a much nicer affair with the sun shining! As a result, 202 people took part in Pocket parkrun this morning with 29 people volunteering. 46 people joined us for the first time and 30 people recorded new personal bests this weekend.

253 people joined us this weekend at Pocket parkrun. 22 people took part in their first ever parkrun and 21 others joined us for the first time. There were also 41 new PBs set this weekend. The first finisher this weekend was first timer Rajiv Ratan in 19:04 and the female first finisher was Amelia Fleming with 21:45. Phil Redden achieved the highest age grade with 75.53%.

This weekend, 270 people took part in this week’s Pocket parkrun. 40 people took part for the first time and 73 people recorded new PBs. The first finisher who scanned thier barcode was Rodrigo Santos in 17:57. Hayley Bond was the first female finisher in 20:02 and the highest age-graded finisher with 80.03%.

This weekend, 259 people ran, jogged and walked here at Pocket parkrun. 13 people joined us on their first ever parkrun and 43 people recorded new PBs.

This weekend’s parkrun took place on another beautiful morning. 226 people ran, jogged and walked the course including 32 first timers and 33 people who achieved new PBs this week.

This week 255 people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 74 were first timers and 37 recorded new Personal Bests.

This weekend was our one year anniversary of parkrunning here in Pocket park. Before we have a look at this parkrunDay’s results here are some of the stats from our first year:

Well that was horrible! Well done to all 193 people who made it round a very slippy and rainy Pocket park on Saturday. To the 11 of you who took park in their first parkrun: it’s normally a lot nicer in June.

This week there were 204 runners, joggers & walkers at Pocket parkrun. 28 people set new PBs and there were 31 people here for the first time and 8 people who did their first parkrun. This weekend we had a photographer out on course, Christian Cowell. Some of them are below. ⬇️

The last 24 hours have brought us a number of firsts.

The Brexit Party (29 MEPs)

Stage 5 results. Diane Dodds, Naomi Long and Martina Anderson declared elected pic.twitter.com/7EOmgKGQhs

— Electoral Office NI (@eoni_official) May 27, 2019

Stage 4 results pic.twitter.com/G9mmvDYeWN

— Electoral Office NI (@eoni_official) May 27, 2019

Stage 3 results pic.twitter.com/yF5kIRZxjq

— Electoral Office NI (@eoni_official) May 27, 2019

Stage 2 results pic.twitter.com/fIhsNwAthL

— Electoral Office NI (@eoni_official) May 27, 2019

Updated Stage 1 results pic.twitter.com/Ii6oAVzWP5

— Electoral Office NI (@eoni_official) May 27, 2019

Well, in summary: the country is just as divided as it has been since June 2016. Last night we saw Nigel Farage’s new Brexit party taking seats from his old party UKIP. The parties that support Bexit recieved about 50% of votes cast, as did those parties that would like to remain in the EU.

Northern Ireland uses a different electoral system and their results will likely be announced this evening

RESULT: UK regional MEPs elected for Scotland
See full results for the UK: https://t.co/WL2nHUhPGt #EUElections2019 pic.twitter.com/ujq9xdINjp

— BBC Election (@bbcelection) May 27, 2019

In Ireland this week there were three sets of elections:

This morning there are still 2 counts to declare in Scotland and the final result will be declared some time this morning. In Northern Ireland, counting started just over an hour ago at 8am BST and their results will most likley be announced this evening due to thier slightly more complicated STV election system.

And with the end of @BBCElection coverage and the start of @BBCWorld on the news channel I'm going to sleep. Thanks to @huwbbc, @bbclaurak & @reetacbbc for great coverage as always. See you all in the morning. You can read through all the results at https://t.co/lZ17hVuGfL

— Josh ☘️ (@_Josh_justJosh) May 27, 2019

Notes from me as we approach 1am BST

We have 2 regions left to declare their MEPs: Scotland & Northern Ireland. Scotland has a few last results to come in but NI doesn't start counting till the morning under STV

— Josh ☘️ (@_Josh_justJosh) May 27, 2019

• Claire Fox - Brexit Party
• Theresa Griffin - Labour
• Chris Davies - Liberal Democrats
• Henrik Nielsen - Brexit Party
• Gina Dowding - Greens
• Julie Ward - Labour
• David Bull - Brexit Party
• Jane Brophy - Liberal Democrats

• Nigel Farage - Brexit Party
• Catherine Bearder - Liberal Democrats
• Alexandra Phillips - Brexit Party
• Alexandra Phillips - Greens
• Antony Hook - Liberal Democrats
• Robert Rowland - Brexit Party
• Daniel Hannan - Conservative
• Belinda De Camborne Lucy - Brexit Party
• Judith Bunting - Liberal Democrats
• John Howarth - Labour

• Annunziata Rees-Mogg - Brexit Party
• Jonathan Bullock - Brexit Party
• Matthew Patten - Brexit Party
• William Newton Dunn - Liberal Democrat
• Rory Palmer - Labour

• Ann Widdecombe - Brexit Party
• Caroline Voaden - Liberal Democrats
• James Glancy - Brexit Party
• Molly Scott Cato - Greens
• Christina Jordan - Brexit Party
• Martin Horwood - Liberal Democrats

• John Longworth - Brexit Party
• Lucy Harris - Brexit Party
• Richard Corbett - Labour
• Shaffiq Mohammed - Liberal Democrats
• Magid Magid - Green
• Jake Pugh - Brexit Party

MEPs

MEPs are

• Irina Von Wiese - Liberal Democrat
• Dinesh Dhamija - Liberal Democrat
• Luisa Porritt - Liberal Democrat
• Claude Moraes - Labour
• Sebastian Dance - Labour
• Benyamin Habib - The Brexit Party
• Lance Forman - The Brexit Party
• Scott Ainslie - Green

East of England, vote share:

Brex: 37.8% (+37.8)
LDem: 22.6% (+15.7)
Grn: 12.7% (+4.2)
Con: 10.2% (-18.2)
Lab: 8.7% (-8.6)
ChUK: 3.7% (+3.7)
UKIP: 3.4% (-31.1)

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) May 26, 2019

The first result is now in and the first UK MEPs are

No MEPs have yet been elected here in the UK but here are the early vote shares:

223 people joined us at Pocket park on a glorious Saturday morning for our 51st parkrun. Among us today were 38 first timers and 45 people who acheived new PBs. Our first finisher was Jared Taylor in a new PB of 18:38 and our female first finisher was Gemma Bridges in a time of 21:53. This week’s highest age-grade was acheived by Fran Kenden with 77.19% and a time of 26:40.

This weekend we celebrated our 50th parkrun here at Pocket. 208 people came out in the rain to join us including 33 for the first time and 37 people acheived new PBs.

This weekend, 200 people joined us in Pocket park for the 49th Pocket parkrun. 44 of them were here for the first time and 19 took part in their first parkrun. There were also 27 new PBs!

On the first parkrun on the summer couse of 2019. 247 people turned out, including 53 first timers and 33 people who acheived new PBs.

This weekend saw the last parkrun on the winter course. Next Saturday, we’ll be running on the summer course so if you’ve joined us since last November, you’re in for a nice surprise on Saturday. Back to this weekend, there were 189 parkrunners at Pocket parkrun, 33 first timers and 33 PBs.

Saturday saw another beautiful day at Pocket parkrun. 185 parkrunners completed the course, 39 people joined us for the first time and 53 people acheived new PBs.

I will start this week by thanking all our fantastic volunteers: Alan Turnbull, Alice Tellett, Alison Wright, Allison Farrer, Amie Gough, Becki Barnett, Caroline Brooks, Chris Butterworth, Chris Windebank, Colm Crowley, David Sellick, Di Leckie, Diane Hufford, Elizabeth Cowell, Gareth Thomas, Hayley Williams, James Edward Gamble, James Shiner, Jeremy Hill, Jo Oregan, Joana Cerveira, , Joanne Kirkham, John Willcook, Karen Childerley, Karen Roper, Katy Davies, Kevin Haddow, Laura Kemp, Laura Steed, Lee Radley, Mark Forster, Matthew Cottrell, Max Carrington, Maya Williams, Michaela Ridley, Paul Newell, Paul Ridley, Phil Bond, Phil Redden, Rodrigo Santos, Samuel Kirkham, Sarah Tully, Selcan Rowles, Sharon Evans, Steven Barnett, Tara Berry, Tina Codling, Tony Hainsby, Trevor Hufford, William Sleigh and Joanne Carrington, this week’s run director.

This week 179 people ran, jogged and walked Pocket parkrun, of whom 23 were first timers and 49 recorded new Personal Bests. First finisher was Jared Taylor with a new PB of 18:42 and Hayley Read was the female first finisher in a time of 20:44. Caroline Beechey acheived the highest age grade with 78.78% and a time of 23:57.

187 parkrunners joined us for our warmest parkrun this year so far. 60 people got new PBs this weekend and 35 people joined us for the first time. Chris Butterworth was the first finsiher this week is a new PB of 17:26 and the female first finisher was Vikki Thompson who was a first finisher with a time of 20:31. Tim Butterworth acheived the highest age grade this week of 82.25% and a new PB of 18:41. New Club Members

Firstly I’d like to congratulate all of the 103 people who achieved new PBs this weekend. Well done to you all! This week’s parkrun was brought to you with help from the St Neots NiceTri Triathlon Club who provided us with pacers and marshals. Thank you to all those who helped out. Sally Jex was one of them and she took hundreds of photos at today’s parkrun. If you’d like to see them, check out the Pocket parkrun facebook page.

This weekend’s parkrun was certainly a windy one. 162 runners, joggers and walkers avoided getting blown over and 24 people joined us for the first time including John Robert Richardson of Swaffham parkrun in Norfolk. He had a 7am departure this morning to join us this weekend as he completed his third county of parkruns. As of today he’s run all the parkruns in Norflok, Suffolk & now Cambridgeshire. Congratulations!

This week, 215 braved the strong winds at Pocket parkrun to complete our 40th event. 39 people joined us for the first time and 6 people ran thier first parkruns. 35 people also beat the wind to set new PBs this weekend. Callum Nicholson was this week’s first finisher in a time of 18:42 and Hayley Read was the female first finisher in a time of 20:27. She also had the highest age grade of the week with 77.67%.

This weekend, 196 runners and 33 volunteers joined us on a drizzly morning in Pocket park. 63 people ran PBs and we had 31 people doing Pocket parkrun for the first time, including 15 taking part in a parkrun for the first time.

This weekend saw Pocket parkrun’s first takeover event. Girlguiding took over events all over the UK as part of their world thinking day. Another reason they were here in Pocket park was to ask if anybody would be willing to volunteer at Rainbows, Brownies or Guides. If you’d like to you can register to volunteer by clicking here or you can find out more by clicking here.

Today, 237 ran, walked and jogged round Pocket parkrun. We had an unusually large group of first timers this morning - 42 in fact, 22 of whom were running a parkrun for the first time. Among those who had run Pocket pefore, there were 52 PBs today. We also had a number of tourists with us from Kings Lynn, Milton Keynes, St Albans and Cambridge. Perhaps the loudest tourist we’ve ever had, Sharon Threlfall, an RD at Westmill parkrun, celebrated an arbitry 150th parkrun with us this weekend. #BlameStephen This week, our first two finishers forgot thier barcodes! So our first finisher with a barcode was Callum Nicholson who finished in a time of 18:40. Our first female finisher was Hayley Read in a time of 20:25. The person with the highest age grade this weekend was first timer Fiona Downie with 80.09% and a time of 22:01.

Evening all, welcome to the latest run report from Pocket park. 170 parkrunners joined us for this week’s event which was considerably less cold than last weekend. Among them, 36 first timers and 10 new parkrunners - welcome! There were also 22 people who achieved new PBs this weekend. First finisher was Chris Butterworth in a time of 18:36 and female first finisher was first timer Kristy Guneratne in a time of 21:28. The person with the highest age grade this week was Martin Milward with 79.82% and a time of 20:49.

This week, 180 parkrunners braved freezing temperatures at the 35th Pocket parkrun. The official advice from Run Director Antony Moore was to take it easy as the gound was very hard and slippy in places. Despite this, 34 people still managed to set new PBs and the only incident was when the Start/Finish pop up sign slightly exploded in Antony’s face during set up! We also had 33 people joining us for the first time and 10 running their inaugural parkrun. Thank you to everyone who used the school playground or the Conygear carpark  to park this morning, it worked really well and hopefully we’ll be able to do the same for the next few weeks. First finisher this week was Lloyd Cross in atime of 18:16 and female first finisher was Natalie Jane Morgan in a time of 22:13. The person with the highest age grade was Ann Storey with 78.96% and a time of 29:09.

For the first time in what feels like for ever, it wasn’t bitterly cold as 202 parkrunners came to Pocket park for this week’s parkrun. Among them, 32 first timers (17 of whom were first time parkrunners) and 45 new PBs.

Pocket park saw 217 people run, walk and jog this week’s parkrun. As is the case at this time of year, the ground was a bit slippy under foot so the Core Team does recommend you get yourself some trail shoes to help you grip the mud. Also, as it’s “the end of the season” (even though it’s still January) there could be some great deals if you go looking.

269 people ran, walked and jogged in slightly miserable conditions on Saturday morning. That’s a new record of participants at a ‘normal’ parkrun (ie. on a Saturday) in Pocket park continuing our growth this year. We had 66 first timers and 26 people took part in parkrun for the first time ever! Of the 203 people who had run Pocket parkrun before, 90 ran a new PB.

A cold, grey morning met our 252 parkrunners today. Of those, 50 joined us for the first time and 22 ran thier very first parkrun. Out of everyone else whow had ran Pocket parkrun before, 63 recorded new PBs. This was also the week where Paul Thomson-Clark ran the 30,000th kilometer in Pocket parkrun.

This is just a post that I’ll keep updated with any interesting statistics I find. If this is your sort of thing, there is a parkrun stats geeks group that you might find interesting and it’s one of the places I’ve found my info.

Congratulations everyone! 519 runners, walkers & joggers joined us on New Year’s morning for the 30th parkrun in Pocket park. Before I recognise some of the running acheivements, I’d like to thank all of the volunteers who gave up thier time to make this event such a success.

Good afternoon everyone, I hope you all had a great Christmas. There were 166 runners, joggers and walkers this weekend, of whom: 32 were first timers, 3 ran their first ever parkrun and 28 recorded new PBs

On the last parkrun before Christmas, a group of Santas (and a few Elves) descended on Pocket park for the 28th Pocket parkrun. There were lots of great photos that were taken by our marshals and they’ve all been added to an album on Facebook which you can find here.

A cold and windy Pocket park met us on Saturday. 115 people ran walked or jogged and 28 people volunteered. As Stephen (this weeks run director) guessed, this weekend saw the lowest attendance at Pocket parkrun since it started in June - in fact, the three lowest attendances have occoured this month! The cold and rain haven’t put everyone off though: this week 25 parkrunners joined us for the first time and 28 ran a new PB.

118 walkers, joggers and runners joined us on a rather chilly parkrunDay for the 26th parkrun in Pocket park. 18 people pushed through the cold (and wind) to set new PBs and 20 people joined us for the first time - including 3 for their first ever parkrun.

A windy, rainy and slippy Pocket park greeted our 142 parkrunners and 27 volunteers this Saturday. Of those 142 runners, walkers and joggers, 22 were first timers here in Pocket parkrun and 28 managed PBs despite the harsh conditions. Special shoutout to Nikki McSeveney, Roxan Alexander, Sam Mahoney who perhaps could have chosen a better morning to run their first parkruns!

Rather than starting with the running stats this week, I’m going to change things up a bit and first say thank you to our 22 volunteers who helped out at Pocket parkrun this weekend: Barry Robinson, Becki Barnett, Caroline Henderson, Caroline Holmes, Christopher Ferguson, Christopher Skepper, Elizabeth Dalrymple, James Holmes, Julia Page, Kathy Unwin, Kenny Leckie, Kirstie Buck, Kirsty Rapley, Mark Crane, Norma Leckie, Sarah Tully, Stephen Ferguson, Steve Moore, Steven Barnett and this week’s run directors, Charlotte Simpson and Joanne Carrington.

157 runners, joggers and walkers joined us on Saturday morning for the 23rd Pocket parkrun. The sun kept threatening to emerge from behind the clouds but it remained obscured for the duration of the event. Joining us this morning were a variety of superheros, from Spider-man to Batman to Superman. I think I also saw the Joker running in memory of Stan Lee, who passed away on Monday. Congratulations to all of them, I don’t know how you managed in your various costumes! Also joining us were 11 people running their first ever parkrun and 8 people who were running in Pocket park for the first time. Of the 135 who had come along before, 64 (just shy of half)  managed a new PB, of whom 12 were junior runners. On to the first finishers. Male first finisher was Chris Butterworth finishing in a new PB of 17:43 and female first finisher was Olivia Hooper who also achieved a new PB in a time of 21:11. The runner with the highest age grade this week was Faith Taylor, an under 10 who managed an astonishing 75.24% and a PB of 22:41, putting all us older runners to shame…

Theresa May’s cabinet has agreed to back the Brexit agreement after 5 hours of intense discussion. The draft agreement (click to download) stretches to 585 pages and has taken 19 months to write and agree with both sides.

Welcome to the run report for the 22nd parkrun in Pocket park. 165 runners, joggers and walkers joined us on a nice sunny morning. The route was a bit slippy this week thanks to rain we had on Friday night but that didn’t stop 40 people achieving a new PB! Of those 7 people have achieved back-to-back PBs both last week and this week. Mick Odell however, is the only one of those seven to gain a PB for three weeks in a row! Of the 165 parkrunners this weekend, 34 of them took park in their first Pocket parkrun and 15 joined us for their first ever parkrun.

The first Saturday of November saw 169 runners, joggers and walkers descend on Pocket park for the first parkrun on the winter course. I personally thought the course felt quicker and this was shown when the results were published with 59 people achieving new PBs this weekend, of those - 5 were junior runners. The first finisher of the 21st parkrun in Pocket was Chris Butterworth in a time of 18:11 keeping his 100% win ratio and Ieva Klavina was this week’s female first finisher in 22:43 finishing 22nd overall. The person who finished with the highest age grade was Piers Serjeant who achieved 74.82% and finished 5th in a PB of 18:48.

170 people turned out in freezing conditions on Saturday morning for the 20th Pocket parkrun. 41 people ran their first Pocket parkrun this weekend and 12 of them ran their first ever parkrun with us this weekend. 53 people ran new PBs including 5 Junior runners! John Smith was on of 1,144 people globally to run their 50th parkrun this weekend.

This Saturday saw 173 people gather in Pocket park for the 19th parkrun. This week I wasn’t one of them but that doesn’t mean that I can’t bring you some analysis of the results this weekend. 30% of everyone walking, jogging or running finished with a new PB this week and 39 people completed Pocket parkrun for the first time, 17 of them participating in their first ever parkrun. Chris Butterworth was our first finisher this week running in a time of 18:13. He’s part of an illustrious list of 11 pocketeers who have finished first at every Pocket parkrun they’ve taken part in but becomes the first person to have run at multiple events and was the first finisher in both of them. This week’s female first finisher was a Junior by the name of Olivia Mead who ran a 20:59 at her first parkrun here in Pocket park. As well as being the first female finisher, she finished 2nd on the age-graded standings with a fantastic 73.87%. Tim Butterworth came top of the age grade rankings for the third week in a row. He achieved 80.31% and a new PB of 19:08. Today, our 1,600th different parkrunner in Pocket park crossed the finish line. Zoe Timbrell who finished in a time of 39:27 has that honour. It’s not always the fast ones that get the glory!

This Saturday, 199 parkrunners braved the winds of storm Callum to take part in the 18th parkrun in Pocket park. Of course as well as the wind there was the rain! I thought that we’d just got away with it but no - it really chucked it down at about the 40 minute mark. 62 parkrunners were first timers to Pocket (31% of the field) and 8 of those ran in their inaugural parkrun with us this weekend. Of those runners joining is for their first time, Steve Grout ran at his 50th different event dressed in a cow onesie. We also had 17 tourists from Eye Community Runners join us in Pocket park.

The drizzle and wind held off (mostly) on parkrun’s 14th birthday as 154 people gathered at the start of the 17th parkrun in Pocket Park. 35 people took part in this week’s event for the first time including 13 who ran their very first parkrun. 28 Juniors also joined us of whom 9 got PBs. Of the 123 adult runners, 33 achieved a new Pocket PB and Steve Moore, Andrew Johnson-Chapman and Barnaby Donohew all ran back-to-back PBs (both this week and last). Lynne Regan continued her streak of Pocket parkruns with a new PB of 29:21.

This week 182 runners, joggers and walkers turned out for Pocket parkrun number 16 and of those, there were 17 people for whom this weekend was their first parkrun. Tracy Crowley, Clare Slater, and Jaimee Barker joined the 50 parkruns club. Tracy finished 40th in a PB of 23:43, Claire finished 89th in a PB 26:57 and Jaimee finished 163rd in 39:20.

164 runners, joggers and walkers braved the threat of rain for the 15th parkrun in Pocket park. 12 first-timers joined us this weekend as well as 29 tourists including Tim Mosedale who completed his 50th different parkrun with us this weekend and Andis Ozols who completed his 177th different parkrun! Another person joined the 50 parkruns club: Callum Nicholson who finished 2nd with a new Pocket PB. 53 other runners achieved PBs this weeked with the weather just holding off and the trails quite dry.