Get me to the church on time - Bakewell parkrun #6 - 17/02/18
- aqasanu
- Feb 17, 2018
- 2 min read
We travelled to Derbyshire for our friend's wedding, staying at the Cavendish Hotel at Baslow on the Friday. The wedding was not set to start until 1400 on Saturday and therefore PLENTY of time for a parkrun.
A former train line from Manchester to London closed in the 1960’s and is now known as the Monsal Trail, connecting additional footpaths and bridleways and access to the White Peak hills and dales.
Our friend who was getting married had previously warned us there wasn’t a parkrun nearby but six weeks before the wedding Bakewell parkrun commenced, meaning there would be an event nearby. For this friend, it was the ULTIMATE wedding gift.
We arrived early in what was a peasouper of a day. Everyone sat in their cars before venturing out, past the visitor centre to the start. Both the bride and groom with some family and friends were in attendance and who better to say a few words about the event and call out to the Bride and Groom than Mr Parkrun himself, yes Paul Sinton-Hewitt was in attendance! Pictures were taken and then we were off.
All 242 of us set off, on quite a narrow trail path, away from Bakewell going for 2.5k with a very gentle incline before turning back towards Hassop and enjoying the gentle decline. Some sections of the course were muddy and there were the occasional puddles fortunately the Bride wasn’t in her wedding dress.
The out-and-back nature of the course allowed members of the wedding parties to call out and high-five each other with bragging rights and ‘tales’ being collected for later after-dinner speeches at the main event.
With the weather being miserable we didn’t stay for long at the end and although loving parkrun the dress code for the wedding wasn’t trainers and lycra. As we changed into our finest the weather transformed too, with blue skies and streaming sunshine bathing Chatham House for the wedding of the year!
Congratulations to the couple may your Saturdays be ever filled with great parkrun adventures.
NB - On 03/11/21 the Monsal Trail parkrun team posted the end of Bakewell parkrun due to it's popularity. The good news is a new run, Monsal Trail parkrun now takes place from the same location taking a different route instead;
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