Coming away from the Great Eastern Run at the weekend without a PB (unless I resort to claiming it as a half-marathon with a cold PB) means I still have two PBs to find and less than two weeks to find them if I’m to bag myself an awesome this autumn.

So race listings have been browsed, reviews read and decisions made. I will be making my debut on the parkrun scene this weekend and lining up for a free 5k race around a London park in search of PB number two.

Despite living less than two miles from the start of one for three years and carrying a card in my purse for as long, I’m embarrassed that I haven’t made it to a parkrun event before now. They’re free events organised by volunteers that are accurately measured and timed. Mo Farrah has been known to turn up at the Bushy Park event on occasion and if they’re good enough for Mo they’re in all honesty probably a bit too good for me.

But this weekend I will change all that. And now that I have pledged my allegiance to this weekend’s parkrun, I can’t exactly go back on my word and expect to show my face round here again can I?

If you haven’t heard of parkrun before, go check them out now. They have events all over the country (and abroad) and anyone is welcome to run or help out. If you have run a parkrun race before, let me know below which one you did.