I’ve been doing some work recently to gather my various notes and thoughts together about the start of parkrun in Glasgow and Scotland.
In the pre-social media days, I used to maintain this website as a full on blog. Alas it got to become a bit too onerous, and I took it offline around 2011. Whilst it’s back again in this form, I always knew I’d want to pull some of the old content through again at some point.
I posted them as a series of tweets, which are available as a Twitter moment here:
(2/n) First encounter with BPTT https://t.co/vnj4lHXCvG
— Richard Leyton (@rleyton) November 25, 2018
(4/n) Come on folks… https://t.co/rT5yOxsMXd – Although it has more dramatic effect if you start mid-way down and work back up.
— Richard Leyton (@rleyton) November 25, 2018
(6/n) 4 months later: https://t.co/LLpWhseqCK
— Richard Leyton (@rleyton) November 25, 2018
(8/n) A couple of years after first doing BPTT (cf. 2): https://t.co/hmwBkmI2G8
— Richard Leyton (@rleyton) November 25, 2018
(10/n) Time passes. I do really like the course: https://t.co/BBLHEoyjJc
— Richard Leyton (@rleyton) November 25, 2018
(12/n) So by way of explanation, I’d taken down my blogging website in 2011 or so: I felt, and still do, kinda weighed down by it (this was all pre FB/twitter).
I knew I'd written a lot, but has been fun to revisit the perspective I had then
— Richard Leyton (@rleyton) November 25, 2018
(14/n) I’m immensely indebted to @mrsfunkin and @davidmrowe who introduced me to it all in the first place. Also, as the ball started rolling, the support and gentle nudging from Crispy in his then new role as general manager.
— Richard Leyton (@rleyton) November 25, 2018
Picture by Paul Flood, used with permission.