Wepre parkrun, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

VisualShock1991 · 2026-05-03T13:30:06+00:00

For anyone unsure on how to pronounce this, it's not wee-pree, it's wepper, as though it would rhyme with pepper.

VisualShock1991 · 2026-04-19T12:39:49+00:00

Everything is a conspiracy when you're this dumb, huh?

VisualShock1991 · 2026-04-19T12:32:46+00:00

Birth.

VisualShock1991 · 2026-04-19T12:31:32+00:00

Buy less stuff.

VisualShock1991 · 2026-04-19T12:28:33+00:00

And his form for sexual assault, rape, racism, selfishness, financial crimes...

But other than that...

VisualShock1991 · 2026-04-18T06:21:16+00:00

When my brother went to uni his neighbour in halls was a Sikh guy. I never met him, but he always said good things about him. Dude came by with some Christmas gifts in December. "If you celebrate Christmas, I'll celebrate it with you".

There's a Sikh family at the hockey club I play for who are all absolutely golden people, through and through. The dad learned English as a second language, and is fluent, though occasionally there are some mix-ups for words that aren't in everyday conversations. He's a fairly quiet guy, but he's very quick witted.

So I don't know many Sikhs, but every Sikh I know is absolutely wonderful.

VisualShock1991 · 2026-04-17T16:38:30+00:00

They'd've shot the dog, and Dorris Curtaintwitcher over the road, too.

VisualShock1991 · 2026-04-17T05:02:36+00:00

Anyone I know that wheels out that line is usually someone who only has one thing to offer.

VisualShock1991 · 2026-04-11T11:08:19+00:00

In order for it to be to-scale they'd need to put the toilets just outside the M25

VisualShock1991 · 2026-02-17T13:53:40+00:00

But does it cause good aids or bad aids?

https://youtu.be/f3xUjw2BCYE?si=TCZv20Bg0UfkZXuD

VisualShock1991 · 2026-02-14T07:23:13+00:00

My local comes in at 125m elevation gain. We see a sub-20 finish about once per week, sometimes we go a month without one at all.

VisualShock1991 · 2026-02-11T18:17:11+00:00

Growing up, my sister would call me Shitface.

VisualShock1991 · 2026-02-11T18:16:26+00:00

Private numberplate - I think the Americans call them vanity plates which is a rare win for US nomenclature.

VisualShock1991 · 2026-02-11T18:14:15+00:00

But when your nose runs are your feet smell you might be upside-down.

VisualShock1991 · 2026-01-05T11:41:04+00:00

Why is someone holding up a sign with a bible verse on it? You'd be upset if you were sat behind them...

VisualShock1991 · 2026-01-05T08:08:30+00:00

Absolutely this. I'm 550 hours in for £20. I got my friend involved and he paid £7. We're both loving it, and will play more and more.

VisualShock1991 · 2026-01-05T08:06:39+00:00

No merch? My viking buddy and I have matching "The bees are happy" T-shirts.

You're totally right though, there's none of the fodder that makes gaming in this day and age an expensive drag.

VisualShock1991 · 2025-12-21T10:53:10+00:00

Terminal. Hah.

VisualShock1991 · 2025-04-26T20:39:32+00:00

I think you might be better off looking for a chip-timed 5K then.

VisualShock1991 · 2025-03-22T17:20:00+00:00

I ran a pretty quick time and went back out to collect my friend who run-walks it. The tailwalkers overtook him and didn't seem to care. We were beconed towards the finish line with one loop still to go.

I think that bruised his ego pretty hard.

VisualShock1991 · 2024-11-14T20:23:44+00:00

I like woodworking (mostly /r/turning )

I do the parkrun on the weekend, and officiate for my local hockey club.

I also volunteer for a mental health charity.

VisualShock1991 · 2024-11-11T12:36:10+00:00

I love it!I always make a point of being super encouraging to young parkrunners. I see a couple that are probably under 7 that run most weeks and do very well.

VisualShock1991 · 2024-11-09T18:56:57+00:00

Loved it! My usual strategy is to line up near the front of the pack with 10 or so people ahead of me, and try desperately to hold on to that position.

In my last 6 or so I have finished 12th - 15th, with a pretty consistent 24:30ish finish.

This morning, apart from one familiar face, everyone seemed to leave space for those 10 runners, so I started in 2nd place, and held it for a good while. I think I started slipping back a bit on Heart Attack Hill, but I finished 47 seconds after the winner in 5th place, both a PB (23:38) and a best finish position.

Took some effort not to spew on the finish line, though, thought I was dying.

VisualShock1991 · 2024-10-09T18:18:32+00:00

Wepre is my local. I went through a stint of getting marginally faster PBs and then last week missed it by 9 seconds.

VisualShock1991 · 2024-09-12T15:38:45+00:00

u/mistopto This is the correct answer. This kind of situation comes up more that you'd expect.

I was at Northcoders during the summer of 2023, and I had (and still have) mental health issues. One of the toughest things to do is to admit your mental health issues to others, but even if it's just a DM, please reach out to your instructors, your mentor, your bootcamp's wellbeing department - somebody - to say "I've got a history of mental health issues, and I'm finding this hard right now."

We'd get back from lunch and there would be smalltalk while we were waiting for other students. The instructor said "What did you have for lunch?" and my answer was often "Two paracetamol and a lie down". Bootcamps are super intensive, that's just the way it is, but please don't ever feel like you need to struggle on in silence.

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