I’d planned on doing the Parkrun in Paderborn, but wasn’t sure if I’d be up in time after yesterday’s travel issues. I awoke in plenty of time, and got the bus out to Padersee (which is a small lake on the river Pader (which is the shortest river in Germany apparently))
It was a quite a small Parkrun; <100 participants. I got chatting to a group of travelling actors from the UK, who were going to be touring round schools in Germany doing plays in English. The organisers of it are originally from the UK. I hadn’t realised, but there (used to be?) a large British army based near Paderborn.
The run itself was very pleasant; 2.5 times round the lake, so nice and flat. The weather was cool and dry. I was a couple of seconds quicker than in Krakow last week.
It seemed to be an exceptionally friendly parkrun. I stayed for breakfast at the cafe in the park after, as did a lot of the other runners.
