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Cambridge Hash, 2005, getting their feet wet at a beer stop in Lammas Land paddling pool Never Been Much of a Joiner Today was the 100 th Parkrun on Coldham’s Common, Cambridge. I have banged on about Parkruns already, but for those of you who don’t know, they are organised 5 kilometre runs which take place in all sorts of places round the world at 9 am on Saturdays. The Coldham’s Common Parkrun was inaugurated as I recall in the innocent days of 2019, when we were blissfully unaware of what was about to hit us. I usually either marshall or run at a neighbouring Parkrun, Storey’s Field. However today, in honour of their 100 th event, I ran at Coldham’s Common. Suzy, the driving force behind the creation and maintenance of the Coldham’s Common run (setting up a Parkrun is no dawdle), gave a short but moving and inspiring address, first paying tribute to a keen parkrunner who died last week, then noting our great good luck in being able to run on this gloriously bright Saturday mor...