Thanks for picking up the baton, Rob. Puarenga Parkrun is quite the most bizarre event I've done:
1. Two laps round the local sewage works.
2. There were nearly 4 inches of rain that day and of the 20 starters, only 17 made it to the end.
3. Puarenga is in Rotorua , a major geothermal area-that means we ran with the smell of sulphur, across hot springs and over salt flats and always off road on sinter tracks.
4. Because the singer is non absorbent and it was raining so heavily, the ever so slightly acidic water was up to 6 inches deep in places. Open water swimming almost.