Four of us (now 5 and a couple of others sometimes) regularly get up early on a Saturday morning and go and run a parkrun (see http://www.parkrun.org.uk) Sometimes it's a struggle to get out of bed at the weekend, and so for 2015 we thought we would try and set ourselves a challenge and raise some money for our local charity Noah's Ark.

We are attempting to run 52 consecutive parkruns - all in different places around London and the South East - each Saturday of 2015. This is a collective challenge - all 4 of us are going to try and do as many as possible but each weekend all four of us (or at least 3-4 as there are bound to be injury, illness and holidays in the year!) will do a new parkrun location.

Noah's Ark are a great local charity based where we all live in Barnet. They recently acquired land in the road where all our kids went to school, and are raising money to build a new Children's Hospice.

Please give generously - £1 a week for a year will go a long way. Or come and join us on a Park Run - it's not a race, it's actually jolly good fun. Find out where we are next running by following us on Twitter at @ArkRunners

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ArkRunners - shows proof of all our runs!

Progress:

Run #1 (3/1/15) - Wormwood Scrubs - wet, muddy, cold and tough

Run #2 (10/1/15) - Gunnersbury Park - windy but great turnout. Joined by Mr H and Andrew and his wife

Run #3 (17/1/15) - Southwark - early start and freezing cold and icy. 

Run #4 (24/1/15) - Mile End - lovely cold winter morn. Joined by Ted and Dom. PB for spankyhurst.

Run #5 (31/1/15) - South Oxhey - cold, snow, wet, muddy, hilly - tough. Joined by Steve H and Andrew.

Run #6 (7/2/15) = Gladstone - substitute Steve H takes the place of spanky

Run #7 (14/2/15) - Harlow - Steve H taking Bobby N place this week. Lovely friendly people made it fun with lollipops and new running shirts

Run #8 (21/2/15) - Hampstead Heath - hilly - joined by the amazing Jamie D

Run #9 (28/2/15) - Cassiobury Park - soggy but nice and flat.

Run #10 (7/3/15) - Wycombe Rye - lovely day and very nice course

Run #11a (14/3/15) - Ally Pally - tough course, nice view, Harty joined us and pushed a couple of us along. Missed Bobby Numbers who had to go up north and ran.....

Run #11b (14/3/15) - Wallsall - Bobby Numbers and family ran this on their way up North.

Run #12 (21/3/15) - Northala - Northolt - lovely run and lovely people. Nice coffee and bacon roll after.

Run #13 (28/3/15) - Hatfield Forest - nice National Trust park and a very warm welcome by the organisers - joined by Iron Man Mr Deamer

Rn #14 (4/4/15) - Wanstead Flats - muddy but a nice run. Harty again joining us armed with treacle and banana cake.

Run #15 (11/4/15) - Greenwich - windy but fast. Harty again and Magid from Noahs Ark joined us.

Run #16 (18/4/15) - Walthamstow - fast one with Harty doing a new PB.

Run #17 (25/4/15) - Osterley Park - rain held off and Jamie got a PB

Run #18a (2/5/15) - St Albans - Four - Yes Four!!! - PB's 

Run #18b (2/5/15) - Queen Elizabeth - and a slow one by spanky in Hampshire (It was a big hill!) whilst on family camping trip

Run #19 (9/5/15) - Harrow - first one there and good to see so many familiar faces.

Run #20 (16/5/15) - Hockley Woods - Nice but tough through the woods - joined by Katie and John and a fry-up back ay Mr & Mrs B on the way home - smashing.

Run #21 (23/5/15) - Raphael - Lovely park and a very warm welcome in the warm sun.

Run #22 (30/5/15) - Great Notley - Another fine park and great welcome. We touched the bird and finally met Steve Shaw.

Run #23 (6/6/15) - Bushy Park - the home of parkrun, Bobby Numbers 100th run, a PB for Spanky and joined by Mr Mack (who lost his kit apparently)

Run #24 (13/6/15) - Brentwood - superb park apart from heartbreak hill at 4K.

Run #25 (20/6/15) - Aldenham - lovely quiet run round the lake twice - joined by Sally and Georgia for their first ever park runs

Run #26 (27/6/15) - Woking - missed Jamie but joined by the very tall Andy and even taller Mark

Run #27 (4/7/15) - Tring - what a hill at the start. Nearly ran the whole course as a group for the first time - but missed Statto.

Run #28 (11/7/15) - Maldon Prom - a lovely location makes this one of the best of the year so far

Run #29 (18/7/15) - Valentines Park - Flat and sunny and ginger cake. Plus Jamie's 50th parkrun

Run #30a (25/7/15) - Barclay - Undulating, nice reception and park (Statto, Numbers and Betty)

Run #30b (25/7/15) - Crissy Field SF - Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge (Spanky & Sally)

Run #31a (1/8/15) - Upton Court Park - Friendly welcome and nice course (Numbers, Betty and Harty)

Run #31b (1/8/15) - Lanhydrock -  Two hours sleep, five hour journey and a killer hill but great location and run (Statto)

Run #32a (8/8/15) - Gadebridge - Tough up and down and hot (Harty and Spanky)

Run #32b (8/8/15) - Penrose - lovely weather and views, shame about the hills (Statto, Chloe and Amy)

Run 33a (15/8/15) - Grovelands - Betty on his own

Run 33b (15/8/15) Killerton - Spanky on his own

Run 34a (22/8/15) - Gunpowder - Substitutes by the Mackley family

Run 34b (22/8/15) - Tamar Lakes - Spanky joined by Sally and the Deamer clan

Run 35 (29/8/15) - Pymmes - Back together!

Run 36 (5/9/15) - Luton Wardown - Rain held off (just) - great friendly crowd

Run 37 (12/9/15) - Wimpole Estate - Nicks 100th parkrun!

Run 38 (19/9/15) - Old Deer Park - Lovely friendly crowd

Run 39 (26/9/15) - Crane Park - Fine fast park

Run 40 (3/10/15) - Aylesbury - foggy and fast

Run 41 (10/10/15) - Southend - HAT day, and a great welcome. Love the course by the sea

Run 42 (17/10/15) - Hackney - nice there and back

Run 43 (24/10/15) - Black Park - one of our favourites

Run 44 (31/10/15) - Milton Keynes - lovely welcome

Run 45 (7/11/15) - Barking - great welcome and a week of being called the Bark Runners

Run 46 (14/11/15) - Finsbury Park - wet and cold

Run 47a (21/11/15) - Harrow Lodge - wet windy and cold

Run 47b (21/11/15) - ditto

Run 48 (28/11/15) - Panshanger - lovely course and welcome - but very very cold

Week 49 (5/12/15) - Highbury Fields - 5 laps and parking problems

Week 50 (12/12/15) - Chelmesford - Good one laper

Week 51 (19/12/15) - Beckton - Friendly but tough in the mud

Week 52 (26/12/15) - OakHill - It's all over

Special thanks to all the kind people who have supported us and donated. Been a long year but also been great to meet all the dozens of people around the parks.