This is my second time to Stones Corner parkrun. The first time was years ago and It has been closed for the longest time while Council was doing a lot of park upgrades. I have been keen to checkout all the improvements for a while and today was the day.
The course is situated close to the middle of Brisbane right on Norman Creek, which is great but this being a pretty build up area. Brisbane is in a sub tropical climate means when it rains heavy, which it does a fair bit in our summer, the creek floods big time and this park run is usually one of the first to cancel. This is what brought it back to my attention as I heard from other running last week that it had cancelled again. So after a quick check of the weather I was on my way.
It was a hot and humid and we got some light drizzly rain which was a refreshing.
I was pretty early for the 7am started but lots of local showed up late a made a crowd of almost 400 walkers and runners.
I ran into this parkrun tourist legend who has done more than 300 different events in Australia.
This is all the work that has been done along the creek.
Below is how the creek used to look.
some of better graffiti
Under the south east freeway or the pacific highway as we used to call it.
How good is this breakfast afterwards.
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