Running Avondale Forest parkrun & Ireland's Highest Slide! Beyond the Trees & Powerscourt Waterfall
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- Our final parkrun in Ireland included a visit to Avondale Forest Park, Rathdrum to run Avondale Forest parkrun. We were drawn to this parkrun as we really wanted to have a go on Ireland's highest slide. This is the perfect post parkrun activity, especially with kids! It's right in the forest next to parkrun, in fact you can see it from the start, it was so fun!
The parkrun itself was awesome! A tough, hilly, trail run and a fantastic team with great parkrun spirit! We were so lucky with the weather and it was great to meet up with our parkrun friends Ken, Maria and Annabelle again. Definitely worth a visit for the parkrun alone, but do make time for the other activities in the forest if you can.
Ireland has so many wonderful adventures and visiting Powerscourt Waterfall was brilliant. We are so sad that this trip has come to an end. Huge thanks to everyone who has made our trip to the Emerald Isle so amazing, whether in person or simply messaging suggestions of places to go. It has been a fantastic experience for both Poppy and I and something we will remember forever. Now it's back to Leeds for us to continue our running adventures there.
Happy running,
Nicola :)
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What an amazing video it has a beautiful parkrun walk and slide and amazing waterfalls. It sounds like a dream saturday
It was incredible! Ireland is incredible 😍😃
Wow that was an exciting video, Nicola ! What a fantastic slide. If I go back to the Wicklow Mountains I will have to give it a go. The tree top walk looks great too. I have come across two since the pandemic. There is one at Kew Gardens and another at Salcey Forest in Northamptonshire next to the parkrun course. I am hoping to run there next time I visit friends in Milton Keynes. I went to the beautiful Powerscourt Gardens which is not far from the waterfall but unfortunately I didn’t know about the waterfall at the time. If you go back to the area I can recommend a walk up Sugar Loaf Mountain. It is an easy climb & you get a fantastic view over Dublin to the Mountains of Mourne and across to Wales.
Sounds like we both have lots of reasons to return 😍😃
Hooray , never knew we had a big slide like that , glad you had fun .Hows the knee ?
It's deciding whether to forgive me for running so much last weekend... It's taking its time deciding 😜 the slide is awesome, go check it out some time 😃
Avondale Park is actually owned by the Irish Forestry Board, Coillte.
I’m from about 45 minutes from there, actually staying nearby in a couple of weeks and plan to do this parkrun all being well, this is the first video I found so thanks
You're so welcome, it's such a beautiful place 😍
OMG I need to go there (one day) and also OMG I ❤ Poppy. 😊 Fabulous video. I still have heaps to catch up on from your Ireland trip but will make my way through them…
I can't recommend this highly enough! I love a parkrun with a cool post parkrun activity 😃😃😃
If you want to try an even BIGGER slide then may I recommend the one at the Olympic Park in London. I would never have done it of my own accord but my nephew wanted to go on it and it ended up being really fun: for comparison you’re sliding for 40 seconds. I’ve really enjoyed all the Irish videos, what a great adventure you’ve had
Ooh thanks! 40 seconds is ages! 😃😃😃
What a fantastic way to end your Irish adventure Nicola. I can't write what my potty mouth said when I saw the waterfall and slide but I was very impressed.
You two have made great memories together, sure it's something you both will look back on with great fondness . If I ever go to Ireland I gotta go to Avondale parkrun. Well done you for doing this, what a great idea and thanks for all the great vlogs 💚
Aren't they both spectacular?! In such different ways! Natural beauty and man-made fun! Both awesome! 😎 We've had an awesome time and I'm so happy you enjoyed the vlogs 🤗
Thanks for sharing all your Irish adventures with us! I hope your readjustment back to 'normal' life is going better, as you mentioned on the pod that it's not been easy.
Thanks so much, I think I'm just about getting back to normality. I can't believe how difficult it has been! I so didn't anticipate the transition being this hard! 😱
Great video Nicola, that slide is insane (even though you were nearly marked as DNF, you ground to a halt at the crucial time)
I know right?! You need to push off but I needed an extra hand! Or... As I said... Eating more cake is always a solution 😜🤣
What a wonderful looking parkrun. Love forrest runs + that walkway and slide: amazing! And that waterfall at the start, OMG. Thanks for sharing and Happy New Year!
It's definitely somewhere I'd recommend going! Powerscourt waterfall was epic! And I love a parkrun with a post parkrun activity thrown in 😃😃😃
And happy new year to you too! I look forward to seeing you at some point on a parkrun adventure! 😃
What an adventure Nicola! I could tell you are sad to see the trip end. Is Poppy eager to return home? Loved seeing the waterfall. Looks like it would be a fun place to be at on a warm day. That park run was crazy cool too. It was nice to see you push the pace and get off to a good start too. I know you film when you run, but what was your time? Also impressive that you spent the entire there enjoying the park and that "board walk" definitely looked like a fun obstacle course. Sounds like a great place to visit if I ever cross the "pond" again. Love your videos and can't wait to see your next adventure.
Definitely an awesome adventure! Poppy was desperate to get home but then we've both found actually being home really really hard! Turns out transition is much more difficult than I imagined! 😱😱😱
And thanks for the kind words, I'm not sure what my time was. I've a terrible memory and this was a few weeks ago but all results are on the parkrun website 😃 I only pay attention to the time if it's a PB or if I'm pushing really hard. Like you say I was filming so I never look at the time then 🙃🤷🏻♀️
Love it Nicola, felt for you when you were talking about your adventure coming to its end.
Natalie and myself are looking forward to watching many more of your adventures, wherever they go 😀
Thank you so much, I think I realised how hard coming home was going to be! 😳 Transitions aren't easy! 🙃
@NicolaRuns an end of one thing is always a start of another, which we always have to keep in mind.
We hope to cross paths with you one day 😀
@@reliveparkrunvideos1105 thank you so much, this is so very true 🤗
Welcome to Wicklow
Thanks, this trip started a real love affair with Ireland 🥰
Excellent series 😊
Thank you so much, it was a great summer ❤️🇮🇪❤️
"The slide is no respecter of dignity or class
As soon as you sit down on it
That slide has got your ass"
🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 🤣🤣🤣
@@NicolaRuns It's from "The Slide - Beautiful South". Seems appropriate here 🙂
@@richardbuck1729 totally! 😃😃😃
Damp start brrrrr ❤🎉
But the slide was AMAZING! I'm still a big kid 🤣
It's not the height that kills you, it's the landing.
🤣🤣🤣 This should have been my pep talk to Ken 🤣🤣🤣
My parachute trainer told me that when I was in Army. @@NicolaRuns
@@taffman1 I mean it's true! 🤷🏻♀️ It just might not have helped Ken 🤣 It would have been funny though 😂
another high..light of the Irish adventure! great sliding skills from Pops. you looked like you weren't bothered by the height of the obs deck ( I would be!) but you were nervous about the slide 😄
It was SO weird!!! That's exactly how I felt! Not bothered by heights really but for some reason I felt nervous of the slide! High-light was very good 😃👏👏👏
I loved this video! That waterfall was magical. I could watch a very long video just of the waterfall. As for Avondale Forest, it seems like it would be hard to go there without spending the whole day. But that slide... I could sleep on the ground in a field full of cows, but the walkway up to the top of that slide would scare me silly. You're braver than I am.
If you would sleep in a field of cows then you are super brave! I guess we all just have different fears 🙃 the walkway and slide were awesome! 😃 the waterfall was even better! Isn't nature just incredible?! 😍😍😍
Looks like they need to polish that slide!
I think I just had poor technique! Poppy said if you push off then it's really fast. I was holding the camera and the strap on the bag so couldn't do that 🙃
@@NicolaRuns I did the slide at the Orbit in the Olympic Park and that was very fast and disorientating. Definitely give that one a go if you haven't.
@@DeadCal ooh I haven't done it! Thanks for the recommendation 😃
Glad you made it to avondale. Im raging that I missed you at your gorey freedom run. All the best to you and poppy for the future.
We absolutely loved Gorey! We dashed there and dashed off though. Sorry not to be more organised or I'd have posted on the Facebook page! 🤦🏻♀️🙃