A few photographs to illustrate the year...
December 2016
![](http://www.ianmortimer.com/books/running/First.jpg) The start of the very first parkrun at Torbay Velopark - and the first run described in the book, 31 December 2016. |
![](http://www.ianmortimer.com/books/running/First2.jpg) The Mortimer family runners after the first run, 31 December 2016. From left to right: Oliver, Ian, Tom and Robbie |
February 2017
![](http://www.ianmortimer.com/books/running/Smile.jpg) Is that really me smiling while running? A rare photo, if it is. This was the first outing for the running shirt with the book covers on the front... |
![](http://www.ianmortimer.com/books/running/Back.jpg) ... and on the back. |
March 2017![](http://www.ianmortimer.com/books/running/Bath.jpg) Definitely not smiling here. The last few agonising steps of the Bath Half Marathon, 12/3/2017. This was the epitome of how NOT to run 13.1 miles. |
May 2017![](http://www.ianmortimer.com/books/running/Volunteering.jpg) The start of a Parke parkrun, photographed while I was volunteering. One of the most beautiful settings for a run anywhere. But a nasty, nasty hill awaits all these runners in less than a hundred yards. |
July 2017![](http://www.ianmortimer.com/books/running/Preston.jpg) The Preston Park parkrun, 22/7/2017, did not make it into the book. But here I am on the home straight in hot pursuit of someone who has just overtaken me... |
August 2017![](http://www.ianmortimer.com/books/running/Toulouse.jpg) The parkrun de la Ramee, Toulouse. A pop-up cafe and social gathering as well as a parkrun. |
![](http://www.ianmortimer.com/books/running/Hove2.jpg) Alexander (second from left) charged off and for a few seconds was leading the Hove Promenade parkrun, 19 August 2017. I am just behind him (photo from Hove Promenade flikr group). |
October 2017![](http://www.ianmortimer.com/IM/running/2017GWR1.jpg) Here's a face of concentration, slogging up the mile-long ascent past the University of Exeter on the Great West Run. |
November 2017![](http://www.ianmortimer.com/books/running/November.jpg) Alexander with arms aloft, showing off at the start of the Parke parkrun, 25/11/2017. |
December 2017![](http://www.ianmortimer.com/books/running/Glance.jpg) The expression on this chap's face as I overtake him in the closing stages of the Portsmouth Marathon is priceless. 17/12/2017 (photo by IanBurnettPhotography.co.uk). |
![](http://www.ianmortimer.com/books/running/Portsmouth.jpg) Ian finishing the Portsmouth Marathon in an ecstatic mood - although you wouldn't guess it from my facial expression! 17/12/2017 (photo by IanBurnettPhotography.co.uk). |
![](http://www.ianmortimer.com/books/running/Parke.jpg) A proud father and his son after the Parke parkrun, 23/12/2017. |
![](http://www.ianmortimer.com/books/running/Light.jpg) The strange light at Hove Promenade, before the last parkrun of the year, 30/12/2017. The sun seemed magnified and white, and everything was black and white when you looked that way. Look in the opposite direction and all the colours were psychedelic. |
![](http://www.ianmortimer.com/books/running/Start.jpg) The start of the last parkrun of the year. I am in my white literary shirt (as usual) in the middle. |
![](http://www.ianmortimer.com/books/running/Hove.jpg) Alexander leading me on the last parkrun of the year. Pity you can't see the 25mph headwind. |
![](http://www.ianmortimer.com/books/running/Ian.jpg) Finishing the last parkrun of the year. |
![](http://www.ianmortimer.com/books/running/Oliver.jpg) Oliver grimacing as he finishes the last parkrun of the year, and declares 'that was the worst parkrun ever!' |
![](http://www.ianmortimer.com/books/running/Family.jpg) The Mortimer family runners after the last parkrun of the year, Hove Promenade. From left to right: Tom, Ian, Oliver, Alexander and Robbie. |