The Saturday Morning Park Run Quotes

“Better? I always think good cake helps us reset things for a minute.”
― Jules Wake, The Saturday Morning Park Run

“My body felt looser; the earlier tension in my shoulders that had pinched hard at the tight muscles had dissipated. There was something about being out in the fresh air”
― Jules Wake, The Saturday Morning Park Run

“With a sudden flood of happiness, I just knew that for me, my job was no longer everything. I had a home, a ready-made family, and the parkrun, and it felt … enough. My life was full of things that I enjoyed and loved.”
― Jules Wake, The Saturday Morning Park Run

“immensely liberating. I always put so much pressure on myself to be everything to everyone. Self-sufficiency had become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Being capable, being the best meant people had left me to get on with it. I’d isolated myself. I never asked for help.”
― Jules Wake, The Saturday Morning Park Run

“You had to put some effort in to make and keep friends. Not having a job or going to work certainly brought the flaws in one’s life into sharp relief.”
― Jules Wake, The Saturday Morning Park Run

“It suddenly struck me, why did I set myself so many goals all the time? And why was I always desperate to be the best I could be?”
― Jules Wake, The Saturday Morning Park Run

“Today I’d been so busy that all those lurking, unwelcome feelings of inadequacy, anxiety, and failure had been firmly displaced.”
― Jules Wake, The Saturday Morning Park Run

“Good for him.”
― Jules Wake, The Saturday Morning Park Run

“I listened to the sharp, staccato beat of my shoes. To me they said, quick, precise and well-organised. And just because I wore high, sexy designer shoes (Russell and Bromley thank you; who can afford Jimmy Choos?!) I wasn’t like all the bitch bosses in romcoms. They were high but not super high, and made from supple, polished black leather. As sexy shoes, went they were workmanlike but expensive. I think shoes say a lot about you. I wanted people to know that I, Claire Harrison, had got where I was through hard work and intelligence but I still had class and style. Shoes have nuances and with this pair, I’d nailed it. Just like the meeting I was headed to. I’d worked all weekend to get this presentation to within an inch of perfection.”
― Jules Wake, The Saturday Morning Park Run

“You went into the back of me. In a car, it would be your fault.’ What? He had to be flipping joking. ‘You reversed into me. Look at the state of my shirt.’ I”
― Jules Wake, The Saturday Morning Park Run

“up”
― Jules Wake, The Saturday Morning Park Run

“The first marshal at the furthest point of the run was in place. We were good to go. For the last three quarters of an hour, Ash and I had been dashing here, there, and everywhere, consulting our lists, and checking laminated sheets. Runners had started arriving and wandering about looking for somewhere to put their sweatshirts and fleeces. I grabbed my notepad and scribbled quickly.”
― Jules Wake, The Saturday Morning Park Run

“The trashed kitchen. This was deliberate desecration. There was a touch of spite about it. It was a deliberate kick back. She knew how much Mum loved this room.”
― Jules Wake, The Saturday Morning Park Run