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Winter shirtless season is here

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Winter is well and truly on its way, and my shirtless adventures continue. I'm a regular parkrunner, and I usually run at Southsea parkrun, but this week it was cancelled due to storm damage. So, I decided to head to Chichester parkrun instead. I woke up and got ready, planning to catch the train to Chichester parkrun. But when I saw an alert that all trains had been cancelled, I hopped in my car and headed off in the pouring rain. On arrival, I joined the small, friendly group of runners and chatted to a couple of people. I hadn't taken my t-shirt off yet, but when the race director started his talk and everyone's focus was on him, I used that opportunity to slip it off without anyone noticing. The Chichester parkrun course is a 4-lap loop of the sports fields, and it has a strange shape. As we started off, I was nervous about what people would think of me running shirtless. I'm not usually too worried about it at Southsea, where everyone knows me, but this was my firs