|
Sep 2018
11:02pm, 23 Sep 2018
13,214 posts
|
RichHL
I'd like to echo what HB and Cerrertonia have said. It's not as if people won't be made welcome at our inaugural but please, please, please don't drive there. The park and ride on Newmarket Road is an easy 20 minute run for most people and that would be a decent warm up. We've been in touch with the managers at the Tesco and Sainsbury branches near the common and they seem relaxed about parking there especially if you nip in for a box of corn flakes or something afterwards.
The last thing we want is to alienate the people living nearby who are the ones we most want to come and run with us on Saturday mornings. They aren't going to do that if they see the roads they live on getting clogged by people driving to the common to go for a run. What they will do instead is complain to the council who will rightly take their views into account when deciding whether to allow the parkrun to continue.
|
|
Sep 2018
10:38am, 24 Sep 2018
580 posts
|
edison
2nd one in Finland starting at the weekend
|
|
Sep 2018
11:23am, 24 Sep 2018
75 posts
|
kevchenko
HB, Cerrertonia, Rich L - You totally misunderstand sorry - my rant is now aimed at Coldhams Common or the local Cambridge Council specifically - but is a GENERAL nationwide moan - I am sick and tired of hearing about how we have to tread on eggshells all the time - so what if a few residents with nothing better to do then complain do so... These local councils should not weaken or buckle - that is my point
|
|
Sep 2018
11:24am, 24 Sep 2018
76 posts
|
kevchenko
Above should read NOT aimed at Coldham Common!!
|
|
Sep 2018
11:26am, 24 Sep 2018
77 posts
|
kevchenko
BTW I know this area very well having been an away supporter many time with Exeter City playing Cambridge so have walked on part of the common... Lucky parkrun isn't at 2 - 3 pm on a Saturday 
|
|
Sep 2018
2:29pm, 24 Sep 2018
584 posts
|
edison
" Lucky parkrun isn't at 2 - 3 pm on a Saturday"
I've forgotten what a 3pm Saturday kick off time is like
|
|
Sep 2018
3:54pm, 24 Sep 2018
78 posts
|
kevchenko
Edison you follow a "proper" football club in the lower leagues
|
|
Sep 2018
4:04pm, 24 Sep 2018
586 posts
|
edison
I did for 33 years, then they went up - it is all very odd now - but can still get a parkrun in pre kick off most weekends
|
|
Sep 2018
11:57am, 25 Sep 2018
151 posts
|
blindcider
According to my ambassador all the documentation is in place pending them transferring it from dropbox to HQ and we should shortly be getting a start date...
Its my last RD stint at my current parkrun on Saturday too, timed that reasonably well
|
|
Sep 2018
5:03pm, 25 Sep 2018
24,027 posts
|
LazyDaisy
Intriguing blindcider, this parkrun of which you speak sounds like it could be withing striking distance for me one of these days.
|
