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Apr 2023
9:24pm, 13 Apr 2023
18,144 posts
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KinkyS
I'm really glad to see it returning to the park, even if I probably never will. We all called it by the park name not the city name in the old days anyway 😀
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Apr 2023
9:42pm, 13 Apr 2023
61,121 posts
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LindsD
Me too OTOS!
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Apr 2023
9:49pm, 13 Apr 2023
2,038 posts
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One Thousand Odd Spiders
Yay! 
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Apr 2023
9:59pm, 13 Apr 2023
46,308 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Naming is funny - Pollok parkrun was nearly Glasgow Time Trial in 2008. But it could have cheekily and legitimately been called Scotland parkrun! But Edinburgh should have been called Cramond Prom parkrun really, as we have another now, and much more central to Edinburgh. G
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Apr 2023
10:05pm, 13 Apr 2023
24,667 posts
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Bazoaxe
I think Edinburgh should rename as cramond now given the increased number of options. Holyrood though is fine as a name.
I guess if there was one in princes st gardens that could be called Edinburgh. I once did a three lapper three mile race there for comic relief with my son on the afternoon after an Edinburgh half so it’s not an impossible location. c2008 I reckon.
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Apr 2023
10:10pm, 13 Apr 2023
24,668 posts
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Bazoaxe
16/3/2008 and it was three miles in 33 mins but I had no garmin trace. IanS appeared to also do that race
I had run 1:29 in the morning and I recall it being 1.5 miles with wind advantage to cramond and then 11+ miles of hell into a wind to Musselburgh.
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Apr 2023
10:12pm, 13 Apr 2023
2,039 posts
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One Thousand Odd Spiders
Wexford Racecourse (Johnstown at the time) parkrun still sticks in my mind years later - over for a HM in Dublin on the Sunday, and took the train down 'for the J'. My B&B hosts were perplexed that I didn't want a cooked breakfast, and just some cereal and a cuppa - I'd said that it was because I was going to go and do parkrun at Johnstown Castle (about a mile and a half away) - by the time I'd finished my tea, they were back - Paddy, (the brother of one of the neighbours, who was down to paint the neighbours house) is also a runner - so he's now been strong-armed into giving me a lift and come and run too
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Apr 2023
10:27pm, 13 Apr 2023
61,122 posts
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LindsD
That's funny. Course was short the day I did it. I got a PB and stopped to tie my shoelaces.
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Apr 2023
10:42pm, 13 Apr 2023
46,309 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
You made me look Bazo - my first 5K in Sep 2008 was Meadows, the Sri Chinmoy series, before parkrun existed in Scotland! A Wed night and 50p if I recall correctly! G
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Apr 2023
9:27am, 14 Apr 2023
267 posts
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JJJ
There are still some old events that have the town or city name which is fine if there isn't another one closer to the centre, but some should really be changed as they aren't close to the centre of the place they're named after.
Unfortunately it's up to the Event Team to make the decision, so far HQ haven't forced any changes, and some long standing Event Directors refuse to change.
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