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Ally-C
Ally-C
28 Jan
10:08am, 28 Jan 2025
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Ally-C
In the middle of a Scottish winter 0930 still feels pretty dark & cold very often.
Gobi
Gobi
28 Jan
10:47am, 28 Jan 2025
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Gobi
Indeed, I still have the scars from my youth @Ally-C

Leave for school in the dark, come home from school in the dark

I don't miss the dark, however I do miss playing pitch and putt at 10.30pm in the summer and still being able to follow the ball !!
Kirsty
Kirsty
28 Jan
11:42am, 28 Jan 2025
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I believe that PSH originally intended to start at 8am rather than 9, but was talked out of it. I think parkrun would have become a very different beast if this had happened.
AndyS
AndyS
28 Jan
12:01pm, 28 Jan 2025
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Tim Grose's update on the fastest and slowest UK parkruns...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZZpmGa6Yyk
AndyS
AndyS
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12:06pm, 28 Jan 2025
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Kirsty wrote:I believe that PSH originally intended to start at 8am rather than 9, but was talked out of it. I think parkrun would have become a very different beast if this had happened.

If parkrun had started at 8am back in 2015, I very much doubt that I'd have got involved - and if I hadn't got into parkrun, I'm certain that I wouldn't have carried on trying to run for as long as I have.
Gobi
Gobi
28 Jan
12:27pm, 28 Jan 2025
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Gobi
@Kirsty I'd have done 200 more if it had started at 8am 😀
Metro_Nome
Metro_Nome
28 Jan
12:35pm, 28 Jan 2025
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I’m absolutely not a morning person so I’m the opposite, wouldn’t have done so many if it was earlier! I’m always sad about the extra half hour lost when I’m in England
Dvorak
Dvorak
28 Jan
1:07pm, 28 Jan 2025
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I think it would not really have taken off in Scotland with an 0800 start. Or even a 0830 one. I'd have run about six or seven, probably all in May or June.

Maybe parkrun would have been a seasonal event, March to October?

Just checked: with an 0800 start, Falkirk would have 78 days in the year where it was not daylight at the start, Inverness 85. Falkirk would however have some light year-round, whilst Inverness would have 30 days where it wasn't even civil twilight at start time.

(Of course, with the weather, there would probably be several more days where you couldn't tell it was daylight.)
Rory Rhubarb (Rhubs)
Rory Rhubarb (Rhubs)
28 Jan
1:15pm, 28 Jan 2025
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Rory Rhubarb (Rhubs)
The events in Queensland start at 07:00! I had to wake up at 05:15 when I was RD at Ipswich QLD last year. That will teach me not to try and get a very unique Ipswich RD double
Gooner
Gooner
28 Jan
1:20pm, 28 Jan 2025
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AndyS wrote:Tim Grose's update on the fastest and slowest UK parkruns... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZZpmGa6Yyk


Interesting as Walsall is not a flat course and can have quite a congestion problem at times but I do find the slow downhill does help with faster efforts.

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