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Oct 2016
2:45pm, 5 Oct 2016
374 posts
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edison
There's a race series that runs through the winter here - 10Ks - although at least two of them were way short last year. Anyway, they are inexplicably popular. This year, they are adding a 5k option for each event - but at the same price you'd pay for the 10k.
Not a chance.
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Oct 2016
3:05pm, 5 Oct 2016
381 posts
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CharlieP
I'd never run a 5K before starting parkrun, just a half marathon and three 10Ks. When I started parkrun I couldn't see the point of ever paying for a 5K, but now I've done half a dozen.
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Oct 2016
3:19pm, 5 Oct 2016
375 posts
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edison
There are 2, maybe 3 5k races, that I pay for each year tops - but none that charge anywhere near £20. Small, community organised events for a few quid.
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Oct 2016
4:02pm, 5 Oct 2016
1,076 posts
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larkim
My local parkrun (Delamere) is definitely not a super fast course, so I've paid for three 5ks in the last couple of years - mainly to use them as a "focus" event knowing that the calibre of other runners turning up will be very high, so hoping to be able to get dragged to a good time. Running sub-20 (just!) at Delamere will usually see you in the top 10-15, and much of that might be on your own. So for me its sometimes worth it just to get a deeper competition field.
But saying that, I would only do them if they were fairly local and reasonable value. £7 for Christleton (high quality, a little further away but fast course) and £9.50 for Mid Cheshire (very local, 3.5 miles from home). For a speed-challenge once or twice per year I can justify that sort of layout. But parkrun must have kyboshed many a fee-paying 5k for "mass participation" by now.
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Oct 2016
5:20pm, 5 Oct 2016
58,978 posts
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Gobi
I have paid way too much for a 5km 
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Oct 2016
5:26pm, 5 Oct 2016
13,240 posts
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Wriggling Snake
When I ran down in Cirencester there were two great 5ks, one up North of Gloucester, £2, one per month May, June, July, August, first prize for each age group was 3 packets of biscuits (of your choice from a big box), second prized, 2 packs, third prized 1 pack, and team prizes too.
If a club went mob-handed it was biscuit heaven.
Limited to 100.....
Also Astec West a flat 5k around an industrial estate on the ege of Bristol..cheap as chips.
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Oct 2016
5:36pm, 5 Oct 2016
376 posts
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edison
This £20 5k at home will get loads of entries because many of the medal collectors will believe it is good value. Gimmicky races attract large numbers despite the high entry fee.
I much prefer the industrial estate, cheap races, with no gimmicks, no medals, maybe a cup of tap water.
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Oct 2016
6:08pm, 5 Oct 2016
13,243 posts
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Wriggling Snake
also I was 3rd in age group last Sat :-).
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Oct 2016
6:37pm, 5 Oct 2016
5,887 posts
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The_Saint
I pay for the Cardiff SSAFA 5K series £6 per race partly to support the cause but mainly because summer evening races are what it is all about. Also pay £9 for Nos Galan because it makes New Year's Eve much more interesting than doing the standard rubbish.
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Oct 2016
7:14pm, 5 Oct 2016
227 posts
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MartinCunningham
Recently I have paid £15 as entry fee for the three race series that is the Joydens Wood 5k. It's a local off road run with a different route for each one of the series and organised by a local running club once a month on a Wednesday evening during the summer months. Spot prizes of wine or beer and a range of trophies at the end of the series.
In the City of London there is a 5k event organised by the London Marathon that I have once paid for entry but its more of a Corporate event.
To a certain extent this was the fear of many athletics clubs that parkrun would kill off these local events and actually I don't think it has.
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