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The_Saint
The_Saint
Dec 2017
5:48pm, 6 Dec 2017
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Hmm I've raced a number of times on the Llanelli course and the Swansea Bay course (although not as a parkrun) and would always pick Cardiff Blackweir as quicker even if the wind wasn't blowing which makes Llanelli in particular a pig.
The_Saint
The_Saint
Dec 2017
5:56pm, 6 Dec 2017
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The_Saint
The Worcester Pitchcroft rating smelled suspicious before I looked at the course map - I was expecting to see a point to point straight line downhill but it is certainly not that parkrun.org.uk
I suspect that some calculation has gone awry there.
The_Saint
The_Saint
Dec 2017
5:58pm, 6 Dec 2017
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The_Saint
I didn't consider it being short though
larkim
larkim
Dec 2017
6:06pm, 6 Dec 2017
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larkim
If you look through some recent results there are a high proportion of PBs at Pitchcroft.

I doubt his maths is incorrect, but if the course is 4.8k then that would certainly help!
The_Saint
The_Saint
Dec 2017
6:08pm, 6 Dec 2017
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The_Saint
Working as I do in a Statistical organisation, outliers tend to knee you in the balls when you see them and I'm still bent over from that one.
larkim
larkim
Dec 2017
6:14pm, 6 Dec 2017
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larkim
I wonder if it helps that it has only been going since the summer, so it has had the best of the weather / conditions.

I found a runner on RBR who had done 14 of the 25 runs there so I could see the SSS scores for each event - not one had an SSS higher than 1.0 (which is the default entry when not enough runners take part to calculate a score), so there is definitely "something" about the mix of runners / speeds there that is generally "above average".
Gobi
Gobi
Dec 2017
6:25pm, 6 Dec 2017
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Gobi
Cardiff- flat and fast
Poole - flat and fast

Not by difficulty at all
larkim
larkim
Dec 2017
6:31pm, 6 Dec 2017
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larkim
Difficulty is the wrong word (though I used it!). It should really say "ranked by performance relative to expected performance based on runner's previous history as stored by RunBritainRankings".
sallykate
sallykate
Dec 2017
6:37pm, 6 Dec 2017
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sallykate
Bizarre ranking for Hilly Fields right next to Roundshaw Downs - the latter is a LOT flatter (though all off-road which might make a difference).
Ultracat
Ultracat
Dec 2017
6:45pm, 6 Dec 2017
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Ultracat
Mrs S. I think Stonehaven is down as Mineral Park

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Maintained by Hendo
A discussion of all things parkrun.

Here's a wiki giving brief reviews of parkruns up and down the land:

fetcheveryone.com/article-view.php?id=545

parkruns with restart permission: google.com

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