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Feb 2018
6:03pm, 18 Feb 2018
98 posts
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Hunkyteddy
Anyone here do Great Run Local? Is it like Parkrun but on a Sunday? Problem for me is the nearest one is 120 miles away...
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Feb 2018
7:17pm, 18 Feb 2018
1,179 posts
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TomahawkMike
From what I can see on the website it's any day of the week (and any time) and not necessarily a weekly event. I can see one has a next event of 20th May for example.
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Feb 2018
7:24pm, 18 Feb 2018
4,194 posts
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Metro_Nome
There’s none anywhere near me or I would consider it!
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Feb 2018
7:33pm, 18 Feb 2018
31,845 posts
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alpenrose
I had one close to me but it looks like they've given up a couple of weeks ago. Probably wasn't enough competition for parkrun.
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Feb 2018
7:37pm, 18 Feb 2018
6,181 posts
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The_Saint
I'd be suspicious of the motives of anything involved with "Great Run"
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Feb 2018
9:50pm, 18 Feb 2018
21,517 posts
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LazyDaisy
I did a Great Run local at Southwold a few years ago. It was fine, though a tiny field of about 25-30 people. Latest results show it hasn't grown at all. Bizarrely given it was an out and back course where they could very easily have made it exactly 5k it was instead a 3 mile course. I couldn't see how the 'tapping your wristband on the timekeeper's phone' could be scaled up to the numbers many parkruns get as the time taken to tap in would lead to a queue on the finish line. I don't even know if my wristband would still work.
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Feb 2018
10:00pm, 18 Feb 2018
67 posts
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Akie
Quite a few round Manchester. Done a couple, similar setup except a range of days and times.
Agree on the wristband, not scalable.
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Feb 2018
10:33pm, 18 Feb 2018
2,879 posts
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Bob!
surely if the numbers were to rise, you'd just have more timekeepers with phones
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Feb 2018
10:56pm, 18 Feb 2018
3,929 posts
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larkim
Just shows what a good job parkrun UK have done - with the organisation (!) of Great Run behind it, you'd have thought the Local events would be able to trounce parkrun. But they have no clear USP - pick a time, pick a distance, pay for a wristband etc all barriers to the success that parkun has had.
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Feb 2018
11:31pm, 18 Feb 2018
6,182 posts
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The_Saint
You might imagine that the thinking goes something along the lines of "Bloody parkrun with their events that don't cost £95, let's give some of the free action hoping we steer them towards our pay for events"
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