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Jun 2018
12:45pm, 14 Jun 2018
6,253 posts
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The_Saint
It has nothing to do with ethos, what I was criticising just seems infantile (which they have every right to be, just as I have every right to comment)
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Jun 2018
12:48pm, 14 Jun 2018
1,351 posts
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TomahawkMike
It's good stopping somewhere on the way to somewhere else to fit in a parkrun. I got talking to some tourists at taunton (longrun meadow I think it's called) last summer and like me they were on their way to devon for a holiday. It allowed us all to avoid the Friday night M5 madness that you get in the summer with lots of people heading to devon/cornwall. Its a nice place to run. I did the same on my way to a week in wales by stopping at Forest of Dean parkrun which was fab
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Jun 2018
12:50pm, 14 Jun 2018
186 posts
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BexleyKev
Markymarkmark - If I was in your place and i assume you are local to York, I would go to Fountains Abbey for the day but, that is probably because i couldn't cope with running around a flat race course. Wherever and whenever you do it, enjoy the 50.
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Jun 2018
1:14pm, 14 Jun 2018
8,951 posts
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mrs shanksi
I've already been thinking about which parkruns I'll do on this year's holiday with the family. We are staying in Litton in Derbyshire. Anyone a regular from near there? I think there is one on the Monsal trail and one at Lyme?
I'm also visiting my son in Singapore in Dec so I'm planning to hopefully do 2 there and one in KL, our first foreign ones. Luckily we are there over Xmas and New year when they might have the extra ones. 🙂
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Jun 2018
1:28pm, 14 Jun 2018
152 posts
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Spideog
Unlikely they would use their optional extra parkrun day for a christian holiday in Malaysia.
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Jun 2018
1:38pm, 14 Jun 2018
8,954 posts
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mrs shanksi
Is it an optional thing for any day of the year then? So countries can choose a meaningful day for their own country? I had no idea. We'll have the Saturdays at least, not banking on the extra ones. My son has already said he doesn't want to get up really early to travel, they start at 07:30.
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Jun 2018
1:43pm, 14 Jun 2018
51,024 posts
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plodding hippo
I link my parkrun tourism to my marathon running
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Jun 2018
1:48pm, 14 Jun 2018
23,942 posts
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HellsBells
The only tourism I do is around our holidays or visiting friends. we'll be in the lakes for 2 Saturdays end of July/beginning of August - I think Penrith will be nearest, anyone know anything about it?
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Jun 2018
1:48pm, 14 Jun 2018
153 posts
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Spideog
I think Denmark does 24th December, Poland does 26th December, Singapore has done Chinese New Year and the US does Thanksgiving (although I think they also did 25th December and NY doubles in 2017). There is also another Danish double day during the summer which is mainly due to "another event in the park" meaning one event starts early in order to keep out of the way rather than a national holiday type event.
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Jun 2018
1:56pm, 14 Jun 2018
8,955 posts
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mrs shanksi
Thanks Spideog. Forgot that Chinese New Year would be the big event in that part of the world. We'll be home before then. I don't mind, I think we'll get one in Singapore and the one in KL and that's enough, plenty more stuff to do out there. I was tempted to run the ultra they have there but I think I would die from the heat since I've had issues with heatstroke. Should stick to sightseeing.
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