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Jan 2019
10:03am, 3 Jan 2019
5,628 posts
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Jovi Runner
I've done 248 runs at 21 events. Like Dibble the non home runs are when I was visiting that town or close to it and ran a local parkrun there. I don't think I've ever travelled specifically just for a parkrun if I was at home. The furthest I've travelled is a 90 mile round trip when staying with my parents in Northumberland and I went to the (then) nearest parkrun which was in Newcastle. There are closer ones now in Druridge and Newbiggin by the Sea.
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Jan 2019
10:11am, 3 Jan 2019
34,368 posts
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Hills of Death (HOD)
On NYD Few lads from our club did Hunts Parkrun (in about 18 mins) ran to Pocket Park about 8/9 miles away approx. 7mm and finished on a 18/19 min 10.30 Parkrun. A few others did a slightly slower version 22 min and missed start but still good.
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Jan 2019
10:20am, 3 Jan 2019
40,183 posts
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Velociraptor
The furthest I travelled specifically to go to a parkrun was for my first and second, from north Birmingham to Bramhall in Cheshire. We were meeting up with Fetchies both times. Bramhall was still down as our home parkrun until last year, when the RD at Keswick asked if we were actually travelling all that way to run in the Lake District every weekend.
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Jan 2019
10:27am, 3 Jan 2019
6,397 posts
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larkim
Interesting demographic stuff that *as a generalisation* it seems that there is relatively little overlap between the parkrun "collector" obsessives in various forms and those who post on this thread (and on fetch in general, as there aren't a slew of active alphabeteer threads etc).
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Jan 2019
10:40am, 3 Jan 2019
25,793 posts
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LindsD
(or maybe they are just too scared to confess.... I need D, S, U and V  but I've only travelled specifically for a letter once and would not do it again)
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Jan 2019
10:42am, 3 Jan 2019
201 posts
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blinddrunkonmulledcider
I have done about 35 different parkrun venues now. I don't consider myself a tourist in that I will only drive up to an hour unless en-route but to me the appeal is to run somewhere different. Where possible I will cycle or run to the venue.
As an ED I also find it useful to see how other parkruns do things differently and to take things I can use that might improve how Somerdale pavilion parkrun do things. We must be doing something right as we are getting amazing feedback so far...
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Jan 2019
10:45am, 3 Jan 2019
202 posts
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blinddrunkonmulledcider
And must add after being at Pomphrey Hill (420 runners) on Xmas day and at Ashton Court (565) and Eastville (941) on New Years Day. I can safely say we will NEVER hold one of these extra runs at Somerdale. We would struggle massively with the numbers and as we are fully on grass the extra big events in the middle of winter would impinge on our normal events with the extra damage
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Jan 2019
11:07am, 3 Jan 2019
34,369 posts
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Hills of Death (HOD)
Linds you haven't done an S ??? Southwark Park ! V = Valentines
I need a D and U
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Jan 2019
11:10am, 3 Jan 2019
2,199 posts
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Goofee
I'm up to 43 different out of 242 total. There is a group of 'uber-tourists' at my running club, in the past I might link up with them if there was a spare place in the car and it was one I wanted to run, once they started travelling further afield I stopped doing that. I used to get to localish inaugurals when that was encouraged, like Dibble I was at Newbury because Rach E wanted to break the inaugural attendance record. Apart from that it is down to where I happen to be on the Saturday morning (Aviemore for eg at more than 600 km away is not one I would have driven to on the morning )
Every now and then I like to get to a new one within an hour's drive so I do that, I have Marlborough pencilled in for the 12th. As I'm getting towards 50 different I might make a point of doing my NNYD regularly over the next few months, maybe some of the London ones by train as the weather warms up a bit, I'll see how it works out.
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Jan 2019
11:17am, 3 Jan 2019
6,398 posts
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larkim
You need to pop up to D elamere then
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