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Jan 2019
2:31pm, 31 Jan 2019
26,180 posts
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LindsD
I'd say possibly 20% at Northala but hard to know.
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Jan 2019
2:46pm, 31 Jan 2019
694 posts
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Nessie
Probably 15-20% here, helped by the 10% discount for parkrunners at the cafe. And the fab scones.....
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Jan 2019
2:50pm, 31 Jan 2019
2,905 posts
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StuH
I'd say less than 10% at Woking recently. It has certainly declined as the number of runners has grown.
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Jan 2019
2:54pm, 31 Jan 2019
25,512 posts
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LazyDaisy
Tiny numbers go to the cafe here (it's the rubbish one in the leisure centre). People stand and chat if the weather's OK but otherwise the 'cafe community' thing doesn't happen.
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Jan 2019
2:57pm, 31 Jan 2019
6,690 posts
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larkim
OK, maybe 1% was a little low-balling - on 400 runners, maybe 20-30 would be in the cafe afterwards, depending on the weather. But I don't think that is part of the parkrun + cafe culture, I think that is just people who are at parkrun happening to have a coffee after. When the local parkrun started up in 2013 I was broadly expecting almost an organised group to be waiting around to head off to the cafe, but it always seemed that it was just the core team, and their main mission was to get the results uploaded using the wifi.
For us as a family, we might go to the cafe once or twice a year after parkrun as a treat or convenience because of whatever else is happening that day. But when we're in there, there's definitely no cameraderie - it's just the normal clientele, some people who have done parkrun and the event team, none of them talking to each other beyond their normal social groups as far as I can tell.
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Jan 2019
2:58pm, 31 Jan 2019
10,126 posts
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MazH
we have a golf club nearby where we process the results and we signpost people there. But it is not to everyone's taste (cheap n cheerful), we also have a more expensive park cafe with muffins and barista coffee, so we know a lot people go there. Of course with all barista places, you wait an age, and it's further away. Hence we push the support of the golf club.
(and they let my dog in, love him in fact, so GC wins for me!)
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Jan 2019
3:02pm, 31 Jan 2019
8,250 posts
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Markymarkmark
A cheap 'n' cheerful golf club? Now there's a rarity.... 
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Jan 2019
3:04pm, 31 Jan 2019
5,790 posts
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Jovi Runner
Fountains may be the exception but id say close on 50% or more go to the cafe afterwards - probably due to our location & most people needing to drive there as 3 miles from the nearest population centre. Its a NT site there is usually a queue out the door & across the courtyard from 09:45. They're currently returning the cafe ,& we have joked it's park run that has funded it When parkrun started they had 2-3 staff on duty at 9:30-10:30 - I'd say it's now 6-8 at least.
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Jan 2019
3:05pm, 31 Jan 2019
5,791 posts
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Jovi Runner
Refurbing nor returning!
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Jan 2019
3:07pm, 31 Jan 2019
5,792 posts
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Jovi Runner
We do a run report each week.
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