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Jan 2019
3:10pm, 31 Jan 2019
4,348 posts
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DoricQuine
Though I hate the course, Maz's cheap and cheerful post run venue has done it for me in lately since my home run has lost it's usual post run venue.
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Jan 2019
3:29pm, 31 Jan 2019
4,841 posts
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Metro_Nome
Lots of people head for coffee after Aberdeen, and we have a new venue right now which is pretty good and a bit closer which helps. I’ve been known to end up hanging around for hours afterwards- but I don’t tend to eat I must admit
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Jan 2019
3:31pm, 31 Jan 2019
4,349 posts
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DoricQuine
I got put off M_N after being asked to pay £5 for a cup of coffee!
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Jan 2019
3:32pm, 31 Jan 2019
6,691 posts
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larkim
On a similar vein, there was a letter read out on the FWT podcast pointing out that the recipe suggestion in a recent newsletter (leveraging the Happy Eggs branding) was broadly eggs, bacon and cheese. And whilst they weren't labouring the vegan point, they did point out that that doesn't appear to be the healthiest recipe for parkrun to be promoting.
At which point I was screaming in the car - "but what about the cake mentality!!!"
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Jan 2019
3:38pm, 31 Jan 2019
4,842 posts
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Metro_Nome
Yes of course it’s a bit of extra effort if you want something outwith the deal (which admittedly isn’t such good value for me as I don’t drink tea or coffee) but I’ve never had an issue with just speaking to the staff to get something a bit different
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Jan 2019
3:48pm, 31 Jan 2019
6,623 posts
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Too Much Water
Bromley used to hand out free squash, coffee and tea from an urn, and some basic biscuits, as there was and as far as I know still is no cafe in Norman Park.
As it was immediately available, and free! it meant people engaged more and whenever I did the parkrun (about 10 times) it seemed to have quite a good community feel
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Jan 2019
3:53pm, 31 Jan 2019
26,181 posts
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LindsD
Our cafe is just by the finish, the manager runs park with us (and is luckily fast :)) and it's cheap. I rarely buy cake, but there is often some that someone has brought as a celebration. Lots of people just have a coffee or tea. Some people have proper breakfast. I guess like most things, each parkrun is different 
There is definitely camaraderie.
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Jan 2019
4:53pm, 31 Jan 2019
852 posts
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edison
We set up tables at the finish with some refreshments as we are nowhere near a cafe - I take nothing to do with that at all. If the folk who sort it are away, it doesn't happen. I do run reports from time to time if I can be bothered - usually when someone runs really fast
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Jan 2019
4:59pm, 31 Jan 2019
40,448 posts
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Velociraptor
At Workington we have the use of the nearby cricket clubhouse after parkrun. Teabags, instant coffee, and there's always a pretext for far too much cake to be provided. Payment by voluntary donation. Participation rates are high. The on-site cafe at Whinlatter seems to do rather well too. At Keswick, eL Bee! and I tend to dodge the queues at the "official" cafe by going to a different one a bit further away which has magnificent cheese scones.
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Jan 2019
5:56pm, 31 Jan 2019
96 posts
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Mark
I don't usually take part in the cafe culture, and it is probably a good thing that most people don't, as fitting 500 people (or even 50) into a cafe that would struggle to fit 30 seems like a vision from hell. I'm much more likely to visit the cafe when I'm at a smaller event.
I do like the events that have a water table near the finish line, as it provided a place for people to naturally congregate and engage in conversation. At both Pontypridd and Highbury Fields the queue for the coffee machine in 'spoons seems to have a similar effect.
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