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Mar 2020
1:14pm, 10 Mar 2020
698 posts
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Groundhog
How many tourists do we get? Let's say people who have done more than 5 total parkruns who turn up to an event, so they aren't just trying a few local ones.
At Sandhurst Memorial (relatively new at event #13) 39 first timers who have done more than 5 parkruns out of 129 who took part. That's 30% tourists. I think the locals know our course is really muddy just now and there are alternative parkruns nearby, but the mud doesn't put off a determined tourist.
At Frimley Lodge (over 10 years old) 17 out of 458, so 4% tourists.
Being not that far from London we have over 50 events within an hour's drive.
Another way of looking at this - This week there are 18,494 people on the UK list of people who have done at least 20 different parkruns out of 2,358,337 runners (i.e. done at least 1 run), which is 0.8%.
For World stats they have a list of people who have done 30+ events. There are 13,811 tourists worldwide on 30+ events out of 4,151,024 runners, which is 0.3%.
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Mar 2020
1:17pm, 10 Mar 2020
26,390 posts
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HellsBells
My two nearest parkruns are both 4 miles away - I really don’t want an 11 mile run every Saturday, not least because I’m usually bringing stuff.
The course I’m contemplating for a potential new event has no parking of any description within 1/2 a mile - I suspect if we get it going it will stay small
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Mar 2020
1:38pm, 10 Mar 2020
439 posts
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blindcider
We often have a large proportion of tourists >50%, at least we did back in the days when we actually managed to put a parkrun on.
Hitler didn't make it this week and he got a little bit miffed - obscure meme reference...
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Mar 2020
1:45pm, 10 Mar 2020
77 posts
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Steven G
I agree that "ubertourists" aren't the problem, and I certainly don't begrudge people driving when they have to travel more than a couple miles; even less if they have young kids.
Over the years my locals have been 5, 2, 15 and 2 miles away. Always cycled the short ones but drove to the 15.
What I really don't like is that we seem to be living in a world where people going to the gym or coming to parkrun can't even be bothered to walk short distances. How did that happen? Didn't we all grow up walking a mile or more to school every day? And yet the same generation now would happily park on the startline if they could?
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Mar 2020
2:20pm, 10 Mar 2020
654 posts
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Dibble
Discussion reminds me of the priority parking at Tough Mudder. After going over, under and through 20 tough muddy obstacles spread over a 10 mile route, you could pay £10 or so in order that your walk to and from the car was about 300 metres shorter!
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Mar 2020
2:50pm, 10 Mar 2020
1,764 posts
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RunningRonnie
Inverurie parkrun is really well placed for arriving by train, but I've only once heard about someone using that. There are services arriving around 9am from either direction and the train station is right next to the parking anyway.
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Mar 2020
2:51pm, 10 Mar 2020
1,765 posts
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RunningRonnie
or Ury Riverside parkrun to give our correct name 
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Mar 2020
2:59pm, 10 Mar 2020
10,568 posts
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larkim
Just look at your typical supermarket car park. Cars driving around and around past empty, remote spaces to find one nearest to the door.
One of the revelations of running for me early on was the recognition that it really really did only take a few minutes to park in areas which were considered a "long way" from shops or amenities, whereas now 1/4 mile away I can say "well, that's about 2 minutes if I need to run" which is, of course, no time at all.
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Mar 2020
3:50pm, 10 Mar 2020
10,350 posts
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mrs shanksi
Lachlan got the train to Ury Riverside last Saturday Ronnie 😃
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Mar 2020
4:02pm, 10 Mar 2020
1,766 posts
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RunningRonnie
Yeah... that's the one I was referring to :-D lol
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