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BlueTang
BlueTang
Apr 2020
1:23pm, 3 Apr 2020
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BlueTang
I'm in again! Love this. I'm planning to do the same route each week to see if I'm improving at all. One big loop round town, all tarmac with a couple of road crossings and a mile long straight to finish, so nothing like my actual parkrun of 3 grassy laps 😂
Chrisity
Chrisity
Apr 2020
1:37pm, 3 Apr 2020
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Chrisity
Will it have the traffic though Kinky?

I've just done a blog which includes the Beeston parkrun cafe and the first kilometer, with interesting things to see. It occured to me that it might be fun to do a blog of our local parkrun, maybe including things to see for visitors who may have a bit of time to spare?
My blog is fetcheveryone.com/blog/2274
Dvorak
Dvorak
Apr 2020
1:53pm, 3 Apr 2020
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Dvorak
Might be in. I actually did one last Sunday, but never put it in. By the time I'd got there though (3km, uphill at end). I wondered if I'd make it round 5K! Especially as the route, which I'd a general idea of, was rather bumpy. Ended up 130m ascent, according to Fetch. What was I thinking :-o ? In the end, I ran-walked it, whilst left me enough juice to make it home.

Route and course description here, if you are curious.

I'm lacking a picture though - just think trees. fetcheveryone.com/routes-view.php?id=1810158
Sigh
Sigh
Apr 2020
2:02pm, 3 Apr 2020
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Sigh
Looks challenging, Dvorak!
Lip Gloss
Lip Gloss
Apr 2020
2:53pm, 3 Apr 2020
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Lip Gloss
I'm in :-)
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Apr 2020
3:09pm, 3 Apr 2020
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Derby Tup
I think Cliffe Castle is about 100 or 120 m climb over three laps. You’ve got to be quite fit to run the main climb on the third lap quicker than you can power walk it ;-)
Roberto
Roberto
Apr 2020
3:49pm, 3 Apr 2020
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Roberto
DT, my fetch activity says whinlatter was 296m of elevation, my strava says 170m and when I googled it, it said 205m. So take your pick.
Dvorak
Dvorak
Apr 2020
4:08pm, 3 Apr 2020
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Dvorak
My observations are that Fetch elevations tend to be quite a large overestimate, but this decreases the hillier a route is. Roughly:

Flattish: meaningless (though it hardly matters).
Bumpy: +35%
Undulating: +25%
Hilly: +15%
Proper hilly: +10%

Also the rate of change matters:. A steady climb usually reads better than rolling terrain.

From some quick looks at a friend's strava I reckoned it underestimated hilly courses eg Drumchapel parkrun. Estimate -15% iirc. I think it was fooled by the climb being transverse across a slope.
Ally-C
Ally-C
Apr 2020
4:29pm, 3 Apr 2020
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Ally-C
My strava said 183m for Whinlatter, time was 26:02, I did a Parkrun PB of 21:50 a few weeks earlier😂

Dvorak, apparently the forthcoming Cumbernauld Parkrun; Jubilee Wood, is gonnae be a lot harder than Drumchapel. I was meant to trial it before CV hit.
Ally-C
Ally-C
Apr 2020
4:33pm, 3 Apr 2020
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Ally-C
That should’ve been 20:50^

About This Thread

Maintained by Hendo
A discussion of all things parkrun.

Here's a wiki giving brief reviews of parkruns up and down the land:

fetcheveryone.com/article-view.php?id=545

parkruns with restart permission: google.com

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