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Nov 2021
1:18pm, 6 Nov 2021
1,255 posts
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Spideog
I have a sneaky suspicion that for most runners, their 'B' course is quicker than their 'A' course. I thought the B was meant to be intentionally harder so as not to give out PBs which are much harder to get because the B course may be run so rarely. The only one I’ve done with a B course is Tees Barrage which is about 200m longer for example.
That's a relatively recent semi rule from HQ, there is likely to be plenty of B courses which were invented long before that idea was come up with.
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Nov 2021
1:25pm, 6 Nov 2021
72 posts
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paulcook
Oh right. I did Tees Barrage B course (before I did their A course even!) in 2015 and thought it was about then.
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Nov 2021
1:49pm, 6 Nov 2021
1,236 posts
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Big_G
I thought the B was meant to be intentionally harder so as not to give out PBs which are much harder to get because the B course may be run so rarely.
That is why I mentioned it 
I did the first one at Torbay back on NYE 2016 (where has that time gone!) and in the early days I remember people saying they wished it could have been 3 laps of the track from the start, for those who would like a quicker time.
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Nov 2021
1:49pm, 6 Nov 2021
11,085 posts
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jda
Oh, I wasn't expecting the chance to meet another fetchie at Rothay! Yes everyone else was well behaved, it certainly wasn't a course for racing. I'm sure on a brighter morning it would be a lovely site though a drizzly November morning wasn't the most inspiring. Happy to have got out for some exercise before the rain really set in though.
Ayr also has a slightly twisty two-way section - with mud and roots! - but not as congested or narrow as Rothay.
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Nov 2021
3:18pm, 6 Nov 2021
218 posts
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JenHB
Can't currently see how I am doing with the stopwatch bingo (or any of the other challenges) but I have noticed that I now have an 'M' for the alphabeteer (since Bakewell has been renamed Monsal Trail) [I've not lost B either - my home parkrun is Beeston]
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Nov 2021
3:22pm, 6 Nov 2021
12,908 posts
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chunkywizard
I’ve still got one number to go in stopwatch bingo after 305 parkruns. You can’t hurry these things ( well I know you can but I'm not cheating! )
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Nov 2021
3:41pm, 6 Nov 2021
9,064 posts
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BaronessBL
Alton Water inaugural for me today - along with 179 other people! I am allowed to do this inaugural as it's practically at the end of my road and I'm on the core team!
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Nov 2021
4:27pm, 6 Nov 2021
50,647 posts
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LindsD
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Nov 2021
4:33pm, 6 Nov 2021
56,275 posts
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Lip Gloss
I have 100% on stopwatch bingo but still need a 8, 75 & 87 for my position bingo
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Nov 2021
4:48pm, 6 Nov 2021
9,065 posts
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BaronessBL
I didn't even know there was such a thing as position bingo only the stopwatch one!
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