parkrun thread
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4 Jan
11:58am, 4 Jan 2025
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Fragile Do Not Bend
alehouse wrote: The allotments metres away from FM parkrun HQ: I feel for those allotment holders 
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4 Jan
12:07pm, 4 Jan 2025
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Meep Meep
Ahh ok, I see now.
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4 Jan
3:14pm, 4 Jan 2025
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OO61
I met a guy and his young son at a parkrun a few months back. They'd driven 3 hours to get there and were planning to turn around d and go straight home. He said they did it every weekend. His choice of course, but family life can't be much fun at the weekends in his house. That was my thought anyway.
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4 Jan
3:19pm, 4 Jan 2025
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Metro_Nome
I have a 90 minute limit for on the day, and that’s a relatively rare occasion. Anything else is planned into a weekend away. I love doing parkrun touristing and it’s the first thing I check when we’re away, but don’t do it for the sake of doing it. It would take the fun out for me (especially as I’m really not a morning person!). But each to their own.
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4 Jan
3:31pm, 4 Jan 2025
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Curly45
We also don't travel specifically anymore. Not that we haven't in the past. Even then we would tie it into a visit to the place the parkrun was in. I love exploring the UK so I'm happy to see places as well as a parkrun, but yeah can't imagine turning straight back around. I suppose we do that for football though so it's sort of the same. |
4 Jan
3:35pm, 4 Jan 2025
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Dvorak
It seems pretty weird and near pointless to me. However ... Maybe it's their treasured father/son time. Maybe the father never had that time from his own father and is making sure his son has. Maybe part of the deal is they are home for lunch. Maybe, the son is the driver of it: possibly on the spectrum, and collecting parkruns is his thing, and long drives are also part of the thing. Maybe the man's significant other welcomes one prolonged spell of peace in the week; or there is no significant other and that's part of a way of dealing with that. Or there is one, and ditto. Of course, none of the above may apply, and even if they did, there might be a better course than getting up at 0500 every Saturday. (0500 !!! That's why I haven't ventured further than around an hour.)
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4 Jan
3:39pm, 4 Jan 2025
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Metro_Nome
Even this morning when we were driving at 8:45 I thought, if hazlehead was on I’d still have been in bed. And that’s why so many of my runs are there 🤣
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4 Jan
3:48pm, 4 Jan 2025
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LipGloss
Our small group are often up early to tour but we then usually stay out all day.
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4 Jan
4:26pm, 4 Jan 2025
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Mr J
Happy to do a 2 hour drive (usually 90 mins) for a parkrun but I always explore the area after. Never see the point in going straight home after a long drive just to do a parkrun. I am on 379 different events but only 10 new ones in 2024. Definitely less obsessed than I used to be but still less obsessed than many.
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4 Jan
4:32pm, 4 Jan 2025
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Velociraptor
I'll travel for a Fetchfest but otherwise parkrun tourism is incidental to travel for other reasons.
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