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4 Jan
5:30pm, 4 Jan 2025
12,232 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
I felt guilty for driving for 30 minutes for parkrun this morning and coming straight home again  (nearest to home was cancelled). Very rare that I don’t do something else in the area if I’m touring.
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4 Jan
6:14pm, 4 Jan 2025
22,554 posts
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Cerrertonia
Nearest to home here is about 35-40 minutes drive, but it's usually my only car trip of the week so usually combine parkrun with a trip to the shops.
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4 Jan
6:47pm, 4 Jan 2025
18,288 posts
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jdawayinamanger
A big part of the attraction of parkrun for me is that there’s often one quite local to wherever I’m travelling for some other reason. I’ll bend my plans to fit one in, but don’t think I’ve ever travelled any significant distance for a stand-alone parkrun (a stark contrast with almost all proper races).
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4 Jan
6:49pm, 4 Jan 2025
79,428 posts
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LipGloss
We did Bressay as a celebrity milestone. 6 of us on a 24 hour round trip just to do it.
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4 Jan
6:51pm, 4 Jan 2025
18,289 posts
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jdawayinamanger
My “locals” are a 30-60 min drive but I only do in conjunction with a shopping trip (partly why I do them so rarely)
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4 Jan
7:02pm, 4 Jan 2025
26,352 posts
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larkim
We've driven a long time to get to parkruns, but only if they are the start of a weekend away / holiday, or an unavoidable trip (e.g. picking up from Uni). Longest would be Chester to Barnstaple at the start of a 2 week holiday. Little better than waking up at 4am, loading family into the car, arriving at Barnstaple for a leg loosener for us all, and then on the beach at Croyde by 10:30am. My kind of heaven!
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4 Jan
8:29pm, 4 Jan 2025
6,555 posts
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RRR-CAZ 🇬🇧
I am trying to do all the parkruns within an hour’s drive from home. Quite a few to get to.
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4 Jan
8:34pm, 4 Jan 2025
695 posts
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OO61
Similar to you guys I combine road trips with other events or make it a weekend trip. I've done 80 locations from 500 parkruns. We plan parkruns overseas wherever we go, including Poland, Italy, Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand. Not quite obsessive, but almost 😉
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4 Jan
9:42pm, 4 Jan 2025
13,686 posts
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Ally-C
I usually double Parkrun up with other races, holidays, family visits, hillwalking etc
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4 Jan
10:40pm, 4 Jan 2025
10,749 posts
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BaronessBL
I've done very little parkrun tourism but my two furthest parkruns were both when on holiday in the area or when we broke up a long journey by stopping overnight on the Friday on the way to a holiday. Otherwise I've probably done a handful in my local area of up to 40 minutes drive from home and a few when staying in Norfolk - again never any further than 40 minutes away from where I was staying. I just don't have the inclination to get up really early to drive a long way for a 5k run but I appreciate I do not have the 'parkrun bug' that many do.
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