parkrun thread
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26 Jan
2:10pm, 26 Jan 2025
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Son of a Pronator Man
It would be impossible to stop someone turning up and running but if they scanned their card it would not show in the results?
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26 Jan
2:20pm, 26 Jan 2025
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Looby Loo
@Meep Meep That’s appalling. @TnoP I did Lucca recently and it’s a lovely run one loop around the flat wide city walls. Easy to get to from Pisa. |
26 Jan
4:47pm, 26 Jan 2025
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larkim
Wow. I was at Chester yesterday (Delamere cancelled) but fortunately neither my youngest son or I made it into the top 10 so we are both innocent and have no first hand accounts to give. That's really poor. And as someone who also had another son running further down the field with Downs Syndrome it's doubly insulting. There's no excuse for that. |
26 Jan
5:34pm, 26 Jan 2025
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Snail
@TnoP - Lucca is great. Easy to grab a pizza, icecream etc after or simply a tour of the city as you start/finish at one of the city entrances.
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26 Jan
8:13pm, 26 Jan 2025
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larkim
On an unlinked note, I was going to comment that Chester's current course is really open to clashes and congestion. The course is one little half mile loop then two laps of about 1.2 miles. After about 2/3 of the lap the course runs on both sides of a path that's about 6ft wide with cones down the middle for about 100m. On the second lap as I was coming through that section on the way back I was coming past probably the 30-ish minute crowd who were on my side and they were doing a great job of keeping to the left so my route was towards the middle of the path. In the opposite direction heading downhill towards us was probably the 22-23 minute crowd, some of whom were overtaking each other. So the middle of the path was very crowded. I clearly wasn't taking quite enough care as one runner in the opposite direction and I clashed elbows / shoulders. I should have slowed and tucked in behind the other runners on my lap at that point but didn't think quickly enough, and I've not seen that sort of congestion at an event before. Obvs I'll know for next time, but after the event I did wonder if that was either poor course design, or more likely a consequence of higher numbers on a course which was being stretched a little beyond capacity. |
26 Jan
9:06pm, 26 Jan 2025
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Meep Meep
It is true that some events have routes where space is an issue and laps or out and backs can lead to conflict. Most events tend to grow and so a route that was fine when launched can be less fine as time goes on. I travel a bit but one of my regular events is an out and back that absolutely relies on people keeping left. At the really important sections they put cones down the middle of the path, but you still see people mindlessly running on the wrong side. It's mostly just carelessness imo; lots of people's brains switch off when they are running. On one occasion though I was shoulder-barged by someone who I think was deliberately trying to bully people off the path so he could take the racing line. Unfortunately for him he was about half my body size so he just bounced. |
27 Jan
7:07am, 27 Jan 2025
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CK2
We have a pinch point where we deploy particularly vocal marshals to shout “keep left” a lot.
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27 Jan
7:54am, 27 Jan 2025
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OO61
@TnoP another vote for Luca. The trains in Italy are good and inexpensive. We stayed in Pisa too which is a short train ride. The parkrun is small but very friendly. You start in one direction, a short out and back via a roundabout, then the rest is one lap of the city walls. The route is wide and tarmac, with some nice views. We did in summer so quite hot. Lots of tourists. No toilets but we stayed in a hotel very close by. Lots of places for post race coffee.
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28 Jan
6:36pm, 28 Jan 2025
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larkim
"B" course for Delamere this weekend. If you're looking for a parkrun with lots of elevation, this coul be worth ticking off if you're in the area.
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29 Jan
12:38am, 29 Jan 2025
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paulcook
An update on fastest and toughest parkruns. Mentions, and in fact top 5 place, for Battersea, which I think has been discussed here since it started. |
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