Scotland based runs & runners 2020

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Ally-C Mar 2020 7:49pm, 7 Mar 2020 930 posts	0 Ally-C It’s all trail so it should be quite challenging.
Dvorak Mar 2020 8:10pm, 7 Mar 2020 19,146 posts	0 Dvorak One could have a pretty decent A9 parkrun challenge. Thurso, Alness, Inverness, Aviemore, Faskally Forest, Perth, University of Stirling, Plean, Falkirk.
Ally-C Mar 2020 8:12pm, 7 Mar 2020 931 posts	0 Ally-C Faskally disnae appear to be 5k from the folk on my Strava. Quite a bit short.
princesszee Mar 2020 8:59pm, 7 Mar 2020 738 posts	0 princesszee Pitlochry was tougher than tough for me. Def up there with my top 5 hardest!! (Along with Plean, Camperdown, Lanark and Dunfermline) Lovely forest (So different to enchanted forest at night time!) and nice to see them get a good turnout although parking will be an issue when they’re not allowed to use that car park any longer. Also, they lock the gates after parkrun so if you are using that car park and then going for a walk, keep that in mind!
Dvorak Mar 2020 9:44pm, 7 Mar 2020 19,148 posts	0 Dvorak I've been looking at Princesszee's route trace (4.6km) which works out at 2x500m (in/out) and 3x 1200m laps. Now, with the fairly big caveats that: I wasn't there, nor do I know the area; the Garmin trace is pretty wild at bits, due I expect to all those trees; parkrun maps can sometimes be a bit more indicative than exact: it looks like there could have been a little failure of route-setting on the day, with the hairpin to the east of Loch Dunmore coming a wee bit early. If it was 50m early that's 2x3x50m = 300m. 60m would make 420m. Which (allowing for GPS) could be the missing distance. Would that correspond to the ~~strava~~ traces you have seen, Ally?
Ally-C Mar 2020 7:42am, 8 Mar 2020 932 posts	0 Ally-C 4.52 & 4.70 are the two I’ve seen.
57.5 Degrees of Pain Mar 2020 10:36am, 8 Mar 2020 5,297 posts	0 57.5 Degrees of Pain Short course and slow times. Sounds like a 'challenging' course! I look forward to do rating Faskally Forest in my toughest Scottish parkrun list. At the moment it is probably Drumchapel, Fort William/ Lanark (hard to separate them) and Queens Park. Of princesszee's list I only jogged Dunfermline and ran Plean when the mud was frozen, so have not had the full on experience. Camperdown is planned for 3 weeks time.
Ally-C Mar 2020 4:10pm, 8 Mar 2020 934 posts	0 Ally-C Camperdown isn’t on the same level as your first three toughest 57.5. Not done QP.
K5 Gus Mar 2020 6:15pm, 8 Mar 2020 3,412 posts	0 K5 Gus Scottish 5k Road Champs at Silverknowes on 1st May now open entrycentral.com
Bazoaxe Mar 2020 6:36pm, 8 Mar 2020 16,010 posts	0 Bazoaxe Too soon after London