The Doctor K Cup

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The seventh annual Doctor K Cup will take place on Saturday October 19th 2024

How to join in

Firstly, add the 2024 Doctor K Cup to your Fetch portfolio.

All you need is a GPS watch or app. On the day, RUN AT LEAST 5K WITHOUT LOOKING AT YOUR WATCH. The Fetch Benchmark system will pull out your fastest 5k from your run (so you can include it as part of your long run if you like). The person who gets closest to their prediction will be declared the winner (though the judges decision is final!).

It would be lovely if you could upload your 'K' pics to the gallery (make a K shape with your fingers) to help us remember Doctor K and all the Fetchies we have lost.

NB A GPS watch reporting 5.00km will do so from 4995 metres onwards, but you MUST run at least 5000 metres or more. To avoid disappointment add an extra 10 seconds on to the end of your run, just to make sure.

Sep 2017
1:20pm, 30 Sep 2017
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fetcheveryone
We didn't get to do any running this morning, because the boy had a football match - but we dropped the K anyway, and wish Bolton good luck this weekend.

Sep 2017
1:53pm, 30 Sep 2017
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westmoors
Brilliant B. No photo for me.

Was going to change my prediction to 26:59 as I felt quite good after the club hill session on Thursday. Then I saw the weather forecast and decided to leave it at 27:15 as parts of the course can be slippery when wet. Official result 27:02 so I should have been braver!
XB
Sep 2017
2:02pm, 30 Sep 2017
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XB
That's a rather excellent way to spend a Saturday morning and honour the memory of DrK. Nice to meet some new Fetchies and re-meet some I've not seen for simply ages.

My prediction was woefully wrong - I was expecting course congestion to make for a slow first mile.
Sep 2017
2:35pm, 30 Sep 2017
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Steady Edina
Mine was spot on
XB
Sep 2017
3:11pm, 30 Sep 2017
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XB
medal champagne
Sep 2017
3:16pm, 30 Sep 2017
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McGoohan
Here's a composite of mine and Liebling's K's
Sep 2017
3:16pm, 30 Sep 2017
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McGoohan
Er... my K might be the wrong way round
Sep 2017
3:22pm, 30 Sep 2017
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Joopsy
Love it McG. Mirror K's!
Sep 2017
3:24pm, 30 Sep 2017
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fetcheveryone
Just don't do three in a row.
Sep 2017
3:44pm, 30 Sep 2017
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Joopsy
McG, can you drop me your real names please or stick your official times on the race page.

Same for Snogard and Serendippily please or my spreadsheet won't be complete and that will hurt my head.

About This Thread

Maintained by Joopsy
2024 Instructions

Add the following race to your portfolio:

fetcheveryone.com/races/the-doctor-k-cup-10329609

Enter your predicted time by October 18th (the day before the run).

On the 19th October, run at least 5k WITHOUT LOOKING AT YOUR WATCH OR GETTING ANY PACING HELP!!!

RESULTS WILL BE POSTED HERE:

fetcheveryone.com/doctorkcup.php

Fetch will extract the results by looking at your benchmarks for 5k (so for your own sake, avoid tunnels, tall buildings, heavy tree cover, pylons etc). If you are running a local 5k loop, please add a bit on, just to make sure that your watch registers at least 5k's worth of data. But no peeking!

The person who is closest to their predicted time will win the 'Doctor K Cup' for one year.

NB Doctor K was a big parkrun fan - so you can do your run at parkrun, but ***PLEASE*** make sure you cover at least 5000 metres. A GPS watch reporting 5.00km will do so from 4995 metres onwards, but you MUST run at least 5000 metres or more. To avoid disappointment add an extra 10 seconds on to the end of your run, just to make sure.

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