Let's talk about inaugural parkruns after they've happened.
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Feb 2017
1:43pm, 12 Feb 2017
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ElDuderino
Plean would be good for me if that happens.
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Feb 2017
4:00pm, 12 Feb 2017
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Tim.CCR
Please note - not Croydon Council who planned to fund - was a health trust - will ask re dunding as have a friend who works there.
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Feb 2017
8:46pm, 13 Feb 2017
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57.5 Degrees of Pain
About time Stirling got a nearby event. A parkrun within the town was mooted soon after I started 8 years ago! Must admit I have never heard of Plean Country Park.
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Feb 2017
9:44pm, 13 Feb 2017
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Dvorak
PCP is a bit of a secret. Grounds of the old (now derelict) Plean House, its wooded policies and recovered pit bings, up the hill above the village. Don't know the course but I expect it will be quite Falkirk-like.
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Feb 2017
10:09am, 14 Feb 2017
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Lloydparkrunner
Tim, I was aware that a GP in South Norwood / Thornton Heath was pushing for a parkrun in South Norwood Country Park but I thought that 50% of the funding for the run still had to come from Croydon Council. Do you think that the Health Trust was supposed to be putting in the other 50% ?
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Feb 2017
3:33pm, 14 Feb 2017
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Tim.CCR
50% of funding for any new run comes from parkrun - the other 50% can be a Council, but could be another source - in this case my belief is the trust had agreed to cover funding, there was a sizable delay in fully setting up a core team, but a restructure in the Health Trust by then meant the people who agreed it are not in post any more - and the new peeps are not so sure! Or so I understand at least.
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Feb 2017
4:16pm, 14 Feb 2017
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larkim
@Dvorak - what on earth are wooded policies and recovered pit bings? Is this some local dialect that I'm unaware of  ? Sounds intriguing!
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Feb 2017
4:42pm, 14 Feb 2017
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Lloydparkrunner
Thanks Tim, that sounds plausible.
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Feb 2017
8:28pm, 14 Feb 2017
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Dvorak
Larkim: taking it from this, from their website: "The Country Park measures 90 hectares or 205 acres in size and includes all of the former policies of Plean House. These policies are now 200 year old mature estate woodland and naturalised birch scrub woodland to the colliery bings." I looked online for a definition of "policies" in this sense ... and could not find one. I would define it as the extended lands of the estate ie not the estate house and its immediate environs and gardens and; I'm not sure about this, but possibly; excluding also arable land. The estate owners were fortunate enough to find substantial coal seams under their land: bings are the spoilheaps left behind after excavation. Not exclusively coal: Scotland's most prominent bings are probably the Five Sisters in West Lothian, which are shale oil bings: so prominent that they are featured on the local council's logo. scottishhousingnews.com Here is a picture of Plean Country Park: a bit of what I expect might be the route, a former carriage drive, is visible in the centre-left. More than you probably wanted to know ;-). |
Feb 2017
9:26am, 15 Feb 2017
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RunningManScott
New run in Midlothian starts on 11 March parkrun.org.uk
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