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Jun 2021
9:06pm, 10 Jun 2021
2,436 posts
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Groundhog
I'm guessing chess as it's midweek. 
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Jun 2021
9:06pm, 10 Jun 2021
2,437 posts
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Groundhog
Oops. TOTP
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Jun 2021
9:12pm, 10 Jun 2021
195 posts
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Kanajlo
What makes a good parkrun Café?
One of my favourite memories was on my first visit to Monsourise where almost the entire field of runners was still sat outside the cafe chatting away until after mid-day. It was of course much drier than most the parkruns featured on the last few pages.
Closer to home Wolverhampton's East park had a great cafe, they had no individual tables just two massive round tables, which worked to encourage conversations between different parties of parkruners. One week I was chatting to a guy about his trip to the arctic, the next I was listening-in to instruction on how to process the results.
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Jun 2021
9:30pm, 10 Jun 2021
684 posts
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Weath
(Yes, meant for the chess thread Groundhog ♟. It' been one of those days!)
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Jun 2021
9:03am, 11 Jun 2021
15 posts
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hellywobs
The Hamburg parkrun was very sociable when I did it, but it hadn't been going long (maybe 3 weeks, not sure now) and there were only about 40 runners, so a good number of us went to the cafe afterwards, which was right next to the start. I don't know how long they all stayed as I left after about an hour to get back to my hotel and to the airport to come home.
Otherwise I've found Parke and Killerton parkruns very sociable and the cafes are good, being National Trust. And at Brickfields in Dublin they brought flasks of coffee and tea to share (another small one with about 40 people when I did it).
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Jun 2021
9:33am, 11 Jun 2021
20,979 posts
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DeeGee
Hey-ho folks, why haven't I been in here before?
*waves*
Wettest parkrun was Telford in October 2019, although tradition has it that it's always a downpour at Cleethorpes when I'm in the chair.
I've not really fancied visiting a parkrun cafe as a non-local, so I don't think I remember any. Shame, but I'm a bit shy like that.
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Jun 2021
9:47am, 11 Jun 2021
49,622 posts
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McGoohan
Hottest parkrun? Ellenbrook Fields @ Hatfield in July 2019. Roasting and not much tree cover.
Full-on heat headache by the end.
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Jun 2021
9:52am, 11 Jun 2021
3,962 posts
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Curly45
5 years ago this week I did a very hot and humid parkrun here:
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Jun 2021
10:07am, 11 Jun 2021
917 posts
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Hunkyteddy
Coldest parkrun - I did Seaton parkrun during the Beast from the East. It was bitter. I have no qualms about wearing gloves and leggings. For this one I wore two t shirts and a top too.
It was particularly cold running east along the prom, not too bad the other way.
That was in contrast to running the same course a few months earlier, into a howling gale in the other direction. They didn't bother with cones or tape that day.
I think it was a record low for attendance that day, and a record high position for me. Only top twenty finish to date!
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Jun 2021
10:47am, 11 Jun 2021
608 posts
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Rrunner
Coldest for me was Portobello in January 2017, I'm not sure why we decided to travel up from Manchester then but we were not ready for the Edinburgh winter!
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