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20 Aug
1:23pm, 20 Aug 2024
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forest plodder
@DeeGee I think that happens at Itchen Valley. I'm at Victorious festival this coming weekend, and hope to get to Portsmouth Lakeside from the camp site on the tandem with my long suffering husband! |
20 Aug
1:27pm, 20 Aug 2024
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Big_G
Not exactly what you’re asking, but Forest of Dean has a point where runners are heading towards each other. |
20 Aug
1:35pm, 20 Aug 2024
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DeeGee
We've got an out and back at Cleethorpes, which we run twice, but the course I'm looking at has a couple of bridges which I don't think can tolerate two way traffic. I can fit the route into the space required in various permutations, but I'm trying to make it not too intolerable. |
20 Aug
1:36pm, 20 Aug 2024
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CumbriAndy
I do very little tourism but can, I think, contribute to the discussion. Not a crossroads situation but similar. At Fell Foot, runners run along the edge of a wide meadow to a gate then turn right to run round a second field before coming back out the way they came needing to move across to their left to run along the lake shore and complete a loop of the main park area. They then do a second lap which inevitably requires the 'incoming' and 'outgoing' streams of runners to cross over. That is - if you're 'going out' you start the two way stretch on the left but need to be on the right at the far end and vice versa if you're coming back. It's not an ideal situation but there's loads of space for folk to find sensible gaps if they simply look where they're going. It's also much safer than the alternatives which would involve adding a sharp downhill turn on (often wet) grass and the associated high likelihood of falls. If I recall correctly, one of the iterations of our winter route did involve a cross path junction - but we did that West-South, round a loop then East-North - turning right every time - which we managed with a bit of tape across the diagonal. Any help? |
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20 Aug
1:38pm, 20 Aug 2024
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DeeGee
Yes, thanks, that junction format is an alternative option for me.
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20 Aug
1:50pm, 20 Aug 2024
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Ness
The current Bedworth parkrun route is similar to the one Big_G mentions above. It's a 3 lap course. The second and third lap are slightly longer and go onto a trail section. The path it diverts onto is wide enough to have a row of cones down the middle to separate out the runners going in opposite directions..... That will be being changed in a few weeks time when the leisure centre building work finally starts. |
20 Aug
1:58pm, 20 Aug 2024
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Ally-C
57.5 Degrees of Pain wrote: Either the beautiful but tough Faskally Forest course. My plan was to do that a few times this Summer. Haven’t been fit enough yet though. |
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20 Aug
2:34pm, 20 Aug 2024
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forest plodder
Itchen Valley |
20 Aug
2:38pm, 20 Aug 2024
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westmoors
With picture now! Runners head straight up between the pitches to the T junction, turn right, then right again to complete the first small loop. |
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20 Aug
2:39pm, 20 Aug 2024
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westmoors
Doh, I meant turn left, left and left again.
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