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Willy Nilly said:
4th this morning in 18:04, first in age group and the people that beat me were at least 10 years younger than me. Still not a PB 
That's still some good going! How far off a PB are you?I had what felt like a decent run at my home event, but was somewhat disappointed to see I'd clocked 19:20, which is my typical finish of the last few weeks. I'll be devoting the rest of the spring and most of the summer to 5k and 10k stuff, so lots of 800m and mile reps. Would like to try and get my 5k down to sub 18:30 from a PB of 18:51.
RizzoTheRat said:
Terminator X said:
I ran the test course at Bracknell Saturday just gone, really enjoyable route. Starts properly on 04 Apr 2015.
Planning on going next week, is it mainly hardstanding/paths or grass?TX.
Terminator X said:
Mostly grass and woods, couple of paths but not many. Well muddy today!
TX.
Yeah, I think they might struggle with that course in the winter, especially the bit across the top after you come out of the woods. Nice route with a mix of everything but not a quick course. The smell of bacon from the pavilion was a nice touch too TX.
Cybertronian said:
Willy Nilly said:
4th this morning in 18:04, first in age group and the people that beat me were at least 10 years younger than me. Still not a PB
That's still some good going! How far off a PB are you? but it's raised my expectations to almost unachievable levels If anyone is in SE London/NW Kent there is a new parkrun starting this weekend at Lullingstone. The test event was last Sunday and having walked the dog there a few times its going to be a tough one.
All trail and 132m of ascent in the 5km.
Looking forward to my knee having healed enough to give it a go.
All trail and 132m of ascent in the 5km.
Looking forward to my knee having healed enough to give it a go.
I often wonder how many people must sign up and then only come once or twice. Frimley Lodge tends to get 15-20 new runners every week, yet our numbers seem to stay pretty constant at around the 320-350 ish mark.
Parkrun made it on to Sky news the other day, although that hill at Ipswich feels a lot steeper than it looks on the screen!
http://news.sky.com/story/1459360/running-races-ah...
Parkrun made it on to Sky news the other day, although that hill at Ipswich feels a lot steeper than it looks on the screen!
http://news.sky.com/story/1459360/running-races-ah...
RizzoTheRat said:
I often wonder how many people must sign up and then only come once or twice. Frimley Lodge tends to get 15-20 new runners every week, yet our numbers seem to stay pretty constant at around the 320-350 ish mark.
There are nearly 1.5million registered and only about 100k run each week, I think I've read that 600k different people have run so there are around 900k who have never run and probably a load more that have only run once or twice.Even with that huge drop out rate parkrun's still by far the biggest running event in the world!
The biggest issue we have with runners only running once and then never returning are the position tokens that also never return. I was helping to sort them last week and we must have easily had 10 that had gone walkies. No. 438 in particular had gone missing 3 previous times and we'd actually ran out of replacements and the spare stickers to fashion a temporary one. In the end, I simply wrote "MANUAL - 438" on a blank token and put it back in the pile.
Yes, we lose one or two tokens most weeks, although last week 2 of the takers sent embarrassed emails afterwards to say they'd found them in a pocket when they got home. We can't complain too much because most of the core team have done it at some point, usually because we run then immediately get caught up in dealing with problems (or gassing with runners!) and forget.
I've even been sorting tokens and cursing whoever hasn't returned token 125 and then realised it was in my pocket...oops!
What we really need is ANPR cameras on the finish line then we wouldn't need barcodes at all
I've even been sorting tokens and cursing whoever hasn't returned token 125 and then realised it was in my pocket...oops!
What we really need is ANPR cameras on the finish line then we wouldn't need barcodes at all
RizzoTheRat said:
I often wonder how many people must sign up and then only come once or twice. Frimley Lodge tends to get 15-20 new runners every week, yet our numbers seem to stay pretty constant at around the 320-350 ish mark.
Parkrun made it on to Sky news the other day, although that hill at Ipswich feels a lot steeper than it looks on the screen!
http://news.sky.com/story/1459360/running-races-ah...
Frimley is tight along the canal though which imho is why numbers don't go up. I stopped going there for that reason!Parkrun made it on to Sky news the other day, although that hill at Ipswich feels a lot steeper than it looks on the screen!
http://news.sky.com/story/1459360/running-races-ah...
TX.
Proud Dad this morning, my 9 yr old twins had their first go & made it around non-stop, one had a little walk but her sister was determined to run the whole thing, which she did. I was thinking we would be around 40 mins but both just under 36.30 ! Already talking about how they can go faster next week
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