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madazrx7 said:
One of the very few benefits of living here I guess. Last week only had 30 odd runners. This PR has only existed since late last year so I'm amazed that there have even been 500 different runners, I expected to see the walkers feature around 300 on the list!
It's surprising how many different people run at events (the stats are at the bottom of each event webpage) over 5 years we've had 85,000 finishers that are nearly 11,000 different people (yes, that is 11 thousand, not a typo!)I was working at Erddig Park near Wrexham yesterday. I actually ended working next to the finish line for their park run in front of the house (I was doing archaeological core sampling which is brutally hard work, so I decided not to take part). I had a nice chat with some of the runners, might have a go at this one.
I'd never actually been to another parkrun, nice that they seemed to have the same friendly ethos.
I'd never actually been to another parkrun, nice that they seemed to have the same friendly ethos.
Was up all Friday night in the Brecons, so with no sleep (but a lot of coffee) I rocked up at the local course and smashed out a 2018 PB, about 50 seconds off my outright PB. I'll take that. I did notice however, how little social interaction there is in comparison to others I've visited. We're really limited by a lack of facilities and people just have a short breather, maybe a quick stretch, then wander off. Not sure how the 30-45 minute runners feel about watching the car park empty while they're still circulating.
A bit of tourism this week in Tewkesbury, nice enough park but I really hate 4 lap courses. So demoralising compared to a single or twin lap course. first time I've been lapped in a while too, including being lapped by by my brother in law which is always annoying 
A bloke with a push chair and running in bare feet was in the top 5 which was quite impressive.
A bloke with a push chair and running in bare feet was in the top 5 which was quite impressive.
RizzoTheRat said:
A bit of tourism this week in Tewkesbury, nice enough park but I really hate 4 lap courses. So demoralising compared to a single or twin lap course. first time I've been lapped in a while too, including being lapped by by my brother in law which is always annoying
A bloke with a push chair and running in bare feet was in the top 5 which was quite impressive.
May not wish to come further south then and do Stonehouse. It was four, but is now five laps because Carillion dug up a corner of the field, fenced it, then collapsed. No one really knows when we'll be allowed our full course back. You have to be going some to avoid being lapped, which I then feel is a nice achievement, but some at the back get lapped twice, which can't be much fun.A bloke with a push chair and running in bare feet was in the top 5 which was quite impressive.
Took a 2 week break from running due to a sore knee and Le Mans.
Came back and ran my 2nd time under 30 minutes, 29:13.
My regular parkrun's off until July as the park's used for the Belsonic concerts so I was running Belfast Victoria. 3 laps around the park, was lapped by the fastest and was lapping the slowest before the end.
The park was set up for a 24 hour race so it was cool to see all the banners and timing equipment up. Also saw a few of the 24h runners arriving, there's no way I'll ever be doing that!
Came back and ran my 2nd time under 30 minutes, 29:13.
My regular parkrun's off until July as the park's used for the Belsonic concerts so I was running Belfast Victoria. 3 laps around the park, was lapped by the fastest and was lapping the slowest before the end.
The park was set up for a 24 hour race so it was cool to see all the banners and timing equipment up. Also saw a few of the 24h runners arriving, there's no way I'll ever be doing that!
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Shout out to my brother who got within about 10 seconds of his PB with a 20 minutes and 21 seconds at Ludlow, despite having a stinking hangover from the night before.
I was over 45 seconds off my best with a 25.33, but not too displeased as I'd been off last week. Funny how things change, I'd have killed for a sub 26 minutes time at the start of year now I can get one at cruising speed. I had an unusual run as no one else finished within 30 seconds of me so I ran nearly the entire course on my own, which meant I struggled to pace myself.
I was over 45 seconds off my best with a 25.33, but not too displeased as I'd been off last week. Funny how things change, I'd have killed for a sub 26 minutes time at the start of year now I can get one at cruising speed. I had an unusual run as no one else finished within 30 seconds of me so I ran nearly the entire course on my own, which meant I struggled to pace myself.
6 minutes slower than my pb today! I'm blaming it on the hot weather and not stretching properly first, legs were really stiff from a cross country last night.
To top it all off it seems my bar code didn't scan and I wasn't on the results, although that was sorted by email very quickly.
To top it all off it seems my bar code didn't scan and I wasn't on the results, although that was sorted by email very quickly.
Thanks 
Hopefully I'll do a pacing role, 25 or 30 minute role
Unfortunately I've booked up to do ManVsCoast next weekend so my 250th will have to wait
http://ratrace.com/manvscoast/
Bit of a struggle this morning
Hopefully I'll do a pacing role, 25 or 30 minute role
Unfortunately I've booked up to do ManVsCoast next weekend so my 250th will have to wait
http://ratrace.com/manvscoast/
Bit of a struggle this morning
Did the park run yesterday morning. Hot!
Hate running in the heat but managed a PB as did my 9 year old.
Only issue, the bar codes didn't scan so not registered times against us.
This seems to happen quite a bit. Does anyone else have this issue? I've just been using printed barcodes which seem to work at the end (beep etc) but don't.
Loads of unregistered times for the other runners as well this week.
Would I be better with the band's ?
Hate running in the heat but managed a PB as did my 9 year old.
Only issue, the bar codes didn't scan so not registered times against us.
This seems to happen quite a bit. Does anyone else have this issue? I've just been using printed barcodes which seem to work at the end (beep etc) but don't.
Loads of unregistered times for the other runners as well this week.
Would I be better with the band's ?
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