Parkrun..

davedanon

RayCun wrote: »

If there were people there wondering about joining a club - well, now they know which club to join

Yeah, I'd be going"I'm deffo joining that first finisher's club", he's smoked all those other guys...

davedanon

Impressive strength in depth, though, to be fair. We'll have to see who we can rustle up for the return match...

Darkglasses

A few people wear club singlets to Johnstown, I think it's totally fine. Probably my favourite thing about the parkrun is getting such a broad range of talent - national level cross country runners to people who walk all of it. Beautiful thing if you ask me

gsi300024v

edisonolmy wrote: »

You need to train and train hard. I went from 28-plus to 18 mins in about 2 years, but then again I was a fat beast when I started.

We were doing two hard sessions a week - Tuesday hills/temp and Thursday intervals. Parkrun on Saturday and long run on Sunday

The hardest work was getting from 20:30 to sub 20. A lot of speed work was involved. Intervals at faster than 5k pace. Last summer we were going 800 metre repeats every week, shortening our recovery time each week. it saw us go from high 19s to mid 19s to sub 19 in the space of a couple of months.

I'm fairly lean or slim already and play lots of squash. I just have in my head I'd like to break 20mins and see how it feels to be that much fitter than I am now.

panda100

Limerick park run is cancelled this Saturday 5th March due to a conflicting event in UL.

podgec10

Is there St. Patrick's Day parkruns? Can a parkrun event put one if they feel like it?

fletch

No pretty sure the only exceptions are Christmas Day and New Years Day

Amigaman

for Ireland as in the UK - its Christmas and New Years day - the Yanks have the only other exception and its thanksgiving

edisonolmy

Singapore had one on Chinese New Year while the Danes typically have special events on New Year's Eve instead of New Year's Day.

edisonolmy

There have been, on I think just 4 occasions in the last 10 years, `bespoke' parkruns - one off events that count towards your milestone tees etc. One of these was during the London Olympics and was at an existing event - Highbury Fields.

CassieManson

I am hoping to do the Clonakilty Parkrun next time I am in Cork, just wondering about getting parking nearby. The webstite mentions "limited public parking". Public transport won't be an option

scheister

CassieManson wrote: »

I am hoping to do the Clonakilty Parkrun next time I am in Cork, just wondering about getting parking nearby. The webstite mentions "limited public parking". Public transport won't be an option

their is parking in the quality hotel next door that you can use as well

L.Jenkins

They've made a change to the course in Athlone and it's about time. Previously, it was a nightmare and they considered the new cycle path from Athlone to Mullingar.

Sunny Dayz

Itzy wrote: »

They've made a change to the course in Athlone and it's about time. Previously, it was a nightmare and they considered the new cycle path from Athlone to Mullingar.

I missed last Saturday - is it the same as the previous Saturday which was a shorter route in the opposite direction for 5 laps? Or has it been changed again?
Didn't like the suggestion of using the cycleway - I have run on it a few times myself and it's as boring as fcuk!

davedanon

I ran in St. Anne's on Saturday. Thoroughly enjoyed it, and best time of the year. It is a very fast course though.

robinph

Went and did a new to me parkrun at the weekend. Smaller numbers running it (so no isses with overtaking people), was tarmac path round a lake (so pretty damn flat), next to no wind (which is a big impediment when pushing a massive sail into a headwind)... but didn't quite zip up my man suit enough and missed out on getting a sub 20 buggy run.

Think I'll be going Bach to try it again though during the summer before the kid gets too heavy, or complainy, and I'll just have to try harder.

davedanon

robinph wrote: »

Think I'll be going Bach to try it again though during the summer before the kid gets too heavy, or complainy, and I'll just have to try harder.

Composed post. Would you call it a classic(al) course then?

robinph

davedanon wrote: »

Composed post. Would you call it a classic(al) course then?

Was a very nice course. Looked like they had good facilities as well, I think they said there was free tea and toast in the visitors centre for the park afterwards also.

There was someone from parkrun UK visiting, not sure who, but at the run brief they said it was the last week they would be manually taking people's names, being checked up on for complying with the no barcode, no time rule I guess. As they have relatively small numbers each week though they did have a book where there regulars would leave a copy of their barcode in so that it was always there to be scanned if they forgot one week.

parkruns are all the same, but each one is a bit different. Love it.

HelenAnne

Hello! Has anyone run Ballina parkrun? What's the course like? any hills / drags / exciting quirks :-)? Hoping to run it on Paddy's weekend.

woody1

HelenAnne wrote: »

Hello! Has anyone run Ballina parkrun? What's the course like? any hills / drags / exciting quirks :-)? Hoping to run it on Paddy's weekend.

yeah its my local parkrun.. its a lovely out and back course through the woods, theres a drag / hill ? from 1.5 to 2.5km ish you turn around then and get to run downhill though,
im biased but its the nicest course ive seen so far..

HelenAnne

woody1 wrote: »

yeah its my local parkrun.. its a lovely out and back course through the woods, theres a drag / hill ? from 1.5 to 2.5km ish you turn around then and get to run downhill though,
im biased but its the nicest course ive seen so far..

That sounds lovely! Thanks!

L.Jenkins

Sunny Dayz wrote: »

I missed last Saturday - is it the same as the previous Saturday which was a shorter route in the opposite direction for 5 laps? Or has it been changed again?
Didn't like the suggestion of using the cycleway - I have run on it a few times myself and it's as boring as fcuk!

Still running the 5 laps around. I liked it as it was a bit of variety from the alternate route around the AIT.

Amigaman

Four new parkruns to look forward to in the coming weeks Lough Key in Co. Roscommon , Mullingar in Co. Westmeath , Newcastle West in Co. Limerick and Longford Town in Co. Longford- this will bring the event count up to 53

edisonolmy

A lot of birthdays tomorrow - hard to believe Lees Road was a year ago. Lovely challenging course down there.

Up here tomorrow we have Colin Haddick running his 250th at Vicky Park. that's two in the 250 club with a few others close behind.

edisonolmy

Good to see Roscommon and Longford coming on board - only a handful of counties left without one

fletch

Amigaman wrote: »

Four new parkruns to look forward to in the coming weeks Lough Key in Co. Roscommon

Got a link to the route/parkrun site? Will be tricky to get a 5k route without a hill or two so should be a interesting route

Sunny Dayz

Any info or links for the upcoming new parkruns? Would like to try out Mullingar and Longford - just for a change. Looking forward to having another go of Letterkenny parkrun at Easter.

edisonolmy

Newcastle West and Lough Key are on Facebook

Sunny Dayz

Lough Key Park in Roscommon would be a fab setting for a parkrun. But would they get the numbers? Boyle is nearby but Carrick is about 15mins drive away. You would need to drive or car pool. It's an hour drive away from ourselves so whether I could drag the others out of bed that early in the morning I'm not sure...

Sunny Dayz

edisonolmy wrote: »

Newcastle West and Lough Key are on Facebook

Thanks just checked there now. Mullingar parkrun also has a facebook page.

Firedance

Sunny Dayz wrote: »

Lough Key Park in Roscommon would be a fab setting for a parkrun. But would they get the numbers? Boyle is nearby but Carrick is about 15mins drive away. You would need to drive or car pool. It's an hour drive away from ourselves so whether I could drag the others out of bed that early in the morning I'm not sure...

they'll be getting me as a visitor anyway!! (that'll be a 1.5 hour drive...) anyone within 30 mins drive is a target audience no? especially for such a beautiful setting.

Sunny Dayz

Firedance wrote: »

they'll be getting me as a visitor anyway!! (that'll be a 1.5 hour drive...) anyone within 30 mins drive is a target audience no? especially for such a beautiful setting.

Yeah it's definitely one I want to try. Will sweet-talk the hubbie and do an overnight in Carrick, make a weekend of it!

fletch

Yes Carrick is only a short drive from Lough Key...country folk think nothing of a drive like that. My family have a place close by that I frequent a lot in the Summer so I'm real excited about this...no more missing my parkruns on a Saturday morning

Firedance

fletch wrote: »

Yes Carrick is only a short drive from Lough Key...country folk think nothing of a drive like that. My family have a place close by that I frequent a lot in the Summer so I'm real excited about this...no more missing my parkruns on a Saturday morning

ha! see you there so

ger664

Lees Road in Ennis is One Year old tomorrow. Where has the time gone

Sunny Dayz

Anyone find their parkrun time not matching their own recorded time? I dont mind a difference of about 1 minute. But my parkrun time today was 3 mins behind my recorded time. Its been out a few times, i even finished 2 mins earlier one time aparantly. I know it's not a race, the times don't count towards anything but i feel i can no longer trust or depend on the website results.

fletch

No I find mine tend to be very accurate....to within a second or 2.

Darkglasses

Mine's always been spot on.

Firedance

likewise mine are always within a few seconds, very accurate normally.

robinph

All down to the accuracy of the volunteer pressing the start and stop button and you'll usually be within a second at most parkruns I've ever done.

What position are you finishing in? Could there be a few people early on in the results causing issues by not taking tokens?

jakejudy123

Sunny Dayz wrote: »

Lough Key Park in Roscommon would be a fab setting for a parkrun. But would they get the numbers? Boyle is nearby but Carrick is about 15mins drive away. You would need to drive or car pool. It's an hour drive away from ourselves so whether I could drag the others out of bed that early in the morning I'm not sure...

As one of the startup team in Lough Key I am hopeful of us getting the numbers. I have been going to Sligo Parkrun about an hours drive and lots of people have expressed interest in our run already. With such a beautiful setting who could resist the attraction and there is a great cafe too for that after run coffee. I think there is potential in Parkrun for tourism. I certainly intend to do as many different runs as possible.

Coffee Fulled Runner

Good luck with it. I'll definitely head out to Boyle for it. It's a lovely place to run.

The Black Oil

Not sure how I improved my time yesterday. My body didn't feel up to it, same when I was out on Friday. But hey.

Pawwed Rig

The Black Oil wrote: »

Not sure how I improved my time yesterday. My body didn't feel up to it, same when I was out on Friday. But hey.

Conditions yesterday were fairly ideal (in Dublin at least) to allow for faster times. I ran fastest 5k of the year too despite feeling a bit sluggish.

davedanon

Ran 5 seconds quicker in Tymon yesterday than in Raheny last week, which made me happy as St. Anne's is a much quicker course. Only 3 seconds off my Tymon pb too.

Battery Kinzie

Those of you who would do the parkrun regularly, how do you incorporate it into your weekly schedule? Do you still do a long run on the weekend and would your long run be shorter on weeks you do a parkrun?

robinph

Battery Kinzie wrote: »

Those of you who would do the parkrun regularly, how do you incorporate it into your weekly schedule? Do you still do a long run on the weekend and would your long run be shorter on weeks you do a parkrun?

Run to and from the parkrun, one of my local parkruns that works out as 7.5 miles, parkrun and then another 7.5 back again.
Another one of the local parkruns we'd drive out to, I run round pushing the buggy, wife and child then drive home and I run the 18 miles back. Have also done similar with me running to another city nearby and I then meet back up with the family for lunch.

Those options also get the long run out of the way with less impact on the rest of the family schedule, usually.

Skid X

Sunny Dayz wrote: »

Anyone find their parkrun time not matching their own recorded time? I dont mind a difference of about 1 minute. But my parkrun time today was 3 mins behind my recorded time. Its been out a few times, i even finished 2 mins earlier one time aparantly. I know it's not a race, the times don't count towards anything but i feel i can no longer trust or depend on the website results.

That's a long way out , sounds like something is going very wrong in the funnel, scanning or recording.

Might be worth contacting them, if your result is that far out then it looks like the finish times are not matching the scanned barcodes (and others will also be wrong).

https://support.parkrun.com/hc/en-us/articles/200565383-My-time-result-is-wrong-What-do-I-do-

TinyTot165

Sunny Dayz wrote: »

Anyone find their parkrun time not matching their own recorded time? I dont mind a difference of about 1 minute. But my parkrun time today was 3 mins behind my recorded time. Its been out a few times, i even finished 2 mins earlier one time aparantly. I know it's not a race, the times don't count towards anything but i feel i can no longer trust or depend on the website results.

I noticed this last week, myself and my dd crossed the finish line together yet her time was 2.5 mins faster than mine on the results page, i think the 2 people after us got our times so not sure what went wrong. I didn't say anything about it as its all voluntary but I'll keep an eye on it.

fletch

TinyTot165 wrote: »

I noticed this last week, myself and my dd crossed the finish line together yet her time was 2.5 mins faster than mine on the results page, i think the 2 people after us got our times so not sure what went wrong. I didn't say anything about it as its all voluntary but I'll keep an eye on it.

Sounds like the tokens weren't correctly sorted or were handed out in the wrong order...