Are Park Runs Destructive ?

[Welsh Harrier]

Lyme Park is trail and quite hilly for a Parkrun.
Not done it yet mind, but it is on my shortlist for autumn.

Thanks for the contributions = will give Oakwell a go as it's near where my parents live. Have done the Lyme Park series of fell races in the past and I put Marple down as my home parkrun so I suppose I'd better go and do it some time!

Back to UK in a few days so I hope there's a nice Indian Summer coming up

Welsh Harrier
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[OB1]

Thanks for the contributions = will give Oakwell a go as it's near where my parents live. Have done the Lyme Park series of fell races in the past and I put Marple down as my home parkrun so I suppose I'd better go and do it some time!

Back to UK in a few days so I hope there's a nice Indian Summer coming up

Welsh Harrier
http://travellinglightatsixtyplus.blogspot.com.au/

Hi WH.
Drop me a PM if/when you decide to do Marple or Lyme Park and I will see if I am free.
The passes-out will get scarcer on a Saturday morning now that the nipper's football season has started again and I am on taxi duties most weeks.
Have a good trip back and whatever you do don't bring back any horrid weather - we are quite enjoying the start of our Indian Summer.

[BritNick]

OB1 the Lyme Park run is more like a fell race in places. It's certainly more than a trail run in my book anyway. And it's VERY hilly.

On the weather front we've had it unbelievably good for so long now. A change for the worse is afoot with the change in the month. Welsh Harrier it will be perfectly timed for your return, so we can blame it all on you.

[socks]

OB1 the Lyme Park run is more like a fell race in places. It's certainly more than a trail run in my book anyway. And it's VERY hilly.

Interesting about hilly courses. Living next to Roundhay Park I still claim that it's one of the hilliest, although Temple Newsam is also hilly and Woodbank too. I did Leeds Hyde Park last week for a change and to do a "flat" course - ooo I was surprised that it is hillier than I thought. Is it all in the mind?

[OB1]

Is it all in the mind?

Yes. Even flat Platt Fields has a hill in it, at about 3.2 km as you approach the Costume Museum in the corner of the park. No doubt York has one somewhere too.

[Alexandra]

No doubt York has one somewhere too.

Being as the York parkrun course is on the racecourse, I believe it's pretty flat, but it is said to be only a PB course when there is not too much wind.

[Alexandra]

Interesting about hilly courses. Living next to Roundhay Park I still claim that it's one of the hilliest, although Temple Newsam is also hilly and Woodbank too. I did Leeds Hyde Park last week for a change and to do a "flat" course - ooo I was surprised that it is hillier than I thought. Is it all in the mind?

Leeds Hyde Park is my local parkrun and is indeed quite undulating. Roundhay seems to be at least two thirds uphill, and then the down is so steep (all on tarmac), faint-hearted people like me lose all the benefit as they creep down afraid of falling. Crossflats is the one for those who like (a) tarmac and (b) hills as it consists almost entirely of an enormous hill run up and down (or rather down and up) twice. The down is very runnable.

[Alexandra]

According to the parkrun Show, there will soon be a new parkrun in Halifax, followed by parkruns in Todmorden and Brighouse. I am wondering whether Yorkshire, Lancashire or London has the most parkruns?

[hellhound on your trail]

York is on the knavesmire safety track,fast and flat can be breezy,definitely a pb course

Don't go this Saturday it's not on (horse racing)instead

[wjb]

Ilkley Moor Parkrun is going ahead, hope it doesn't have an impact on the existing annual fell races on Ilkley Moor. This will be the first Parkrun to cross a public road which is against the existing Parkrun rules. It's also not in a park!