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    I used to think parkruns were rubbish, but am now a complete covert - they are great. So, I've done over 140 and visited nearly 50 different ones. Always friendly, inclusive and free - I've run with Olympians pulling 15 minutes and joe public taking an hour or more. It's a great way to visit different places and a way to fit speed training into a holiday. Helping out at them is a great way to be altruistic. I even got involved in completing the parkrun A - Z and only have to go to Holland to get a Z to complete it. Some of them are like fast road races and some like Lyme Park or Chevin Forest are nearly Fell runs. Always pleasing to be first in your age group as I was at Isabel Trail, Stafford yesterday. Mr B likes Bramley - but it's one of me least favorites. Variety is the spice of life. I still prefer a muddy romp on the fells in shit weather, But...

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    Quote Originally Posted by MattPo View Post
    I even got involved in completing the parkrun A - Z and only have to go to Holland to get a Z to complete it.
    Maybe someone should start a parkrun at Zouch, about 4 miles north of Loughborough. You could have a lovely route along the bank of the river Soar. However, they would have to ban people from arriving by car; the car park at the Rose & Crown wouldn't accommodate the hordes coming to do their Z parkrun (or even the numbers expected at any parkrun), and there isn't any other car parking nearer than Hathern, about a mile away, where there is a good bus service.
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