Great effort 
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Is there something stopping parkrun getting officially established in Switzerland? Maybe health certificates which put paid to the French parkrun?
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340?
Loads of well done etc off guys and girls half our age .. nice I guess
Obviously for a flat out time we would start at the front .. he will beat me .. but not by much I hope
Good atmosphere today, nice to see people enjoying themselves in the sunshine .. ish !
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Cheers
Good luck tomorrow FP
Hydration could be key ?
Thanks mate, yeah for sure. Already started today. I have a number belt that has an expandable pouch. Think I can get a 250ml sof flask in there. Although Run Through are usually pretty good with the water stations.
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I fancy a half
But my training partners knee .. heās no chance of that far
Might have a go before my next pattaya trip
Iām too old for 5ks now
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My last road half was Reading in a 1:38. Iāve let myself fall so far these days that Iāll be happy with sub 2.30 
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If I remember correctly itās a four lap course and they have a water station at the far end, so effectively every 5k
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Cheers @Sparky . Iāve only done one race there, a 5/20/5 duathlon. Our run course was all on the left hand side of the lake and was 2 x 2.5km loops.
Itās a 2km lake with a bit of run off space after the finish line, so itās just over 5km around the perimeter road.
Thereās distance markers every 250m on the lake and when the buoys turn red youāve got 100m to the finish line
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Yeha and itās evil when youāre suffering. You think youāve run about a km and you find out, nope, youāve only done 250m!
I hated that race when I did it! 
It is still my pb venue though. I got really bad d&v a few days before. Wasnāt there to pussy foot around so went for my target regardless.
Inevitably blew up at about half way!
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Well if I donāt win my AG, Iāll blame the 10.00pm kick off 
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100%
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Heading off to Blandford this morning. A great parkrun, has the advantage of being mostly flat and about 100m shortā¦
Strava random number generator is predicting 19m09
Going to push the boat out and set pace pro to 3m48/km and see how long I can live with itā¦ 
edit:
18m45 BUT the Garmin has it as a ridiculously short 4.87km. Strava was right I reckon, still a few seconds off an honest sub 19 5km. Probably need to run a few more miles and drink a few less beers.
Enjoyed it today, felt good
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Ours in canx due to the food festival, but I wouldnāt be running anyway. I still have that achillies thing. Seeing the physio next week 
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I stayed local and I think it was the first parkun in at least 3 weeks. Did a 1K jog to warmup and felt pretty sluggish so started fairly conservatively. First 4Kās were pretty consistent around 4:20 and went a bit faster in the last K which is slightly downhill.
Must have been running fairly hard as my HR reached 174 which is pretty hard these days.
With about 400m to go a young lad and woman went past fairly quickly having a sprint finish, I didnāt really have the heart or legs to chase them for 8th place so let them go, they were both in 25-29!
Got over in 21:38 which was actually fairly pleasing, fastest time on that course for nearly a year and only 27 seconds off my course PB! Trying not to get too carried away!
I might head to one of the faster courses in the coming weeks and see if I can get under 21, but also donāt want to be an idiot and aggravate something 
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20:26 for me today. Not run all week as my ankle has been really painful for most of the week and Iāve no idea why - just woke up on Wednesday and could barely walk. All seems ok now. 
Ran the first km or so right by a rather speedy youngster - heās nearly 11 and tiny. I was going to ask his age but heād have been programmed by his parents to say 11 as thatās the minimum age to run on your own at parkrun.
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I often find some of them go out for the first 500m-1K and then totally blow up! A couple did today but TBF one kept going and was probably a minute behind me, he was maybe 14āish though.
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New course today
Haigh hall ( Wigan .. ish) more Standish really
Bonkers
2 k down hill a bit of a loop then back up the hill
( which 100% had a bigger gradient going up than down .. donāt they all ?!)
Surface .. crushed brick / forest / a bit of concrete ..not the best, only went as itās 2 miles from my mates house .. target stay within 1 min off him .. he ran 19:50 at black pool 5 k last weekend
Boom !
20:23 beat Richard by 6? Seconds
8 th? Over all
1 st 55-60
Hamstring pulling but got it done ( Richard then beat me at wall balls . 1 st time !) so not all bad for him
You have to pay for parking ?! And this took ages at the end .. apart from that it was good
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Especially the ones in football shirts. I often just wait to see them explode within five minutes. This lad had a Bedford AC top on and has a 20:36 PB on his home course from April. He seemed sensible but the heat maybe got the better of him and he ended up about 21:30 instead,
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