A few from my club did the pilgrimage to Bushy this morning but would be behind you as they’re both getting on.
One is among the leading parkrun attendees in the world! He’s closing in on 700!
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Injured, back problems. Been barely able to walk uprught is the last couple of weeks. 
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Pretty good day for it if they haven’t visited before. I think just under 1500 turned up too
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I like Nick’s channel, watch a lot of his stuff. What do you reckon, good effort of dick move? He seems pretty respectful about it to me but 
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Bringing balance to the force with the people starting at the front with push chairs or dogs 
Ps. I wouldn’t bother trying that at Worcester, I reckon he’d do well to get halfway as the course is so narrow and first lap a non-starter
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Yeah I think Dulwich is his local Parkrun, so I guess loads of people know him. I can’t see it going well if a complete ring in tried it.
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Ain’t much difference to what Adam does every weekend when he turns up a few minutes after it has started 
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I did think that when I posted it. 
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I mean I don’t intentionally mean to do it but lol yeah I think it’s ok with a big crowd. I’m always pretty respectful of others when I’m overtaking and will slow down if it’s too congested.
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19:43 for #100 
Lovely morning here, perfect for it. Ran with with two club mates with the aim of sub 20. Another club mate ran 17:30!
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Great way to hit the milestone!
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Did my home parkrun today with the plan of pushing a bit harder and seeing how it went. There was a 20 minute pacer but he went off at something like 18:50 pace so I held back a bit. He settled down after that and I could see him about 100m in front.
Was actually feeling pretty decent and picking off a few enthusiastic starters although it was getting a bit harder on the second lap.
Watch buzzed on 19:58 for 5K but I always get it a bit longer so finished about 20:22. I’ll take that as I wasn’t crippled afterwards! And there was a bit of a headwind in places.
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Nice !!
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Nice !!!
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Similar for me, except I adopted your pacers approach… went out too fast and then slowed. 20:07 for me officially. I’ll take that for 6th run of the entire year!
(it’s only my 12th run since Halloween!)
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Well done, I think we’d have hit it the same week but we’ve had that many cancelled, I’m still on 95
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Strange. Had never seen his channel before but I randomly watched that this week before seeing your post. I didn’t mind it. The route is easily wide enough, and as he says, with multilap courses like that you’re getting loads of overtaking anyway.
My only question was did he actually do the full run? He starts after the first corner, from where all the runners come from. So he surely can’t have run the full 5k? Should be DQ’d for that!
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yeah that was a bit weird, he seemed to come in from a feeder road.
To be fair to him it is hard to get your pacing right from the very start, it’s good to get a bit of time in the bank particularly when the course measures a bit long for most people so he probably did finish in around 19:50.
But a 3:40 first K is going to cause problems if 20 was touch and go anyway.
