Completely agree, getting an organised coach trip to a parkrun seems mad, maybe I’m just being a miserable old git though. Having said that, our tri club are setting out a gazebo with drinks and snacks to celebrate!
And yeah I think Bushy are just directing all the tourists to HC and go from there
Think I might drag myself along and walk / shuffle around.
bloody hell! 400 is a good turnout at Winchester.
It’s quite a sight, of that number I believe just under 500 were first timers - Bushy being the first seems to have this ‘draw’ that folks have to say they’ve done it.
I prefer doing the events that have around 100 or so, they don’t feel too big, a nice feel about them. Bushy is such a beast that it has around 70 volunteers each week!
wow! Winch is lucky to get 200 in the depths of winter.
Local parkrun today, they had pacers on but I’d left it too late for 23 minutes and wasn’t sure if I’d get round in 22 without killing myself.
Started steady until the 23 minute pacer caught me because his GPS wasn’t great, picked it up as he backed off.
Ended up with 21:19 and nearly a course PB 
Felt surprisingly good and could have possibly gone sub 21 with a bit more effort! Pleased and baffled really 
Bushy was absolute carnage today. The amount of people who turned up was insane. I turned up with about 30 seconds to spare and just had to roll with the crowd. Had to essentially walk the first km and it didn’t get much better. It’s the first time I’ve not been able to cross the finish line and have to wait to get I to the finish funnel.
Actually probably spent longer waiting in the funnel than the run and it just got worse for the guys behind. Seen that @wheezy finished well into the 4000ths and with a hand written finish token?!
24.08 for me today, 23.46 for LO
Just been reading that they were probably over 5000! Sounds like they started giving them out again 
I think the next 1000th is about 2 years at Wimbledon, then there’ll be a few in the years after, my local one has about 4 years I think even though they started in 2008. It would struggle with more than 1000 at the most but hopefully it won’t be as big by then as there’s at least 8 before it, although it is most northern one after Sheffield.
Winchester is a relative baby at 491 then!
Walked/jogged around with my dad. We ended up having to queue about 50mtr from the finish line, and we were in the funnel for about 1hr20! All good natured though. I was 4469th and I reckon there were at least another 1000 people still in the funnel. Yes, no tokens so writing finish numbers on our hands and hand writing names and numbers on paper. The results are definitely going to be a best guess.
Did you let your dad cross first, or out sprint him for the win?
Dipped him at the line!
I’m hearing over 5500!
A few from my club couldn’t be arsed with the queue and just went home
ETA - Parkrun insta reckon over 6000
Of course, no easy wins, don’t give em out for free 
No gifts!
Not as fast as some of you speedsters, and not nearly as fast as I used to be, but in only my 2nd Parkrun since 2018, I have managed to go nearly a minute faster than I did 3 weeks ago and
You were the 30th male and came 1st in your age category VM55-59.
That will do nicely
Nice one mate and to your Dad. I can see the family resemblance there!
despite being a Long Distance plodder, somehow did my best parkRace for over ten years tother week, 19m11s at Lincoln. And highest ever finish position of 4th. Well chuffed wi that. 
And as a V55, I got over 80% Age Grade for first time too, tho was only top 2 or 3 #robbed
Is it normal to do a flat out ParkRace on Sat am, before a Sat eves IM at MidnightMan. (150 miles away!) I missed out on the win by just 4 minutes 
