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mxhornet Oct 2009 9:32pm, 3 Oct 2009 22,335 posts	Quote Pin mxhornet Works ok for Turing Relay.
Ted Oct 2009 9:48pm, 3 Oct 2009 4,673 posts	Quote Pin Ted BW, the issue I see with MCP are the 2 narrow footbridges that you need to cross. If you extend the circuit to its full extent around the park the distance is 1.27Mi (I have run it often enough)
Drell Oct 2009 9:53pm, 3 Oct 2009 483 posts	Quote Pin Drell How many people might we expect to turn up? That would affect how much parking is needed and how serious any bottleneck problems might be.
mxhornet Oct 2009 9:55pm, 3 Oct 2009 22,343 posts	Quote Pin mxhornet 800 at Bushy today but more like 40 at Gorleston. I'd guess Cambridge would be around 100 mark and possibly increasing once established.
Drell Oct 2009 9:57pm, 3 Oct 2009 484 posts	Quote Pin Drell Would Wandlebury be possible? I'm pretty sure there's now a cafe at the Gog Magog farm shop. And the parking must be OK there. (not that I live to the south of Cambridge or anything, there's no ulterior motive at all...)
HellsBells Oct 2009 10:10pm, 3 Oct 2009 1,179 posts	Quote Pin HellsBells anything doing with Wimpole?? - or would the national Trust be unco-operative?
hammerite Oct 2009 1:30pm, 5 Oct 2009 7,197 posts	Quote Pin hammerite 12 weeks to set up fits in pretty well with this, if it falls in the new year. As well as having regular runners you might end up getting a lot of people who have a New Years resolution to start running/get fit. Bedford doesn't have a park run, but in Bedford Park they do host a 5k reasonably often. The route is 2.5 times round and actually works quite well (there's a path which goes virtually round the perimeter of the park with a path cutting across the middle), are there no parks in Cambridge that you could do something similar?
ndellar Oct 2009 1:50pm, 5 Oct 2009 803 posts	Quote Pin ndellar Parkers Piece, Jesus Green, Midsummer Common all public green spaces maybe a little small, I suffered on all of these in PE as a child... lol. Also Fen Causeway in Newnham? Stourbridge Common already mentioned? Most large green spaces in Cambridge Centre property of Uni, the Botanical gardens would be a fab venue but no parking and probably a no-no anyway. In fact thinking about it all of Cambridge parking = rubbish What about Cherry Hinton Hall? Don't live there any more but if back visitng would definitely turn up to one of these
Badger Oct 2009 2:02pm, 5 Oct 2009 1,725 posts	Quote Pin Badger The Sweatshop-organised 10k goes through the grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall so they are obviously reasonably open to the idea of runners. It might be a bit small, again - probably looking at the best part of four times round for a 5k
DitzyPlodder Oct 2009 2:44pm, 5 Oct 2009 420 posts	Quote Pin DitzyPlodder I know it is not in Cambridge but it is quite close and there is good parking at Hinchingbrooke Country park in Huntingdon (just up A14 from Cambridge) I did a roughish 5 k route which is here http://www.fetcheveryone.com/route-147281 it is a loop plus half a loop on surfaced paths (there are quite a few other unsurfaced paths too). The leaflet about HCP is here huntsdc.gov.uk Just an idea