Let's talk about inaugural parkruns after they've happened.
2 lurkers |
310 watchers
Apr 2022
10:18pm, 27 Apr 2022
145 posts
|
tommy_b
I don’t understand the naming conventions. Clevedon Salthouse Fields (2019 launch) leads with the town name but then Marine Parade (2022 launch) and Sommerdale Pavilion (2018) completely omit the postal town location from the name. I can almost understand omitting Weston to avoid people travelling for challenges… but I almost feel that outside of a small fb bubble, it’s not something that’ll really affect a parkrun attendance. |
Apr 2022
12:43am, 28 Apr 2022
309 posts
|
Craigellachie
The naming convention has changed over time, that’s all. Montrose parkrun started in 2017 but by the time we started in Arbroath the policy had changed so it had to be the most local level name, usually the name of the park, hence we’re called West Links because were in West Links Park. The other Angus parkrun that started around the same time as us is called Forfar Loch but it’s called after the loch they run round not the town of Forfar. If Bushy Park parkrun started now it’d just be called Bushy parkrun.
|
Apr 2022
7:45am, 28 Apr 2022
1,350 posts
|
Spideog
Bushy would be called "parkrun tree parkrun" if it was starting now.
|
May 2022
9:53am, 5 May 2022
3 posts
|
Deb_A
Portrack is looking imminent now
|
|
May 2022
2:15pm, 5 May 2022
315 posts
|
Craigellachie
Portrack is looking imminent now That’s a closed event in a prison though I think? Or the are what I read elsewhere. |
|
May 2022
6:20pm, 7 May 2022
4 posts
|
Deb_A
Yes it must be as it doesnt show on the events map
|
May 2022
1:15pm, 10 May 2022
25,307 posts
|
Dvorak
An inaugural last week for Derbyshire, at Ashbourne Recreation Ground, where presumably they were at a loss for a name not including the town. At over ten miles to the nearest existing run, appears to have filled a gap. parkrun.org.uk The town (containing over 200 listed buildings) was named as the best place in Britain to raise a family, in an estate agency survey of 2018. |
May 2022
1:18pm, 10 May 2022
13,855 posts
|
Sigh
Either that, or they felt that calling it "Cokayne parkrun" (after the neighbouring road) may have attracted the wrong crowd...
|
May 2022
1:41pm, 10 May 2022
16,423 posts
|
Cerrertonia
Cockayne being a imaginary place of extreme luxury for medieval peasants, you mean Sigh?
|
|
May 2022
1:55pm, 10 May 2022
13,859 posts
|
Sigh
No, being the old JJ Cale song 
|
Related Threads
-
parkrun thread
Apr 2024
-
parkrun Café
Apr 2024
-
parkrun pacing events
Mar 2024
-
Yorkshire parkrun gatherings
Mar 2024
-
Where is there a parkrun with caravan site nearby?
Jan 2024
-
New parkruns
Jan 2024
-
Parkrun Café Scone Index
Jan 2024
-
Australian parkruns
Sep 2023
-
Leamington Parkrun
Apr 2023
-
Cambridge Parkrun
Apr 2023
