Oxford parkrun
13 watchers
Oct 2011
1:50pm, 31 Oct 2011
1,356 posts
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Blackbird Leys ( boy)
i used to live 500 yards from the park in the early 80's.
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Nov 2011
8:54pm, 1 Nov 2011
683 posts
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Jo-bee
I went to the pilot a couple of weeks ago. It's a nice course mainly on grass, not much uphill at all so quite a fast course i'd say. Me and my 13 year old son will be there on Saturday - really looking forward to it! 
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Nov 2011
8:58pm, 1 Nov 2011
177 posts
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Mr J
Hope to be there on Saturday
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Nov 2011
9:14pm, 1 Nov 2011
929 posts
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solitude_fairy
Tempted to come along on saturday.
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Nov 2011
10:56am, 2 Nov 2011
2,135 posts
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lunaman
Excellent stuff. Forecast is for mist, so chances of getting lost on this new course are high! In continued injury-recovery mode, I'll probably be jogging round as part of a longer run. I think we're still waiting to see what post-run coffee arrangements are - there aren't any coffee shops very locally I'm afraid.
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Nov 2011
11:08am, 2 Nov 2011
685 posts
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Jo-bee
Shame about the coffee thing, I've only been to one other parkrun which is Abingdon and I loved the arrangment with Coffee republic and lots of people went after for a coffee and a chat.. I thought it was very friendly and a nice way to finish parkrun!
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Nov 2011
11:18am, 2 Nov 2011
2,136 posts
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lunaman
I suppose, as we're in Oxford, we could all head for the river, jump in a punt and drink pimms all the way back to the city centre instead!
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Nov 2011
1:28pm, 2 Nov 2011
275 posts
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Half Empty
If my son doesn't have football training then I may be there, we came along as watched the trial run as he wanted to check out the course in case he does do it. I was thinking about coffee when we were there and the easiest place may be the services at Peartree, they have a Starbucks there, otherwise you are looking at paying for more parking somewhere else |
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Nov 2011
10:48am, 5 Nov 2011
2,137 posts
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lunaman
What a lovely first day turnout - 50 runners counted. Nice to see so many, and say hi to Rach and Gobi (congrats on the win!). I enjoyed a great progressive workout, but couldn't make it to coffee - the venue is the Summertown Wine Cafe about a mile away (yes, they do serve coffee too, though it ain't cheap). Not the fastest of routes - a sharp turn and a short incline twice with lots of grass. |
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Nov 2011
12:09pm, 5 Nov 2011
687 posts
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Jo-bee
Sorry but I couldn't get there in the end. So glad to hear there was such a good turnout though! will be there on the 19th definitely!!
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