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No.12
No.12
May 2022
7:34pm, 2 May 2022
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No.12
Great photo
KinkyS
KinkyS
May 2022
8:45pm, 2 May 2022
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KinkyS
Tod is my home run and Watergrove my second closest - I usually choose based on the weather. Wait for a clear day for Watergrove, the views are stunning.
larkim
larkim
May 2022
8:58am, 4 May 2022
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larkim
Tim Grose (powerof10 etc) definitely puts Whinlatter harder than Lyme Park on his 2022 update of the "hardest" and "easiest" parkruns.

thepowerof10.info
jda
jda
May 2022
9:58am, 4 May 2022
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jda
The off-road ones can vary a lot with conditions. Harrogate isn’t rated that fast on that list (and can be heavy going in winter) but on a dry summer day I was not too far off my 5k PB.
Mascott
Mascott
May 2022
11:36am, 4 May 2022
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Mascott
interesting to to Squireys Winery so far down the list. Its pretty flat, but you run round a ploughed field. Winter/ New Years day it was truly epic mud
larkim
larkim
May 2022
10:53am, 5 May 2022
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larkim
Just bringing a discussion from one of the 5k groups over to here with some relevance so you can contextualise how "hard" a course is.

For what it's worth, a difference of 1.0 between the difficulty ratings on the site I linked to above is worth somewhere between 27 and about 32 seconds depending on where you are in the spectrum between a sub 15 parkrunner and a Sub 40 parkrunner.

So a 20min parkrunner at Victoria Dock would expect to run about 23:40 mins at Whinlatter (9-0.8 = 8.2, 8.2x27s = 3m41s).

So rule of thumb, 30s per whole point is a pretty good starting point for quantifying "how much harder" courses are. It's all a massive estimating job of course, so on a given day a fast course can be slow, a slow course can be fast (or turgid!) and individual runners cope with hills, flat, terrain differently.
jda
jda
May 2022
11:37am, 5 May 2022
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jda
Yes, you'll get a better estimate of how hard a particular course was from the rbr numbers *after* the event, though that doesn't necessarily help you decide where to run! I suppose you could look at recent results and hope the footing is similar.

Harrogate has ranged from as high as 4.0 down to 1.1 the times I have run it. Sadly I was only pacing on the latter occasion!
larkim
larkim
May 2022
11:39am, 5 May 2022
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larkim
Yep, it's all "average day, average conditions" stuff. Such is the way with a rule of thumb!
rf_fozzy
rf_fozzy
May 2022
11:40am, 5 May 2022
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rf_fozzy
You can just run faster.... ;-)
jda
jda
May 2022
11:43am, 5 May 2022
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jda
No, unfortunately I can't!

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A discussion of all things parkrun.

Here's a wiki giving brief reviews of parkruns up and down the land:

fetcheveryone.com/article-view.php?id=545

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