Tube Challenge parkrun league...

[tractakid]

Always amuses me when someone talks about Llanhydrock parkrun, as if it was Welsh. Penrhyn castle is near Bangor. But Bangor parkrun is in Northern Ireland.

[Going Underground]

Cracking running Neil

[tubeguru]

Well, until today only scrxisi had done Beckton, but it seems the forum descended upon it today. Funnily enough, scrxisi was at Southwark though. The only PB was The Raven's improvement on his best finishing position. I was four seconds off my Plymvalley PB, so I'm happy with that. Maybe I'm going to have to visit some of these venues you've all done, and see how I do in comparison ...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

[tubeguru]

We all went to Beckton, yes. In a few weeks time I believe there's a plan to all descend upon Dulwich too (shame, as i'm the only person to do it so far...)

I appreciate the continued update of the spreadsheet ... 'Upton Court' though is listed twice though in Courses Only done by One Person, and SoupDragon and JamestheGill seem to have '0' weeks since a PB ... when they haven't run recently? (I have no idea how you're keeping track of that, must be a pain to work out)

Upton Court - fixed.

The thing about "0 weeks since a PB" is actually "0 RUNS since a PB", so if you got a PB on your last physical run three years ago, you're still showing "0 runs since last PB". If you then get off your arse and do a slow run, you will then be "1 run since last PB". So SD and JTG both ran a PB on their last run, so it's been 0 runs since their last PB. Hopefully that makes sense.

[DrainBrain]

... The only PB was The Raven's improvement on his best finishing position ...

No, I also got a PB on best finishing position.

In fact, I could have finished last at Beckton and still improved it.

[tubeguru]

I knew I'd missed one while going through that stats. I even double-checked the list!

Fixed now.

[xcooler123]

Hey all, after a few weeks away I now have more time to concentrate my efforts on various tube challenges and I would also be interested in the Parkrun league. I am currently in training and working up towards a 5k (as I may have mentioned before I use to do athletics and ran 200m and 400m so converting a body used to doing that into one that can do 5k is proving hard...). Once I am up to some sort of fitness I would love to get involved and I will probably do a few in Shropshire as that is where I am currently based. I'll keep you posted...

[tubeguru]

Hey all, after a few weeks away I now have more time to concentrate my efforts on various tube challenges and I would also be interested in the Parkrun league. I am currently in training and working up towards a 5k (as I may have mentioned before I use to do athletics and ran 200m and 400m so converting a body used to doing that into one that can do 5k is proving hard...). Once I am up to some sort of fitness I would love to get involved and I will probably do a few in Shropshire as that is where I am currently based. I'll keep you posted...

Hi. When you do your first run, can you let me know your runner number, and I can add you to the spreadsheet.

[tubeguru]

As for today, the usual people were out running, and we have new courses at Luton Wardown Park (tractakid), and Basingstoke (GU) to add to the list. Geoff did Bromley, so he joins scrxisi as the only people to have done that one.

The only other thing of note was my PB at my "home" run, Plymvalley, where I somehow took 34 seconds off my best, with a 23:18. And I had a burger and chips, and a chocolate brownie the night before!

It got me thinking that people often get course PBs without getting an overall PB, so I've added another column to the first two tables - "CB this week?". A simple Y or N shows whether that person ran a best for a course in that week, but without setting an overall PB. Running a course for the first time doesn't count as a Course Best for the purposes of this column - you have to do at least a second run to qualify for a "course best". If you're doing a course for the first time, you get "NEW" in this cell. Only people who run that week get an entry next to their name.

Hopefully that's not too confusing.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

[tubeguru]

Change of plan. I wasn't happy with it, and tractakid suggested an alternative which I'd sort of considered before. The new column now shows where everyone ran this week, and a highlighted entry indicates a course PB. Again, new courses don't count as course PBs.

[Going Underground]

As for today, the usual people were out running, and we have new courses at Luton Wardown Park (tractakid),

LOL what happened to the home run then

[tubeguru]

As for today, the usual people were out running, and we have new courses at Luton Wardown Park (tractakid),

LOL what happened to the home run then

He wants to pull away from you.

[DrainBrain]

The Insane Headwind of Evil was back with a vengeance at Southsea this week.

Fortunately I managed to draught behind a passing pirate.**

** Yes, genuinely. It was Southsea's 100th event; some people were in fancy dress.

[tubeguru]

Yes, genuinely. It was Southsea's 100th event; some people were in fancy dress.

It's Plymvalley's anniversary in two weeks. Fancy dress there too. I won't be there, unfortunately ...

[Going Underground]

As for today, the usual people were out running, and we have new courses at Luton Wardown Park (tractakid),

LOL what happened to the home run then

He wants to pull away from you.

Exactly my thoughts, I think he changed his plans when I mentioned I was Basingstoke bound at the R15 last week