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How far is it round Brockwell Park?

Tricky Skills said:
Here's the Brockwell Park Run route.

I take it easy up hill, and then the trick is not to get carried away with a sprint down towards Herne Hill. Many runners pass me here. I catch them up before we reach the Herne Hill gates :D

Oh - and it's NOT a race. Most definitely not... ;)
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Never understood why people race down there.

Also, apparently it's bad for your joints to chase downhill - better to put your effort into the upslopes.
 
Someone once approached me after the run and told me that I was using up energy by trying not to go so quickly on the downhill stretch. Apparently there is a way to lean forward and let the hill do the work for you, whereas I was leaning backwards and fighting the gravity. If she was running behind me to work this out, she can't have been that good a runner all the same.

I've done 37 or so runs and volunteered 3 times.

I've met a few people who I'll say hello to when passing them in the street by speaking to them while queuing to register my time, or else when I have volunteered.

There's a good sense of community.
 
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It sort of makes sense to me. The next week I thought about it and in my efforts to attempt to take it easy and recover on the downhill stretch, I'm actually using energy to go slower than natural and the deceleration is using energy.
 
Smick said:
It sort of makes sense to me. The next week I thought about it and in my efforts to attempt to take it easy and recover on the downhill stretch, I'm actually using energy to go slower than natural and the deceleration is using energy.
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True: Advice, linked above, seems to be to let your stride go a little longer and lean a little bit forward. Will try it.
 
Are there any lists of times people take ? I'm interested what the fastest and slowest speeds are.

Yeah of course people are going to race each other even if it's not supposed to be like that...!
 
Also, what do people think about the correct way to run - is it on the ball of the foot, light and tiptoey? I keep reading stuff about heel-strike being bad but it's the only way I ever used to jog before.
 
Interesting!
Yeah I'm definitely not coming til I've done the c25k. I'd certainly come last. [emoji3]. Not that there's any shame at all in that, but hey...
 
Well, when I did my c25k, the parkrun was the reason I was doing it. To get me to that standard. The c25k in Brockwell will, without doubt, prepare you to do the parkrun non-stop.

Such a buzz when I did it first time.
 
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It's great that you have a training plan and the c25k is a fantastic initiative. There's always the option of just going to check it out tomorrow anyway - start with the group and then see how you go.. if you're done after the first lap (~3km) then you just head off, there won't be any finger-wagging. There are loads of non-parkrun runners running at the same time (although to be fair they're usually running in the opposite direction, battling again the crowd). No-one knows you've entered until you scan your barcode at the end and it'd be a good experience.

All that said, I really do need to volunteer, I reckon one in every ten runs sounds about right so I've got a few to go yet. Also, while parkrun isn't a race the age grading metric is a good stat to see how you're doing over time against other people in your age group; http://support.parkrun.com/hc/en-us/articles/200565263-What-is-age-grading-
 
kl8041 said:
It's great that you have a training plan and the c25k is a fantastic initiative. There's always the option of just going to check it out tomorrow anyway - start with the group and then see how you go.. if you're done after the first lap (~3km) then you just head off, there won't be any finger-wagging. There are loads of non-parkrun runners running at the same time (although to be fair they're usually running in the opposite direction, battling again the crowd). No-one knows you've entered until you scan your barcode at the end and it'd be a good experience.

All that said, I really do need to volunteer, I reckon one in every ten runs sounds about right so I've got a few to go yet. Also, while parkrun isn't a race the age grading metric is a good stat to see how you're doing over time against other people in your age group; http://support.parkrun.com/hc/en-us/articles/200565263-What-is-age-grading-
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Agreed. Never put anything off. Just go for it - and peel off if need be.
 
Was on the wrong side of 30 mins for my liking. Did a bit of a walk by the lido before I got to the bmx Hill, and again after getting to the top of the Cressingham Hill for the second time, but ran all the hills. I'm just glad to have got out though.
 
Smick said:
Was on the wrong side of 30 mins for my liking. Did a bit of a walk by the lido before I got to the bmx Hill, and again after getting to the top of the Cressingham Hill for the second time, but ran all the hills. I'm just glad to have got out though.
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Well played. By staying in bed I was honouring my not-unless-19-minute pledge!
 
It was very busy this morning. Took me about 30 seconds to get moving.

E2A: 327 people running today! The previous record was 286 last February.
 
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Smick said:
The foam hand man is Ivor Northey, the Lambeth youth sport coach. A diamond geezer. Does loads of great work getting kids in to sport.
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