parkrun, lap two

Brooks runners apparently flexed some corporate muscle to get NYC Parks & Rec to agree to allow parkrun to use the park. New York Road Runners have a similar free run on Tuesday night as well as other free runs around NYC. Parkrun has an earlier start time of 8am presumably because the park gets too difficult to share at the usual 9am time. The record attendance for a US parkrun was set earlier this year at Jamaica Pond parkrun in Boston on marathon weekend. 645 attended. Put that into perspective with Middleton Greenway who had 636 attend their inaugural and still wasn't the busiest parkrun in Ireland that weekend with over 700 in Marley Park for the visit of Paul S. Hewitt

that was gas. There were queues of people trying to finish. If I remember rightly it was a pacer week and all the times were screwed up as none of the pacers could finish 😆.

What other parkruns have pacers?

St Annes is last saturday of every month and has 19-34 minutes. Malahide is 2nd last saturday/third week of the month(depends on the month) is is typically only 19-24 minutes if I recall correctly.

Unaware of any others as have only done seven locations in Dublin.

Naas have pacers on the 1st Saturday of the month

Most weeks in Donabate there is a couple of pacers, get there early and have a chat with the group with the run director, you might get someone to pace a particular time for you. Paced there myself a couple of times, if you are looking for a particularly quick time, keep an eye on their facebook page, clubs like Lusk, LSA have taken over the event on a couple of occasions and they would pace plenty of goal times.

I'm nearly sure Royal Canal Kilcock has pacers but I'm not sure when.

Griffeen have them the last Saturday of each month between 20min - 35 mins

Beautiful story and well done to the lady.

In other news, Tourmakeady got underway this morning with 145 attending.

Welcome aboard, one thing I marvel about Clare parkruns is that none of them are named after the towns they're in. The one you just started in Killaloe is called Clarisford. The one in Ennis is called Lees Road, the one in Shannon is called Illnamanaugh and the one in Kilrush is called Vandeluer

That must have come in later, because that would mean Oranmore should be called Rinville, New Ross should probably be called JFK Arboretum (Alphabeteers would rejoice) and Tullow should probably have something more Co. Wicklow appropriate.