W1R2

[HappyNoodle]

What’s everyone’s favourite surface to run on?

I’d like to run on a track one day to see how it feels. I run in the park so I get a mix of road and trail. I quite like the trail paths.

Phew, 5k in 38.09 a PB for me. Looking forward to 5.5 on Thursday. Left later than usual and got quite warm thought I was going slow.

[Equi-geek Graduate10]

Hi! I quite like a mix up the local park is compacted aggregate trail, but a few bits of tarmac and even some nice short flat grass is fine with me! I find grass the hardest because it is uneven. But I am still at 5km running so those doing longer distances might be better informed than I am. Haven’t run on a track since school, but I know there are different levels of firmness, and training tracks may be softer than competition tracks where records might be on the line, and so on (haha, as if I know what I’m talking about... 🤣)

[HappyNoodle Graduate10 in reply to Equi-geek]

You know way more than me. I feel like I’ve been missing out. I like the grass not so much the gravel paths. The roads are quite steeply curved where I run so unless you are in the middle it means you run wonky.

[Equi-geek Graduate10 in reply to HappyNoodle]

My out and back run on a tarmac road is also an uneven camber but fortunately not steep and winding! I find it most comfortable running in the middle of the road and fortunately it’s a dead-end so it’s easy to get out of the way of any cars.

[misswobble Graduate10]

Yeah softer trail paths that have had years of leaf fall.

[telford_mike Graduate10]

Tarmac for me, but that might be because my shoes are from the last century and it's the only thing they grip on 😂