A touch of sadism or masochism?

[HeavyFoot]

This is the elevation of the revised Parkrun at Lanhydrock, Bodmin. 100 metres over the final third. Nearly everyone mutters about “that hill” at the end. At least that’s the polite version.

[Oldgirlruns Graduate10]

😱!

[acountrycabbage 60minGraduate]

Any chance you can run it backwards? 🤔

[HeavyFoot Graduate10 in reply to acountrycabbage]

Logically, since the start and finish lines are the same it should make no difference. However, the climb would be in bite sized chunks.

[Frenc Graduate10 60minGraduate]

I agree with countrycabbage! Plead ignorance and do it back to front 😆.

[Birdlady64 Graduate10]

Or find a different parkrun course? 😂Thats definitely one for the masochists amongst us.....

[nowster Graduate10 in reply to Birdlady64]

One local to me is very coy about its elevation profile. A guy who ran it last weekend described it as being more like a hard fell run. That said, there are still folks who complete it in under 20 minutes.

parkrun.org.uk/watergrove/c...

On the other hand, a couple in South Manchester are almost as flat as a pond.

[Cmoi Graduate10 in reply to nowster]

It strikes me as daft not to mention the elevation when they give such a detailed route description. Me being me, I googled and found this: strava.com/clubs/116553/gro...

If I were forced to run a parkrun, I'd much rather one like Watergrove than a flat, multiple laps one with loads of people, as the latter type would terrify me.

[nowster Graduate10 in reply to Cmoi]

You're used to climbs now, though. Most of us aren't.

[Cmoi Graduate10 in reply to nowster]

True. That's exactly why they should give the elevation though - a weirdo like me will be happy climbing on trails, especially if it's not too busy, many people won't.

[nowster Graduate10]

Which sadist put that course together?

It's a lovely place, though. We visited almost three years ago.

Lanhydrock

[Cmoi Graduate10]

Fun!

[ForbiddenPlanet Graduate10]

I think I'd rather run on the Camel Trail - though maybe hard to make a circuit out of it!

[HeavyFoot Graduate10 in reply to ForbiddenPlanet]

I did my slow solo HF there a couple of years ago as it’s so flat, but it had to be a there-and-back run!

[HeavyFoot Graduate10 in reply to HeavyFoot]

HM I meant!

[ForbiddenPlanet Graduate10 in reply to HeavyFoot]

Cool - I thought a HF HM! 😎

[nowster Graduate10 in reply to ForbiddenPlanet]

I stayed that year (2018) in a place (a chapel conversion) that was just off the Camel Trail. If I had been doing running back then, I'd have definitely run parts of it.

[ForbiddenPlanet Graduate10 in reply to nowster]

I spent time there too - also not as a runner, unfortunately. Loved to walk the trail to Wadebridge and back, or drive to Wadebridge, and walk to Padstow and back. 😍

[HeavyFoot Graduate10 in reply to ForbiddenPlanet]

The distance between Wadebridge and Padstow is 5 miles, so that was the route of my first 10 miler. A very scenic run.

[tmbtrain Graduate10]

Wow that's uphill for the whole mile 😲 I recently 'measured' the accent on my hilly route as nrc app doesn't measure it automatically on my phone and it was 57m but over ups and downs. I can't imagine running your park run at all 😄

[HeavyFoot Graduate10 in reply to tmbtrain]

I’m not going to let it beat me! Back to more hill running tomorrow. 🥵