Hi all
I'm following a 10-week training plan for a 10K race, and this Saturday calls for a "Parkrun." No details are given on what this is. I did a quick google search and it seems to be an outdoor event run around the world on Saturday mornings. I looked up my local events in Vancouver, BC, and all Parkruns are cancelled due to COVID. What shall I replace this with in my training schedule? Note - I do not know how far a Parkrun is, or what difficulty level is usually involved.
Thanks,
Andy
I would guess that a parkrun in a training plan calls for a tempo 5k.
Once upon a time before covid, parkruns were free 5ks in your local park, organized by your local road running club, but actually operated by volunteers. (Hence, free)
They're fairly casual. Most of the ones around here get won in ~20 minutes by a guy with an 18:00 PR
Yeah, Parkruns were a thing pre-Covid, unless you're in a small town like Los Angeles, where there are no parkruns.
Just go run a 5K tempo.
Park runs as far as I know are 5k. All park runs are cancelled until covid disappears... so never.
Just go do 12.5 laps on your local 400 meter track
That's what I was going to say.
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It’s a 5k race. So, I’d say go out and do a 5k time trial.
Parkruns are great free no frills 5k's on the same courses every week. They haven't quite caught on in the US compared to the UK but were getting there until Covid happened. Competition seems to be scarce at most of them for your avg. letsrun type of runner and they are more advertised as "runs" not races, so they seem to be looked down upon here which doesn't make much sense since people always seem to be complaining about entry fees and inaccurate courses( they are not certified but at least it's the same course every week to test your fitness).
Parkruns are very popular in Europe and are good events indeed. Usually the same company of 100+ people ( even more in the UK), many know each other, chat, socialise, etc.
I usually consider them as a CV workout, running some 5 sec/km slower than I could during a "die hard" race.
Free_the_thigh wrote:
It’s a 5k race. So, I’d say go out and do a 5k time trial.
This. Parkruns are a race, but closest without others is a 5k time trial.
Note, you can also often figure out where your nearest Parkrun would be and still run that course yourself without other people.
flvmmox wrote:
I would guess that a parkrun in a training plan calls for a tempo 5k.
Once upon a time before covid, parkruns were free 5ks in your local park, organized by your local road running club, but actually operated by volunteers. (Hence, free)
They're fairly casual. Most of the ones around here get won in ~20 minutes by a guy with an 18:00 PR
Course records at my 3 regular parkruns are 14.38, 14.57 and 15.05. You never know who's going to show and 'parkrun tourism' is quite a big thing or at least it was. So one week 17' might win and next week some random strong club runner shows up ...
Agreed. In Australia its been back since Dec20 and in some weeks its won in mid 15 mins, sometimes 20mins. Always enjoy running it as a 5k tempo.
It is getting bigger in the US, Japan, Canada etc but has bene huge in the UK, NZ and Aust for years.