I’m looking to get a 5k PB and was wondering if any Brisbane-based runners had good ideas of where would be a good place to do it. I’m thinking probably Sandgate, but wondered if anyone else had ideas.

  • AdaAEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Kedron or Sandgate. They’re both super flat out and back runs. Sandgate has slightly less elevation (there’s a single embankment to run up at Kedron), but the path at Sandgate gets a bit more congested.

    I’ve got 200+ parkruns under my belt, and almost a third of them are at Kedron. I will in fact be there tomorrow :)

    • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Oh wow, over 200! That’s very impressive. I’ve done…5. I’m not much of a 5k runner tbh. Do more 10ks and triathlons, but I decided I wanted to try for a sub-18 5k before I turn 30 next year.

      Yeah I’ve done Sandgate before and I know it to be very fast. It’s where I got my current PB. Haven’t done Kedron before; not sure about that climb. Personally I’m less concerned about congestion than I am about the possibility of having someone I might be able to draft off of or use for pacing near the front of the pack.

      I was planning on giving it a go tomorrow, so maybe I’ll see you at Kedron! Have been training with that Train As One app for a few weeks now. It’s been an interesting change to how I train, so I’ll see how it does in terms of results.

          • Nath@aussie.zone
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            1 year ago

            Both of my sons run. We are usually doing some other sport on Saturday morning. This time of year, the younger one has little athletes. He was sick last week, so I took the other one to Parkrun. He managed 5km in under 30 minutes. It was the first time he’d run 5km. I really had to push him on that last kilometer, but we were both really proud of his effort.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Hey, was that you I saw taking photos with the tail walker? Sorry I didn’t wait around to say hi; I was meeting friends for a bike ride at 8. I ended up blowing my expectations out of the water. Beat my PB by over a minute to finish in 17:44. Combination of the super shoes and convenient wind (drafting for half the way out with the headwind before the course thinned out too much to do that, and tailwind back) were a great help.