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Barry Island is also artificially conjoined to the mainland...
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Portsea Island is unquestionably an island, only linked by man-made structures to the mainland, with a continuous, navigable, saltwater channel in between.

Portsmouth Lakeside parkrun is in the part of the City of Portsmouth that's not on Portsea Island.

I didn't notice Barry Island when I scanned the parkrun map. Apparently Barry Island used to be an island, but it's now just a peninsula, having been reconnected to the mainland by land (not just a bridge).

I was a little surprised that there's no parkruns on any Scottish islands or on Anglesey.
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If you change the question to 'UK and Ireland' there's the magnificent looking Bere Island.
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tractakid wrote:If you change the question to 'UK and Ireland' there's the magnificent looking Bere Island.
That does look spectacular. A parkrun on an island with a population of just over 200.
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DrainBrain wrote:
tractakid wrote:If you change the question to 'UK and Ireland' there's the magnificent looking Bere Island.
That does look spectacular. A parkrun on an island with a population of just over 200.
They'd have more tourists at the first run than have ever been one the island at the same time before!
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Parkruns with hangovers are never fun. Produces my 2nd slowest time.
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I must say I wasn't feeling my best when I left the hotel but the 2.75 mile warm up helped loads.
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The spreadsheet update will be a bit late this week, due to one thing or another. Should have it done at some point tomorrow.
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OK, spreadsheet is done. Is nine people at one parkrun a record, or did we have ten once? Anyway, a wide range of times on display, and Iain didn't forget his barcode!

I was working, so my 50th run will be this Saturday. Might go to Exeter for a nice flat run.

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tubeguru wrote:OK, spreadsheet is done. Is nine people at one parkrun a record, or did we have ten once?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing
And two at Finsbury Park and I bet that neither knew that the other was there!
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tubeguru wrote:Which one are you?
The ugly one in purple.
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I seem to be missing from the 'near the finish' pics (the first two pages), although my bald spot features nicely in one of the mass start pics.
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