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Parkrun is a popular 5K run which occurs every Saturday (plus New Year’s Day and Christmas Day) at 100s of locations around the world.

The majority of these events start at 9am, but some have a different time - for example in Scotland it starts at 9:30am, and some events have an 8am start in the summer in Canada.

Therefore, if there are two events close enough together, one could theoretically run both events.

The best I’ve found is in Ontario, Canada, where Hamilton Beach is 8am in summertime and River Oaks Park is 9am. Unfortunately, it is a 1 hour drive between the two, so not possible to run the first and then travel.

Requirements:

  • I need 25 minutes to run the first one.
  • I’m happy to travel by car, public transport, swim, walk or cycle. I don’t want to have to take some niche vehicle like helicopter.
  • I want to follow all laws in transit between them.
Æzor Æhai -him-
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Tim
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During the summer, the Brecksville Reservation Parkrun starts at 8am and the Ohio and Erie Canal Reservation Parkrun starts at 9am. They are in Ohio, within a 20-minute drive of each other according to Google Maps.

ajd
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You mentioned the New Year's Day parkruns, and these are often arranged to allow exactly this. Neighbouring parkruns will coordinate to start at 9, 10 or even later to allow for double runs.

It may be easier to get to New Year, than to get to Ohio.

James K
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Just to add a technically correct answer: Both Tokyo and the Vancouver/Seattle-area have several runs to choose from. From what I can find, the flight time between the two is about 9 hours, but the time-zone difference is 16 hours, which leaves several hours to spare.

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You can run multiple events, however, you can only have an official finish one, the will remove the other from your results, including different countries, so even if you country/timezone hop it still will not count. The only 'official way' used to be the New Year's day 'double' when the start times were staggered, however, this has been removed.

In the UK I have actually done two in one day, just for fun(!), as they were just over a mile apart (but again only 'credited' with one). Looking back I definitely should not have done this(!), one person is one thing but if groups do it. Additionally, you are behind-the-tail walker, so confusing marshals, or they may move off, after the tail walker and you get injured with no one around. (I've been at parkrun that was stopped mid-way to allow the air ambulance for someone who had a heart attack).

You can do 'special events' as extra days, for example in the UK Christmas Day alot of parkruns happen, even if not a Saturday, the same for New Years, so in 2022 we have 4 in just over a week (Christmas Eve/NYE were Saturdays).

I should mention I did the first one in under 20 minutes, and most importantly, it does not matter your speed, you can take as much time as you like to walk, jog or run it.

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Reading Parkrun and Woodley Parkrun are roughly 2km apart as the crow flies, or a car journey of 7 minutes. If you were very fast, you could probably do the first, jump in the car, and catch up the last finishers at the second - typically walkers in the region of 45 minutes.

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