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How sustainable is park run popularity?
I’ve become a recent fan and really love it, but my park run (Southwark) often has anywhere between 700 - 1000 people. It’s three laps, so you’re literally all on top of one another the whole route, and especially the beginning is chaotic as everyone goes from the same start line.
No one is ever outright mean, but there’s always some shoving, clearly frustrated individuals who can’t get past one another etc and the other week I saw someone fall over just past the start and it looked almost like people defending an animal from a stampede.
I genuinely wonder if this continues to grow in popularity what will happen?
u/Eastern_Bobcat1655 — 1 day ago