Who can get to a parkrun? London's 5k map
About 4.7 million of London's 8.8 million people live within 2 km, in a straight line, of one of its 65 Saturday 5k parkruns. Central London was the...
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London parkrun
Who can reach London's 65 Saturday 5k parkruns, and the lighter questions the same maps raise.
These posts start with a map of London’s 65 Saturday parkruns: about 4.7 million of the city’s 8.8 million people live within 2 km of one, measured in a straight line.
From there, I follow the data into smaller questions: which event came first, what the names share, which one is loneliest, whether an alphabet route is possible, and where five new events might reach the most people.
Which parkrun came first, and can you run the alphabet?
In the 10 London parkruns I could date, event IDs follow launch order. 29 of the 65 have one-word names, Stockley Country is 6.2 km from its nearest...