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Parkrun
Basingstoke parkrun
A free, fun, and friendly weekly 5k community event. Walk, jog, run, volunteer or spectate – it's up to you! Nearby Sunday 2k junior parkrun events for 4 to 14 year olds and their families can be found here.
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United Kingdom
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England
- 5 kilometres
- Basingstoke War Memorial Park
Meeting point: 51.25883, -1.08204. The interactive map loads with JavaScript. Open the same point in OpenStreetMap.
Coordinates 51.25883, -1.08204.
The course
Course description
The Basingstoke parkrun course uses both grassed areas and tarmac paths. There is one small lap of the football pitches followed by two large laps of the park. There are marshals at key points.
The course starts on the grass in the northwest corner of the football pitch area of the War Memorial Park. It starts with one full clockwise lap of the two football pitches. Then along the northern edge again to the next corner before leaving the football pitch area by veering off to the left and then a sharp left hairpin on the short hill. Then the course goes between the trees and turns right onto the tarmac path going round the lamppost. Before you get to the subway steps turn right, cutting the corner, and head down the hill on the tarmac path through the trees. Go straight on at the bottom and then up the hill with the tennis courts on your right, this is affectionately known as Tennis Court Hill (TCH) and is renowned as a PB breaker. Once at the top, go briefly off the tarmac path to cut the corner and re-join the path going to the left of both play areas. Follow the path clockwise right round the edge of the park, past the bandstand, the aviary and the gate by the council offices. Follow the path round to the right and then straight on through the trees. As you emerge from the trees follow the path straight on, past the small car park on the left and round to the right of the Totally Tennis building. After you have passed the building, turn left onto the grass by the first tree on the right. Follow the markers around the football pitch area and then continue to do another large lap of the park. At the end of this second large lap as you turn onto the grass football pitch area head straight for the middle to finish.
On the course
The course is 5k long. The course is in the War Memorial park, Basingstoke and run on a mixture of grass, woodland and tarmac paths. Some sections of the course may accumulate mud, leaves and puddles after rain. Dependent on availability, marshals will be at key sections of the course, or signs will be in place.
Please remember that the parkrun uses shared paths. For the continued success of the event, please give way to other park users. This won't hurt your time, it won't stop you from getting a PB and it will make sure everyone continues to enjoy the event.
Please, wherever possible walk, jog, cycle or use public transport when attending the event. If you do have to drive, please consider car-sharing to reduce our impact on both the environment and other park users. Please also watch out for other park users when arriving and leaving. Parking may be limited so try to arrive early.
Facilities
Toilet facilities can be found in the John Arlott pavilion near the start - these are opened by the council before the start of parkrun but closed once we are finished.
More details
Public transport
Basingstoke has excellent rail connections to London, Reading and the south coast. The railway station is about 15 minutes walk from Basingstoke parkrun. The bus station is about 10 minutes walk.
On foot
Basingstoke parkrun is a short walk from the “Top of the town” of Basingstoke town centre
By road
Basingstoke parkrun is a short walk from the Basingstoke town centre car parks.
Coffee
Every week we grab a post-parkrun coffee: at a local cafe near the park. The Run Director will tell you which one we are going to on the day. Please come and join us!
We're friendly
Every week we grab a post parkrun coffee at a local cafe near the park. The Run Director will tell you which one we are going to on the day - please come and join us.
Course safety
Basingstoke parkrun is a fun, free event organised by volunteers for the benefit of everyone. We wish to make the event as safe as possible, so participants, spectators and helpers are asked to take care about the following:
- Please be considerate to the park and other park users at all times.
- Children under the age of eleven must be accompanied (within arm's reach) throughout the event by a parent, guardian or appropriate adult of the parent's choice.
- Please arrive by foot, by pedal-power or by public transport if you can - your efforts help to reduce our impact on the park and the planet.
- We invite everyone to consider volunteering at parkrun. Your support helps your parkrun events remain sustainable and free for all in your community, and it’s also a wonderful way to improve your own health and happiness. Please visit the volunteer page for more information.
- Take care near roads and car parks – some vehicles drive very quickly. Please congregate away from the cars and be careful in particular if you have children. If you’re driving to the event, please drive carefully.
- Take care on uneven surfaces – whether on grass or on tarmac. Watch out for cyclists, other participants, pedestrians, children, dogs, wildlife, park animals, vehicles, park maintenance work, falling branches, bollards, posts and other obstacles around the course.
- Please ensure that you are fit enough to walk, jog, run 5k (3.1 miles) with us.
- If you see someone with a serious problem, please stop to help them out and get help as soon as possible.
- If you’re watching, keep clear of participants on the course, and look after any children and dogs you may have with you.
- It is not permitted to run with a pushchair and a dog at the same time.
- Lyme Disease is a bacterial infection spread to humans by infected ticks. Consider protecting yourself by wearing repellent when at parkrun events in grassy or wooded areas. See lymediseaseuk.com for further details.
- You are welcome to take part with one dog by your side, within reach at all times, on a short, handheld, non-extendable lead. The use of waist harnesses is prohibited. Please also see this Support Site entry for further details about parkrunning with dogs.
- parkrunners pushing buggies are welcome, but please take care of others around you and do your best to start at an appropriate place in the field for your pace.
We hope these tips help to ensure that Basingstoke parkrun is fun and safe for everyone.
Age grading
All parkrun events use Age Grading to help parkrunners compare results.
parkrun events use Age Grading to help parkrunners see progress and compare results.
For more information, please see our Support page.
Volunteering
All parkrun events are organised by volunteers - email basingstoke@parkrun.com to help.
Safeguarding
parkrun is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk. For our full safeguarding processes and policies please see our Safeguarding Hub.
To report a safeguarding concern please email safeguarding@parkrun.com.
Parking
There is very limited parking at the War Memorial Park so please use the nearby town centre public car parks where charges do apply if arriving by car. Eastlands car park is the closest to the War Memorial park and the postcode for it is RG21 4AW.
Event stats
- 910
- Events
- 28,647
- Finishers
- 323,716
- Finishes
- 2,219
- Volunteers
- 42,173
- Personal bests
- 1,255
- Groups
- 00:29:58
- Average finish time
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- Prospect junior parkrun Prospect juniors · 22 km
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Challenges this parkrun helps with
- Alphabeteer Challenge Starts with B
- Stayin' Alive Starts with B (needed for Stayin' Alive)
- UK Postcode Areas Postcode area RG
- Periodic Table Matches symbols: Be, B, Br, Ba, Bi, Bk
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