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Thanks for the quick response mate as I'm considering trying tomorrow, depending what time I wake up.@Iceman
It depends what you want out of a parkrun. If you're running it as part of a long run, then combine it with a commute there and back, but take into account that you may not be able to give it your all when participating, and you'll have to wait until the start, and then stop for a brief moment at the end. You can't just run into the park and run through the start - not unless you're late!
If you're wanting to focus on that 5k speed though, I'd record it separately and make it a separate run. You can always jog there and job home, but make the parkrun your effort attempt.
I was planning on walking there and then starting the park run as normal and giving it 90% effort so that I could keep warming down after that but not actually stop. With my previous 5k PB & 10k PB done in the same run a while ago I thought I was only going to do a very short distance but as I noticed it was getting faster I thought I might try beating the current crappy 5k PB which shouldn't be hard. Then as I warmed down after the 5k mark finishing the lap (as finishing at exactly the 5k mark leaves me the furthest possible from my house) I started feeling better and thought try another lap. After another lap and a half of going much slower to recover I then started getting a second wind and thought I'd try and finish a 10k and would probably be close to PB level for that too with the fast 5k to start. Turned out to be right after being helped by some chump igniting my turbo after he started his run right near the end of mine and was gearing up to overtake.
Anyway long story short, my plan was to start focusing on one 5k a week as a speed workout and with other people in case it made me run faster, and my question was whether I could theoretically then just jog home slowly after completing the 5k without having to stop and fill out forms or get signed out of the event or anything like that. Apologies for the strange questions.