Parkrunners, assemble!

[Millyve]

My ED has just resigned…. Guess will give us something to talk about tomorrow morning.

 

[Millyve]

I think it was his 6th alphabet. His wife was the first lady to do 6.

No parkrun for me today. Annoyingly I wasn't well Thursday and yesterday so told my guide runner's wife (as he isn't on Facebook) I wasn't well and wouldn't be there. I'm feeling a bit better and could have gone. But the lie in was welcomed.

6th alphabet, these people have money to burn!

Love it, RD was even moaning about park run tourist this morning saying how ridiculous people are getting, mentioned a tourist Nelson challenge….. jeez this is ridiculous.

 

[muffinheeler]

Henstridge Airfield have removed the snowflake paragraph from their run report. Would be terrible if someone had taken a screenshot for posterity

That run report was insanely bad

 

[Millyve]

Ouch.

 

[runrun321]

Because it started life as Bushy Park Time Trials. Its origins are competitive. Lots of people like that which is why they don’t want to get rid of it, I’m sure participation would drop.

After thinking about it recently, I think they should only send finish times to the individual participants and not publish them, and not use/publish finish positions or age gradings. That way if you want a fun run you get a fun run, but if you want to test yourself then you have a record of your times.

Yes sorry I know that my point was if it’s not meant to be a competition then why do Parkrun also provide age grading etc.

 

[Bonbon76]

I was hoping to take our LO to junior parkrun in a few years but I think I'll skip it if there's hundreds of pushy parents there. I grew up in a competitive dance atmosphere, I don't need that shit!

You can happily avoid. Or watch and judge from a distance.

I appreciate there's a fine line sometimes between encouragement and pushiness, hopefully the parents are doing what their children need.

 

[Melian]

Where do I find run reports? My app just has results

on the "news" bit on each parkruns page

 

[Millyve]

The moderators are a bit ban/delete happy over there. They took someone's post down earlier- it had parkrun themed earrings in

It’s so pathetic! I have no idea what I’ve done to get banned from commenting.

 

[Millyve]

Morning all! Looking forward to todays tales

 

[blueblue]

Christmas parkrun, or new year, is the main one I do we have other sporting activities Saturdays which mean I don't do it much.
Haven't they stopped the double now by saying they all have to be at 9? We spent one new year morning we queuing to get into the carpark at Haldon Forest. It was rammed with people trying to do the double.
My other half has a real bug bear about the organisation behind parkrun and the rules they issue, the trans thing, the sun newspaper executive they appointed, the dogs on leads not harnesses....

What trans thing? Genuine question, if you don't mind replying.

 

[Gym&Tonic]

Oh there are loads of run wankers at our local one. Mainly from the local athletics and triathlon clubs. They run the course in about twenty minutes and then do it again to get a 10k and then run back to the car park. It’s best to just let them get on with it. Most people are nice though.

 

[forthelifeofriley]

We had nearly 800 runners at my local this morning and the last over the line was 55 mins… what were they doing to take that long?!

 

[Melian]

We love junior parkrun! Some of the parents are interesting though!
There's a few really fast kids at ours and one in particular if you were solely watching his Dad, you'd think it was the bloody Olympics.... constantly balling at him telling him to pick up the pace etc.1
Then there's the parents who run with little kids (which is fine) but they're literally dragging the poor buggers round in order to get a PB!
My daughters friend's Mum also said she's not allowed to stop/drop out, if she starts she HAS to finish.... they're 7! Mine has dropped out a couple of times because she's fallen over, or she's just not been feeling it that morning!

The parents clearly aren't aware it's meant to be fun and not competitive

Has anyone said anything to them?

 

[muffinheeler]

There needs to be a challenge with Penistone and Scunthorpe as well. Any others?

Clitheroe

 

[Millyve]

I must confess…. I am taking part in some park run tourism tomorrow

 

[EffingDust]

I have a friend who is running an ultra at the weekend. Apparently it goes close to a parkrun course. Sone idiot has asked if he can detour from his almost 50 mile route to do parkrun and then continue with the actual race so he doesn't lose his streak. Apparently its a deal breaker and if he can't do parkrun he won't do the race

Dealbreaker…what a tool. What does he think the organisers are going to say?
“Oh god no please still do our race!!” (That you have already paid for and is probably non-refundable)

 

[Millennial Pink]

For those who listen to WMN, why did DN stop calling it the Freyne club? Anyone know the tea?

Not me, I did a bit of a search but couldn't find anything.

 

[Fifah1907]

Isn’t the issue with French parkruns the requirement for French mass participation sporting events to have a medical certificate?

Yeah.

 

[Eenymeenyminymo]

From what I’ve read online its finishers over 50 minutes

 

[Baby Giraffe]

If you looked up the words ‘park run cunt’ you’d see runrutrun from instagram as the image being used. Show me a bigger toss bag than this guy when it comes to park run and pretty much in general

Thankfully no idea who you're talking about