Parkrunners, assemble!

[forthelifeofriley]

Also been in the pipeline for a long time

 

[Humblebrag]

I know someone who did this too.

If I'm going somewhere I'd want to explore it!

Quite frankly, that is verging on mental illness
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I'm glad I did Bushy, because it was nice to experience the original one, but I wouldn't do it regularly as it was far too people-y. Never mind the fact I'm the other end of the country
It's also quite eye opening watching the volunteers at work at such a busy event. Like a well oiled machine, especially those dealing with finish tokens.

It runs like clockwork to be fair

 

[anniemouse]

Thank you everyone. I already do strength training 3/4 times a week and Pilates 2/3 so fitting in more running might be tricky but I feel like this is my new hyper focus so will find a way. I have a 7 month old so suppose I could practice with the pram.

I love the idea of a running club, the social side does appeal as none of my friends want to do parkrun with me

I joined a jogging club, I’d never run before. I love it, it encourages me to go knowing the rest of my group are going. I’ve only done 2 Parkrun so far though.

 

[Notworthy]

I'd really hope that someone that slow would have alerted the RD beforehand that they are likely to be that slow. There is one person at my local parkrun that is pretty slow (although still under an hour) but atleast everyone knows and they do really try to complete as quickly as they can.

 

[thegirlscout]

I’ll just leave this here

What’s wrong with this? It’s a mixed gender category and they aren’t trans

 

[Fifah1907]

If I am reading it right, some weirdo on the world parkrun tourist page flew to Australia for 48 hours to do a parkrun!

Sorry WHAT
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I know a couple who did a park run in Singapore (I think) Australia and somewhere else but it was on their honeymoon. They didn’t go there just for that

 

[Melian]

That group has been going for some time.

What more do you want to know? There are people who chart their own plane to get to the island.

 

[muffinheeler]

All of our local ones have cancelled, so we are having a rare Saturday morning without an alarm. Other than the toddler-alarm, of course...

 

[Eenymeenyminymo]

There’s a new one launching near me in a small town called Cockermouth 🫢

 

[Lemming312]

Saw a post today about Rocup run, they have a free 5k run on a Saturday morning, sound familiar
Apparently when they started they turned up at the same park as parkrun but they start at 8:00am, the post said some parkruns had to be cancelled last minute. Not sure how much exaggeration was in the post??

 

[Hellojanuary]

It is indeed a thing. And very positive - https://blog.parkrun.com/uk/2023/07/25/the-positive-impact-of-parkrun-in-custodial-estates/

Wow, that’s great. Thanks for sharing the link. Looks like there’s some here in Aus, too

 

[bluefoot]

I don’t see how just because some people are slower than others that means no one should be timed. Feels like throwing the baby out with the bath water

 

[Melian]

If I am reading it right, some weirdo on the world parkrun tourist page flew to Australia for 48 hours to do a parkrun!

I know someone who did this too.

If I'm going somewhere I'd want to explore it!

 

[Millyve]

How were everyone’s park runs this morning?

 

[WeepingCassandra]

We made the effort to venture to one of our locals but not that local the other weekend, all around an inner city park with wide paths and really lovely volunteers, great for buggies. Unfortunately the city isn't very nice itself and you have to run past several homeless people camping in their tents which is a bit awkward.

 

[Melian]

Gawd, that tourist group loves a bit of volunteer bashing... most weeks they have something to complain about.

I'm now curious as to which thread this was?

 

[Rxt156]

There is some absolute Parkrun drama on twitter this morning. Can’t find the original tweet/where it’s come from but basically it’s about trans women signing up as women and beating women’s records

 

[Millyve]

That group has been going for some time.

What more do you want to know? There are people who chart their own plane to get to the island.

Oh sorry, about the man in Ireland being the 4th person to do something…. But not sure what he did

 

[Lemming312]

Hilly fields in London is 5 laps.

The prison ones are in double figure laps

This is the one closest to my daughter, had thought about doing it when I was visiting her but 5 laps sounds torture.

Parkrun had it's most parkwalkers last Saturday. We were talking about how they classify someone as a parkwalkers, I'm assuming it is purely based on time. But we have lady who walks it in 45 minutes and runners who take 50 minutes. Does anyone know the cut off time for running/walking?

 

[Millyve]

Nothing worse than a 4 lapper!

Wait…. “Tourist” are worse.