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Jun 2021
8:34pm, 2 Jun 2021
74,229 posts
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Gobi
Hahaha- I'm a luddite
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Jun 2021
11:56am, 3 Jun 2021
3,272 posts
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TomahawkMike
I see parkrun have a competition to win some contra gear today. To be in it you have to be able to tweet or use Facebook. My aversion to the latter and read only use of the former excludes me but i accept the consequences of my ludditeness.
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Jun 2021
11:59am, 3 Jun 2021
3,273 posts
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TomahawkMike
Wettest parkrun: Nobles. I have never run such a wet parkrun it was belting down and stormy. If you've been there the lower part of the run was more like a river it was raining so badly.
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Jun 2021
12:02pm, 3 Jun 2021
76,009 posts
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swittle
Laminating my card bar code was rather outré for me... 
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Jun 2021
12:25pm, 3 Jun 2021
2,395 posts
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Groundhog
I used to design barcodes for friends when they got to a parkrun milestone. Milestone parkrun number and shirt colour on one side and maybe in the colours of their running club on the other. One I did for an RD at Frimley had the RAF ensign on it and he still uses it.
I found a load of credit card sized lamination pockets at work that were being chucked out so I have barcodes to stash in cars, wallets and overnight bags, just in case.
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Jun 2021
12:29pm, 3 Jun 2021
2,396 posts
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Groundhog
PS, I did just google "outré" just to be sure.
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Jun 2021
12:30pm, 3 Jun 2021
526 posts
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The Mussile
Tomahawk Mike, I think there is a three way competition between Somerdale, Ross on Wye and Tewkesbury for the wettest parkrun based on al three courses being below the local water tables.
In terms of actually getting wet I remember an NYD at Little Stoke which was particularly damp
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Jun 2021
12:38pm, 3 Jun 2021
2,398 posts
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Groundhog
Wettest parkrun I have done is actually my home run of Sandhurst. It's by the Blackwater River and the Shepherd's Meadow section has flooded a couple of times, 100m section 6" deep. Then there is the "Water Feature" 10m long 3 or 4" deep, and path wide that is there for 4 or 5 months a year and the Balancing Pond section that floods a few times over winter.
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Jun 2021
1:30pm, 3 Jun 2021
185 posts
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Kanajlo
I've yet to do a terribly wet parkrun, but I did enjoy one time running at Kingsbury Water where everyone was cautiously walking around a puddle where myself and two other runners just ran straight down the middle to gain 9 places.
I once did some uncredited volunteering sweeping water out of the finish sprint at Walsall, after five minutes I passed the broom to someone else who five minutes later gave up and passed the job to someone else.
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Jun 2021
1:36pm, 3 Jun 2021
2,433 posts
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CumbriAndy
We tend to cancel whenever we get to the stage that the course is actually IN Windermere rather than alongside it. Happens two or three times each year.
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