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Jan 2018
9:41pm, 5 Jan 2018
5,240 posts
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Jovi Runner
I shouldnt have read that parkrun HQ blog - its really wound me up. Not in small part by the implied BS about it not being about the run especially coming from our CEO who has just made a trip to a specific parkrun for the purposes of targeting to beat a specific sub 'x' time recently & before the end of the year!!. But its nit about the time......
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Jan 2018
9:45pm, 5 Jan 2018
5,241 posts
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Jovi Runner
The moment parkrun ceases to be about the run otmr if they rver stop publushjng results is when I would no longer want to be involved. Although I get frustrated by the BS coming out of HQ at the moment nothing has changed on the ground so I'm happy to stay involved.
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Jan 2018
9:49pm, 5 Jan 2018
5,242 posts
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Jovi Runner
COO not CEO.
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Jan 2018
9:59pm, 5 Jan 2018
62,702 posts
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Gobi
indeed Jovi Indeed
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Jan 2018
10:22pm, 5 Jan 2018
3,653 posts
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larkim
I like Gobi’s comment on there.
Though tbh I think it’s just a badly written blog which is making a valid point to a degree via over-emotional language because the writer is feeling all warm and fuzzy inside. Whether it’s for the purposes of meaningful competition or the social side, it is the grouping of people together that makes the event after all. But they get together because of the run, so it really is the run that is the heart of it. It is all about the run!!
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Jan 2018
10:09am, 6 Jan 2018
636 posts
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AndrewS
Of course, the way to settle this would be to conduct an experiment whereby they nominate some venues as non-timed events. They could choose venues where there are other parkruns nearby; nominate one as timed and the other as a social run.
They could then look at the data to see what effect it has on the number of runners.
My guess would be that many/most of the runners would stop going to the non-timed event and would go to the timed one instead.
PR HQ would then be able to stated with some certainty whether it is "not just about the run" or not.
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Jan 2018
10:45am, 6 Jan 2018
48 posts
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Seagrave
I thought it was a strange blog.
If you go back to Bushy 2004 everybody was sub-30, which is... a run. It was also called a time trial originally I think which implies aiming to go as fast as you can, which is... for most people... a run.
It has also become an amazing community movement (how it apparently took them until 2014 to work this out I’m not sure) but they now seem almost embarrassed by the running element.
I just think your sub-15 runners and your walkers can co-exist and they’ve should be proud of both.
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Jan 2018
11:10am, 6 Jan 2018
12,349 posts
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Bazoaxe
Andrew, you are right. Without the time trial element there is no parkrun very quickly
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Jan 2018
11:41am, 6 Jan 2018
50,980 posts
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plodding hippo
Id never have started doing parkrun if there wasnt running involved!
So, today I may have gently jogged some of it
I will probably pay for that later
300 done
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Jan 2018
11:42am, 6 Jan 2018
27,105 posts
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Lip Gloss
Stonehaven parkrun done. Did it when they were setting up last year and never managed the hill - today ran it 3 times albeit slow but still ran it. 
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