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Jun 2018
9:59pm, 23 Jun 2018
3,694 posts
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Curly45
WW - sorry I might be unpopular for this, but any reason why you cant run with your boy?
Giving up your run at a free event organised by volunteers to help them with insurance and safeguarding doesnt seem that much to ask to me, but then I dont have children so its not a position I would ever be in.
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Jun 2018
10:23pm, 23 Jun 2018
5,115 posts
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larkim
I've wrestled with this curly myself. WWs wife was running with his son up to the sprint finish so that looks very much to me like the family have sorted themselves out properly.
Me on the other hand...
I've definitely been very guilty of not sacrificing my parkrun blast to comply with parkrun rules about running with youngsters, but honestly that's been a family wide decision (i.e. me, my wife and my various children have conspired to agree a plan), though of course on any of those occasions when we've all run fairly separately I could have chosen to run slower to run with my boys. But when we had three under 11, all of different abilities, it was very difficult to come up with the right answer that satisfied everyone!!
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Jun 2018
10:35pm, 23 Jun 2018
3,597 posts
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Windsor Wool
Boy, me, wife. 50m to go. Looks like parents pretty much safeguarded the child and looked after the volunteer-organised free event’s insurance liability to me but always happy to be corrected on parenting skills given I’ve only done it once!
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Jun 2018
10:36pm, 23 Jun 2018
2,925 posts
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jdarun
Yeah you need to work on his heel strike PDQ.
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Jun 2018
10:38pm, 23 Jun 2018
551 posts
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Nessie
Our RD said in the briefing last week "children under 11 within arm's reach of an adult - if they are too fast for you, find someone who can keep up with them, there's always someone willing to help." OK, we are a small parkrun (150-ish average turnout), but that seems more than reasonable.
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Jun 2018
10:40pm, 23 Jun 2018
5,116 posts
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larkim
WW seems to be a paragon of parkrunning virtue to me
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Jun 2018
10:50pm, 23 Jun 2018
3,598 posts
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Windsor Wool
JDA - it’s good, means his shoes are ok for me to wear once he’s done with them. #smallfeetsmallshoes
Seriously though. Heel striking sucks. There will surely be a parkrun rule to outlaw it soon given the extra likelihood of injury!
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Jun 2018
10:59pm, 23 Jun 2018
4,500 posts
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Metro_Nome
I think the example where I was running alongside an unaccompanied junior a couple of weeks ago is much more valid for a DQ. I couldn’t work out who the kid (under 10) belonged to, so he was nowhere near an adult for the majority of the run. It’s an out and back course where runners are asked to keep left and the kid very nearly tripped up/got trampled by the leaders coming back. He nearly took me out a few times sprinting past turn stopping abruptly in front of me. He started crying at one point and nobody was near. When he did finish he skipped past people in the funnel before taking his token (having messed up the results)
I mentioned this to the RD and he’s taken note for next time- he wasn’t immediately removed
The issue here is the assumption that being a few seconds apart from an obvious adult has been used to DQ. If a kid is unaccompanied so far as to be an issue, it is likely to be obvious (as mentioned above), but not from a quick look at the results...
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Jun 2018
11:02pm, 23 Jun 2018
3,695 posts
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Curly45
Sorry WW my post was badly phrased! I appreciate you were doing the right thing but I meant my question in response to:
Can I really ask my 8 year old to parkrun and then not run as fast as he can at the end? His mum just needs to get faster I suppose!
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Jun 2018
11:04pm, 23 Jun 2018
4,501 posts
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Metro_Nome
I’ve paced people before who I can run a good 3/4 minutes quicker than over 5k, but have a better sprint than me and catch me unawares, and can put a good few seconds on me in the final sprint!
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