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Jul 2018
1:53pm, 14 Jul 2018
49,501 posts
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swittle
Minimal risk of crowding or pushing in at Crosby parkrun - the 'course' varies in width from 30-yard wide grassy paths, promenade 4 yards wide and, to finish, sandy beach almost devoid of people. The slipway & prom form a ready-made funnel.
I cheered on the 147 finishers alongside an Iron Man 'marshall' in reflective bib and two enthusiastic young volunteers, then resumed my run. 
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Jul 2018
2:48pm, 14 Jul 2018
2,899 posts
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FreshStart
As I'm 'trapped' in Wallingford this weekend, I completed my first ever bit of parkrun tourism at Didcot parkrun this morning. There were quite a few first timers, loads of tourists doing the alphabet challenge and everyone was really friendly It was bloody boiling though and not much shade
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Jul 2018
4:15pm, 14 Jul 2018
23,831 posts
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LindsD
Yeovil was lovely. Had a great time.
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Jul 2018
5:22pm, 14 Jul 2018
1,389 posts
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TomahawkMike
Yes, I had the pleasure of a visit to Yeovil last year. Very nice place and great team
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Jul 2018
5:48pm, 14 Jul 2018
23,832 posts
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LindsD
Agreed.
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Jul 2018
7:41am, 15 Jul 2018
1,390 posts
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TomahawkMike
Not seen this before... 'Unknown ATHLETE F' in 2nd place at Market Harborough. With a blank number of runs but a 250 icon. A placeholder?
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Jul 2018
9:25am, 15 Jul 2018
64,289 posts
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Gobi
Or a bug
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Jul 2018
10:26am, 15 Jul 2018
First-time poster!!
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SRG
"Unknown athlete F" is an option sometimes used by teams to set the gender of an unknown runner to female. You most often see it used if the first female was unknown, and the team would like to correct the gender positions.
It acts just like a normal athlete barcode so can only be entered once in a set of results, and it also has a run history,
There is no age or home run set and although I've never seen it confirmed this suggests that it was created by one of the development team. There is no official guidance on its use but people find out about it and use it as we can see from the 280 occasions it has been used.
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Jul 2018
1:26pm, 15 Jul 2018
23,201 posts
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LazyDaisy
Thank you SRG, that's both interesting and useful! (And welcome to Fetch!)
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Jul 2018
1:30pm, 15 Jul 2018
146 posts
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philip_m_jones
We had a mob match at Bracknell parkrun yesterday between Bracknell Forest Runner sand Datchet Dashers and it was made quite clear, multiple times, during the briefing that "parkrun is a ran and not a RACE". Then we had 3..2..1 of and we all ran as hard as we could, were timed and scored on our finishing positions and a winning team was declared (well done BFR, honours shared after we won at our home event). 3 and a bit laps, dogs, buggies, slow runners, fast runners, all seemed to have a nice time and enjoyed it and people were mature enough to understand that lapping was going to happen and a bit of lane discipline was all that was needed.
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