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Dec 2018
11:31am, 29 Dec 2018
995 posts
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bonners
Why on earth would I give money to parkrun rather than directly buy something useful for our local parkrun?
Here is an idea, how about saving the thousands spent on t-shirts if they are that desperate for cash?
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Dec 2018
12:24pm, 29 Dec 2018
5,606 posts
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Jovi Runner
Record turnout of 544 at Fountains Abbey today. Very very windy but bright sunny morning. Felt like I was going backwards on the uphill finish straight section.
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Dec 2018
12:27pm, 29 Dec 2018
5,607 posts
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Jovi Runner
I'd not be inclined to give to a general pot over a donation to my local run. I do have a 'difference of opinion' over a lot of the 'guff' (technical term  ) coming out of HQ lately but while my local run remains the same as ever on the ground week to week I'm more than happy to donate to that.
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Dec 2018
12:29pm, 29 Dec 2018
52,207 posts
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swittle
A tough Day 29 then, Jovi.
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Dec 2018
12:41pm, 29 Dec 2018
13,807 posts
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Bazoaxe
Did you not be able to donate and something like 50% to your chosen run and 50% to the central funds ?
Record of 867 at Edinburgh on Christmas Day and I would wager that it may have been close again today with a big turnout. A double funnel was introduced. So was a quite Brutal wind added to the equation making it my 2nd slowest parkrun of all time. It was #99 though and #100 will be NYF at Portobello
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Dec 2018
12:55pm, 29 Dec 2018
3,005 posts
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Merry Fizzmas :-)
You can still give to a chosen run, on the “more info” tab, I think.
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Dec 2018
1:27pm, 29 Dec 2018
40,112 posts
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Velociraptor
Slightly lower numbers at Keswick today than on Christmas Day (though still quite enough), but a massive-for-there turnout up the hill at Whinlatter - 153. That's about four times as many as turn up some weeks.
Lovely day for some trail running. I managed to squeak a new season's best for the course.
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Dec 2018
1:40pm, 29 Dec 2018
25,988 posts
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DingdocMerrilyonHigh
Nice one v'rap.
I've saved my best till the last too
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Dec 2018
1:46pm, 29 Dec 2018
2,169 posts
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Goofee
121 at Prospect today compared with 124 on Christmas Day, steeling ourselves for greater numbers on NYD!
The RD and myself are running at Dinton at 8:30 then dashing back across town to get our set-up underway in time for a 10:30 start. I'm going to have to run a bit quicker than I have been recently to make this work without stress. Though, if we get stuck in traffic I guess they're all going to have to wait a while
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Dec 2018
1:59pm, 29 Dec 2018
17,022 posts
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Dvorak
You'll be fine, Goofee.* Strathclyde/ Tollcross have a NYDD with a two hour gap and the Tollcross team afaik always run Strathclyde (some people run between - not core team maybe but I think volunteers have).
*not having checked your distance, mind. Strathclyde-Tollcross is around eight miles in transit, the road is mostly motorway.
Falkirk was nice, blue skies partially and also quite windy. Numbers about 20% down on Christmas day and times quite down across the piece especially at the fast end. Although there is a localish 10K on today. FFF afaik was pushing a buggy.
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