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Jan 2019
10:40am, 7 Jan 2019
1,311 posts
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beebop
Very inclusive thinking. Or perhaps inconsistent thinking. 🤔 As for the purple shirts, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Jan 2019
10:41am, 7 Jan 2019
809 posts
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edison
"As for the purple shirts, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." Yup. I don't wear mine, or any milestone shirt anymore
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Jan 2019
10:56am, 7 Jan 2019
40,248 posts
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Velociraptor
I wear my purple shirt as a, "See, I do volunteer occasionally," statement. And sometimes to work as my nod towards the RCGP/parkrun hookup.
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Jan 2019
11:01am, 7 Jan 2019
207 posts
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blindcider
I can't recall ever wearing my purple shirt.
I ran at our event on Saturday and deliberately turned up too late for set-up as its time that the rest of the core team members to take more responsibility.In the dark, they'd missed out a small out and back section of about 150m which being down the far end of the course I only noticed when I got there. As the course loops round back close I kept running with everyone else and jumped across after the tail had passed to reinstate the correct route for the second lap. No harm done and barely anyone noticed except one nutter pushing a chair
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Jan 2019
11:04am, 7 Jan 2019
188 posts
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Groundhog
That does seem strange, on the face of it Edison. Some people want to be toeing the line and miss the briefing. Most of the time I guess that's OK, if nothing unusual has happened to the course. But "disrespectful"? I wonder if the person who posted went and asked the volunteer doing the briefing if they thought it was disrespectful?
There are obviously lots of people for whom parkrun is very important and they have very strong views about what it means to them and even how parkrun should be.
Let's just accept them all as part of the parkrun family - even if they're wrong 
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Jan 2019
11:06am, 7 Jan 2019
810 posts
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edison
Some of the highlights of that FB post:
- If you're too important to bother with any of this you're missing the whole point of parkrun.
- You're showing incredible disrespect to the volunteers
- It's no coincidence that there aren't any purple 25 volunteer t-shirts on show in your little clique
- You clearly have no interest in the achievements of other runners
- You're disrespecting slower runners, those coming back from injury or walking or jogging round to help children or friends complete a 5k.
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Jan 2019
11:09am, 7 Jan 2019
10,257 posts
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Badger
I wonder how it's disrespectful to ensure you start ahead of slower runners, ensuring that you won't even have to think about passing them until everyone is nicely spread out on the 2nd/3rd lap?
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Jan 2019
11:10am, 7 Jan 2019
811 posts
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edison
I did a parkrun on Christmas day that has a really narrow start - but my coach had asked me to `tempo' it, pace targets, the works. So I skipped the briefing and went straight to the start line, as getting caught in the crowd would wreck the session. It appears some folk believe this myth that parkrun is only for slower runners.
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Jan 2019
11:11am, 7 Jan 2019
4,797 posts
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Metro_Nome
To be honest, I do think ignoring the briefing, as well as talking through it, is disrespectful.... somebody is taking their time to give you a briefing. Ok it often involves stuff you hear every week, but it may also contain important safety information. it's nothing to do with speed but if for whatever reason you don't think you need to bother with the briefing, I find that disrespectful
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Jan 2019
11:12am, 7 Jan 2019
10,258 posts
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Badger
Completely ignoring that it is inclusive, which means it is for everyone...
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