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Feb 2019
1:33pm, 15 Feb 2019
26,401 posts
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LindsD
We always put in all offers when they come.
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Feb 2019
1:48pm, 15 Feb 2019
6,428 posts
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chunkywizard
same here, I recently had someone volunteer for 31st March (at Juniors) and I wrote them in!
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Feb 2019
2:47pm, 15 Feb 2019
53 posts
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JJJ
Yep, we would add people weeks in advance if they mailed to offer; doesn't normally happen but will do when there's a big local race - everyone wants to volunteer the day before! If it's outside this months volunteer recruiter time they'd add you in so the next month person has a head start.
Mike - I'd ask the event time why it happens - it may the that the ED doesn't realise their VC is losing people. Otherwise you'll just have to send a mail for each week.
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Feb 2019
2:51pm, 15 Feb 2019
1,974 posts
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TomahawkMike
Yep I will do both, I wondered if it was a deliberate processing arrangement. I re-sent for 23rd Feb separately just now but will chat with the volunteer coordinator tomorrow as i will be there early for pre-event setup.
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Feb 2019
6:44pm, 15 Feb 2019
867 posts
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edison
100th volunteer stint tomorrow - not that I'm counting...
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Feb 2019
2:15pm, 16 Feb 2019
4,359 posts
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57.5 Degrees of Pain
Well that was the complete opposite of recent wintry parkruns, could just about have passed for a summer day (a far northern summer day at least!).
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Feb 2019
2:55pm, 16 Feb 2019
116 posts
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Paul N
Tommy Hughes (59) pitched up at Ormeau this morning. Took a wrong turn, still won it by a minute and a half (16:52), age grade of 94.27%.
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Feb 2019
2:57pm, 16 Feb 2019
925 posts
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12barDavid
I was volunteer coordinator this morning. I jogged along to the park with the intention of running, but we were very short of volunteers.
In the end, after sorting out the volunteers, I took on timekeeping duties.
I know I'm a miserable old so & so, but there's people who have been running there for years & they never volunteer. The run director even asked if some of the faster runners would grab a bib after they'd finished their run & do a spot of funnel managing or barcode scanning. Guess what, only one person bothered.
Right, that's my moan for the day over.
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Feb 2019
4:27pm, 16 Feb 2019
3,503 posts
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ndellar
I sympathise. It does always seem to be the same people who volunteer, but I suppose people have reasons for not doing so.
I've had to stand up before and ask for volunteers at the run briefing. Thankfully people have always stepped up there and then - to a round of applause from an appreciative crowd.
For us having the marshals out is the most important for safety. I wouldn't threaten to cancel the run (unless it really was unsafe to proceed) but I would certainly change things around to divert volunteer resource so that we had one scanner, one time keeper and no photos/teas/coffees. It would take a ballsy scanner to hold the fort on their own but perhaps if people were standing in a 400 person long queue, don't get quite the right time because of no backup stopwatch, and don't get a nice piece of fruit and a cup of tea at the pavilion it might make them think about signing up next week.
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Feb 2019
4:31pm, 16 Feb 2019
2,437 posts
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Goofee
I wouldn't cancel either but would say it won't be timed, everyone will get 59:59.
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