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Mar 2020
11:44pm, 5 Mar 2020
33,819 posts
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LindsD
Are you tongue in cheek there, shyfire? Hand sanitiser sourced and paid for by whom?
If people don't want to touch tokens they don't have to come.
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Mar 2020
7:48am, 6 Mar 2020
12,670 posts
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Ultracat
I think if you are concerned take your own hand sanitiser, if you can find any.
So far we have one case in our area, they won’t be at parkrun. At the moment I am more likely to be run over by a bus that be in contact at parkrun with someone infected.
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Mar 2020
8:33am, 6 Mar 2020
114 posts
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shyfire
LindsD, yes totally tongue in check, probably best not give up the day job!!
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Mar 2020
8:43am, 6 Mar 2020
10,527 posts
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larkim
IN fairness, it's that sort of issue that might be valid reasons for big city marathons to think about cancelling as whilst all the runners might be completely bought into it, groups of sweaty, spitty runners being tended do via drinks bottles, picking people up off the floor, collecting gel wrappers, dipping hands into boxes of haribo etc might put volunteers and officials at more risk than the runners themselves.
I've got box full of sanitary gloves at home (mainly for putting on snowchains in the cold / wet so I've got dexterity but not wet hands, or for doing oily jobs with bikes etc), I'd probably be using those as a barrier if I was likely to be coming in contact with lots of less-hygenically handled materials at that sort of event.
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Mar 2020
9:02am, 6 Mar 2020
5,508 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
Having done scanning, I’d definitely wash my hands straight afterwards, coronavirus or not.
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Mar 2020
9:09am, 6 Mar 2020
26,363 posts
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HellsBells
I scan with the app - I don‘t touch anything except my phone - the runner holds the tokens and I‘m usually wearing gloves anyway
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Mar 2020
9:13am, 6 Mar 2020
5,509 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
Don’t you take the tokens off the runner after you’ve scanned it?
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Mar 2020
9:18am, 6 Mar 2020
10,530 posts
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larkim
I've seen some parkruns where the runner pops the token in a bucket themselves, so there'd be no touching (!) there.
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Mar 2020
9:22am, 6 Mar 2020
5,510 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
Ah, I’ve not been anywhere that does that. It really is amazing how sticky the tokens get considering they’ve only been held by the runner a very short time. Ick.
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Mar 2020
9:36am, 6 Mar 2020
26,364 posts
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HellsBells
Yes we have the bucket system and I‘m going to suggest that our token sorters wear gloves
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Let's talk about inaugural parkruns after they've happened.
Jan 2025