parkrun thread
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May 2021
10:06pm, 10 May 2021
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Spideog
So if there is no expectation to prevent people turning up regardless in your model, then what is the point in getting people to pre-register?
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May 2021
10:09pm, 10 May 2021
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Spideog
parkrun have asked people to influence landowners about the awesomeness of parkrun and how much people want it back. What they don't want event teams doing is negotiating with the landowners as it seems HQ think teams have then made promises that parkrun can't keep. Potentially things like limiting numbers for instance. |
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May 2021
10:40pm, 10 May 2021
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Spideog
If you turn up to a parkrun, haven't registered for a barcode, run the course, finish, take a finish token and return it... parkrun would be a bit disappointed that you didn't have a barcode, but mostly just happy that you took part. If you turn up to a parkrun, have registered for a barcode but not for that day's run because why would you think you needed to, run, take a finish token, get scanned, give your finish token back... Then you get home and wonder why you've not got a result text, so check the website and see that you've been deleted. That is most definitely not the same situation, it's creating more work for local volunteer team when they have to deal with the fallout and making those parkrunners feel unwanted after getting their results deleted. That is totally not the welcoming and open to everyone image which parkrun trys to portray. |
May 2021
7:51am, 11 May 2021
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option_Richard
But 'what people have said on twitter' won't be part of the decision making process. If parkrun want to know how far along the process is, then you actually have to ask that. As for limiting numbers, that stuff had already happened pre-covid; parkrun.org.uk I doubt they're the only event that had a licensed capacity. The issue for Kingston is that the 2 nearest events are Bushy & Richmond Park, both off till restrictions are lifted. |
May 2021
8:22am, 11 May 2021
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chunkywizard
Pretty annoyed with that quote from Tom. My contact at our council contacted me (and didn't reply back to the parkrun email) and invited us to a call to discuss the return of parkrun. I am trying to get either HQ or the ambassadors to attend the call, but my emails to event support/ the ambassadors have gone unanswered. What am I to do?
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May 2021
8:40am, 11 May 2021
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Big_G
cw, I'd be annoyed too. If it was me, I'd show your contact the Tweet from TW and let HQ get on with it.
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May 2021
8:40am, 11 May 2021
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Fizz :-)
It seems very odd that they are asking parkrunners to lobby whilst at the same time telling event teams not to make contact.
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May 2021
8:44am, 11 May 2021
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DeeGee
After we got the 'call to arms' from PSH to influence landowners, I sent a quick email off to the outsourced service provider for our council, just to say that they'll have heard from HQ, were to deal with them, but if they had any questions about how the framework would be applied specifically to Cleethorpes Country Park, then it would probably be quicker to get the info from me. Last week I received an email, sent to me and HQ, acknowledging receipt of the ESAG form, and asking to confirm the name of the permanent event-day contact, whether it would be me, or the contact at HQ, and also the start day as there were conflicting dates on the paperwork. I replied-all to this to say I'd be the contact on the day, but to reiterate that all contact regarding the restart should got to the contact at HQ. The HQ email address bounced back undeliverable! Now, what, I'm being accused of interfering and delaying things, yet still Tom asks members of the parkrun community to lobby local councils. I set this event up. I made the relationships with the local stakeholders. A local councillor made a grant from his own discretionary ward funding to help this event happen! Yet I'm being admonished for trying to grease the wheels? Can I just check, if you're core team and have had an event restart approved, do HQ tell you first, or do they put it on Twitter first? |
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May 2021
8:52am, 11 May 2021
20,706 posts
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DeeGee
Oh, and I got a snotty email from HQ yesterday because I haven't yet confirmed the event, which has no restart date confirmed, is COVID ready. One of my core team's good friends is the CEO of the region's biggest commercial hygiene suppliers, I've asked to see if we can wangle an industrial sized bottle of sanitiser before I spend funds on one. But I can't tell them that, it's either confirm it all, or face accusations that you're not bothering. |
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May 2021
8:59am, 11 May 2021
12,006 posts
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chunkywizard
DeeGee, what annoyed me about that email (that was to my private email address not the parkrun one) is they said why haven't you confirmed yet, but the request was hidden in an email from the 27th April that I just overlooked.
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