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May 2021
6:58pm, 11 May 2021
14,305 posts
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rf_fozzy
I would have thought a pre-registration would have allowed wheelchair users a better experience.
I don't like the dogs thing anyway - always the danger of leads tripping people.
But to the point. FWT isn't true anyway.
Free - well, now ParkRun are charging for the t-shirts. They weren't previously despite the cost being covered by sweatshop and then subsequent sponsors.
Weekly - some parkruns are semi-regularly cancelled due to other events in parks and locations. And some events are having issues because of too many people (as seen on this thread).
Timed - not if you haven't got a barcode...
Re: Time Trial - yes, when I first did the Leeds one, it was Leeds Hyde Park 5km Time Trial or something similar
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May 2021
6:59pm, 11 May 2021
22,398 posts
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Dvorak
It would be a highly, highly ambitious wheelchair user who tackled Plean parkrun.
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May 2021
7:22pm, 11 May 2021
958 posts
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Spideog
Waves isn't a problem... Except that you have to organise it somehow. Even with one of the simplest courses like Bushy Park you'll have a lot of people to shepherd into the correct start order and set off every couple of minutes, then figure out who started when and what stopwatch counts for them all at the finish. No doubt the response to that will be to do away with timing, or only time based on the first wave. That's not overly fair on those starting in the later wave of course. You then have an added delay before the volunteers are finished for the morning depending on how long it takes to start everyone. And all the extra hassle to achieve what exactly? Lots of extra work for the volunteers and a longer time to hold the event, but still with exactly the same crowd at the finish, and unless you are assigning people start times an hour apart you'd have the same number of people around at the start at the same time as well.
Now if anyone has any ideas for how you'd run wave starts at Highbury Fields I'd be intrigued?
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May 2021
7:55pm, 11 May 2021
991 posts
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Non-runner
Indeed Fozzy, recall my first Hyde Park Time Trial in February 2008, metal dog tags as place holders and report your details to the stern young chap with the desk and laptop. Happy days!
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May 2021
8:08pm, 11 May 2021
14,306 posts
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rf_fozzy
Dec 2008 for me, NR
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May 2021
8:18pm, 11 May 2021
935 posts
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BK brighter days ahead
Spideog - a ‘wave start’ can be a rolling start - you just have to put a little thought into these things
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May 2021
8:30pm, 11 May 2021
959 posts
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Spideog
Yes, races can have rolling starts. Have done a few of those recently and they worked very well.
How would you propose that is controlled in an event without chip timing or numbers? How are you setting people off, or preventing them just queuing in a massive group and trying to get to the front to start next. And how long is this taking to set off people at Bushy? Are you doing one person at a time, 6 at a time, 50 at a time? How many marshals is it taking to organise people into this rolling start or wave start?
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May 2021
8:52pm, 11 May 2021
10,050 posts
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jda
thanks for the lols
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May 2021
12:27pm, 12 May 2021
200 posts
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option_Richard
Volunteer recruitment
Under the Framework, quite a few events are going to need a lot more volunteers.
At 1 barcode scanner per 50 finishers, the >500 events are now looking at 10-20 scanners.
The latest survey results show that it could be 15%+ of previous volunteers lost for a while.
So, should the run milestone credits be turned off whilst operating under the Framework?
That would leave the volunteer one as the only one you could earn for a while.
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May 2021
12:41pm, 12 May 2021
960 posts
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Spideog
Just had a look at the volunteer roster for Jersey and they have space for 8 scanners on their list, which is presumably more than they used to have scanner devices for. Doesn't seem to actually have been any change in the overall number of volunteers they have been getting each week though.
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