parkrun thread
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Dec 2021
6:10pm, 11 Dec 2021
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Spideog
Due to extended playing on the swings before the start of parkrun today, and a refusal to go past about 1 mile where some fantastic marshals were singing and dancing to Christmas tunes, I had to then wait until my better half finished before I had to sprint off and attempt to catch the tail within the last 2 miles. Worked out that I only had just about 15 minutes to play with. I managed to get to the far turn around marshal for my first time just before the tail went round for the last. Look of confusion from them as to the pace I was going, but told them I was a lap behind and not to wait for me to get back. Carried on around and got onto my last lap, a few more muggles about by then who had assumed parkrun was over, but skipped through them and caught up with the tail with a couple of hundred meters to go. They had twigged what I was doing since the start so had been cheering me on as I unlapped myself each time. The timers knew what was going on as well as I came into the finish, but tokens was a bit confused and not sure if I was actually completing, or had run the course twice for some reason. Then my barcode wouldn't scan from my Garmin this week after working perfectly last week. All sorted with a pen and paper though. Don't think I'll bother with the Garmin barcode next time. |
Dec 2021
12:19am, 12 Dec 2021
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LindsD
LG, your barcode is not in the parkrun app. There are various ways of having it on your phone including screenshotting from the website, downloading pdf, and it's in the unofficial my5krun app. Other ways are available |
Dec 2021
12:30am, 12 Dec 2021
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Merry Lip Gloss
LindsD Thanks, I have a 5k app so could use that. My number is easy to remember and I could tell them but they say "no barcode, no time, no exception" |
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Dec 2021
12:32am, 12 Dec 2021
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LindsD
5k app is handy. I used it for my barcode today.
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Dec 2021
9:53am, 12 Dec 2021
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Craigellachie
Indeed Harry - can you imagine how long it would take if every barcode has to be written down? When barcodes were optional fewer than 10% of people bothered to bring one.
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Dec 2021
6:19pm, 12 Dec 2021
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BK brighter days ahead
Or when we had to look up everybody’s names on the laptop 😀 Barcode luxury |
Dec 2021
8:37pm, 12 Dec 2021
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jda
What? There was a time without paper barcodes? How could that have been True Parkrun?
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Dec 2021
8:46pm, 12 Dec 2021
23,840 posts
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Dvorak
Yes, you had to whisper your "safe word" to Results.
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Dec 2021
11:22pm, 12 Dec 2021
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sallykate
I seem to remember some kind of metal token at my first parkrun, and someone sitting at a PC on a trestle table.
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Dec 2021
11:27pm, 12 Dec 2021
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rf_fozzy
Yes, same here. Think that ended sometime after my first or second parkrun at Hyde park, with the barcodes coming in some time in 2009? |
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