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Oct 2022
5:57pm, 6 Oct 2022
1,570 posts
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AndyS
Pre-Covid we regularly used to get over 500, these days we're usually a little under 300 (last Sunday notwithstanding). I don't think we've ever needed more than one funnel manager (who often does double duty as number checker), but that may be partly down to the way our funnel is constructed, which makes like tricky for funnel duckers.
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Oct 2022
6:07pm, 6 Oct 2022
1,054 posts
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JenHB
Similar situation occurs at one of our locals on ‘pacing days’ the event struggles to fill non running roles until the last moment but always has a lot of pacers.
My local parkrun now does a shout out on social media for pacers only when the normal roster is filled
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Oct 2022
10:11am, 7 Oct 2022
19,206 posts
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larkim
We've got a fence on one side of our funnel so I suppose that does make it easier to patrol to avoid duckers.
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Oct 2022
12:25pm, 7 Oct 2022
23,695 posts
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Bazoaxe
Its not so much funnel duckers that is an issue, its keeping moving and keeping in order. Last week I had loads who stopped bang on the line and others who kept going and I had to get them into the right place.
This included one who stopped and asked the timer for his time and another who wanted her barcode scanned
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Oct 2022
11:08pm, 7 Oct 2022
479 posts
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LouiseRuns 🌹🇬🇧 🇪🇺
Southall looks more complicated on paper than it is in reality, so you should be fine. It's well marshalled.
I'm not asking for parkwalkers at all. I'm not a fan of pacers for the same reason - we get lots of people volunteering for those roles where they are basically gong to do what they would have done anyway, and get a credit for it (I know some pacers do actually run slower than normal, etc., but a lot of ours run at almost their usual times, and we even had one who asked to do a certain time, we already had someone in that slit so we offered her 5-10 minute slower instead but she refused as she didn't want to run that slow!)
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Oct 2022
11:46pm, 7 Oct 2022
65,270 posts
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Lip Gloss
Come to Stonhaven tomorrow if you want encouragement at the top of the 'non' hill. I've even persuaded one of my bosses and her daughter that it's the best place to be 😂😂👏👏
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Oct 2022
1:03am, 8 Oct 2022
26,026 posts
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Dvorak
I'm accidentally heading to somewhere with pacers today. The couple of times I've paced, it's been comfortably slower than I could have run. It seems nonsensical to pace your "normal" time, because on the day you might not manage it, then you've let people down. Not that anyone could criticise you in such a case, heaven forfend 
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Oct 2022
6:47am, 8 Oct 2022
5,554 posts
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Windsor Wool
Southall looks more complicated on paper than it is in reality, so you should be fine. It's well marshalled.
Thanks LR. About to go and see for myself!
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Oct 2022
7:37am, 8 Oct 2022
29,589 posts
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HellsBells
Supporting a new RD today, as well as VC and timer - it’s all go
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Oct 2022
10:29am, 8 Oct 2022
1,014 posts
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Scorge
made it round queen's, probably equally as tough as drumchapel but in a different way. touristing again in redcar next saturday, which looks mercifully flat.....
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