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Oct 2023
12:46pm, 20 Oct 2023
22,413 posts
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larkim
I'm guessing that for some parkruns, attendance numbers breaching a maximum is something they might want awareness of in advance, especially if there's a date / event number of significance that people are still paying attention to, despite the counsel otherwise.
But I'd guess that would be pretty rare.
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Oct 2023
2:52pm, 20 Oct 2023
14,352 posts
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57.5 Degrees of Pain
Could we maybe not have yet another
- someone suggests something that is never going to happen
- people argue about it
parkrun discussion? Fizz  closed down the topic in her original post.
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Oct 2023
3:00pm, 20 Oct 2023
27,264 posts
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Dvorak
Why not? This is the thread including (but not exclusively for) parkrun arguments. Pointless ones or otherwise
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Oct 2023
3:12pm, 20 Oct 2023
1,802 posts
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Akie
On bad weather weekends, like this one, would make picking where to register a high risk choice.
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Oct 2023
3:32pm, 20 Oct 2023
2,434 posts
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AndyS
Browsing parkrun cancellations*, I came across an oddity - a ticketed parkrun. Which is not a parkrun.
That's quite local to me. They've recently had quite a few issues with course availability due to random acts of various external bodies - hence the need to try and find an alternate route. (I've run there three times, and every time has been on a different route).
I won't be there this weekend, but it's not the first "ticketed-parkrun-but-not-a-parkrun" that I've come across - it seems to be quite common for test events in London. Maybe because they're worried that if too many people turn up, they might kill it off before it's got started.
It does seem odd to me to do this at 9am on a Saturday morning at a location that already has an existing parkrun though - I would not be at all surprised if people turn up to run there not realising.
I volunteered at the Woolwich Arsenal (officially "Thames Path, Woolwich") test event back in March, which was ticketed - and held on a Sunday. There was concern that if there were too many there, then the landowners might object. They had about 100 for the test event, 150 for the "quiet" inaugural - then 450ish for the second event.
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Oct 2023
4:44pm, 20 Oct 2023
10,179 posts
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Fields
to start a real argument about parkrun you’d need fozzy to take a side
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Oct 2023
6:16pm, 20 Oct 2023
2,436 posts
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AndyS
"Oh no you don't" 🤣
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Oct 2023
5:53am, 21 Oct 2023
5,938 posts
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RRR-CAZ 🇬🇧
Morning Burnham & Highbridge parkrun this morning
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Oct 2023
11:20am, 21 Oct 2023
10,451 posts
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BaronessBL
I wonder if the ticketed parkrun is some sort of pre-cursor to what is being called Martyn's Law which is the responsibility of organisers to keep their events safe from acts of terrorism. I am no expert and haven't researched it but from a conversation with someone who works for a council I gather its to do with stepping up/enforcing organisers to have more security measures for large numbers of people against acts of terrorism following the Manchester attack and I understand a number of councils are now reviewing how they organise large public events (eg like Christmas Lights switch ons) in view of this. Probably wouldn't affect most parkruns but the very largest - if at all but might be something on the radar of some local authorities who may well own the park they take place in.
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Oct 2023
11:41am, 21 Oct 2023
64,626 posts
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LindsD
I think the ticketed parkrun in this case is just a test event for a new course but held at parkrun time, as Andy says.
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