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31 Aug
5:27pm, 31 Aug 2024
1,350 posts
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Fenners-Reborn
I got a new bingo number for 22.xx. Well pleased. 
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31 Aug
5:36pm, 31 Aug 2024
4,887 posts
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StuH
Finally got to Edenbrook for my NENDY
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31 Aug
5:51pm, 31 Aug 2024
25,469 posts
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larkim
NENDY attended, NENDY created
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31 Aug
6:07pm, 31 Aug 2024
4,890 posts
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StuH
It's back to Cranleigh, which it was before Edenbrook started!
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31 Aug
6:23pm, 31 Aug 2024
25,470 posts
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larkim
6000 at bushy?!?!!
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31 Aug
6:40pm, 31 Aug 2024
1,952 posts
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sLickster
Literally thousands of results to enter on the system manually…definitely extra time for those volunteers this week!
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31 Aug
6:53pm, 31 Aug 2024
6,911 posts
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Mr J
Thought about going to the 20th anniversary but might avoid it now. Too many for me to make it enjoyable. Not sure about the logistics when that many turn up. Car park only holds about 200 cars and is full by 8:15 normally. Good luck to anyone trying it.
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31 Aug
7:21pm, 31 Aug 2024
25,471 posts
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larkim
Queues for the finish funnel of up to 1km apparently, with finish numbers written on hands for runners past about 3000 too. Kudos to the team there and I hope noone complains about their finish position being wrong!!
Was inevitable I suppose that it would be enormous; for the acolytes it's akin to the sermon on the mount / feeding of the 5000! (But it would have been 6000...)
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31 Aug
7:43pm, 31 Aug 2024
1,953 posts
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sLickster
Would be brilliant if we hear that parkrun HQ anticipated that there may have been huge numbers and put in contingencies to help the local (highly experienced) team by giving them some extra resource from their paid staff? Like they could have asked some paid employees to do some overtime and pay them to spend hours/days entering the anticipated participants names/barcodes/positions, say?
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31 Aug
7:57pm, 31 Aug 2024
189 posts
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stevieg
I was going to suggest they could have understood the massive demand for this one and allowed them as a one off to stagger the start times.
But then I suppose there would still be a huge bottle neck at points, even if you allowed starts at 9, 930 and 10.
And if you allow it for one, you'd get other events asking for similar etc
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