parkrun thread
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20 Sep
8:59am, 20 Sep 2024
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Ness
That's interesting. At my parkrun there are a group of ladies who regularly walk. When the RD explained to them about the volunteering roles of tail walker and park walker they were happy to help out with them. Admittedly they generally take less than an hour though.
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20 Sep
10:55am, 20 Sep 2024
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LorraineS
I think sometimes there's a temptation to forget the core team are volunteers too, there's a presumption that there will be someone looking after the mailbox on a Friday evening. Well, actually, I've just been at work for the week and I am having some down time. We get folks emailing on a Friday night to do inconsequential things like run report - we don't even have run report on our roster as there's only so many ways that you can say that the run goes along a trail in the trees.
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20 Sep
11:02am, 20 Sep 2024
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Dvorak
Talking of trails through trees, @LorraineS, how goes it with the course revision necessitated by the pesky buses?
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20 Sep
11:04am, 20 Sep 2024
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LorraineS
cancelled until the 5th October at least , and progress on new path being reviewed regularly, @Dvorak
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20 Sep
8:49pm, 20 Sep 2024
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bish
Bestwood still desperate for volunteers this evening so I offered my services and hit the jackpot - tail walking!
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21 Sep
12:58pm, 21 Sep 2024
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Looby Loo
I believe that walkers should be able to do in an hour as anything over is a bit self indulgent. I remember once when I was packing away on my local course the “usual” last lady had arrived back around the hour mark. No sign of the tail walker turned out someone was doing a celebratory walk stopping stopping taking pictures etc. They came in about 20 mins later. It was bitter cold and lashing and I wasn’t best pleased. |
21 Sep
1:14pm, 21 Sep 2024
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BaronessBL
Repeated stopping should not be allowed in my opinion, whether that's to take pictures, sit down on a bench to get your breath back or letting your child play on the swings half way round. You're either doing it or you're not doing it. parkrun's rules are that you must be capable of doing 5k. Repeated stopping for photos one week might encourage someone else to take repeated stops the following week because they can't really manage 5k but the tailwalker stopped lots for someone to take photos the week before. Perhaps that's not in thinking with parkrun's current ethos but 'please ensure you are fit enough to walk, jog, run 5k' which I think is on every run's home page to me means ....without stopping every so often.
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21 Sep
2:42pm, 21 Sep 2024
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Son of a Pronator Man
Why are there no parkruns in Spain? I’m in Madrid and have been running in a massive park, El Retiro. It’s crying out for a Parkrun.
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21 Sep
3:26pm, 21 Sep 2024
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um
As I understand it, similar to France, the need for runners at organised events to have a medical certificate
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21 Sep
3:37pm, 21 Sep 2024
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Yorkshire Pie
I've never needed a medical certificate to do a race in Spain (admittedly it's a few years since I last did one)
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