parkrun thread

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Ally-C
Ally-C
21 Oct
9:09am, 21 Oct 2024
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Folk travel for all sorts of reasons, concerts, football, cricket, rugby, city breaks, whatever. So to me there’s no difference in travelling to do a Parkrun somewhere.

Wouldn’t go to an inaugural if told not to though.
paulcook
paulcook
21 Oct
9:11am, 21 Oct 2024
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The first rule of fight club is ...
Mr J
Mr J
21 Oct
9:18am, 21 Oct 2024
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I did loads of inaugurals years ago when they were advertised.
I was one of only 29 at the first Pymmes parkrun.
As usual it starts to get silly when the numbers for inaugurals got huge.
Dvorak
Dvorak
21 Oct
11:29am, 21 Oct 2024
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Interesting re Battersea. The nearest Scottish equivalent I can think of was Queen's, Glasgow. The organisers begged non-locals to stay away for the inaugural and the first few. (Anyone for whom it wouldnt be a home parkrun, not just non-Glaswegians; as the closest run is Pollok, Glasgow's biggest)

It went fairly well. First attendances were 313, 263, 262, 258, 254, 212, 217, 163. (By this time December and, I'm guessing, rotten weather). I finally went on event 16 (200) and then covid interrupted it after #21. 2024 average finishers is 200.
paulcook
paulcook
21 Oct
1:51pm, 21 Oct 2024
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Just spotted Battersea cancelled on 2/11 due to another event in the park. I'm trying to balance out whether this might make things easier or potentially busier.
Dvorak
Dvorak
21 Oct
2:12pm, 21 Oct 2024
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Saw something I've not seen before in a couple of ways, regarding a prospective Glasgow area parkrun. southlanarkshire.gov.uk

£4800 to start up a parkrun now :-o
57.5 Degrees of Pain
57.5 Degrees of Pain
21 Oct
2:55pm, 21 Oct 2024
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Dvorak wrote:Saw something I've not seen before in a couple of ways, regarding a prospective Glasgow area parkrun. southlanarkshire.gov.uk £4800 to start up a parkrun now
It's been £4800 since early Covid times iirc.

Cunigar Loop already has a Fetch Orienteering course, so kill two birds with one stone.
wardi
wardi
22 Oct
2:27pm, 22 Oct 2024
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wardi
856 at York on Saturday, their 2nd highest turnout ever. The numbers no doubt swelled by visitors to the York marathon the following day, still an impressive turnout on a damp and rainy morning.
Rob-C
Rob-C
22 Oct
4:24pm, 22 Oct 2024
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Rob-C
Mr J wrote:I did loads of inaugurals years ago when they were advertised. I was one of only 29 at the first Pymmes parkrun.


19 at the first Pymmes in 2011, which is exactly why inaugurals used to be advertised by parkrun HQ. Little did they realise they were creating a monster. Or maybe a horde of inaugural-chasing inconsiderate self-obsessed little monsters.
Mr J
Mr J
22 Oct
6:02pm, 22 Oct 2024
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Creating tables of challenges was the issue. This created the demand. All of my encounters as a tourist have been positive.

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A discussion of all things parkrun.

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