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4 Dec
6:35pm, 4 Dec 2024
26,229 posts
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larkim
Saw this on one of our local event FB pages:-
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4 Dec
6:57pm, 4 Dec 2024
7,851 posts
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Metro_Nome
Interesting, don’t think I’ve seen that anywhere before, but have often seen chat about whether the role should be able to help or whether it’s literally to be the last person. I have a feeling the wiki is more toward the latter.
If there is a helping element, There could also be an issue if the tailwalker is unable to keep up with the last participant but that’s less likely to be an issue these days. Many years ago we had a very large gentleman who often used to tailrun (as it was at the time) a lot and I remember the RD saying he was worried if something happened to him, he was always a long way behind the last runner. He did actually end up having a heart attack, but not at parkrun! (He’s fine thankfully)
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4 Dec
7:00pm, 4 Dec 2024
72,395 posts
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Velociraptor
I think parkrun have been explicit in the past about talk walking not being a safety role, although I'm of the view that it should be.
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4 Dec
7:19pm, 4 Dec 2024
27,752 posts
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Bazoaxe
On a three lapper with a tight path a few years back the tailwalker was a member of the core team and had a child in a buggy and a dog on a lead. In order to to pass the tailwalker those faster runners were forced very wide and on to grass, or had to wait at some of the parts where going wide off the path wasnt an option
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4 Dec
7:22pm, 4 Dec 2024
72,396 posts
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Velociraptor
Talk walking? Tail walking! 
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4 Dec
7:48pm, 4 Dec 2024
7,852 posts
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Metro_Nome
Talk walking a fairly accurate description to be fair!
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4 Dec
8:04pm, 4 Dec 2024
27,753 posts
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Bazoaxe
I was worried for a minute that I had mistyped tail walking.
My brother told me he once texted his wife to say he was going out for a walk, and made a typo. 
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4 Dec
8:06pm, 4 Dec 2024
35,129 posts
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Old Croc
Shouldn't have a buggy and a dog - one or the other is the rule.
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4 Dec
9:45pm, 4 Dec 2024
10,712 posts
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BaronessBL
We now don't allow anyone to tailwalk who doesn't know our course (by which we mean they must have participated on the course at least once) because we did once have an incident in which someone just in front of the tailwalker needed assistance and the tail had no idea where on the course they were or how close the nearest marshal was and further help would have been quicker had they known where they were. Reviewing afterwards we thought it best that if called upon to help in some way the tailwalker should at least know roughly where they/marshals are on the course. They do carry a lanyard with a map as well of course.
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4 Dec
10:15pm, 4 Dec 2024
7,853 posts
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Metro_Nome
I think that’s fairly common. I wouldn’t offer to tail walk somewhere new.
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