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Dec 2024
10:56am, 26 Dec 2024
673 posts
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LouiseRuns 🌹🇬🇧 🇪🇺
One of our parkrunners tagged us on Twitter to say we hadn't included his 300 on our milestone celebration bench - we do the 'official' milestones of 10 for juniors (although sometimes an adult jumps up so we include them), 25, 50, 100, 250, and 500, and occasionally do special shout-outs for our regulars, but we had a very full bench yesterday.
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Dec 2024
11:00am, 26 Dec 2024
12,825 posts
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Ally-C
That’s quite sad tbh. Apart from the person concerned who really cares that much?
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Dec 2024
11:39am, 26 Dec 2024
144 posts
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Meep Meep
The unofficial milestone requests can be a little irksome. My Parkrun is normally 100-150 people and there is a culture of people bringing sweets if they are celebrating, so it makes it difficult to say no if someone says they are celebrating 200 runs, or 100 runs at our venue or whatever. I usually relent but say "we have an unofficial mention here for XXX".
I've seen a few examples of people having a right go at event teams on social media if they don't get their mention, but I think it's relatively rare thankfully.
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Dec 2024
12:32pm, 26 Dec 2024
10,732 posts
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BaronessBL
Quite agree with Ally-C and another reason (although we are fortunate to not get too much in the way of that sort of thing) why I am quite happy to be stepping away from RD-ing for a while
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Dec 2024
7:13pm, 26 Dec 2024
4,473 posts
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Looby Loo
I don’t really get why anybody wants a shout out.
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Dec 2024
10:09pm, 26 Dec 2024
2,505 posts
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One Thousand Odd Spiders
exactly this
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Dec 2024
10:38pm, 26 Dec 2024
59 posts
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mk parkrun
Historically we always celebrated every single milestones because there was the event of handing over the t-shirt.
Over the years it has become an expectation that we shout out. I only do the real milestones though. Others do any and every imaginary milestone, so it does make it tricky and I totally get the frustration
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Dec 2024
11:05pm, 26 Dec 2024
71,852 posts
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LindsD
I find that quite rude. The bench was full and we all wanted to get going w the run.
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Dec 2024
11:25pm, 26 Dec 2024
9,861 posts
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God Rest Ye Merry Pothunter
We generally shout out all official and unofficial milestones, but it’s rare that there are more than 5 in total. Personally I don’t shout out the 25s but some of the other RDs do. (We average around 200-230 finishers at the moment)
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Dec 2024
11:28pm, 26 Dec 2024
71,857 posts
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LindsD
We had one of everything except 500
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