parkrun thread
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1 Jan
8:42pm, 1 Jan 2025
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larkim
Yep, entitlement sums it up nicely. It's fine to debate the risk assessment / decision as a concept as we do on here from time to time. But that air of entitlement is what comes across.
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1 Jan
8:49pm, 1 Jan 2025
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Ness
Exactly, Looby Loo!
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1 Jan
11:12pm, 1 Jan 2025
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LouiseRuns 🌹🇬🇧 🇪🇺
One of the chat groups I'm on had a participant stating he'd gone for a run at the time parkrun should have been on, weather was fine, he didn't understand why so many of the locals cancelled. I just really couldn't be bothered to get into it today. Probably because I'm sleep-deprived after having the loudest ever fireworks going off metres from my bedroom window practically all night making it sound like a war zone. But unlike him, I had made plans to attend one that was likely to be on (didn't cancel for Storm Darragh) and so got to a parkun...
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2 Jan
8:24am, 2 Jan 2025
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forest plodder
I was at Southampton too @hillstrider . The weather certainly blew away the cobwebs!
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2 Jan
8:50am, 2 Jan 2025
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Looby Loo
@LouiseRuns 🌹🇬🇧 🇪🇺 we’d planned Chalkwell beach and it hadn’t cancelled in the last two storms so took a chance but got there with 30 mins to spare as there were a few other options nearby.
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2 Jan
10:30am, 2 Jan 2025
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hillstrider
@forest plodder I saw you there forest plodder. You had just had your barcode scanned.
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2 Jan
10:39am, 2 Jan 2025
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GeneHunt59
Somebody on a Facebook group was blaming the cancellations on parkrun HQ panicking about the weather and thus putting pressure on RD's to cancel! They said if HQ hadn't panicked then most of the cancelled events would have gone ahead.
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2 Jan
10:43am, 2 Jan 2025
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larkim
And maybe that's true. But it doesn't matter, the local teams have a duty of care to make reasonable decisions. If their reasonable decision is not the same as "your" reasonable decision, that's just life. I can't imagine there are too many event teams out there that would actively prefer no event to take place!
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2 Jan
10:44am, 2 Jan 2025
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Groundhog
We had much greater numbers than usual at Sandhurst with lots of tourists from places nearby that were cancelled, including from Bushy and Homewood, which was a late cancellation (all woodland so possibly from risk of falling branches). The increased numbers were fine (still below pre-Covid numbers for us) but we had a couple of non-parkrun dog walkers who decided it would be fun to go through the finish funnel - they came through with genuine parkwalkers so were not obvious. Actually the weather was OK until after we had finished and left the cafe; then it lashed down. |
2 Jan
10:53am, 2 Jan 2025
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JJJ
From an event point of view it's a difficult decision to cancel or not due to weather, we're trying to decide the night before based on a weather forecast that may or may not turn out to be correct; on one hand we don't want to cancel, on the other we don't want to go ahead and have a tree block the route or fall on someone, or a volunteer get hypothermia, but it's better to cancel find we shouldn't than go ahead and regret it.
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