parkrun thread
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24 Feb
2:50pm, 24 Feb 2025
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Dvorak
On the increased parkrun numbers thing, I've looked at some more in the area. Showing how many of the top twenty have been in 2024/25, and total events. University of Stirling: 13/20, 205 Although events 1/2/3 are in the above, and excluding the inaugural, the five largest are this year, including the record turnout. Drumpellier Country: 7/20, 205 The three largest runs were all on Christmas Day. Last year saw 594 finishers, a record by 227! Dunfermline: 12/20, 394 Although the next five are all in 24/25. Livingston: 0/20, 404 Just never recovered, numbers wise, after the shutdown. All the way down to positions 66/69 for a 24/25 run. |
24 Feb
3:51pm, 24 Feb 2025
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Meep Meep
mrs shanksi wrote: I see HQ are taking away the option to record a cancellation as 'other'. Guess it will stop all the weird and wonderful reasons people put in. Finally. I've been waiting for them to do that for ages. I kind of wish they had made a better list of options though. I found it interesting when people would for example make maps showing cancellations for ice or flooding. Now people have to put "weather" or "course unsafe", and people will use either. |
24 Feb
3:55pm, 24 Feb 2025
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larkim
A free text box for a little bit of context would have been nice to retain though.
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24 Feb
4:02pm, 24 Feb 2025
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LindsD
Agree
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24 Feb
9:54pm, 24 Feb 2025
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Neal
Four out of nine cancellations for the coming Saturday use the free text option, all informative, none silly. If they intend each parkrun to have a real local community, they should be adding, not taking away, ways for the team too communicate with their community. (Interestingly, one event is already cancelled on Saturday because of the "weather".) |
24 Feb
10:03pm, 24 Feb 2025
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Jen HB
@Neal I've just had a nosy on their Facebook page - it's giving the course a chance to recover
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24 Feb
10:04pm, 24 Feb 2025
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paulcook
Neal wrote: (Interestingly, one event is already cancelled on Saturday because of the "weather".) Reading their FB page, sounds that's more like an accumulation of the weather on the route itself and chance of some (!) recovery. Wonder if anyone complained about some of the cancellation reasons. Think I only ever saw humorous-ish ones in the past, but in the world we live in, it wouldn't surprise me. |
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24 Feb
10:27pm, 24 Feb 2025
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Meep Meep
Dunno about the number of complaints historically, but there was some instance reasonably recently where someone decided it would be topical to list their reason for cancellation as "women of a certain age on the course" or something along those lines. It was deleted by HQ. I think the person who did it is might be on this forum actually. Not 100% sure. |
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24 Feb
10:30pm, 24 Feb 2025
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LindsD
I think it was a reference to Gregg Wallace's response to the complaints made about him.
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24 Feb
10:39pm, 24 Feb 2025
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paulcook
Fair enough. Though that's kind of the case where some education and reminder of the organisation you're representing would be better. Because the comments above about some postponements now lacking context are valid. |
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