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Mar 2020
10:12am, 13 Mar 2020
34,449 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Certainly in the Farcebook-sphere there's been lots of scrabbling around for races that *are* on and, like toilet rolls, people scrabbling for the remaining ones. Things like parkrun, with no limits, could go huge!  G
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Mar 2020
10:13am, 13 Mar 2020
5,266 posts
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Metro_Nome
Part of me wants them to be cancelled while I’m too injured to walk/run them- if I can’t, nobody should be able to
(I don’t really)
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Mar 2020
10:13am, 13 Mar 2020
34,450 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
If the logic is not wasting police and medical time then surely cancelling spectator events like football should be a first. The movement of people and the number of police and first aid staff at football is huge.
Volunteer supported run events, like parkrun, should be the last to go.
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Mar 2020
10:14am, 13 Mar 2020
34,451 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Lol M_N - yeah, cancel everything. Don't they know YOU won't be there?!
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Mar 2020
4:27pm, 13 Mar 2020
5,310 posts
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57.5 Degrees of Pain
'And surely 20,000 at a football match is worse than 1,000 at a running event?'
With respiratory virus's being more likely to infect you when you breathe them in deeply I wonder if running events are quite a comparatively risky pastime? And we are not at our most hygienic! I nearly copped a poorly aimed snot rocket last week at parkrun.
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Mar 2020
4:33pm, 13 Mar 2020
1,708 posts
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JRitchie
Run Garioch postponed till Sunday 13th September.
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Mar 2020
4:36pm, 13 Mar 2020
12,682 posts
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Ultracat
Really? Garioch postponed? I have been looking forward to my first proper race in months
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Mar 2020
4:37pm, 13 Mar 2020
1,709 posts
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JRitchie
If you enjoy the anticipation you’ll have 6 months more fun.
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Mar 2020
4:37pm, 13 Mar 2020
5,311 posts
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57.5 Degrees of Pain
'parkrun HQ have said that if they need to cancel one as per government regs, they will cancel all in the region'
Not to the Scottish Ambassadors they haven't. Latest is they'll revisit it next week.
Cancelling all Scottish parkruns if one goes makes sense to stop people travelling to another event, rather less so in English regions which are contiguous. I'd say (purely as a personal opinion) that a complete shutdown is coming because other alternatives are fraught with unknowns.
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Mar 2020
4:40pm, 13 Mar 2020
941 posts
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Ally-C
Was in for Garioch, ach well.
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