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Oct 2020
9:49pm, 17 Oct 2020
7,016 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
You are in the results Helegant 
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Oct 2020
9:53pm, 17 Oct 2020
4,837 posts
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adrianb1066
Link to results Helegant at top of page 118 & coincidentally your position
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Oct 2020
10:34pm, 17 Oct 2020
3,386 posts
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Wombling Plodder (Welsh Womble)
Unfortunately I couldn’t participate today but I have been remembering those no longer with us whilst enjoying all the fab photos
❤️Devonian Plodder❤️DrK❤️And Others❤️
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Oct 2020
10:42pm, 17 Oct 2020
6,948 posts
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Helegant
Thank you.
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Oct 2020
10:43pm, 17 Oct 2020
365 posts
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Cheekys Dad
Had predicted my time based on being part of a 10 mile long run but (what with one thing and another) had to swap for tomorrow's tempo session so my time was well out but good fun nonetheless. I didn't know Dr K but was able to remember other friends and loved ones. Looking forward to next year when maybe we'll be able to do it as part of a 'proper' race
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Oct 2020
11:00pm, 17 Oct 2020
18,812 posts
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Gooner
I finally got my run done after driving back from our holiday in Wales today. I hadn't ran a step since March so my prediction was complete guess work, as can be seen by my result! At least I was quicker I suppose 🙈
Was nice to do something to remember those we've lost here at the same time as I'm coming to the end of the route 66 challenge in memory of losing my mom earlier this year.
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Oct 2020
8:48am, 18 Oct 2020
2,725 posts
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Trin
Firstly, well done to everyone who took part yesterday, it was a lovely way to remember our loved and lost Fetchies... DoctorK, Steady Edina, Devonan Plodder, Tigerlily, Pricey, Big Dom, Supergran, and spikeyboy.
I know the day is over now, and forming part of history, but I am asking for the asterisk against mine and 6 other fetchies to be removed.
It upset me personally, but i'll blog about that later because this isn't about me. I wasn't the only person to be upset by it. I received an fmail from another fetchie and these are some of the words they used...
"In the light of what the ‘event’ was for and the tough year we’ve all had in different ways it seems very unfetch like".
"I always associate the distance with her [Steady Edina] as she was amazing in how she lived with cancer and didn’t let it control her. I felt a little deflated when I saw what it [the asterisk] meant."
"I feel like I failed now"
That last sentence is how I feel too, and possibly how some of the other 'asterisked' runners feel, and that is not what yesterday was supposed to be about, it was supposed to be a celebration of the lives of our lost friends, how would they feel to know 7 of us have been singled out because our GPS devices disagree with the Fetch measuring system, and in effect we have been classed as DNFs.
None of us went out to run short, none of us got to a point and thought "that'll do, I can't be bothered to finish the 5k". We all believed that we'd run the distance, and I still believe that I completed 5k, I have the screenshot to prove it. I have looked at the other asterisked runners and they are all on 3.1 miles too.
At the end of the day, what did the asterisk achieve, other than to single out and upset 7 fetchies? If it was that important then a better way would have been to add a second, or even two seconds to the finish time.
But like I said, this was not what yesterday was supposed to be about, so please can we have those asterisks removed and try and think about yesterday's event as an all inclusive fetch family run for our friends.
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Oct 2020
9:46am, 18 Oct 2020
23,626 posts
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Sushi.
I just want to echo what Trin said.
Firstly, a lovely event for to remember a group of special people. Well done everyone who took part. I loved the photos.
She’s quoting from my fmail to her.
My watch said 3.11m when I stopped it.
I even left my earphones out to make it feel like an event. Very deflating to be ‘highlighted’ in this way.
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Oct 2020
10:23am, 18 Oct 2020
11,941 posts
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geordiegirl
I am an asterisk runner too and I was over the moon fetch allowed my time to be included in the results and I’ve now learnt that 5k is actually a shade over 3.1m (which would really freak me out I don’t like the odd .0x - I always have to round it down)
But I do reflect what you’ve both said I didn’t go out to not do the distance and complete the challenge. I went out to run a 5k and to take the time to remember Fetchies and other friends we’ve lost too soon. I was really upset yesterday when I failed the challenge. But having my time allowed I am happy with.
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Oct 2020
10:58am, 18 Oct 2020
10,365 posts
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Joopsy
Thanks for sorting your logarithm thing fetch, maybe you could write the one for the exam board next year.
Just for info. I have organised this even for the last three years and was possibly one of the only good ideas I’ve ever had. It was designed to be totally inclusive and that played out perfectly when Steady Edina won the first one with one of the slowest times of the day, it was just perfect. It doesn’t matter how fast or slow you are, just that you take part. We had lots of people who weren’t able to part as they could to get to a parkrun, whilst disappointing my method always relied on the official results to measure against. Despite this I have still seen many of these people get into the spirit, post pics of a K and blog about how they thought about passed Fetchies on their run.
This year I accepted that it couldn’t happen, my method can’t work without parkrun and therefore like most things this year it would be cancelled and LipGloss would carry her title for another year. But not Fetch, he was having none kf it and dreamt up a super way to not only make it work, but to make it more inclusive and far reaching.
Let’s just appreciate that without his genius, and his determination ensure the event went ahead that it wouldn’t have happened this year. Big up the Fetchman 
Congrats to the winners (The first dead heat!), I will sort your medals out in the next few weeks along with the one for Lip Gloss that I never managed to sort for last year!
There won’t be a podcast with me offending most of the country with my shocking local accents this year, I think that’s best left in the past.
Thanks for playing and maybe we could do another early in the new year if and when parkrun is back.
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