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HellsBells
HellsBells
Dec 2022
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Our whole course looks like this - and we’re not going above freezing before tomorrow morning

HellsBells
HellsBells
Dec 2022
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HellsBells
The bottom photo above is our two way section where we have runners in both directions, we usually have over 300………
Ally-C
Ally-C
Dec 2022
3:27pm, 16 Dec 2022
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Ally-C
^ that looks runnable to me.
HellsBells
HellsBells
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3:31pm, 16 Dec 2022
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Ally-C it really isn’t - I was sliding all over the place in my walking boots and I’m not being held responsible for the safety of 300 people, many in inappropriate footwear, trying to run it
Ally-C
Ally-C
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3:32pm, 16 Dec 2022
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Ally-C it really isn’t - I was sliding all over the place in my walking boots and I’m not being held responsible for the safety of 300 people, many in inappropriate footwear, trying to run it


I’ll take your word for it 👍🏻
larkim
larkim
Dec 2022
3:36pm, 16 Dec 2022
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I think this is where people other thatn RDs/EDs need to take primary responsibility for their safety; surely to goodness no-one would turn up at that parkrun and say "well, the RD has said it's going ahead so that means I'll have no problems with a slippy surface, despite it quite clearly being white in front of me where it is normally brown". Obviously there is a line at which cancelling is completely right, but (playing complete devil's advocate) what about the walkers? If everyone turned up and treated the conditions with caution, there'd be no issue. The issue is that people are often very stupid!

(Not criticising you or your team for cancelling HB, just my ongoing frustration with participants making it feel as if it is someone else's fault when they do something daft that harms them).
Windsor Wool
Windsor Wool
Dec 2022
3:40pm, 16 Dec 2022
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you had no choice with those conditions HB!
Rosehip
Rosehip
Dec 2022
3:51pm, 16 Dec 2022
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Rosehip
I fell over on the pavement outside the house yesterday, wearing x-talons - it looks very much like that. Compressed snow, walked smooth partly thawed and refrozen is horrid!
Dvorak
Dvorak
Dec 2022
3:54pm, 16 Dec 2022
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Does anyone grit their courses?*. I saw mention of Ruchill gritting a section last month (there is quite a steep downhill.)

*I know, no requirement or expectation, and any such would be an undue burden. Just asking.
marshallini
marshallini
Dec 2022
4:30pm, 16 Dec 2022
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marshallini
Probably my favourite ever parkrun. Delamere March 2013 ⛄😀

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