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Jan 2018
5:39pm, 5 Jan 2018
19,795 posts
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DocMoye
For me it’s definately about the run......I’m not very sociable on a Saturday morning, I leave that for other times in the week and usually without wearing Lycra.
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Jan 2018
5:40pm, 5 Jan 2018
62,686 posts
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Gobi
Often we run socially but it is still about the run
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Jan 2018
5:44pm, 5 Jan 2018
974 posts
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CharlieP
Oh, I like the social side of parkrun and the friends I've made through it, and *love* how it's changed other family members' attitudes to running and fitness. But the day it doesn't come with a result at the end is the day I stop going.
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Jan 2018
6:46pm, 5 Jan 2018
7,569 posts
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becca7
I'm a bit worried about the long term viability of some parkruns. It takes a park/venue of a certain size to host a 5km run but these will have a limit on how many runners/walkers they can accommodate. There isn't an abundance of additional venues and, in any case, new venues don't tend to attract significant numbers away from popular parkruns. Races put caps on numbers for safety reasons but this is against the parkrun ethos. If events continue to grow year on year there will be a point where for most it will too congested to be fun.
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Jan 2018
7:02pm, 5 Jan 2018
46,861 posts
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swittle
becca7 makes some valid observations about growth of parkrun. There is also the temporary but very considerable demands on the infrastructure. Toilets - or lack of - have recently been discussed here, and there's the influx of cars to parkrun locations: yes, it's only once a week but many older parks were designed without any foreknowledge of this.
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Jan 2018
7:05pm, 5 Jan 2018
12,347 posts
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Bazoaxe
Lol at Gobi's comment and the response.
Parkrun really are missing the point entirely. Without the run they dont exist. Thousands of people would congregate in parks every week if it wasnt for the run. Even if it just became a non timed social jog the vast majority would drift away.
Fortunately the 2 Parkruns I frequent are a million miles away from what parkrun towers seem to think.
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Jan 2018
7:09pm, 5 Jan 2018
7,570 posts
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becca7
That's a good point about parking swittle. That's already the reason why some potential venues won't work.
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Jan 2018
8:16pm, 5 Jan 2018
62,694 posts
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Gobi
but nobody speaks badly on there Baz
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Jan 2018
8:39pm, 5 Jan 2018
27,091 posts
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Lip Gloss
Just to lighten the mood my 3 year grandson is running up and down the hallway with my Garmin on shouting it's time for parkrun- so for him it's all about the run 
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Jan 2018
9:20pm, 5 Jan 2018
21,057 posts
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LazyDaisy
Well done Alfie
It's not *only* about the run, but without the run there's no 'it'. I certainly wouldn't be turning up most Saturdays, whether to run or volunteer, if running wasn't the sine qua non.
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