pokerjoke
Money List Winner
He did break 20 minutes today 19.23
Parkrun
- Thread starter pokerjoke
- Start date
He did break 20 minutes today 19.23
Karl102
Journeyman Pro
Great stuff! Glad he enjoys it! I remember you talking about him running @ HfH.... Brilliant time as well!
gmc40
Head Pro
Brilliant!
Beezerk
Money List Winner
Nice one mate, inspired me to sign up as there's quite a few in my area.
pendodave
Tour Rookie
https://blog.parkrun.com/uk/2020/09/07/return-of-parkrun-announcement/
Yay. A little ray of sunshine for those of us who enjoy a little unpleasantness on a Saturday morning.
Yay. A little ray of sunshine for those of us who enjoy a little unpleasantness on a Saturday morning.
Orikoru
Tour Winner
Just in time for winter when my local Parkrun is a mud swamp! Great!
I'm surprised it's taken this long, I'd have thought you can socially distance quite easily, it's outside, you don't need to touch anyone.
No mention of limiting numbers. Do you expect them to put a limit on or will it business as usual?
Orikoru
Tour Winner
How can you? Parkrun would have anything from 50 to 200 people turn up, and they certainly didn't have a booking system.
My wife does these, I occasionally wait for her at the end. There is very little distancing going on prior to the race, at the beginning of the race and at the end of it. Way too many people running and bunching to separate them. Maybe they are just going on being outdoors and the fact that doesn't seem to be the way it is transmitted.
Then they would have to introduce a booking system. Not hard.
It depends on my point above, whether they believe it to be an issue.
Orikoru
Tour Winner
Well given that football has been back for over a month where you have contact with strangers, I don't see Parkrun as being any worse than that. As long as people are aware to stand apart at the beginning and end, try not to bump into anyone as you start the race.
pendodave
Tour Rookie
I have no idea. There's no mention of it on the blog. Maybe it will be a local decision depending on field size and field size...
That would make more sense than a national dictat imho.
The numbers are entirely different though. As you mention, there could be 200 runners in a race, all hanging around at the start, all getting together for when they set off. Very different to 22 players spread across a pitch. 200 people standing 2m apart is unlikely to happen in reality and would need a heck of a space.
As I mention, they may just be going on the being outside doesn't transmit approach
pendodave
Tour Rookie
Ours too. Short of running in footy boots, it all gets a bit slidey when I pour on the power (!!).Just in time for winter when my local Parkrun is a mud swamp! Great!
Im curious whether a summer of cycling rather than running will have strengthened my sparrows legs sufficiently to improve my uphill form...
Orikoru
Tour Winner
This seems to be the view on a lot of things, which is why I was surprised Parkrun wasn't back sooner. In football we're not allowed to use the changing rooms (indoors) but we're allowed to go out and bash heads with strangers. In a game of football you would make contact with probably at least 6 other people on average. In a Parkrun I would generally managed to turn up, run and go home without contacting anyone. Maybe on a tight course as you say you might brush against someone at the beginning but that's it. They do give you a little tag to scan at the end, these just need to all be disinfected and so on.
Orikoru
Tour Winner
Last winter ours was so muddy down one corner they had to change the route to avoid it - unfortunately the new route sent you further uphill where it was almost as muddy in parts anyway. I only ran it like that once since I only go infrequently, but it nearly killed me, I was a good 3 minutes slower than my better times.
pendodave
Tour Rookie
The only specific reference to risk suggests that they believe that the risk to health from not performing regular exercise outweighs the risk of covid.
pendodave
Tour Rookie
Lol.
Ours is sometimes rerouted to avoid some very large cows.
There's something very school cross country about ours - nasty hills and a variety of unpleasant surfaces.
I sometimes wonder how much quicker a 5k around a track would be, but that's not really the point of the exercise.
larmen
Head Pro
I love parkrun but I can’t see it happening.
My local is Bushy with 1200 to 1600 runners each week. If you just hold smaller ones those runners are in Richmond, Crane, Nonsuch, ... they don’t go away, they go elsewhere. No proper track and trace possible, and other park users are affected.
It’s not a small event, it’s a hundred thousand people event, just in multiple locations at the same time.You see 4balls that are supposed to be distancing standing close together, a start line in parkrun is a multitude of that.
My local is Bushy with 1200 to 1600 runners each week. If you just hold smaller ones those runners are in Richmond, Crane, Nonsuch, ... they don’t go away, they go elsewhere. No proper track and trace possible, and other park users are affected.
It’s not a small event, it’s a hundred thousand people event, just in multiple locations at the same time.You see 4balls that are supposed to be distancing standing close together, a start line in parkrun is a multitude of that.
Orikoru
Tour Winner
Definitely makes a difference - a mate of mine is a keen runner (as in, he actually enjoys running like some sort of lunatic) and normally runs Harrow Parkrun which is mostly on a concrete path round the perimeter of a park. Sometimes he comes to my local one, which is all on grass (or mud) and a touch more hilly, and he says he's a good 2 minutes slower on average.
Similar threads
