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madbadger said:
It's a nice course at Stewarts. Slower (hillier) than Albert park but a nice run.
I have done Parke too. My slowest time by a margin. It was drizzly when I did it and there is a massive hill near the start that was pretty muddy. just after that on a narrow bit of path a branch caught my glasses and flicked them off. Glasses must be the hardest thing in the world to find especially without your glasses on! Was near the back of the field when I found them and set off again.
Still - character building stuff. I must go back and set a proper time.
Parke does look like challenge so will be interesting, I will be taking trail shoes too as I had heard it was muddy. Nightmare on the glasses, I've had a shoelace come undone and ran 4.5k with it flapping around as I didn't want to stopI have done Parke too. My slowest time by a margin. It was drizzly when I did it and there is a massive hill near the start that was pretty muddy. just after that on a narrow bit of path a branch caught my glasses and flicked them off. Glasses must be the hardest thing in the world to find especially without your glasses on! Was near the back of the field when I found them and set off again.
Still - character building stuff. I must go back and set a proper time.
I think I could run Stewart's pretty close to my albert pb, I seem to do ok on the hilly bits as my training runs include some climbs.
Edited by northandy on Tuesday 19th April 20:55
Lancaster parkrun for me today while visiting my mum. Tough hilly course but a good challenge and lovely conditions. It's 2 laps, so I took the first lap easy as I wasn't sure of the route then pushed on for lap 2. Good to see some of my old local teammates too. 1st finisher in 17:26 by my watch.
https://www.strava.com/activities/553969484
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First ever Parkrun, 5k and organised run for me today. First run and anything fitness based for 4 years since a serious heart condition, so not even vaguely fit.
Was aiming for 40 minutes but had no real idea, came in at 34:11 which I'm thrilled with. Lovely atmosphere, great people and really well organised. Will be back again next week!
Was aiming for 40 minutes but had no real idea, came in at 34:11 which I'm thrilled with. Lovely atmosphere, great people and really well organised. Will be back again next week!
KTF said:
Wiggle have the parkrun milestone and marshal t-shirts back in stock again.
If you have one on back order, get in quick before the official announcement goes out and rest of the community finds out
Any idea how long the email takes to come through to claim the T-Shirt ? My nipper did her 10th on 27th Feb & still haven't seen it.If you have one on back order, get in quick before the official announcement goes out and rest of the community finds out
In the e-mail with your time there should be a link to "Manage my profile" or similar, go in to that and there's a link for "Club Progress". If you qualify for a shirt there should be a link to get it, you'll need to create an account with wiggle and log in before you get the buy option though.
Finally got my 100 shirt yesterday, after 126 parkruns
Finally got my 100 shirt yesterday, after 126 parkruns
baxb said:
Any idea how long the email takes to come through to claim the T-Shirt ? My nipper did her 10th on 27th Feb & still haven't seen it.
Am not sure if an email gets sent out now. The best way is to log into the profile and click on the club link. If you are eligible there will be a link there.Week 2, glorious weather meant a 270+ turnout in Southwick (Wiltshire), knocked a full 3 minutes off my first ever 5k time (last week), down to 31:17.
Took it easy for the first two laps, then kept targeting 'overtakes' on the last lap to really push myself. My 3rd mile was 3 minutes quicker than the first two, which probably isn't the cleverest idea but seemed to work!
Took it easy for the first two laps, then kept targeting 'overtakes' on the last lap to really push myself. My 3rd mile was 3 minutes quicker than the first two, which probably isn't the cleverest idea but seemed to work!
madbadger said:
It's a nice course at Stewarts. Slower (hillier) than Albert park but a nice run.
I have done Parke too. My slowest time by a margin. It was drizzly when I did it and there is a massive hill near the start that was pretty muddy. just after that on a narrow bit of path a branch caught my glasses and flicked them off. Glasses must be the hardest thing in the world to find especially without your glasses on! Was near the back of the field when I found them and set off again.
Still - character building stuff. I must go back and set a proper time.
You were right on Parke, that was tough, snuck in just under 23 mins which is 3 mins off my pb at a parkrun, was very muddy up that bank and around the course generally. I was pleased to just finish in the end! I have done Parke too. My slowest time by a margin. It was drizzly when I did it and there is a massive hill near the start that was pretty muddy. just after that on a narrow bit of path a branch caught my glasses and flicked them off. Glasses must be the hardest thing in the world to find especially without your glasses on! Was near the back of the field when I found them and set off again.
Still - character building stuff. I must go back and set a proper time.
What's the general etiquette with volunteering, out of interest? There are a core group at my Parkrun which keep things ticking over nicely, but they struggle to get even a couple of people to do general marshalling, quite sad when you consider 250+ turn up to run every week.
I've seen some fairly damning comments of (generally) club runners who 'use' Parkrun every week and have hundreds of runs against their name but have never helped.
I was thinking of volunteering once a quarter, if everyone did that they'd have no issues whatsoever. Is that too little or about right?
I've seen some fairly damning comments of (generally) club runners who 'use' Parkrun every week and have hundreds of runs against their name but have never helped.
I was thinking of volunteering once a quarter, if everyone did that they'd have no issues whatsoever. Is that too little or about right?
Once a quarter as Halb says is the expectation - some do a lot more than this and some a lot less/zero. One guy at my local has some 180 odd runs to his name and volunteered once a couple of years ago. What doesn't help is I recall a few years ago in the newsletter, the MD of Parkrun basically said it was entirely OK to not volunteer if it wasn't your thing. Not the right message at all to be coming from the top brass, IMHO.
I try and volunteer a handful of times a year; mainly if I have a race on the next day, or if I'm ill or injured.
I try and volunteer a handful of times a year; mainly if I have a race on the next day, or if I'm ill or injured.
Edited by Cybertronian on Sunday 1st May 15:08
My disclaimer is that I'm Event Director for a parkrun, so with a mate we're in charge of our event.
As a guide to frequency of volunteering, think that if 10 volunteers are needed every week, that's 520 slots to fill every year. If 520 different people run during that year and they all volunteer once then the job's done.
But some of those 520 will only run once cos they're visitors or they only run once, not like it and never come back, so maybe half of them run often enough so if they all do twice a year it's all covered.
It's the core team's job to cover Run Director and Volunteer Coordinator, maybe timer at a big event, but really most of the team should be running most weeks with volunteers (ie the runners) filling the rest. We have 15 core team members, 9 Run directors, 6 VolCos who are rostered so RDs don't run 1 week in 9, VCs have done their job by 9 so can run. In general the core team are also runners so don't want to volunteer every week.
If you run nearly every week it would be reasonable to be a non running volunteer 2-3 times a year.
If you're a fast runner (top 20) you can run and then be second or third barcode scanner or you could volunteer when you're injured or have a race the next day so there are ways to do it without missing the chance to run.
Probably 90% of our volunteering comes from 10% of the people, but that's how most things in life are, some people will never volunteer, some will do it lots.
If you do volunteer please do email the team in advance (email will be youreventnamehelpers@parkrun.com, it might be that enough people will turn up at 0830 on Saturday but it lets us relax more if we're not wondering on Friday night if there will be enough people.
As a guide to frequency of volunteering, think that if 10 volunteers are needed every week, that's 520 slots to fill every year. If 520 different people run during that year and they all volunteer once then the job's done.
But some of those 520 will only run once cos they're visitors or they only run once, not like it and never come back, so maybe half of them run often enough so if they all do twice a year it's all covered.
It's the core team's job to cover Run Director and Volunteer Coordinator, maybe timer at a big event, but really most of the team should be running most weeks with volunteers (ie the runners) filling the rest. We have 15 core team members, 9 Run directors, 6 VolCos who are rostered so RDs don't run 1 week in 9, VCs have done their job by 9 so can run. In general the core team are also runners so don't want to volunteer every week.
If you run nearly every week it would be reasonable to be a non running volunteer 2-3 times a year.
If you're a fast runner (top 20) you can run and then be second or third barcode scanner or you could volunteer when you're injured or have a race the next day so there are ways to do it without missing the chance to run.
Probably 90% of our volunteering comes from 10% of the people, but that's how most things in life are, some people will never volunteer, some will do it lots.
If you do volunteer please do email the team in advance (email will be youreventnamehelpers@parkrun.com, it might be that enough people will turn up at 0830 on Saturday but it lets us relax more if we're not wondering on Friday night if there will be enough people.
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