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I ought to give a shoutout to the crew at Evesham parkrun for getting their "winter" route up and running for Christmas Day - given they'd had to cancel the previous saturday due to flooding.
187 runners turned up for a wonderfully bright (if chilly) morning run, and i think a good time was had by all.
Not sure how, but i smashed out a new PB taking almost a minute off my previous best time - so look out for an update to the parkrun age-grading championship wiki page
187 runners turned up for a wonderfully bright (if chilly) morning run, and i think a good time was had by all.
Not sure how, but i smashed out a new PB taking almost a minute off my previous best time - so look out for an update to the parkrun age-grading championship wiki page
5pen said:
Just home from my final parkrun of 2019 (at the rather hilly Kingdom, (Penshurst, Kent)).
I managed 42 runs and 5 volunteering roles this year at 7 different events and nudged my best Age Grading up from 58.81% to 60.05%.
How was everyone else's year?
42 runs to 5 volunteers, that's a good ratio, if everyone did at least three! I did around 31 runs and 6 volunteers.I managed 42 runs and 5 volunteering roles this year at 7 different events and nudged my best Age Grading up from 58.81% to 60.05%.
How was everyone else's year?
I joined my family in supporting my grandad doing a 5k your own way which runs at the last park run of the month (he's in remission for prostate cancer).
He loved it, and I did my own run and joined him for the finish. Took him about an hour but he was chuffed. I was also chuffed as my PB was down under 22min
He loved it, and I did my own run and joined him for the finish. Took him about an hour but he was chuffed. I was also chuffed as my PB was down under 22min
5pen said:
How was everyone else's year?
34 runs at 22 venues in 2 countries for me this year, and I'm not sure how many volunteering days but i seem to have 58 volunteer roles listed for the year 
Also managed to shave 30s of my PB this year, but have slowed down again over winter. A lot less runs than usual due to moving abroad, but the good news is we'll have parkrun Netherlands up and running in the spring!
50 runs at 32 venues - 30 were new this year and across here and two new countries - USA and Norway.. Volunteer count was 4, which I'd like to improve on for 2020. I'm actually a little surprised it was that low. Best time was 25 mins and 1 second, would like to break into the 24min something territory as well.
Mrs DTP is on course to complete all the runs in Scotland next year, but they keep adding new ones! I'm less fussed about being a completionist but the touring is fun.
Mrs DTP is on course to complete all the runs in Scotland next year, but they keep adding new ones! I'm less fussed about being a completionist but the touring is fun.
john2443 said:
KTF said:
I saw your post on Facebook. Looks like you had a good turnout today!
Yes! 2 years ago we had 444, last year 685, this year 867. Surely it can't grow that much next year!We had enough tokens and were prepared for a big number but still a bit stressful!
Meanwhile, Bushy had 2500 which included 300 funnel duckers! We had 1 that we spotted and I grabbed a token and 3 I had to make adjustments for.
KTF said:
volunteer herding...
I may steal that!
5pen said:
Just home from my final parkrun of 2019 (at the rather hilly Kingdom, (Penshurst, Kent)).
I managed 42 runs and 5 volunteering roles this year at 7 different events and nudged my best Age Grading up from 58.81% to 60.05%.
How was everyone else's year?
I managed 46 runs (at 11 different venues) and 10 volunteering roles this year. Granted, all bar one of my volunteering roles were set-up/pack-up type roles that enabled me to do the run as well.I managed 42 runs and 5 volunteering roles this year at 7 different events and nudged my best Age Grading up from 58.81% to 60.05%.
How was everyone else's year?
RizzoTheRat said:
RobM77 said:
Why do they do that? Not happy with their time and want to keep their average up?
Or people without a barcode who don't realise/care that ducking out will mess up the results? If you don't want your average dragged you can scan the chip and not your code and get logged as "unknown".
Oh - 46 years of age and got under 20 for the first time ever today!
Seaford /Peacehaven double today, within 1 sec of the same time on official results which I'm quite satisfied by!
As I've got a cold was going to take it easy but offered to be guide for a VI runner if he didn't get a better offer - he didn't so I pointed him the right direction and he paced (dragged!) me round.
That's another vol role ticked off the list, actually quite good because having to give commentary on whats going on takes your mind off running, I suddenly realised we were at 4k and I was going OK!
My 10th parkrun birthday (tomorrow actually, but this is the closest parkrunday) 320 runs and 277 vol weeks.
Happy new year all.
As I've got a cold was going to take it easy but offered to be guide for a VI runner if he didn't get a better offer - he didn't so I pointed him the right direction and he paced (dragged!) me round.
That's another vol role ticked off the list, actually quite good because having to give commentary on whats going on takes your mind off running, I suddenly realised we were at 4k and I was going OK!
My 10th parkrun birthday (tomorrow actually, but this is the closest parkrunday) 320 runs and 277 vol weeks.
Happy new year all.
Edited by john2443 on Wednesday 1st January 14:57
Tiggsy said:
If you don't want your average dragged you can scan the chip and not your code and get logged as "unknown".
No need to scan anything. Just put the finish token in the pot next to the scanners. Course record at Netley today at 511. The stopwatches stop at 500 so started the app going at 450 then knitted the files together afterwards using google sheets.
43 runs in 2019, 37 at my home run. Only two volunteering stints so must improve on that.
Set a PB on the first run of 2019, all downhill from there! Times have started picking up in the last few weeks though so hopefully might get there again (PB is just sub 25 so it's quite a nice target)
Set a PB on the first run of 2019, all downhill from there! Times have started picking up in the last few weeks though so hopefully might get there again (PB is just sub 25 so it's quite a nice target)
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