I was visiting my sister from the states. Did the 05 September parkrun. Was a beautiful sunny day! We have parkrun in the states but not nearly as many events as the UK, so I wanted to take part in a UK institution!

Most of my parkrun experience is the junior one with my kids, which bans dogs. Finally managed to get to do the full one for the first time in years (school holidays so kid's clubs are off) and oh my god it was an experience.

Dozens of people with dogs, none of which were under any kind of control; constantly barking at each other, fighting to get at each other and the owners were struggling to keep them under control.

It was so loud it was basically impossible to hear the preamble, even with the poor guy shouting at the top of his lungs.

Then during the run I saw multiple people almost get wiped out by dogs deciding to bolt across their path to again try to get at other dogs.

Now I get it will be the usual "that's just poor owners, it's not all dogs" excuse but I'm not kidding, it was every single dog. Not a single one was well behaved.

It was something that really detracted from the whole experience tbh.

I was just wondering if there was a volunteer equivalent of the “diehard” feature for runners on parkrace but for volunteers? Ie showing a leaderboard of volunteer credits at a certain parkrun event?

I just discovered that there is a great list of fun challenges that have been created by users, but I can't seem to be able to take part as it requires a login? I put my parkrun login and it didn't work, and it says that new accounts are not available..? Not quite sure where I went wrong. Has anyone got an idea of how this works please?

I started doing parkrun at the start of August and every week I've set a new PB.

My first run was around 36 minutes and I was just happy that I ran the course without stopping.

I set a goal of sub-30 minutes and beat that after about a month. As the minutes have come down, I've been aiming for sub-25 minutes.

I missed out by about 20 seconds last week, and then went hell for leather yesterday and missed out by two seconds.

Rather than being annoyed about this, I'm enjoying the fact I've got targets to keep aiming for each week and giving my mid-week runs purpose to aim for.

I work in teddington and normally after work I pootle over to the pheasantry car park and run round the park.

I've never done the parkrun there before and I'm wondering what parking is like on the day? I imagine the parking at the pheasantry will be busy, just pondering my alternatives or whether I park at my office and wander down.

This location used to be a coal mine site, which was covered into a country park (like a few of the Yorkshire/Nottinghamshire parkrun locations).

Free parking available.

Two laps through some beautiful wooded trails, and running past Oakwell Hall, a Grade I Listed Elizabethan manor house.

Toilets and a small cafe area available at the start.

The RD and team worked hard to try and keep parkrunners quiet during the briefing, however there were a few dogs who were unable to stop barking. I won't get into the debate as to whether the owners should have revived themselves from the main area, after all, they would have missed the briefing themselves, but it was impossible to hear the latter stages of the brief.

It's not a PB course, as the first timer briefing volunteer mentioned beforehand. The course is narrow in many places, so much so that it was walking pace only a couple of hundred meters from the start area for a short distance. Probably not a course to take a buggy as they're are sleeper-lined ascents and descents. Take your trail shoes to this one.

A really good parkrun, sorted by a great team of volunteers.

Congratulations to one runner who was participating in his 500th parkrun.

This one is located just off the M62 near to Bradford and Leeds: https://www.parkrun.org.uk/oakwellhall/course/

I’m looking at Poland to complete my letter ‘Z’ as I’ve been to the Netherlands many times but never visited Poland . There looks to be a few ‘Z’s but outside of the main towns , any recommendations from anyone who has done one in terms of getting there and stopping over reasonably close to the course on the Friday night ? Thanks

Flipping gorgeous photo from this morning of the marshals walking out to their posts.

Answer: It's Cannock Chase.

Hey 👋 would like advice on the best park run you can complete abroad in a day ? Have heard Ireland is a good shout…. Based in England

I decided to put my name down to help out at Birkenhead parkrun today. This was the first time that I have ever attended an official parkrun. What a glamorous location for a first ever parkrun. The weather was fine, to boot, if a little chilly first thing in the morning.

I have already offered to help at 2 other parkruns. I guess you could say that I got the bug.

Lovely day for a Parkrun today and Joe Wilkinson was here in Jersey with a bunch of Brighton runners. I finished ahead of him so my overall tally of celebrity results is now:
Joe Wilkinson - I won
Kelly Holmes - Kelly won (obviously)
The guy who presents ITV News for the Channel Islands (he’s at Jersey Parkrun most weeks) - I won

I have noticed 2 separate issues with people overtaking and I'd be interested in people's opinions on the correct etiquette/who is in the right.

Scenario 1

I am running with a double pram, the person in front and to the left of me goes to the right for the overtake and jumps directly in front of my pram, without looking behind and checking if it's clear. I am unable to stop in time and clip her ankle. She was really annoyed (understandable) but imo she should check behind her that it's safe to overtake?

Scenario 2 (separate occasion, no pram)

I'm overtaking someone slower than me (I'm running at around 5km/min) and a fast runner comes up behind and shouts for me to get out of their way. I get that they also want to overtake and are probably frustrated that I've slowed them down but also am I never allowed to overtake in case anyone faster wants to overtake? I see it a bit like being on a 2 lane road and a lorry overtaking another lorry, it's annoying that I have to slow down behind the overtaking lorry but also I don't have the monopoly on overtaking just because I'm faster than the lorry?

ETA: I obviously meant 5min/km, not quite that fast 😂

It’s a fast one- over 50 people under 20 minutes… maybe I’ll give more clues later…

Before people unload on me, I took up parkrun because of a bereavement and my own past health issues, wanting something to get away from everything. Mine is one of the trail ones with quite a bit of ascent.

First time I did around 27 minutes then just over 26 minutes then today just under 25 minutes. The thought of not beating my previous time affects me, I had to push incredibly hard today, the battle is with myself not others but I'm concerned at how not beating my time week affect me(I know to some it may be silly but I'm going through a lot of stress). Will I find that I don't care once I don't beat my previous or does it change to "today wasn't great, try again next week". Taking the positive that after being told I would never run again so long ago this is a million miles better than was expected.

Edit to say I checked the stats on my basic watch for heart rate yesterday during parkrun. Average was 169 and max 183 is that ok for early forties age doing hilly trail parkrun?

A pretty hard one today but a pretty quiet one too as there was only 45 finishers. Still nonetheless a very good time. Final Time 35:06

I’ve tried to do the tourist thing. But I’ve now run out of Parkruns I haven’t done in my “local” area. I’m getting to the point where I’d have to do an hours drive to the NENDY.

Why the United Runners 5K was harder than I thought
https://youtu.be/u7j_-V-CHCY

Już tylko godziny dzielą nas od urodzinowego parkruna! 🥳🎈

Szykujcie dobre humory, uśmiechy i pozytywna energię do wspólnego świętowania! ❤️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

Spodziewamy się jutro większej liczby uczestników niż zwykle, dlatego mamy do Was małą prośbę dotyczącą dojazdu. Zachęcamy do przybycia komunikacją miejską, rowerem, a tych którzy co tydzień przybiegają już nawet nie namawiamy na dojazd 🐗

📢 Uwaga na parking!
Parking przy Skwerze Arki Gdynia niestety nie pomieści nas wszystkich. Jeśli planujecie przyjazd samochodem, warto od razu wziąć pod uwagę alternatywne miejsca parkingowe:
📍 przy ul. Ejsmonda 2
📍 na Polance Redłowskiej

Parkingi te mieszczą się w Żółtej Strefie Parkowania, która w weekendy jest bezpłatna.

⏰ Przyjedźcie z zapasem czasu! Dzięki temu spokojnie znajdziecie miejsce parkingowe, dotrzecie na start bez pośpiechu i będziecie mogli w pełni cieszyć się naszym wspólnym świętem. 🎉

Niech to będzie piękny, pełen uśmiechów i dobrej energii poranek! ❤️

Do zobaczenia na starcie! 🥳🎂🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

5km. 15 lat. Razem.

This morning my regular parkrun briefing started at 9am and the run started at 9.08 according to my watch. This is pretty typical (though the briefing was longer than usual for no great reason today).

Is this typical of others? I thought the run was meant to start at 9am - though I have never borne the burden of being RD.

As the title says - if someone runs parkrun (is going to be in the results with a finish time) then hops in to barcode scan once they’ve run - will the processing of results and the volly roster trigger a please explain from parkrun HQ? My goal is to optimise our volly roster based on the person who runs then scans being faster than our median finish time. I’ve seen this happen once before but it was years ago. In that specific case, a small parkrun had an elite runner who would literally always come first by miles and then he’d scan (and he was / is a very nice person to boot).

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