Pudsey Pacers

''I trust, being tS that you are, that you have checked there is not a trail of washing powder from your utility room back to the supermarket''.

Utility room? Oh yeh, that's next to that pantry and just below the billiard room...What kind of palatial middle class terrace do you live in?!

And the only trail of white powder weaving out of my flat is, erm, anyway, back to bit of graft before the weekend...

NtS

My winge is about regular Parkrunners who NEVER marshall.

The only way Parkrun can function is with everyone doing their bit for a minimum of 3 times per year. I enjoy the marshalling as much as running, maybe more. It seems to be the same small pool of people every week who volunteer.

Even at Bradford parkrun with 300+ runners, Linda has had to request names for the last three weeks. Resulting in the same same small pool of people putting their hand up. There are some very selfish Parkrunners out there.

Parkrun now has spun off these clique groups who have to have the most runs, most different runs, etc etc It's almost become the equivillant of running trainspotting. The problem with this is these are the very people who either don't marshall or who do the very minimum to ensure they can hit some Parkrun target somewhere later in the year.

In my view Parkrun should include the number for volunteering on the results in a column before the run totals for each runner. Hiding it away on the points table just doesn't do it justice. Without the volunteers the runs couldn't happen. At least this way those 50 / 100 / 250 runners would have to look at the number and reflect on how little they had given back to the event they "love" and invest so much time in.

*turns off winge mode*

my whinge is that you put all the hard work in to finish a marathon then after two weeks they tell you that it was short by 264 meters then they offer me a 25% discount on next years entries.......errrmmmm no thank you.

All the hard work done for nothing

That just plain sucks mate. You can just about accept it at a 10k (Bradford last year) but a marathon? No chance. Oh and at VLM2013 I ran 26.8miles.

Andrew,

Glad I have volunteered for the 8th June at the pacers Bradford parkrun as I am one of the regular park runners who does not volunteer.

Andrew

I know so much good, so why flag up the bad...

1) Millennium Sq - bustling chaos... vibrant or mismanaged in space available?
2) Bag storage - disorganised chaos... category numbers need to be displayed 20ft high (above crowds) and items were then THROWN into bundles for sorting
3) Start... why not have a warm-up session while runners wait for 30 minutes getting cold after, erm, the official warm-up
4) Relays - corporate chaos... improved signage/ vocal marshals needed on course to alert runners of change-overs ie relay runners to the left/ others right?
5) Virgin Active - Captain Chaos... why attempt to hand out goodie bags at 12 mile stage? Annoys runners and does not reflect well on those (in the health business) who should know better?

Any others?

NtS