RailUK challenge and pre-parkrun

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I think I will come.

Also, can I team up with some of you, because I can't get at those attachments for forward planning? I still haven't got up to that posts count, mainly because there's nothing I feel particularly qualified/have no interesting questions/stories to post about.
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tractakid wrote:
It's quite probable that the parkrun site will remove documentation of inaugurals in the future.
What makes you say that?
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Going Underground wrote:
tractakid wrote:
It's quite probable that the parkrun site will remove documentation of inaugurals in the future.
What makes you say that?
parkrun want to discourage inaugural tourism as it creates an abnormally large event for volunteers to cope with for their first ever go at organising the event!
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tractakid wrote:
Going Underground wrote:
tractakid wrote:
It's quite probable that the parkrun site will remove documentation of inaugurals in the future.
What makes you say that?
parkrun want to discourage inaugural tourism as it creates an abnormally large event for volunteers to cope with for their first ever go at organising the event!
Seems a shame as some people have spent years making an effort to get along to inaugural runs and have this recognised....

The 4 inaugurals I have attended this year have all had less than 300 - 200 people which is no problem really....
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Going Underground wrote: Seems a shame as some people have spent years making an effort to get along to inaugural runs and have this recognised....

The 4 inaugurals I have attended this year have all had less than 300 - 200 people which is no problem really....
It's a far greater number than they will have in the following weeks. Early parkruns all started small, this is a relatively recent phenomenon, which will only get worse as parkrun's popularity increases. I can completely understand why parkrun now don't advertise inaugurals.
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tractakid wrote: I can completely understand why parkrun now don't advertise inaugurals.
At least with social media we can find out easily enough :P Still doing the Tring inaugural? :wink:
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Yes indeed.
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