To think the National Trust should not let Park Run volunteers marshal the cars at a NT property

Yanbu about being held up for seemingly no reason. The volunteers could have let cars through even just warning them to go slow etc. some volunteers can get a bit power hungry (I say this as a Parkrun volunteer who doesn’t, I promise)

yabu calling the vests pink though, they are clearly raspberry 😉

Absolute tyranny of the majority thinking: "We reserve the right to take over the park for two hours a week and prevent your quiet enjoyment of it."

I understand it was annoying but now you know when the park run is you can just avoid that time period.

My local park run uses most of the same route I use for my morning dog walk, I make sure I'm out of the way by the time the runners are starting to gather. It's an hour, maximum, once a week so it doesn't feel like a massive sacrifice.

Park run is 1-2 hours once a week leaving 6 days and 22 hours for other users of the park. There are people who do take things very seriously but most people are just trying to get round in a good time and enjoying the experience.
I would like to echo the thoughts of another poster who said that park run had helped her mental health. PR has helped me in the same way and aided my recovery from serious health concerns.
You will always find rude and entitled people doing any activities . Cyclist who ride 6 abreast blocking paths and roads, dog walkers who don't control off lead dogs or people who let dogs amble about on long leads tripping people up. I could go on .
If we're all a bit more considerate of others we could get on quite nicely. I do think the NT could be doing a better job of advertising when park run is on and directing people to parking places.
I will now go and tend my sore limbs after my stunning 35 mins 5 k yesterday!

I agree.

When I went for one of the covid jabs I got told off for pausing to put my notebook (containing a code number that they needed) in my bag, as I had stopped too far from the temperature measurement machine.

There was no queue behind me, and in fact the entire place was deserted apart from over zealous, self important volunteers with clipboards and far too much power.

I think a tiny bit of power does go to people's heads sometimes. It was amusing seeing the eagerness with which the volunteer marshals were ordering people around in a pop-up covid vaccine car park once. Most of them were totally unneeded as it was bloody obvious how you should park and which way the clinic was. But give someone a yellow vest and they suddenly turn into a seargent major.

Being a volunteer is not an excuse to act the cunt.

Absolutely this.

Parkrun like to talk about themselves as friendly communities and then take over public parks with their self-appointed park police, roping off public walkways and crowding out regular park users.

I'm sorry you've had bad experiences OP but they don't mirror mine at any of the 5 Parkruns I've attended (although the London runners were noticeably less vocal in thanking the volunteers than others are).

At one time in my life Parkrun basically kept my mental health on the right side of the cliff edge it was balanced on.

Different runs have different rules. Ours is part tarmac around a public sports facility and part compressed gravel track. Parkrun has official priority over the tarmac part from 9-10 Saturday mornings, just like the accessible cycling group have priority from 10-11 and the speed cyclists have it for time trials on Thursday nights. It's public space but there's give and take for different activities.

Parkwalk exists alongside Parkrun @MsRosley. Everyone is welcome

ParkRun people sound really annoying, like those entitled cyclists you get everywhere, or men who dominate the swimming lanes. What's wrong with ParkStroll or ParkLoafing? *

*Not being entirely serious. ParkRun peeps keep your knickers on.

No, the OP's was. That paragraph in bold was from the end of her first post.

Your dog was trampled on @VeronicaSawyer89 ? Really? Park run is ridiculously dog friendly.

I live 40m from the start finish of a parkrun, I’ve run quite a few myself, and dogs are 100% welcome.

Ain't this the truth. My local town had an event and the volunteer Marshalls would let anyone local pass unless they had the password!! There wasn't a fucking password, just let us through to our homes ya melts!

Yabu an x point turn us always an odd number or you can never drive away and there is so much bluster in this I expect a lot of licence has been used in your description. Parkrun is brilliant, turn up earlier next well in your trainers, you can bring your dog to most parkruns too.

Thank you @ChicoryDip, I envisaged it as 1 lap course but 2 makes more sense.

You've lost me now OP, I assumed you were stopped by the bike symbol, trying to get to the car park in the field on the right, having just passed the car park others have mentioned.

As for giving way to other users, AFAIK that applies to walkers etc, not motorists (given so few Parkruns share space with motorists).

Anyway, whatever, you've grumbled to NT and Parkrun and you've dragged your wasted 10 minutes into over 12 hours of being annoyed about it, so it's probably time to move on now?

I may be slightly anti park run after my (on lead, walking to heel) dog was trampled on and tripped over by several park runners on the inaugural run of my local new park run on a narrow public bridleway and they shouted at me for been there with a dog (even though I’d stepped into the mud at the side).

Read that back again.

I’ve just found the route map on the park run website. Where they were was actually after the finish line! They were walking back to the car park! Which explains why they were slow jogging/walking, I thought they must be the really slow ones at the back! So to be honest that makes me crosser. Why does all the traffic get stopped for them to walk back to the car park!

It's a two lap course so likely at 9:25am they were on their way round for the second lap. It does sound like a timing issue, a lot of the faster runners would have finished by then and by 9:35am even the slower walkers should have been past the car park.

Whilst it's really frustrating to have to wait please don't be cross at the volunteers as without them parkrun just wouldn't happen. Because they volunteer (rather than being permanent NT staff) they are probably more cautious about letting cars through as they won't want to risk causing an accident.

They are volunteers, giving their time up to facilitate an event which is always free and allows millions of people to get and stay fit in a supportive and welcoming atmosphere. I think moaning about a ten minute wait for that is well, churlish. So I’ll say again, get a grip.

There are miles and miles of off road tracks and paths they could use.

In response to this, yes in an ideal world, and most Parkruns do avoid roads like the plague.

That said, the inclusive aspect means that routes are (as much as is feasible) plotted to include people who might be less steady on their feet, visually impaired runners with guides and those with kids and running pushchairs. It's not possible at all Parkruns, but where it is, then veering away from that would reduce the amount of people who can take part.