Parkrunners Assemble - the new thread that will remind you to "do not forget barcode" and that "you can walk, jog, run or volunteers"

I was lucky and didn’t get rained on! Not a PB but a good run. For the first time I ran some of it with someone I know who has similar pace and the chat was a great distraction. It flew by!

Soaked to the skin and nowhere near a PB. Oh well home to the kids ...

I'm sat in the car park, staying dry as long as possible.

Happy parkrun day everyone. Tipping down here so just me from our house this morning. Everyone I know got a pb last week - so wondering if I try my very hardest ...

And Brighton thanks for the tip to look at results of each location!

Does anyone go to the Lincoln parkrun? I think that'll be the one I choose when I eventually build up the courage to go

I got round on Saturday without too much discomfort - walking 1 min and running 4 mins. A long long way off my PB but I'm running again and I'm happy with that

Have a look at the Results page for each. Scroll to the end and you'll probably find a lot of walking times. There is even a FB group 'Walking at Parkrun' so don't feel that you need to be able to run the whole way in order to join in. Parkrun is very supportive and encouraging. You'll love it :)

I'd go for the big one. There may be some good reason for the small one to be less attractive. And there will be more newbies at the big ones.

Thank you so much for your replies! I want to be sure I can actually do 5k before I go to a parkrun, so will wait a few more weeks, but it's good to know I won't get lost . There's 3 parkruns near me, two are fairly big, averaging around 300 runners per week, and one is tiny (36 runners per week). Any insights on which might be better for a first timer?

Yes Mouse - as JustGettingStarted says there's a volunteer who will be last, they're called the Tail Runner or Tail Walker and they will make sure they finish behind you! At my local there are usually a couple of people who walk the full course, so you could go along at a mixed running-walking phase of C25K and you'd still comfortably not be in the last handful of finishers. Good luck with your future parkrun adventures!

You will NOT be last. For one thing, there will likely be others who are slower. For another, there's a volunteer who will be last. That's their job.

At the park run I go to, there's a sign and a volunteer at every turn/fork. Oldham has a course of three laps with the last lap taking a different turn at the fork. A volunteer stands there. I asked "I pass you twice on the right then once on the left, right?" and he affirmed that I was correct.

Hello, Parkrunners! I have just registered on the parkrun website and, even though I'm still a couple of months away from actually attending one (I'm at the beginning of week 2 of c25k), I'm already worrying about what happens if I'm the slowest one there! If everyone else is roughly 5 minutes ahead of me, will I know which way to go? Is the course sign posted? I can just see myself running off in a random direction and never finding the finish line!

Hi; newbie to this thread. I ran my fifth park run yesterday and broke my personal best of 31:56 to get 31:53. I have lots of fun and have never run before, so enjoy it. It is starting to get colder, and will become more challenging but I'm looking forward to it.

I run in country Australia and would really love to do park run in another country.

It makes perfect sense - thank you!

Ethel
The 25 volunteer milestone is for volunteering on 25 separate occasions. Doesn’t matter which parkruns, helping at juniors also counts.
But if you do two ‘jobs’ on the same day for example Marshal then sort the finish tokens after. It will recognise both jobs but it only counts as one tick on the volunteer numbers towards your milestones. So it’s for each volunteer rather than how many jobs on the day.
I hope that makes some sort of sense!?

I touristed over to Cardiff for the first time, it's the first parkrun I'd done where there isn't a significant uphill section so it was pleasant but a little bizarre waiting to hit a painful incline that never came!

Could I ask a question of any Run Directors (or anyone who works for Parkrun)?

When it comes to getting the Volunteering T-shirt, does the 25 refer to number of events at which you volunteered, or the number of volunteering roles you have done?

I ask because I'm getting near, but the two number are different (because I have sometimes doubled set-up and close-down and/or token sorting, so my number of roles is higher than the number of events) and I was wondering which will be the 'right' one to celebrate!

Well done justgettingstarted - nice job.

I don’t run with an app just some music and trying to catch the people in front of me - but - as I am not really much of a runner DH suggested the Nike run app to see if that helps budge my times a bit

I ran 61 seconds faster than last week! So, I'm happy.

Does anyone else run an app like Runkeeper so you can get updates on your pace and distance?

How did you get on cat? PBs for both of my children and two of my friends - not for me :( hey ho!

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I've had 4 months away from parkrun with injury, but tomorrow I'm making a comeback. Can't believe my first parkrun of 2018 is almost April

Hurray for number 2 justgettingstarted

I am!

Who is running tomorrow?