My Parkrun time is wrong- wwyd?

[Knitjob]

So I ran this morning and timed myself with my garmin as usual, I like using the pacing function to keep me running. I crossed the line immediately in front of my friend.

Anyway, the times have come in and Parkrun have given me a time 35 seconds faster than I think I ran, and 20 seconds faster than my friend.

So something has clearly gone wrong, hasn't it?

My Parkrun time actually takes 4 seconds off my longstanding pb.

So that gives me a moral dilemma. I don't care at all about times, that's not why I run. So ordinarily I wouldn't do anything. But I don't feel right claiming a fake pb. It will always bug me until I beat it.

If there are any parkrun officials out there, would it cause you a massive headache if I reported my time was wrong? I don't want some poor person to be spending their time trawling through lots of results trying to figure out how this happened and fix it just for the sake of a few seconds, when I'm not exactly top of the leaderboard anyway.

I would usually just assume I'd done something wrong with my watch, but it's odd that I got a time 20 seconds faster than my friend who finished on my heels.

Was it a big/busy event? I haven't done timekeeping or run director volunteering but I've been involved with finish tokens and barcode scanning, and there are a few areas where things can go astray with the time issuing - like "funnel duckers" that don't get picked up, meaning you're effectively given someone else's time. I'd say it's worth dropping the organisers an email as even if they can't necessarily fix your time it's good for them to be made aware there was an issue to try to rectify it/prevent in future.