Can you enter Parkrun anonymously?

[supersun23]

They seem to list everyone taking part on their website. TIA

Yes, just make up a name.

You can just turn up and run without registering. You won't get an official time, but you can work it out by looking at the times either side of 'unknown' in the results.

Can ypu do that?

You either don't go through the finish line officially, or don't scan a baroda when you had on your position card.

Of course you can
No one is checking

There's always a few every week at parkruns who haven't registered. No one will force you to register, but by registering you get your official time. It's not important to some people, it is for others

You don’t have to register to do it at all if you don’t want too. It would mean you wouldn’t get a time or a credit towards how many you’ve run.

As suggested above you don’t have to use your actual name, but I would put your actual date of birth and any medical conditions in the registration so you could be identified if anything happened to you during a parkrun.

You can register under any name you want, you'll need to use your own email address in order to get your barcode and results but no one at the event can access that unless you email them directly.

You can run, get a bar code at the end, have it scanned, and then you appear as "unregistered" on the website. You know you approximate time from looking at your watch anyway. If you don't want to appear at all, don't have anything scanned. They won't stop you (can't, it's a park!)

Register under an alias?

As others said, run without a barcode, but collect a barcode for the position at the end to scan.
The time of that position will be logged under "unknown".

There's a parkrunner called "Chicken Burger" at a local run. I'm assiming that's an alias rather than a real name

Just register as Daffy Duck or Betty Boop or Harriet Tubman. No one verifies the name is your identity.

There are lots of parkrunners in prison that use pseudonyms.

LOTS of people use maiden names/middle names/initials.

I would register with a very generic name like Jane Smith so you can take part, get results and then in time change your name if you choose.

I have had a few name changes due to marriage/my job and wanting to remain anonymous.

It's done at HQ not local level so as PP says - nobody checks

@saladandlunxhes
How do prisoners go to Parkrun? Or is this inmates in an open prison?
Sorry to derail the thread, was just confused!

There are closed parkruns held in prisons. They don't appear on the usual maps/ listings.

They've got a good reputation for building community and sense of purpose in prison, then some consistency when people are released and can attend standard community events.

Yes prison parkruns are closed to the public although there are ways you can run one (by being invited). I did one when I was training to be an event director.

just turn up.. run.. and go home! you don't actually have to be registered. the only point to registering is if you want to keep a track of your times and see how you fair on the leader board

You can just do it without registering at all, or you can use an assumed name.

In prisons they just give them alphabetical names I think like Barry Basingstoke.
Not sure what happens if they leave prison and want to continue doing parkrun, maybe they have to start again.

The listing of results is something that is exercising their lawyers from a data protection perspective and may be changed in future.

There are concerns about victims of domestic abuse being found, for example.

Also the email address can be anything, so you could use one in your real name or create a new email address in your assumed name to get your results.

The prisoners can change their names when they're out. (as can any of us)

They agree their 'prison' names with the staff before registering.

They dont check whether anyone is running under their real name or even their real sex. You can make it all up if you want.

But if they just changed their names, their records would show a load of prison parkruns. They might not want that - it's different to one of the ambassadors doing the odd one now and then, you can tell that's what they are doing and that they are not inmates. But if you have 50 parkruns one after the other at a prison parkrun and then the rest are outside, it will be obvious you spent time in one (I guess you could be staff). That's why I thought they'd start a new "account" when they come out.

You're right. They can start a new account but wouldn't have any runs recorded.

It's a choice that they can make. Stay with a made up name and all run credits in a prison, change the name and have their runs in prison or just start from scratch.

If you do it, you can finish and take a token, but not scan it and simply give it back. If you remember what number it was you can look up your result and it will say unknown next to that time.

If you take a finish token you do need to get it scanned, to remain anonymous you don't get your own barcode scanned. Please get your finish token scanned then drop it in the bucket (don't take it home!)