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Aug 2017
11:03am, 23 Aug 2017
17,203 posts
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Steady Edina
Blindcider I have sometimes wondered about parkruns becoming a victim of their own success
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Aug 2017
11:17am, 23 Aug 2017
14,099 posts
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Dvorak
The nations parks have become no-go areas for many every Saturday morning as hundreds of thousands of exercise fans descend on them. They are there to participate in something called "Parkrun"; described as a "free, timed 5K walk, jog or run".
"It's people from all over the place, and the people from round here can't get into the parks for hours" said a disgruntled dogwalker, who did not wish to be named. "They just take the place over, and you can't get parked and the surrounded streets get clogged up as well. I don't mind people taking exercise, but this has gone too far."
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Aug 2017
12:22pm, 23 Aug 2017
5,679 posts
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Markymarkmark
Dvorak, was that from the Sun (spit) or the Dail Mail (double spit)?
Sounds like their normal exaggerated (hundreds of thousands of parkrunners?) anecdotal style of reporting! (And dodgy grammar (possessive apostrophe, anyone?), off brand - upper case "p"? ;-))
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Aug 2017
12:26pm, 23 Aug 2017
14,104 posts
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Dvorak
All my own work. I'm projecting. Deliberate "P" 
D'ye think I could get a job with them ?
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Aug 2017
1:02pm, 23 Aug 2017
17,204 posts
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Steady Edina
Heaton Park regularly get 600 runners
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Aug 2017
1:15pm, 23 Aug 2017
14,105 posts
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Dvorak
I made a point some dozens of pages back that, whilst there are quite a lot of parkrunners in the UK (the proverbial "enough to fill Wembley Stadium" every week (c 110 000 last week)), it is still quite a small proportion of the active population. If it even increased to one per cent of that (and given how many people there are who have done only one or two parkruns, it would just need a some of them to come back), well, kaboom!
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Aug 2017
1:46pm, 23 Aug 2017
17 posts
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option_Richard
The main issues with the milestone t-shirts;
constant, always extending, delays. Nearly every batch from Tribesports has been delayed.
lack of communication from parkrun HQ/Tribesports. They only issue updates when people chase them for them, & even miss their own update dates.
What they need to do;
issue weekly updates, even if it's just to say "We're still working on it"
remove mentions of milestone t-shirts from the various websites, & don't post about them on social media
for all those that achieved a milestone pre-2017, get their gender & sizing info. If they are not going to be supplied from the current batch, order a new batch now with their sizes.
do the same for all those that achieved a volunteer 25 or junior 10 up till end of August 2017
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Aug 2017
2:02pm, 23 Aug 2017
11,686 posts
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Ultracat
Milestone t-shirts lovely to have and a great idea but they are way down on my list of reasons to do Parkrun. I have the 50 old style adidas red one and the tribe sport 100 and I bought an orange parkrun vest with local parkrun on. I tend to wear my orange vest if I can find it under all the other race t-shirts
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Aug 2017
2:12pm, 23 Aug 2017
2,592 posts
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larkim
Interesting aside - beyond the parkrun branded stuff, has anyone been inspired to buy Tribesports kit from their sponsoring of parkrun? I haven't, but my parkrun 50 shirt is by far my favourite t-shirt material and cut (though I am religious about only wearing it for parkrun) so I suppose I really should. But then I don't need to buy t-shirts as I get them from running events anyway, and only really need shorts which I don't get through that quickly.
I wonder if their strategy of partnering with parkrun has actually paid dividends to them?
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Aug 2017
2:18pm, 23 Aug 2017
18 posts
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option_Richard
One issue with parkrun now being so big, is that even new/infill parkruns start big. It's quite normal for new parkruns to be having over 100 runners every week. That's a lot to put on a new team, & it takes a while for new runners to move into volunteering.
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