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DavieO Nov 2021 4:12pm, 20 Nov 2021 175 posts	Quote Pin DavieO Any news on the proposed Jubilee Wood Parkrun in Cumbernauld? Not heard anything about it for ages, no idea what the hold up is, meant to be a hard as hell course though. I hope it still goes ahead, I need an assault course Parkrun in my life
Scorge Nov 2021 4:33pm, 20 Nov 2021 950 posts	Quote Pin Scorge on a break in newcastle so bagged my 'j' up at jesmond dene this morning, tricky wee devil of a course, very pretty and autumnal though. thumbs up
LouiseRuns 🌹🇬🇧 🇪🇺 Nov 2021 5:29pm, 20 Nov 2021 386 posts	Quote Pin LouiseRuns 🌹🇬🇧 🇪🇺 Mostly went to plan today, results-wise, only one missing token. Better than last week, when we had a 60+ woman appearing as second female, with a time 8 minutes better than her PB, and I knew for a fact (I was RD at the funnel) who the female 1 & 2 were - not her!
Hunkyteddy Nov 2021 6:34pm, 20 Nov 2021 1,666 posts	Quote Pin Hunkyteddy I really want to do Girvan Prom so I can get top 20
Ally-C Nov 2021 8:35pm, 20 Nov 2021 1,343 posts	Quote Pin Ally-C Plean parkrun 4th Birthday today. 100 finishers, including I think a former localish MP making his parkrun debut at the age of 74. I didn't scan, and have been given a result 8 places and 3 minutes better than I should have had. Have emailed in. Age-graded bests:. Falkirk's is 100.52%. There is also a 99.30 and a 97.31. All very veteran women. Top male is down is sixth, with a mere 86.75%. (No, the course isn't short Top person has broken the 100% at another five courses, with a best of 105.64%) I was at Plean and never noticed ye.
Dvorak Nov 2021 4:00am, 21 Nov 2021 23,757 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak Well, with such a massive field Ally-C ... Actually, I was so far back. I did feel it a bit to look across at the finish and see so many people when I still had a loop to do. Still, I got to pat a nice dog at the end, the one that had been very excitable pre-start. It was much calmer after its run, and snuggled into my legs
Dvorak Nov 2021 4:04am, 21 Nov 2021 23,758 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak Oh, and I had a reply from the RD four minutes (!) after sending my message, saying that the results had been amended.
Craigellachie Nov 2021 4:02pm, 21 Nov 2021 78 posts	Quote Pin Craigellachie No special knowledge of Jubilee Wood but I know that in general new launches are taking longer just now. Just a backlog of work after all the country relaunches post Covid given the very small number of paid staff parkrun has at its disposal. I wouldn’t necessarily rush to the conclusion that a delay means there’s a ‘problem’ as such. Could very well just be the admin is taking longer than it used to because there’s a big queue of potential new events.
BaronessBL Nov 2021 5:48pm, 21 Nov 2021 9,080 posts	Quote Pin BaronessBL Yes I can vouch for the fact that things are taking longer because parkrun HQ has a tremendous amount to deal with. Actual delays in starting and also then delays with things like getting Facebook pages and so on live. As you say they have limited staff and a lot going on at the moment. We had various things to overcome which maybe made the original launch ambitious anyway but one of the ambassadors in our area told me in July he expected the event I subsequently joined the core team for to launch in September but in the end our start date was Nov 6.
Old Croc Nov 2021 11:19am, 22 Nov 2021 33,956 posts	Quote Pin Old Croc looks like news on phone barcodes.......