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LouiseRuns 🌹🇬🇧 🇪🇺 5 Jul 5:28pm, 5 Jul 2025 757 posts	Quote Pin LouiseRuns 🌹🇬🇧 🇪🇺 I wasn't actually testing to see if our volunteer would call me back when I walked off with my token after I'd scanned. But he didn't. (I did give it back, though).
Meep Meep 5 Jul 5:58pm, 5 Jul 2025 246 posts	Quote Pin Meep Meep Cerrertonia wrote:We had someone this morning attempt to run through the finishing funnel, as "his watch said he hadn't done 5k yet" and as there were a bunch of people in the way waiting to take tokens, bursting through the side of the funnel. I had similar once. Guy in 1st place went tearing along adjacent to the funnel shouting "it's short!", then came back maybe 30-60 seconds later and approached the tokens person from the rear end asking for token 1, which had now been handed out since 3-4 others had finished. He emailed in afterwards. I told him the course had been measured, we need people to go through the funnel for the system to work, and gave him the option of accepting his #5 token or having the result deleted. He left it there.
LouiseRuns 🌹🇬🇧 🇪🇺 5 Jul 6:48pm, 5 Jul 2025 759 posts	Quote Pin LouiseRuns 🌹🇬🇧 🇪🇺 We've had various people emailing in to say our course is short, and including screen shots of their Strava. I just email back with a screen shot of mine, which shows we're actually slightly long. Most people who complain about the course length don't seem to realise their watch isn't actually in constant contact with the satellite, or that connection sometimes fails in the wooded area.
LipGloss 5 Jul 7:07pm, 5 Jul 2025 81,746 posts	Quote Pin LipGloss I know it probably means a lot to some people but at the end of the day it’s a free 5k run. I get people use it for club standards or whatever. I’m so glad I’m not bothered.
Fenners-Reborn 5 Jul 7:08pm, 5 Jul 2025 2,131 posts	Quote Pin Fenners-Reborn Most odd that people believe a GPS watch against a person with a measuring wheel.
LipGloss 5 Jul 7:09pm, 5 Jul 2025 81,748 posts	Quote Pin LipGloss Some believe everything they read on FB too 😂😂😂
Dvorak 5 Jul 7:12pm, 5 Jul 2025 28,937 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak My parkrun was 4.91 km on the watch today. Two laps, plenty of trees. I took splits at lap starts and halfway-ish. Split 1/3 1.12/ 1.15 km Split 2/4 1.12/ 1.06 km (and start/finish bits) The distance on any day is unknown until the end: usually under, sometimes over.
Ally-C 5 Jul 7:28pm, 5 Jul 2025 27,823 posts	Quote Pin Ally-C Fenners-Reborn wrote:Most odd that people believe a GPS watch against a person with a measuring wheel. Defies belief.
Fenners-Reborn 5 Jul 7:36pm, 5 Jul 2025 2,132 posts	Quote Pin Fenners-Reborn The 'old' Cambridge (Milton) parkrun always used to under record due to : a) Trees. b) The GPS would cut corners (maybe) due to a) Trees. The RD back in the day measured the course multiple times, and it was definitely 5km.
Jen HB 5 Jul 7:41pm, 5 Jul 2025 4,042 posts	Quote Pin Jen HB Some people will always assume technology is infallible...