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How many races have you done (according to Fetch)?

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Phil70 Nov 2012 7:28am, 10 Nov 2012 35 posts	Quote Pin Phil70 I'll sit on the fence regarding Parkruns, but they certainly should not be included in Fetch Club Championship itinery; e.g. FERC.
HermanBloom Nov 2012 8:07am, 10 Nov 2012 2,338 posts	Quote Pin HermanBloom I can't edit the thread header, but to stop this descending into another are they aren't they races discussion: "How many races have you done (according to Fetch, in the page in your profile where it shows what races you have logged)?
swittle Nov 2012 9:06am, 10 Nov 2012 20,595 posts	Quote Pin swittle Surely such debate is healthy, HB? If you feel the thread is going off track, that is always a possible consequence of behaviour in a public forum.
mblnFERCr Nov 2012 9:10am, 10 Nov 2012 275 posts	Quote Pin mblnFERCr 99. ParkRuns are races - just 'free' ones.
FitterStu Nov 2012 9:38am, 10 Nov 2012 9,008 posts	Quote Pin FitterStu 400 metres 1 1 miles 6 5 km 15 6 km 2 8 km 1 5 miles 1 10 km 26 10 miles 3 11 miles 1 13.1 miles 6 26.2 km 1 26.2 miles 2 Most of the 5Ks are parkruns.
longwayround Nov 2012 11:22am, 10 Nov 2012 130 posts	Quote Pin longwayround Phil, why shouldn't they count for championships? Are they somehow easier than other 5k runs?
sarabop Nov 2012 11:36am, 10 Nov 2012 841 posts	Quote Pin sarabop I've done 14 park runs, very definitely a race for me and also a huge part of my personal progress.
rf_fozzy Nov 2012 11:37am, 10 Nov 2012 3,845 posts	Quote Pin rf_fozzy It depends on how your club championships work. I can see a case for not including them. Not all Parkruns are officially measured. However, many are very close now. This is one problem. One other is that if, like our club championships, you calculate the score as % of the winners time, Parkruns have a better chance of providing a statistically anomalous result, since they are often won in slower times than 'official' races.
mxhornet Nov 2012 11:53am, 10 Nov 2012 32,124 posts	Quote Pin mxhornet Rather clog the thread up with the various distances I've raced over since 1974. According to Fetch I've done a total of 292 races. As I'm too lazy to log absolutely everything I've done over the past 38 years there are 868 races not listed on Fetch. Therefore my real total is 1160. PS 96 parkruns in that total.
Phil70 Nov 2012 7:45pm, 10 Nov 2012 36 posts	Quote Pin Phil70 Well done, mxhornet - what a veteran! I agree that if Parkruns are listed in Fetch as a race, they have to be counted. The question posed being, 'How many races have you done (according to Fetch)?' My personal opinion is that I don't think they are races in the sense of the word. Then again, how many training runs do you accurately measure to be 5 miles, 10km, 13.1 miles, etc.? You could argue that these are unofficial (Park)runs.