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LindsD

18 Feb

4:49pm, 18 Feb 2026

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LindsD

I can totally understand it though

BaronessBL

18 Feb

7:29pm, 18 Feb 2026

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BaronessBL

I saw the post too and thought that the email probably wasn't 'polite feedback' in that case. Very sad that it has come to that though. I sometimes wish that the auto responses the parkrun email system offers when replying includes one that says 'look if you don't like how we do it why not just turn up at 11am and run a 5k round the park instead' .....or even less polite answers.

Last time I did the run briefing as RD I had to announce in the milestones bit that one of our core team was doing her 250th volunteer. I announced that the briefing had some extremely important information in it that every person needed to hear I needed everyone to shut up and listen so nobody missed it. Amazingly they all did and I then said that the most important thing they needed to hear was that B was doing her 250th volunteer and if wasn't for her a lot of the time we probably wouldn't have a parkrun for them to attend. I can be extremely bossy when I need to be. But everyone did listen to the briefing!

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