parkrun thread

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6:48pm, 23 Sep 2017
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LazyDaisy
I'm an RD, and it's never even occurred to me (or my fellow RDs here) to mention the sponsors. I've only done about half a dozen others but never heard the sponsors mentioned.

You could be a bit caught out if you routinely miss the briefing here - we will be changing from the summer course to the winter one soon, and we've also changed the course quite radically in the last couple of months. It's also polite to show your appreciation of the volunteers, IMO.
Sep 2017
6:54pm, 23 Sep 2017
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mrs shanksi
We always do a big cheer for the volunteers and name them every week.
Sep 2017
6:56pm, 23 Sep 2017
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LazyDaisy
It would take too long to name all of ours but asking for a big cheer for them is pretty much the first sentence of the briefing.
Sep 2017
7:00pm, 23 Sep 2017
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mrs shanksi
We only have 10 and we just say first names ☺️
Sep 2017
7:04pm, 23 Sep 2017
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LazyDaisy
We had 41 today :-0 (even I am amazed at that number) - it includes pacers and people who help with pre-event set-up and event close-down, as well as marshals, funnel managers, scanners, timekeepers etc.
Sep 2017
7:18pm, 23 Sep 2017
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Too Much Water
In fairness the parkrun I run at the most was originally set up by staff members from a former parkrun sponsor which may explain why they tend to mention the sponsors. However I'm sure the most recent parkrun I did as a tourist did as well...
Sep 2017
7:37pm, 23 Sep 2017
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ndellar
Years ago mentioning the sponsors used to be a thing in the run briefing but it isn’t any more.
Sep 2017
8:29pm, 23 Sep 2017
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mole_thing
What ndellar says. When I started in 2009 sponsors got thanked quite often, but haven't heard it done for years.
Sep 2017
9:07pm, 23 Sep 2017
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Steady Edina
The first parkrun I went to was run by Sweatshop staff so they always mentioned Sweatshop and offered discounts if you went in with your barcode.
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9:11pm, 23 Sep 2017
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Metro_Nome
21 different parkruns and never heard sponosors mentioned. Important safety announcements and thanking of the volunteers, pretty much always. Would have been surprised if I didn't bother to attend my local run briefing after 100+ attendances the week they had to run it in reverse for safety reasons

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A discussion of all things parkrun.

Here's a wiki giving brief reviews of parkruns up and down the land:

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