TaurenDruid wrote: » Yeah, that's the thing. If I do get one of these, it'll be a one-off - likely a Christmas or birthday present. But if they were a more normal price - say €15 or €20 - I'd happily have a couple in my wardrobe. And I'd happily re-buy replacements for my older milestone tees. They'd get more money out of me is the point. I mean, I've got race entry, a technical top, a medal and a goodie bag for half what they're charging, and that money was also going to a good cause.
Annie get your Run wrote: » My biggest problem with the apricot T's is their colour, not a good look on anyone in the northern hemisphere 😳 unless you're lucky enough to have sallow skin - what were they thinking!!! I have bought a water bottle and some barcodes though and a couple of Contra items which also supports parkrun.
robinph wrote: » A new parkrun map that someone has created where you can easily add simple ratings about different courses such as if the are dog friendly, suitable for buggies, pb courses, etc.https://wangy.co.uk/parkstats/buggy
Shedite27 wrote: » They've one Dublin Parkrun marked as buggy friendly - Poolbeg
py wrote: » It's a crowd sourced map. If you think there are more, which I'm sure there are, add it to the map.
robinph wrote: » Yep, and I think the site only went live a day ago so needs time for people to add their ratings for different events. But the more people who add their ratings the better it becomes. There is also the option of putting comments in, although I've not yet on my ratings, as one persons opinion of what is a buggy friendly course, or a pb course, could be totally different from someone else.
robinph wrote: » Can't see South Africa, Europe or the US/ Canada starting up until next year...and that will also then need a relaxation of parkruns "everything back to normal" stance for any of those territories to open. I can't see how any individual parkrun Europe territory can open at a different time to all the others. If Germany restarts because they are clear for example, and they open Ryanair/ Easyjet flights, and there is no quarantine (how would it be enforced anyway?) but parkrun UK doesn't restart... parkrun UK tourists head over and all the bad publicity of UK people travelling and transmitting the virus then gets landed on parkrun as well. parkrun can't risk being the reason that people start travelling around Europe.
TaurenDruid wrote: » You don't think an appeal to people's better natures from parkrun central would work? I know parkrun tourism is a (huge!) thing but generally it'd be tied in to at least a long weekend. Might be an issue for parkruns close to a border or close to an airport, but I'd be hopeful most of us wouldn't be idjits about it.
Pherekydes wrote: » What about a short term rule of Home Parkrun Only?
robinph wrote: » So parkrun is now confirmed to restart in New Zealand on 4th July as expected:https://blog.parkrun.com/nz/2020/06/16/covid-19-coronavirus-update-16-june/ My predictions, without knowing a whole lot about individual other country stats, would be Australia around September and possibly Japan around the same time. Possibly Singapore as well. Can't see South Africa, Europe or the US/ Canada starting up until next year...and that will also then need a relaxation of parkruns "everything back to normal" stance for any of those territories to open. I can't see how any individual parkrun Europe territory can open at a different time to all the others. If Germany restarts because they are clear for example, and they open Ryanair/ Easyjet flights, and there is no quarantine (how would it be enforced anyway?) but parkrun UK doesn't restart... parkrun UK tourists head over and all the bad publicity of UK people travelling and transmitting the virus then gets landed on parkrun as well. parkrun can't risk being the reason that people start travelling around Europe.
Seannew1 wrote: » I still feel optimistic that we may have a return to parkrun events in autumn. That is if cases of the virus continue to be suppressed and social distancing can be done at the start and finish lines.
robinph wrote: » In the absence of any major marathon events to take the heat off parkrun
Kerry Gooner wrote: » Bit of a step up there
robinph wrote: » Think there would just be too many people deprived of parkrun in the UK who wouldn't be able to help themselves if Germany was to restart and there was no signs of a UK restart this year.
Cape Clear wrote: » Seems like a whole load of effort to go to for the sake of a 5k run. Each to their own I guess.
opus wrote: » From listening to the various parkrun podcasts I've gotten the impression that parkrun tourists in the UK are a lot more obsessive than here (could be 100% wrong of course!). One of the presenters of With Me Now seems to spend every Sat crisscrossing the UK for example.
robinph wrote: » ...and Danny Norman isn't even close to being the most crazily obsessive about parkruns and different little unique niches.
robinph wrote: » I can't see how any individual parkrun Europe territory can open at a different time to all the others. If Germany restarts because they are clear for example, and they open Ryanair/ Easyjet flights, and there is no quarantine (how would it be enforced anyway?) but parkrun UK doesn't restart... parkrun UK tourists head over and all the bad publicity of UK people travelling and transmitting the virus then gets landed on parkrun as well. parkrun can't risk being the reason that people start travelling around Europe.
rainbow kirby wrote: » There are some quite scary people out there! :eek: I've done a whole pile of tourism but was really getting to enjoy being at my local ones regularly before lockdown hit.
robinph wrote: » Yep, but there are people who fly half way round the world in order to run at the first parkrun in Japan, or find a friend with a private pilots license to fly them to a parkrun on the other side of the country that is actually around an airfield so they can be the first to fly directly to an event and get their landing fees refunded by the airfield, or have to go extreme distances in order to run an event starting with a particular letter of the alphabet. There is a whole other level of obsession out there, which you are probably best of not knowing about.
Gael23 wrote: Will we be seeing some of the smaller events get going in the next few weeks? The big ones won’t be back for a while bough
