robinph wrote: » Do you think they will actually restart with those requirements still in place from the government?
robinph wrote: » parkrun can't control who lines up at their start lines, or who might join in or leave part way round. Can't see them taking responsibility for doing those checks as it would require them to have far more control over who is in the park space than they would want to have.
ger664 wrote: » Honest answer unfortunately no. This is the issue with the park run model in covid19 times. The just rock up and run/partake model wont tick the government requirements for contact tracing etc. In other sports such as gaa matches all attendees and participants are known before hand and only those are allowed to participate or spectate.
Van.Bosch wrote: » Can you imagine them changing it to a sign up the night before with places limited to 500 (if govt allows - phase 4)? Would be a pretty big conceptual shift for park run but maybe necessary to get it back?
Murph_D wrote: No, can't imagine that at all. That would be a different kind of event. Not very parkrun, and anyway the policing of it would be more than many volunteers, myself included, would be prepared to take on.
diceyreilly wrote: That’s not entirely true. Raheny Gaa play games in St Anne’s Park. ( also a parkrun venue) and anybody can rock up and watch them.
Ted_YNWA wrote: » It would be totally unworkable to pre-enter. You would need a load of volunteers to do a check to see if everyone had beforehand. You could potentially end up with some unknowns if you wait until results processing. Then the pre-registering is a moot point. Same with spectators at parkrun, there could be a load of +1's (partners, siblings, kids etc..) that go for a walk while someone takes part.
Van.Bosch wrote: » True - good points, you could have 480 runners, 20 volunteers and one spectator shows up and you’ve breached the 500.
robinph wrote: » It's a long way off being worth making the argument, but there will be a point at which X many people hanging out on a beach or park would make not permitting a fraction of X many people to meet up outside for a run/jog/walk around the park would be silly to not be allowed. Hopefully something happens (or more specifically doesn't happen, unless we're talking about a vaccine) between now and next summer at which point we'd be looking at letting parkruns restart under that argument. Think it still needs football opened up before parkrun will want to stick their head above the parapet for now.
robinph wrote: » Have heard of a couple of races locally doing time trials with 15 seconds or so delay between runners starting. Not sure how many people entered them as so far that's not interested me... I may succumb to the need to race soon but currently think I'd rather hide in the middle of the pack that get over taken by people because I predicted a time the legs couldn't provide.
average_runner wrote: » There was one of these out by Jack Whites last sat. Also a bike time trial. Just saw it when doing my normal run. Wonder is it a regular thing?
Duzzie wrote: » It was a St Benedicts Inbhear Mor AC club run. A one off club get together held under Athletics Ireland Covid19 rules. The Wicklow County 5k Championships will be held at the same place in a few weeks time. Not sure what the bike ride was though.
Annie get your Run wrote: » They mention a few times that because everyone is required to register online they are able to quickly communicate with participants in the event of an outbreak, I didn't see any mention of how to deal with people that turn up without registering or that don't have their barcode with them or did I miss that? I think it's probably the best they can do given the circumstances and I think the use of the virtual volunteer app is a good idea. Volunteers could wear a face mask too if they wanted to (I think I would if I was scanning). It'll be interesting to see when now...
robinph wrote: » Guess they are classing anyone who doesn't register or bring their barcode as just other park users and nothing to do with them, even if they take a finish token.
opus wrote: » I was wondering about that part as well. Obviously no results without a barcode but imagine the person would still go through the finish line & get a token etc.
Annie get your Run wrote: » I don't think they can simply say 'nothing to do with us' as clearly these people turn up to run their event. It's more about the idea that parkrun can contact 'everyone' that attended their run in the case of an outbreak. That's not strictly true, I guess RD's will have to reiterate the importance of being registered and having your barcode at the pre run briefing to make people more aware. It won't stop the events from taking place, it's just an observation really. I'm sure HQ realise how many unknowns they have every week but maybe just decided not to cover that in their risk assessment.
