rainbow kirby wrote: » Honestly, while there are some areas where it might have been ok, the NW is already on its knees with the virus. We're over 100 cases per 100k in the last 7 days in Manchester :eek:
robinph wrote: » parkrun to return in Poland from the 17th October.https://blog.parkrun.com/pl/2020/09/22/parkrun-powraca-w-polsce-w-sobote-17-pazdziernika/
robinph wrote: » parkrun Japan is due to return at the end of October:https://twitter.com/parkrunJP/status/1312007936315711490?s=19
Dental Floss wrote: » Any sign at all of parkrun coming back anytime soon. I'm really missing it, then I see groups doing it on saturday morning anyway.
Gael23 wrote: » Events in Australia starting up in the next few weeks. Hard to see all events surviving in Ireland as core volunteers lose interest
Wottle wrote: » The core volunteers are a different breed, I can see them coming back for sure. I can't wait for parkrun return, missing it.
Gael23 wrote: » There elate some locations where they had planned to restart but governments have imposed conditions that park run can’t possibly comply with
robinph wrote: » They were also due to restart in Poland this weekend, but cancelled that on Friday. The government restrictions would have still allowed it, but get the impression that it was a close call and they figured best to hold off a bit longer yet. Should still get some northern hemisphere events in a couple of weeks with Isle of Mann and Guernsey restarting. For any of the other events in Europe it still needs that countries football stadiums to be at 50% capacity + before I think we'll see anything happen. I'd still be perfectly happy with going to most parkrun events right now, except for a couple of very, very busy events that have very, very small start areas...and then mostly due to not being able to keep track of a 5 year old in the mele more than anything else. It's all down to public perception rather than virus risk, and that's why football (or whatever the local flavour of stadium sport is) needs to return first to keep the non sporting populations attention diverted.
average_runner wrote: » I say maybe Summer in Ireland. Poland doesn't really have contact tracing at the moment either. This is where the problem will be here, no contact tracing no event, at least till the summer
robinph wrote: » Would you see football/ GAA/ rugby stadiums still being closed until next summer as well?
average_runner wrote: » Mainly yeah. UK are more likely to take risks and I can't see soccer stadiums opening till at least March if lucky. Any stadium that opens here, will be at 25% capacity and there will be a procedure in place for contact tracing there also.
robinph wrote: » If you have several thousand people in a stadium for 90 minutes, plus a bit of mingling at half time when they go for a wee, then I don't see any reason why a couple of hundred couldn't meet for a couple of minutes in a park before they go for a run/ walk though. I've always thought it needed football back first before parkrun. The UK government responded to a petition about allowing football back today and basically said the trials were stopped at the beginning of October not because of any risk, just because it wouldn't feel right whilst trying to get people to not socialise at home. I'd expect there to be significant pressure from football clubs again the moment the numbers start falling in hospitalisations again. Can't see them keeping stadiums closed until March.
average_runner wrote: » But Irish government is very cautious, so they will enforce contact tracing for at least another 6 months. Not ideal, very frustrating for all
ger664 wrote: » They are cautious because they have not giving sufficient resources to Contact tracing, testing and increase in Hospital/Treatment capacity to deal with the pandemic. Dont see that changing anytime soon.
robinph wrote: » So junior parkrun is now penciled in to return on the 11th April in England, but only for ages 4-10, and 5km parkrun's in England on 5th June. Hopefully everything keeps going in the same direction and these dates don't have to be pushed back.
Duzzie wrote: » 5th of June is a long way off. If we've learned anything from the past year it is that planning too far ahead is a dangerous game. Also if it resumes in England but not in Scotland and Wales, many from those areas are likely to travel to England for their parkrun fix. Not an ideal situation.
