Yep, I think the Samhain thingy is on there this weekend, although I don't remember it being cancelled for that before.
No sign of any activity around Mountbellew this morning. Dreary weather for it anyway. Launching a new Park Run around this time of year is a bit of a gamble anyway. Hope the new Dublin one went better.
They don't start until next Saturday
According to Mountbellew's page, they are starting next Saturday too.
I'd say that's who Duzzie meant but thanks. Lets hope it's a drier weekend next time.
Does anyone know of any parkruns taking place for the special days this year? They'll both end up on Sundays, after parkrun days. There probably won't be many if any.
Malahide normally do Xmas day. I don't see why Xmas being on a Sunday would make a difference?
On new years we usually get double parkrun days (St Anne's and Fr Collins for me). Again I can see no reason that this won't happen again (although I have not heard anything about either to date).
The New Year's Day doubles are no longer allowed.
The reason I would think there may not be as many on would be because core teams would be organising events two days in a row.
We will have
Xmas Eve
Xmas Day
New Year's Eve
New Year's Day
That's a pity if doubles aren't allowed as that was one of the highlights of the parkrun year.
Agreed.
Was a shame that they got rid of them worldwide, when there was really only a problem in a small number of locations in the UK... And mostly down to event teams not communicating with each other properly.
There was definitely issues with crowding and people rushing between events, but could all have been solved with events within range of each other scheduling to prevent such issues.
Unfortunately it has got rid of doubles for developing parkrun countries as well, where there was no issues and it was just starting to become a "thing".
Was at Vicarstown parkrun yesterday en route to the RDS for DCM expo. What a lovely event, there is a rowing club located at the start/finish line and that can host some pre/post run chats, shelter, tea/coffee and a portaloo. Real community feel there.
Route is a flat (bar one bump for a canal bridge) out and back on a gravelly concrete surface. Well worth a visit if passing through, not far off the Cork/Dublin road.
Could somebody explain to the newbies what you are all talking about regarding the Christmas schedule?
Parkrun used to have a New Year's Day double. Some events would start at the typical time of 9:30am, then other events would start at 11am. This allowed people to do the New Year's Day parkrun double. Not all events participated.
Each event is allowed to have one non standard parkrun day, ie. Not on standard time/day. This was usually filled by the above double. With the double no longer a thing, last year quite a few events in Ireland did a parkrun on Christmas Day. Whilst this might seem against the whole Christmas ethos of spending time with family, parkrun plays an important part in many people's lives from a social/mental/physical perspective.
Due to how Christmas and New Year's Day falls on a Sunday this year, that could result in the scheduled mentioned above of parkruns occurring on Christmas Eve (Saturday), Christmas Day (Sunday - not all events will be open), New Year's Eve (Saturday) and New Year's Day (Sunday - not all events will be open). The event page shows what parkruns are open on those extra days. Events page for Christmas 2022. It's empty right now but will fill up over the coming weeks.
Other countries use their extra day for days of national importance, ie. Independence Day.
Parkrun permits special (non Saturday) parkruns to be held on special days which vary from country to country. Typically these are national holidays. NY's day and Xmas day are also permitted, though it's always at the discretion of the local team. So some events will be on these days and some will not.
Each event is allowed to have one non standard parkrun day, ie. Not on standard time/day. This was usually filled by the above double. With the double no longer a thing, last year quite a few events in Ireland did a parkrun on Christmas Day.
Almost right.
The non standard extra day is on a country wide basis. The UK that day is Christmas Day, and I think it has always been an option for Irish events on Christmas Day as they were created by the NI country manager and they used that day also, just few events took up the option previously.
Every country can also do extra events on New Year's Day, but that cannot be switched to another date.
Start times for both the extra day (Christmas Day for Ireland) and NYD can be different to normal, but would expect them to try and make events in close proximity have the same start times.
Yeah. I loved the double.
I didn't really agree with the reasoning, ie that people would drive stupidly to get from one event to the other. It's up to people to take responsibility for their own driving. They could have maybe just started the earlier event 30 minutes early, for example have them at 9am and 11am. That would give plenty of time for participants who were doing 2 parkruns in close proximity.
I must say I am very excited to possibly get to do 4 parkruns (hopefully new ones) in just over a week.
Would it be fair to say that a lot of events might not bother with the days falling together so closely?
It could prove difficult to get enough volunteers for the events to go ahead all so close together.
Was there myself at the weekend. It is my local and is always a very nice crowd there and a great effort put in by the volunteers. Would definitely recommend anyone passing by to pay it a visit if they get the chance.
Yup for sure, in Cork city not all of them will be operating on both days as far as I know.
Yes. There should be a few though. They're adding more and more every day to the Uk compendium. Still none in Ireland. But surely there'll be one or two going ahead in Belfast. Comber is on on NYD.
New Year's Day will be on a Sunday. That will cause a problem for parkruns where there are junior parkruns using part of the same course.
I think that the policy is the junior event takes precedent in those cases.
I need Christmas Day to go ahead.. in at least a few locations.
Aiming for 50 parkruns in 2022 (gold obsessive award for anyone with Running Achievements app) and running all the Saturdays left in 2022 will get me to 49!
Also, praying there wont be be a big freeze.
I'm in the same boat. I've managed to do one per week plus a couple of extra ones abroad. I'll manage the platinum obsessive award if there is one on Christmas Day and there isn't a big freeze. 56 is possible.
Based on prior years, there is one in my county at least on Christmas Day but i'm not sure it'll go down well at home travelling hours on Christmas morning!
Fair play on the (potential) 56 - I mightn't do ten next year!
Yup exactly that, one Cork event had to wait 'til the junior made their intentions known.
Going to a gig in Cardiff tomorrow night, if I feel up to it I'll do Cardiff parkrun.
Checked out their page there and it got over 600 last week. 73 of them sub 20. Holy moly.
Where is your county? Waterstown is normally on in Dublin. As is Ballincollig in Cork. None in the Republic confirmed yet.
Wallace in the north is on xmas day. I heard Stormont is on but it's not on the compendium.
Antrim and Comber are both on on New Year's Day.
