Parkrun..

runnomnom

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

Might be missing something obvious...

Is there a way of seeing what time pacers a parkrun will have? For example Corkagh have pacers this Saturday. Their Twitter only shows the 'vacant' times and the future roster doesn't specify a time

Corkagh do pacers every 2.5 minutes from 20 to 35 so that's 20:00, 22:30, 25:00, 27:30, 30:00, 32:30 & 35:00. Unfortunately the roster software doesn't allow specific times to be specified for the volunteers.

opus

New event for Mallow confirmed in yesterday's parkrun newsletter

New events:
2 February: Mallow Town parkrun

Not on the parkrun.ie website yet but soon I imagine.

TheBigGreen

opus wrote: »

New event for Mallow confirmed in yesterday's parkrun newsletter



Not on the parkrun.ie website yet but soon I imagine.

Anything on location?

opus

TheBigGreen wrote: »

Anything on location?

The town park in Mallow.

TheBigGreen

opus wrote: »

The town park in Mallow.

Great, thanks. The biggest problem with the town park is flooding.

Looking forward to it starting.

Sunny Dayz

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

Might be missing something obvious...

Is there a way of seeing what time pacers a parkrun will have? For example Corkagh have pacers this Saturday. Their Twitter only shows the 'vacant' times and the future roster doesn't specify a time

The individual parkrun's facebook page might be the best way of finding out about pacers.

Murph_D

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

Might be missing something obvious...

Is there a way of seeing what time pacers a parkrun will have? For example Corkagh have pacers this Saturday. Their Twitter only shows the 'vacant' times and the future roster doesn't specify a time

I suppose if the run director has that information it would tend to be on the facebook page, if anywhere. As pacing is volunteer dependent, it's often not finalised until very late in the week, or on the day itself. At St. Anne's pacer day (last Sat of the month) the aim is to cover every minute from 20 to 35 mins, but there are usually one or two gaps, especially at the faster end of the scale. Be sure to say hello to your pacer before or after - it helps the pacer feel it was worthwhile and they might volunteer again!

opus

TheBigGreen wrote: »

Great, thanks. The biggest problem with the town park is flooding.

Looking forward to it starting.

Better to have a parkrun event 99% of the time vs having none 100% of the time

Sunny Dayz

Was at my son’s parent teacher meeting this evening and somehow ended up chatting about parkrun with two different teachers!

Ted_YNWA

Sunny Dayz wrote: »

Was at my son’s parent teacher meeting this evening and somehow ended up chatting about parkrun with two different teachers!

I was spotted in a few photos of our NYD one by people at work today that I wouldn't have any dealings with. Mentioned it to me.

rainbow kirby

Murph_D wrote: »

I suppose if the run director has that information it would tend to be on the facebook page, if anywhere. As pacing is volunteer dependent, it's often not finalised until very late in the week, or on the day itself. At St. Anne's pacer day (last Sat of the month) the aim is to cover every minute from 20 to 35 mins, but there are usually one or two gaps, especially at the faster end of the scale. Be sure to say hello to your pacer before or after - it helps the pacer feel it was worthwhile and they might volunteer again!

We do the same at South Manchester parkrun - Chorlton Runners pacers the first Saturday of the month and we cover 20-35 minutes. I usually do 34-35 if I have both kids with me but did 31 last week as I only had the baby with me in the BOB.

RayCun

We pace in Tymon, usually the last Saturday of the month (but probably a week earlier this month because of Raheny)
Times between 20 and 32 minutes, it depends on who is available, usually announced on Facebook a few days before.

Swashbuckler

RayCun wrote:

We pace in Tymon, usually the last Saturday of the month (but probably a week earlier this month because of Raheny) Times between 20 and 32 minutes, it depends on who is available, usually announced on Facebook a few days before.

Ive always been curious, is 20mins the standard drop-off point for all pacers at parkrun? I've never seen a pacer for 19 or lower.

aquinn

Swashbuckler wrote: »

Ive always been curious, is 20mins the standard drop-off point for all pacers at parkrun? I've never seen a pacer for 19 or lower.

St Anne's have had them. Like that it depends on availability.

Come over to leafy D3 the last Saturday of a month to find out, or I can let you know if it makes the schedule.

opus

Swashbuckler wrote: »

Ive always been curious, is 20mins the standard drop-off point for all pacers at parkrun? I've never seen a pacer for 19 or lower.

20 min is the lowest time we've had at Ballincollig, reason is that not that many people can pace faster comfortably (me for example as I don't go below 21 ) and even then I find the 21 min pacer role a bit lonely as tend to end up on my own after the first lap. Although normally catch up to a few people to encourage in the last k.

If someone offered to pace 19 min then of course they'd be welcomed but nobody ever has.

Btw the website for Mallow Town parkrun is now live!

gucci

Spirogyra wrote: »

Ran in Knocknacarra saturday,my first 'away from home'. Must say it was a really scenic,lot's of hills,although one does get to go down them as well up . People were friendly and it was a nice day out So too was the Christmas Market later .

Plan to make a visit to Knocknacarra fairly soon, having looked at the course description would you suggest something like a light trail shoe is best option? I will be massively hungover so it wont make alot of difference to bo honest :D

RayCun

Swashbuckler wrote: »

Ive always been curious, is 20mins the standard drop-off point for all pacers at parkrun? I've never seen a pacer for 19 or lower.

Partly availability I guess, and partly that 20 minutes has that round number target thing.

TheBigGreen

gucci wrote: »

Plan to make a visit to Knocknacarra fairly soon, having looked at the course description would you suggest something like a light trail shoe is best option? I will be massively hungover so it wont make alot of difference to bo honest :D

I usually just wear my daily runners and sometimes the racers if trying to beat my course PB!

bikeman1

aquinn wrote:

Come over to leafy D3 the last Saturday of a month to find out, or I can let you know if it makes the schedule.

Don't mean to be pedantic, but St. Anne's is in Dublin 5 😂😂 Unless you are referring to Fairview parkrun!

arybvtcw0eolkf

bikeman1 wrote: »

Don't mean to be pedantic, but St. Anne's is in Dublin 5

Should be Dublin 4 North, 'cause we're terribly posh you know :P

aquinn

bikeman1 wrote: »

Don't mean to be pedantic, but St. Anne's is in Dublin 5 ���� Unless you are referring to Fairview parkrun!

Oh no, you absolutely right to correct. Sincere apologies.

eimaj18

aquinn wrote: »

Oh no, you absolutely right to correct. Sincere apologies.

Are parts of the park in Dublin 3 or is that the boundary? Mount Prospect Road is D3. Genuinely wondering.

aquinn

OOnegative wrote: »

No such place as Mt Prospect Road, D3.

The residents will disagree I'm sure.

OOnegative

aquinn wrote: »

The residents will disagree I'm sure.

It’s Mount Prospect Avenue, D3 is it not? Can’t recall a Mount Prospect Road in my time working D3/5.

aquinn

OOnegative wrote: »

It’s Mount Prospect Avenue, D3 is it not? Can’t recall a Mount Prospect Road in my time working D3/5.

Oh yes it is. I thought you were referring to the post code.

vargoo

I'm gonna try and get a few Saturdays off and do a few of these, I'm a 21 min timer at the min, have always been a solo runner so curious if I got someone to chase down what time I'd get...have to get the day off first...

pc11

aquinn wrote: »

St Anne's have had them. Like that it depends on availability.

Come over to leafy D3 the last Saturday of a month to find out, or I can let you know if it makes the schedule.

S Anne's isn't in D3!

Edit: Sorry, I see this has already been addressed! :-)

Bananaleaf

I got an email today to say that I can order my 25volunteer tshirt!

Murph_D

Swashbuckler wrote: »

Ive always been curious, is 20mins the standard drop-off point for all pacers at parkrun? I've never seen a pacer for 19 or lower.

Let us know when you’re available, P.

Swashbuckler

Murph_D wrote:

Let us know when you’re available, P.

I remember cheekily asking the 20min pacer if he'd help me with sub 19 as nobody was following him. He laughed and told me the guys ahead would get me to sub 17.

Pawwed Rig

Massive crowd at St Annes again this morning.


Parkrun number 150 for me today

stampydmonkey

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Massive crowd at St Annes again this morning.


Parkrun number 150 for me today

Big crowd at poolbeg too. Great to see everyone jogging out towards the start line from the surrounding areas.

Bananaleaf

I think I heard the RD say that the attendance record broken at Castletown this morning too.

diceyreilly

Broke 23 mins for the 1st time.
50th PR next week and have a flight to catch at 12:15 afterwards should be doable just about.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Father Collins got its third highest this morning at 134.

I was time keeping but haven't seen the stats on first timers to either Fr.Collins or PR but its great to see everywhere getting big numbers.

opus

533 at Ballincollig parkrun, blew the previous record attendance out of the water. They ran into the problem with max number of times on the stop watch however as they can only store ~495 as far as I know.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Massive crowd at St Annes again this morning.


Parkrun number 150 for me today

Just seeing the figures now, 653!.

And congrats on your 150 milestone

Burkie1203

~185 last week. ~175 this week at poppintree and about 30-40 first-timers

rainbow kirby

Ran a double buggy PB at Stretford this morning of 31:08. Given that I'm pushing about 26kg of kid around at this stage in the double I can't complain. 672 there today, another huge field. Fletcher Moss hasn't taken much pressure off even though they get 200+ most weeks!

arybvtcw0eolkf

I wasn't a Parkrun runner last January, so a question.

Are these record numbers just January peeps, my gym is packed to the rafters this month. The mild weather or a great social media reach (maybe all three?).

I think its really exciting to be part of something growing like it is but with all the added bonuses, ie free run, social aspect, getting fitter, reaching and breaking through milestones ~ its all positive.

I've always been involved in sports, mainly Judo, MMA and kickboxing. Then a requirement for my job is an annual fitness test so I'm not a newbie to an active lifestyle but I can't get my head around just how good Parkrun is.

quickbeam

Yeah just mostly January. It’ll dip again but some will stay. I think most parkrun events and certainly parkrun in general grows year on year.

hollypink

Just saw the fb post from St Anne's parkrun - over 600 people, amazing! I was at Carlow town parkrun today - 115 people which seemed like a huge crowd to me as I've been running Russborough parkrun (and Ballina over Christmas) which get typically 30 - 50 people.

Bothebear

Did the Ennis parkrun today and beat my previous PB by 8 seconds!

Pawwed Rig

I like stats so a comparison of the second week in Jan in St Annes's year on year attendance wise



2014 - 318 (highest attendance in 2014 by far)
2015 - 385 (highest attendance in 2015 by far)
2016 - 363 (8th highest attendance in 2016)
2017 - 450 (4th highest attendance in 2017)
2018 - 442 (15 or 16 runs got more people in this year)
2019 - 653



Could be bigger attendances in 2019 if past numbers are continued. In 2016 and 2017 the following week got even more people so next weeks attendance will be interesting.

ISOP

January always sees a big spike

Swashbuckler

Presume operation transformation is the biggest factor?

Shedite27

There's also very little to clash with it. Later in the year people have things to do on a Saturday (or Friday night). Not many people have plans this time of year.

Sunny Dayz

Swashbuckler wrote: »

Presume operation transformation is the biggest factor?

No sure. This year (and last year) Operation Transformation haven’t been as closely tied with parkrun. OT had walks organised for 11am today around the country.

Swashbuckler

Sunny Dayz wrote:

No sure. This year (and last year) Operation Transformation haven’t been as closely tied with parkrun. OT had walks organised for 11am today around the country.

I wasn't sure about the rest of the country. I just saw the Limerick girl was at parkrun this morning so I assumed it was the same everywhere.

skyblue46

There is no doubt that there is an increase in the interest in running in general. 20,000 entries for DCM and races selling out earlier than before makes that pretty obvious. Hopefully more and more stick with it and also spread their wings into supporting club races.