Hanging onto your youth
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Timing a run is EXACTLY what makes it a race. And I reckon I do know far more about Parkrun than you. Unless you want to elucidate us further?
ColinJ
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All they do is state whether you make the cut-off - they don't publish the times!
GrumpyGregry
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Elucidate us? Yeah. Sure.
parkrun is always written, by those who know anything much about it, with a lower case 'p'. Will that do?
deptfordmarmoset
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You can't win a run. You win a race. You can finish first, you can beat your best time, but if it's not a race, you don't win. Non negotiable for me.
raleighnut
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Isn't an a Audax timed simply for your benefit, so you can try to improve on your own time.
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What about sportives? They are great, winning when nobody is racing
Anyway, I managed to tire myself out playing amateur football today. All 3 minutes of it. I think I looked composed, made a difference and showed that I am more than capable of holding my own (my own what?) for 3 minutes.
deptfordmarmoset
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Winners or wannawinners?What about sportives? They are great, winning when nobody is racing
Anyway, I managed to tire myself out playing amateur football today. All 3 minutes of it. I think I looked composed, made a difference and showed that I am more than capable of holding my own (my own what?) for 3 minutes.
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An audax has a maximum and minimum time, nothing to do with personal goals. You need to not be too fast nor too slow. But if you are fast you can always sit about.
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W*nkers or wannaw*nkers shurely
deptfordmarmoset
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Big pish in a small fond.
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Sportive nobbers do as well. No big deal, apart for them.
These are all club members who also compete in open events, they've just got that competitive streak that they can't let go of.
Having said that, when marshalling most of those don't wave or thank you on the way past, the most appreciation seems to come from the main pack and back markers.
At least parkrun's free (at the moment), I can't see the point in paying £35 to ride on the same roads that I could ride for free, just to get a medal saying I'd done it.
The usual comment on those sportive nobbers is that they should enter a race if they want to race, but the parkrunners that I know who treat it as a race are, like I've said above, all competitive in races as well.
For me when I run I'll treat it as a timed run, there's a group of six of us who all just try to beat our last times.
The good thing about it is that it caters for everyone, so you can make of it whatever you want, if you want to race then race, if you want to walk then walk, although it can be a bit frustrating as tail runner when you have a couple of girls who insist on taking fifty five minutes to walk round.
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These are all club members who also compete in open events, they've just got that competitive streak that they can't let go of.
Having said that, when marshalling most of those don't wave or thank you on the way past, the most appreciation seems to come from the main pack and back markers.
At least parkrun's free (at the moment), I can't see the point in paying £35 to ride on the same roads that I could ride for free, just to get a medal saying I'd done it.
The usual comment on those sportive nobbers is that they should enter a race if they want to race, but the parkrunners that I know who treat it as a race are, like I've said above, all competitive in races as well.
For me when I run I'll treat it as a timed run, there's a group of six of us who all just try to beat our last times.
The good thing about it is that it caters for everyone, so you can make of it whatever you want, if you want to race then race, if you want to walk then walk, although it can be a bit frustrating as tail runner when you have a couple of girls who insist on taking fifty five minutes to walk round.
I've seen those girls walking at the back of the Worsley woods one. Is that the one that you do?
