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Re: The athletics/running thread

Post by Bruce Rioja » Sat May 15, 2021 6:34 pm

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Doesn't look like parkrun will be back as planned on June 5th. 2/3 landowners still not given permission, including Bolton Council. They won't risk opening less than half the parkruns as they'll be swamped.
Aye, heard this yesterday. My 'stepping back up to it' target was to be ready for the reopening of PR, which I'm on course for. Just have to keep it up on the mean streets of BL2, I guess. Bushy seems such a long time ago right now!
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Re: The athletics/running thread

Post by LeverEnd » Sun May 16, 2021 1:12 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:
Sat May 15, 2021 6:34 pm
LeverEnd wrote:
Sat May 15, 2021 8:19 am
Doesn't look like parkrun will be back as planned on June 5th. 2/3 landowners still not given permission, including Bolton Council. They won't risk opening less than half the parkruns as they'll be swamped.
Aye, heard this yesterday. My 'stepping back up to it' target was to be ready for the reopening of PR, which I'm on course for. Just have to keep it up on the mean streets of BL2, I guess. Bushy seems such a long time ago right now!
But they can never take the Bushy Plate away from you.
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Re: The athletics/running thread

Post by Gooner Girl » Sun May 16, 2021 1:41 pm

LeverEnd wrote:
Sun May 16, 2021 1:12 pm
Bruce Rioja wrote:
Sat May 15, 2021 6:34 pm
LeverEnd wrote:
Sat May 15, 2021 8:19 am
Doesn't look like parkrun will be back as planned on June 5th. 2/3 landowners still not given permission, including Bolton Council. They won't risk opening less than half the parkruns as they'll be swamped.
Aye, heard this yesterday. My 'stepping back up to it' target was to be ready for the reopening of PR, which I'm on course for. Just have to keep it up on the mean streets of BL2, I guess. Bushy seems such a long time ago right now!
But they can never take the Bushy Plate away from you.
Bushy plate?! Some award for running, or the big fry up he gets afterwards?!

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Re: The athletics/running thread

Post by Bruce Rioja » Sun May 16, 2021 4:38 pm

LeverEnd wrote:
Sun May 16, 2021 1:12 pm
Bruce Rioja wrote:
Sat May 15, 2021 6:34 pm
LeverEnd wrote:
Sat May 15, 2021 8:19 am
Doesn't look like parkrun will be back as planned on June 5th. 2/3 landowners still not given permission, including Bolton Council. They won't risk opening less than half the parkruns as they'll be swamped.
Aye, heard this yesterday. My 'stepping back up to it' target was to be ready for the reopening of PR, which I'm on course for. Just have to keep it up on the mean streets of BL2, I guess. Bushy seems such a long time ago right now!
But they can never take the Bushy Plate away from you.
Doesn't usually take me that long to finish either. Aye - 'ear mi now!
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Re: The athletics/running thread

Post by Worthy4England » Sun May 16, 2021 6:28 pm

Alisson has just scored a header for Liverpool. :-)

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Re: The athletics/running thread

Post by Burnden Paddock » Sun May 16, 2021 6:37 pm

Worthy4England wrote:
Sun May 16, 2021 6:28 pm
Alisson has just scored a header for Liverpool. :-)
Wrong thread by any chance? 😉 But, yes. Cracking header Tbf!

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Re: The athletics/running thread

Post by Worthy4England » Sun May 16, 2021 8:22 pm

Burnden Paddock wrote:
Sun May 16, 2021 6:37 pm
Worthy4England wrote:
Sun May 16, 2021 6:28 pm
Alisson has just scored a header for Liverpool. :-)
Wrong thread by any chance? 😉 But, yes. Cracking header Tbf!
Oh, err... :oops:

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Re: The athletics/running thread

Post by LeverEnd » Sun May 16, 2021 10:10 pm

Gooner Girl wrote:
Sun May 16, 2021 1:41 pm
LeverEnd wrote:
Sun May 16, 2021 1:12 pm
Bruce Rioja wrote:
Sat May 15, 2021 6:34 pm
LeverEnd wrote:
Sat May 15, 2021 8:19 am
Doesn't look like parkrun will be back as planned on June 5th. 2/3 landowners still not given permission, including Bolton Council. They won't risk opening less than half the parkruns as they'll be swamped.
Aye, heard this yesterday. My 'stepping back up to it' target was to be ready for the reopening of PR, which I'm on course for. Just have to keep it up on the mean streets of BL2, I guess. Bushy seems such a long time ago right now!
But they can never take the Bushy Plate away from you.
Bushy plate?! Some award for running, or the big fry up he gets afterwards?!
Definitely to do with eating out.
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Re: The athletics/running thread

Post by Burnden Paddock » Sun May 16, 2021 11:03 pm

LeverEnd wrote:
Sun May 16, 2021 10:10 pm
Gooner Girl wrote:
Sun May 16, 2021 1:41 pm
LeverEnd wrote:
Sun May 16, 2021 1:12 pm
Bruce Rioja wrote:
Sat May 15, 2021 6:34 pm
LeverEnd wrote:
Sat May 15, 2021 8:19 am
Doesn't look like parkrun will be back as planned on June 5th. 2/3 landowners still not given permission, including Bolton Council. They won't risk opening less than half the parkruns as they'll be swamped.
Aye, heard this yesterday. My 'stepping back up to it' target was to be ready for the reopening of PR, which I'm on course for. Just have to keep it up on the mean streets of BL2, I guess. Bushy seems such a long time ago right now!
But they can never take the Bushy Plate away from you.
Bushy plate?! Some award for running, or the big fry up he gets afterwards?!
Definitely to do with eating out.

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Re: The athletics/running thread

Post by Gary the Enfield » Mon May 17, 2021 11:03 am

They won't restart Park Run but Ironman is definitely going ahead? 🤔

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Post by KeyserSoze » Mon May 17, 2021 11:27 am

Unstoppable force (parkrun mafia) vs the immovable object (local government bureaucracy).

Feels there is something under the surface here, the stories are obviously coming from parkrun themselves which I doubt local councils, who have an in-tray fuller than the inside of the boozers will be by five today, are too fond of. Parkrun's zeal certainly helped it spread and become what it is today, however, getting approval for one or two parkruns each week is a dwarfed by the task of getting thousands of LAs and landowners to agree, in a relatively short timeframe. And I imagine that zeal turns to frustration quickly as the reality of the task kicks in. Does feel a bit that parkrun is stood in the queue at the GP, looking at their watch and sighing 'I've been waiting here thirty bloody minutes...' :D


If they get approval for the ones in and around THAT LONDON I think we will get the go ahead, otherwise I don't think it will be too soon after if it's postponed that it comes back. It's gone from a nice health wotsit to a political football, and the political pressure to open it will tell. Tenner says someone starts calling it 'our parkrun' in the next few weeks.
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Post by LeverEnd » Mon May 17, 2021 4:20 pm

As you say KS, bureaucratic jobsworth bellends (I paraphrase).
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Post by LeverEnd » Mon May 17, 2021 4:21 pm

KeyserSoze wrote:
Mon May 17, 2021 11:27 am
Tenner says someone starts calling it 'our parkrun' in the next few weeks.
Put your tenner on David Davis! He can call it what he wants if he gets it going again.
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Re: The athletics/running thread

Post by Bruce Rioja » Tue May 18, 2021 10:19 am

Bolton PR re-routed. Makes Curden Valley look like a piece of piss! :shock:

https://www.parkrun.org.uk/bolton/cours ... XEqnDqrq48
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Re: The athletics/running thread

Post by Burnden Paddock » Tue May 18, 2021 5:46 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:
Tue May 18, 2021 10:19 am
Bolton PR re-routed. Makes Curden Valley look like a piece of piss! :shock:

https://www.parkrun.org.uk/bolton/cours ... XEqnDqrq48

I was told that the landowners of Cuerden Valley have told Parkrun to do one, when it resumes. There is a God! 😉

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Post by KeyserSoze » Tue May 18, 2021 6:10 pm

London, ruining it for everyone else since 2001.

Not sure why it's a uniform blank across the capital. Half of me things there will be a co-ordinated 'yes' on the day parkrun said they'll announce whether it can go ahead or not :/
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Post by Gooner Girl » Tue May 18, 2021 7:20 pm

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Re: The athletics/running thread

Post by Bruce Rioja » Tue May 18, 2021 7:28 pm

Burnden Paddock wrote:
Tue May 18, 2021 5:46 pm
Bruce Rioja wrote:
Tue May 18, 2021 10:19 am
Bolton PR re-routed. Makes Curden Valley look like a piece of piss! :shock:

https://www.parkrun.org.uk/bolton/cours ... XEqnDqrq48

I was told that the landowners of Cuerden Valley have told Parkrun to do one, when it resumes. There is a God! 😉
Was it not the other way around? :D
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Re: The athletics/running thread

Post by Burnden Paddock » Tue May 18, 2021 9:41 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:
Tue May 18, 2021 10:19 am
Bolton PR re-routed. Makes Curden Valley look like a piece of piss! :shock:

https://www.parkrun.org.uk/bolton/cours ... XEqnDqrq48

Having taken a look at the new course and realised how close to the finish, the second time up Cruella now is, I can safely say I have absolutely no chance of a sprint finish! Safe to say that my PB days are well and truly behind me! 😢

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Re: The athletics/running thread

Post by Harry Genshaw » Tue May 18, 2021 11:15 pm

Burnden Paddock wrote:
Tue May 18, 2021 9:41 pm
Bruce Rioja wrote:
Tue May 18, 2021 10:19 am
Bolton PR re-routed. Makes Curden Valley look like a piece of piss! :shock:

https://www.parkrun.org.uk/bolton/cours ... XEqnDqrq48

Having taken a look at the new course and realised how close to the finish, the second time up Cruella now is, I can safely say I have absolutely no chance of a sprint finish! Safe to say that my PB days are well and truly behind me! 😢
I looked at that map a few times and couldn't suss out where it started,where it takes us or where it finishes. They still haven't suggested standing on the start line in roughly the place you expect to finish.
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