Not run in 10 days due to ongoing knee issues so was happy with 24:42 at Bognor Regis. Didn’t push myself too much. Just getting round is good enough for me as the last time I ran further than 5k was at the London Marathon last year.
All is good.
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Just seen this sent round my running club chat. Interesting source 
but seems true 
Surprised they’ve kept the age grading .
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Saw something about it earlier, the message seemed to be that people doing 15 minute 5K’s was scaring off slower people from coming down. Times are still being recorded but it’s things like records being removed.
Seems a bit ridiculous to me, even the fast people are generally friendly and know it’s a fun event.
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My local one is getting very popular
It’s a pretty crap course and is avoided by the local “ shifters “ as it’s slow.
This news is just silly, 90% of them really couldn’t GAF who wins, what time they win in, what trainers they wear or if they identify as a lesbian lamppost.
So parkrun are not recording your time and places anymore?
Sorry if this is wrong … had a stressful day !
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It’s the female records, seems a reasonable compromise to me.
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All AG records have gone as well, they seem to have thrown the baby out with the bathwater.
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Maybe 'cos that Kiwi who was wanting to claim the first 100+ parkrun record and no-one wanted to open the Faluja Singh question…
Removed the name search too?
I wonder if they’ll tweet about the overall parkrun records next time they get broken? Didn’t they make a bit of a deal about the female record being broken a couple of times in about two or three weeks last year?
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I would suggest that fear of having to make the choice of celebrating or not the overall parkrun female record going was a big decider in the decision to stop it being available.
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I don’t understand what is happening here?
Can someone unpack it for me?
In Plain Yorkshire speak?
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I asked last night … no one has yet…?
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“Based on the conclusions and recommendations of the project group, we will no longer publish data such as most first finishes, sub 17 men and sub 20 women, and age grade or category speed records. Alongside these, as part of our ongoing data protection improvements, the search function has been removed.”
Quite a few links removed from the results section.
Overall course record holders (male, female and AG%) removed from bottom of the results page.
I can’t remember, did it used to say you came 4/23 in age cat?
In protest I’ve unsubscribed from emails. No more trying to sell me tat.
https://www.parkrun.com/blog/news/2024/02/08/changes-to-statistics-on-the-parkrun-websites/
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When you go on a club page it looks like they list people on course PB time…. But no longer show the actual times.
Not going to lie, I used that as a bit of a motivational tool.
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My mini claim to fame
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Well, it’s not a race - it’s a timed event.
So they may as well not list results in order, or publish times.
All times are unique to the runner.
And the barcodes are mixed up at the end, would save them time restringing them, too.
It is a little bit “cultish” I feel 
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That was one of my targets. I hit 17 flat once, I guess now I never need to worry about it 
Seriously though 2 weeks or so ago we were encouraged to celebrate a guys 100th birthday all around NZ parkruns because (I think) he holds (held) the world AG record, or maybe it is just the NZ ones. something like 106% anyway.
He was stoked, film crew at his PR etc, really good publicity for PR. Now no one would even know about him. I cannot believe there is one person who is put off by his name/time appearing at the bottom of the various course pages, in fact quite the contrary.
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In the stats, he certainly wasn’t the first 100+ athlete at Parkrun, or the highest Age Grading (by miles that was over 170%), but it probably highlights part of the problem, there’s a bit of controversy about the holder of both of those things, people over 100 don’t necessarily have really reliable birth records, and maybe he wasn’t 106 when he did his last parkrun. So the age and age grading just came down to what he entered on the site, is it accurate? Who knows.
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I’m still scratching my head as to who these changes benefit 
.
Everyone, whether they’re a pointy end runner or near the tail, enjoys comparing their times against their rivals, mates, relatives, old dinner lady etc.
Definitely a cult.
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There are lots of people out there who haven’t done a parkrun yet, or have only done one. Thats who it’s intended to benefit if I read the official post correctly?!
There were many records which I guess upset some people, either to to suspicions about the actual age, biological sex, did they run the full distance, did they have aid (e.g. dog(s)). I guess it’s quite difficult to control those and in some cases opens up a big debate.
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