tl;dr?
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itâs a good response, however, perhaps this could have been released first and, the fact that they do not seem to understand âinclusionâ it still appears that they have some things to learnâŚ
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The short version is âWeâre being inclusive but excluding fast people from history and there is absolutely no other possible reason for doing this, none at all, nothing to see here, move along pleaseâ
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My home parkrun, Albert is like that, 1k start loop then 2*2k, usually catching people at the end of the first big loop if theyâre walking. Itâs generally wide enough though and not heard of any real problems despite having 15 minute runners.
The first parkrun (er, I mean âBushy Park Time Trialâ) I did was in 2006. I wasnât a member of a club. Iâd run a 10k race each year for the previous three years and that was it. I saw a listing in Runners World (probably the first copy I bought) for the BPTT and as it was about four miles from home went along. There were 157 of us on the start and some tall chap called Craig Mottram ran 14 minutes dead that first time I was there (my time was 21 minutes). I wasnât put off at all. I was just amazed at how fast that guy up front ran.
Iâd like to see course records but I suspect part of the reason theyâre not easily available on the event homepages as there would be male/female records displayed, and that brings in the sex/gender debate. I think parkrun are trying to distance themselves from it more and more.
Can they just have an Open category and a Female category and then request sex rather than gender?
As an aside I just looked back at the results of my first parkrun/BPTT, there were 157 finishers and the slowest time was 36:07. The first 150 finishers ran sub-30!
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7 or 8 minute late start for drizzly Bushy today. Need to leave my house a good 15 or 20 minutes before now. Currently stuck in the beast of a finish funnel
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You love a late start! 
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Mate, arenât you always late to the start anyway? Why change the habit of a lifetime!? 
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I volunteered, possibly for the last time ever.
I was paired with that chopper who takes his Bluetooth speaker along & repeatedly plays the Rocky theme before seamlessly segueing into I Would Walk 500 miles & doing Dad dancing to encourage the walkers.
FML.
(Our photo was taken, I bet my puss was a fucking treat 
)
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Finished 1100th or something today 
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You HAVE to find that pic?
Lol lots.
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On a typical day I doubt I see more than 5 people in the same place at the same time. That many people together would have me 
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Not fast, not slow today at Burnham with LO.
24.08
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A bit of an improvement in recent times with 20:50 ish at Crewe today,
Very easy first lap, then went mad for 1.5 laps, hung on for the last 5-600 ms.
Av hr 160 so maybe a little bit more this summer.
Lovely day for it!
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Not as disgruntled as I was feeling inside, however my arms are crossed & Iâm stood to one side. Disappointingly Iâve shown a lack of integrity & automatically painted on a smile for the camera.
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Thatâs a motley crew!
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Hair metal isnât dead, theyâre just marshalling parkrun?
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The folded arms say it all 
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Some filthy twat has had a dump 
next to the foot entrance to one of the car parks 
Whoops, this has nothing to do with parkrun and should have been in the rant thread 
Iâm running on less than 50% brain power today, and itâs low bar to start with
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Decided to cycle up to Jersey Farm parkrun today as one of my club members was doing a pancake morning to raise money so she can run the London marathon. Nice way to do it actually.
17km ride there
5k run round hilly, muddy and grassy - not a quick course. 24:xx for 30th
17km back with a stop for pancakes.
Nice morning all in all.
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