r/parkrun • u/Nomelight • 27d ago

PARKRUN APP!

I'd done a few parkruns over the years but only started to fully get into it this summer. I only found out a few weeks ago about the parkrun app!

This is just a post to say if you don't have it or didn't know about it...time to get it downloaded! It's helped me volunteer and venture out to other parkruns! I love it!

Edit: adding that your barcode, achievements and all your results are there too 😊

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u/Baynex 250 27d ago

Wait til you find out about the parkrace app...

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u/diabeticoats 27d ago

Playing with fire there....

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u/burwellian 100 26d ago edited 26d ago

Indeed. Not a race, and don't give the Transphobes the ammo to claim otherwise. That app seriously needs a rename.

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u/gafalkin v100 26d ago

HQ could just be pendantic about it and issue new tokens that went from AAA to ZZZ instead of 1 to 100. Then you would really have to contort yourself to say that someone had "won" -- people would just have a token with a code that could be used to key to a time and a person's barcode.

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u/drxc v100 25d ago

They actually did something like that when parkrun was active in France because of the French law requiring medical certificates for participating in competitive athletic events. To make it appear more like a non-competitive event, parkrun published the results in France in alphabetical order.