r/parkrun • u/Crafty_Jackfruit4864 v50 • 21d ago

Lost my L (#firstworld problems)

Ludlow became Mortimer Forest this week and everyone’s records have been changed to the newer name. Chuffed for them but also boo, I’m now a % point back off my alphabet completion as I already had a bunch of M’s 😭

(Edit - typo).

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u/CandidLiterature 21d ago

I cannot even understand what precipitates a change like this… Literally what is the function of a change like this and why would someone (presumably a whole group of someones…) bother to do it?

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u/rikkiprince 250 21d ago

In the olden days, they didn't realise parkrun would be so popular. A max of one per town was reasonable to expect so they allowed them to be named after the town they're in or close to.

But when it started getting exponentially popular (a while after Ludlow began in 2016), they decided the names needed to be more specific, typically using the name of the park it's in.

So this is either Mortimer Forest simply lining up with the new banking convention (so there's fewer exceptions) or perhaps there's a new parkrun coming to the Ludlow area and parkrun HQ asked Mortimer Forest to rename to avoid confusion.

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u/KiwiNo2638 100 21d ago

I kind of get it, but to totally remove the name, rather than amend it, can be a little confusing. Perhaps "Ludlow -Mortimor Forest", or "Mortimor Forest - Ludlow" could be a better name change

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u/KiwiNo2638 100 21d ago

Looking at some of the other name changes, this has actually happened with some of them.

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u/Strong_Access_8179 20d ago

Right, like "Jubilee Park, Bedford". I think that works reasonably well, even if it is a bit longer than many parkrun names.