Parkrun enthusiast. Trails. Ales. Green Party. 💚🇬🇧
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Joined February 2025
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Is Flag & Pole Runners already in the UK’s top 20 biggest Parkrun clubs for "Number of Runs"? 😱🥳
That’s some seriously speedy progress for a club that’s only days old! 🏃♀️💨🏳️🌈
parkrun.org.uk/groups/50750/
Flag & Pole Runners, a Parkrun club that supports inclusion at Parkrun, just overtook @RRRunnersUK's total completed Parkruns. It took Flag & Pole two days. It just goes to show what Parkrunners do and don't support. Turns out inclusion is rather popular! parkrun.org.uk/groups/50750/
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I've been keeping an eye on an account I strongly suspected bought followers. Maybe at the beginning, but almost definitely a couple weeks later. Their follower count is now eroding. I assume X automation finds and deletes inauthentic accounts, albeit slowly and cautiously.
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We had more days above 30 degrees C this Summer than during the whole of the 1980s. Yes, really! In one year!
I personally find the complacency of the major parties on climate breakdown, which is just starting, the extreme position.
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UK crime was four times higher when Oasis first played Knebworth than at last year’s reunion gigs.
The collapse of crime and safer streets is one of the biggest stories of our time.
But one almost never told - or believed.
My take on today’s figures: comment.press/lawless
It's interesting to see RRRUK use Parkrun's gender data as a proxy for sex when determining participation. I wonder if Parkrun could do the same? 🤔
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Congratulations to all those that reached a #parkrun milestone with us on Saturday 🎉
#DFYB #loveparkrun #milestoneMonday #dulwichPark
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There is this:-
"Of nearly 80,000 UK parkrunners
surveyed in 2025 by Sheffield Hallam
University, almost 75% said that running,
walking or volunteering at parkrun
improved their life satisfaction. They
felt happier, and had improved wellbeing
and a greater sense of achievement."
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No state has a right to exist! That’s not ‘nonsense’ or ‘strange’. It’s true! Did Czechoslovakia have a right to exist? If so, how did we end up with Slovakia and the Czech Republic? Does the UK have a right to exist? If so, how come Scots were allowed to vote to break it up?
Heat pumps and insulation would cut UK living costs more than new oilfields, study suggests | Energy | The Guardian share.google/198ehVfbYtUCO4r…
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Radical devolution: London telling the rest of the country what to do, but the person doing it is from the north-west.
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This rather gives the game away. If the position is “you will never convince me”, then this is no longer about asking what policy best serves parkrun’s purpose, culture and participants. The conclusion is fixed in advance; parkrun is simply the battleground for a prior ideological commitment.
At least Claire is candid enough to show that this is a crusade to impose a fixed ideological position, not an open inquiry into what policy best serves parkrun. It’s a shame others still dress the same predetermined conclusion up as neutral questions of “fairness” and “accuracy”.
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It's unrealistic to expect mass participation community events to deliver competitive sport level fairness, hence parkrun isn't regulated as one.
Able bodied participants have an advantage over ones who aren't, adults over juniors in the overall standings, and doping is allowed.
Getting serious Barkrun and #BringBackTheStats vibes from RRRUK. We’ve been here before. Safety and inclusion must come first—not be sacrificed at the altar of people’s desire to race, compete or participate on their own terms, regardless of safety and operational considerations.
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Televising a public execution is beyond disgusting and barbaric. The death penalty should not exist, let alone be a live-streamed spectacle.
This is a grotesque violation of human dignity. We must oppose this - and the death penalty - everywhere.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmy0…
Parkrun at 22. It's been an amazing journey. 🎉 blog.parkrun.com/uk/2026/09/…
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Thinking of those who lost their loved ones 3 years ago in the most tragic and brutal circumstances.
This world is a hateful place at times. So many lives lost.
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A very long day but an amazing evening listening to residents as we head into the final day of campaigning.
Rent controls, water nationalisation and tackling the climate crisis.
Come campaign with us tomorrow!
linktr.ee/HSP_6thGreenMP
ALT Zack holding up a flyer late in the evening
