Gender again. Sorry!

[icowden]

Oooh, cool. parkrun has been brought up again!

The reason for times being recorded is to make sure we don't leave people out on the course. That's literally it.

Really?

Individual running records​

• Female record holder: Ciara Mageean on 23 December 2023 with a time of 15:13 at Victoria Park Parkrun in Belfast, Ireland.[57] [58]
• Male record holder: Andrew Butchart with a time of 13:45 at Cramond/Silverknowes course in Edinburgh on 24 June 2023.[59]
• Age-graded record holder: Fauja Singh set 179.04% at Valentines Parkrun on 31 March 2012 (the day before his 101st birthday) with a time of 38:34.[60]
• Global record holder for highest number of runs: Darren Wood with 860 runs (as of 30 August 2023).[61]
• Global record holder for the highest number of different events: Paul Freyne with 638 different Parkrun locations (as of 12 September 2023).[61]

And:-

In 2024, statistics were removed from the Parkrun website, including course records, most first finishes, sub-17 minute men and sub-20 minute women, age grade records and category records. In a statement to the BBC, Parkrun stated that this was as a result of investigations by a global working group looking at how their events could be less "off-putting" to potential participants.

And also (although to be fair this is reported by the Telegraph and is littered with right wing hyperbole):-

Parkrun previously published a list of all-time records, broken down by age, gender, total number of wins and runs, which allowed runners to compare their times with all previous runners on a course.

But in December, the right-wing think tank Policy Exchange said its analysis found that at least three Parkrun records in the women's category were held by trans women. The report argued that "the problem of biological males competing in the female category" went beyond elite competition, and was "a threat to the entirety of female sport". It called for Parkrun to be stripped of taxpayer funding "within 12 months", if the charity did not collect course data based on birth sex, and update all its records to reflect that change.

Campaign groups argued that Parkrun should emulate governing bodies like UK Athletics by barring trans women from the female category, and began wearing "save women's sports" slogans at the weekly events.

Parkrun rejected the proposal to force transgender runners to record their birth sex, arguing that it was a community event and a public health charity focused on inclusion. There was concern that a "sex at birth" policy was inappropriate for a non-competititve event, and would discourage trans people from registering and accessing the event's "vast health benefits", said The Daily Telegraph.

'Parkrun is not a race'​

Last week, the charity "abruptly" removed all comparative course records from its websites, including "world" Parkrun records, from both its Saturday 5km event and its Sunday 2km run for children. Runners can still choose to register as "female", "male", "prefer not to say" or "another gender identity", and their results will be listed alongside the gender in which they have identified.

Parkrun will still publish results every week as normal, with position, name, gender, age and time. A statement said that the changes had followed a review over "many months" by a "global working group" to consider "how we can present data in a way that is not off-putting and doesn't imply that Parkrun is a race".

The lack of all-time records or comparison with other runners "has angered some of those many runners who find the data and competitive element to be a major incentive for participation", said The Telegraph.

 

[AndyRM]

Really?


And:-


And also (although to be fair this is reported by the Telegraph and is littered with right wing hyperbole):-

Yeah. Really.

I volunteer with parkrun.

It's not a race.

 

[AndyRM]

Its a suburban park, not the Himalayas, show off record times.

They had timings to encourage folk

It was then abused by TIMs toppling women's results, that why they dropped it. far easier to manage than filter out bogus results

You don't have a clue about what parkrun represents.

 

[Deleted member 159]

You don't have a clue about what parkrun represents.

Its not rocket science, its to encourage all ages and abilities' to get off their arses and try running at a local park. They recorded times on their respective websites to show off to others and encourage more to join. Its that simple

 

[multitool]

With his moobs wobbling all over the place I'd imagine AndyCXR would arouse the TERFs suspicions if he entered a parkrun

 

[AndyRM]

Its not rocket science, its to encourage all ages and abilities' to get off their arses and try running at a local park. They recorded times on their respective websites to show off to others and encourage more to join. Its that simple

So simple that you don't know anything about it.

 

[Deleted member 159]

With his moobs wobbling all over the place I'd imagine AndyCXR would arouse the TERFs suspicions if he entered a parkrun

No sunken cyclist chest here

Pectorals

 

[Ian H]

They're not all in urban parks, or in any kind of park.

 

[AndyRM]

No sunken cyclist chest here

Pectorals

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Genuine lol. Well done.

Arnie is one of the gayest icons of all time.

 

[Deleted member 159]

Genuine lol. Well done.

Arnie is one of the gayest icons of all time.

That's one of the funniest things you've said

 

[icowden]

So simple that you don't know anything about it.

I thought that was a pretty succinct definition. It started in parks, although a park isn't compulsory. It's a 5k organised running event that anyone can take part in. It used to maintain all sorts of league tables, timing tables etc until some women became cross that transwomen were recording their times in the women's category after which the terrified organisers removed most of the timings from the website lest they be seen to not be inclusive. Trans rights are, after all, more important than women's rights.

That's the perception, and oddly the more you gender neutralise language and try to remove references to women, the more anti-women the trans movement appears to become. The ones suffering, of course, are the genuinely transgender as opposed to the posturing males who have taken over the trans movement.

 

[AndyRM]

I thought that was a pretty succinct definition. It started in parks, although a park isn't compulsory. It's a 5k organised running event that anyone can take part in. It used to maintain all sorts of league tables, timing tables etc until some women became cross that transwomen were recording their times in the women's category after which the terrified organisers removed most of the timings from the website lest they be seen to not be inclusive. Trans rights are, after all, more important than women's rights.

That's the perception, and oddly the more you gender neutralise language and try to remove references to women, the more anti-women the trans movement appears to become. The ones suffering, of course, are the genuinely transgender as opposed to the posturing males who have taken over the trans movement.

Thanks for 'splaining parkrun to me.

 

[Deleted member 159]

Told ya, it wasn't rocket science
,
If it happens, that it is something so incomprehensible to the average Jo on the street, perhaps you could give us all an in depth explanation of what park run is

 

[AndyRM]

Told ya, it wasn't rocket science
,
If it happens, that it is something so incomprehensible to the average Jo on the street, perhaps you could give us all an in depth explanation of what park run is

parkrun is simple.

 

[Deleted member 159]

parkrun is simple.

You were making out the description given was nowhere near the mark.

We told you it was simple, you arrive, you run, once were given a time, go home.