Individual parkrun profile data is kept in order to create and maintain our results tables, historic records of participation, allow participants to access their participation records and to allow anyone registered with parkrun to continue to participate at future parkrun events without the requirement t...
Then they removed the stats (which many people loved) to try and hide the fact that men were claiming women’s course and age grade records. Then lied to everyone about why they had done it.To be clear it’s the management that is the issue, the local event organisers, work hard ...
Parkrun has received criticism for ranking individual times and maintaining course records when parkruns are marketed as not being races [8]. However, these are likely to be important motivating factors for many to take part in parkrun. Furthermore, some elements of the gamification of parkrun ...