Barnsley Park Run - a few pointers!

The cafe

The cafe's been doing toast and tea/coffee for £1 for the last couple of weeks and will be adding porridge, fruit and tea/coffee for £2 this week. This is a great move forward for us all so please, let's support them as they wouldn't normally open during the Winter on a Saturday and are opening up just for us. So why not stay and have a cuppa and some breakfast after your run.

Don't forget your barcode #dfyb

It was easy in the old days when there were only a few people running round Locke Park but as the numbers grow it becomes more difficult to add runners to the results if they don't have a barcode so, as you'll have seen in the recent parkrun newsletter, "No barcode, no time". It's easy to get multiple copies just follow the link on the weekly newsletter that drops into your inbox print them off and distribute them amongst your bags, coats, glovebox etc. And if you do forget your barcode and run anyway please don't forget to take a token and get it scanned as your time will have been recorded on the stopwatch when you cross the finish line. You won't get a time recorded against your name but it does make the results so much easier to process when tokens match up with times.
Which leads me into...

...don't forget to keep left on the last lap

Recently we've had a few runners crossing the line to the right of the finish which is causing difficulties for us with the stop watch as we don't always know that you have finished, we had an example this week when someone ran behind the timekeeper got a finish token but we hadn't stopped the clock for them. We sorted it out but it takes time when we'd rather be having toast and a coffee. So in future unless you cross the line properly the clock won't be stopped and you won't get a token until you have crossed the line. So don't forget AT THE END OF THE 3RD LAP KEEP LEFT!
We really try and keep rules to a minimum but these little things really do help us with processing the results.