Park Run

[Mrs H]

All you orienteers who do Park Runs - PLEASE make sure you enter under your orienteering club name (with the word orienteering in full) - same with Mountain Marathons and Adventure Races. Big Up the sport for heaven's sake. This is important

[andy]

The problem is that a lot of orienteers are these 'runner' types too, and have running clubs! If I was in a running club I'd probably have it against my parkrun account

[SeanC]

When I registered with ParkRun a couple of years ago you had to select a club from a list and orienteering clubs weren't listed (only athletics/running clubs). I emailed them to ask if orienteering clubs could be listed but didn't get a reply.

Park Runs do have the philosophy of encouraging local running clubs to publicise their races at Park Runs, and my expercience is that they're very happy to help publicise O events too. So orienteers who go might want to distribute fliers for local O events. You can also ask for info to be put on local Park Run websites.

[frog]

My running club were keen for me to run under them for this as we get a big turnout, although I only did it once and found my achilles tendons didn't like me running first thing on a Saturday morning.

[Jayne]

I tend to run all running races for my running club. That said, we have advertised races at Park Runs and got people coming to them (Park Run people tend to be more amenable to try new things than running club people who already have their own agenda.) If ok with ParkRun we'll probably advertise our summer trail and park series (and the city race) at them too.

[Marco Polo]

When I registered with ParkRun a couple of years ago you had to select a club from a list and orienteering clubs weren't listed (only athletics/running clubs). I emailed them to ask if orienteering clubs could be listed but didn't get a reply.

Park Runs do have the philosophy of encouraging local running clubs to publicise their races at Park Runs, and my expercience is that they're very happy to help publicise O events too. So orienteers who go might want to distribute fliers for local O events. You can also ask for info to be put on local Park Run websites.

You can register your orienteering club with Parkrun. You need to provide the name of a 'results secretary' to send club results to each week. Some members of our club will still want to run for their running club but they have the option of choosing their O club as well. (Leicester in this case).

[deebee]

And talking about Bigging Up orienteering, what happened to car stickers? My entirely unofficial unrepresentative survey in a JK car park (the number of cars I looked at between the finish and my car) showed more National Trust stickers than Orienteering ones. Just to confirm this, I did the same survey in the Travelodge car park. Once upon a few years ago everybody had a car sticker or a little kite hanging from the rear view mirror, not any more.

[Ant W]

Is it still possible to buy car stickers, unadorned by the name of the shop you bought them from?

[frog]

My little kite became annoying, and got squished by my son. I think it's lying injured somewhere. The 6 day car stickers used to get used though.

[ba-ba]

I used to run as my O club at parkruns (SYO were quite quick at getting themselves 'registered' with ParkRun) but now I have a running club they get first precedent. It's also the main way they keep everyone updated in the club news postings - although I did set my PB in my O-club top and lapped lots of people, does that count as publicity?

As for MMs, you don't normally have team names for them, just names, age and where you come from.

O car stickers are a bit too large. FRA sticker is a much better size (And more aesthetically pleasing) so I've got that in the back of my car. I'd have a sixday one in there but lost it before I got my own wheels (never even saw where the Moray ones were being doled out from though).

[mharky]

You really don't want a Moray 2013 one on your car. The Oban logo was really good, and that's what I have. Moray is just foul.

[PhilJ]

i don't really get O car stickers, who are they for, what service do they provide? I have seen the Moray one and Oban one, Jk etc and I know that it's all about O cos I am an O'er. But if you park your car in the local tesco and lots of people see the sticker it means nothing. Logo with a date, maybe a web site...so what...I see cars with lots of OMM/KIMM stickers....like badges of honour...I did the 2008 OMM in the lakes.
I do have an ultrasport one and BO one on the camper though

[andypat]

What they probably should be for is free advertising for the sport. Its a bit like product placement in films - simply by being there, the stickers should get orienteering a bit more into the public's awareness. Obviously some do this better than others, and some are produced for other reasons.

[madmike]

i don't really get O car stickers, who are they for, what service do they provide? I

A few years back on my old Peugeot 205 the large number of stickers helped to keep the loose bits of the windscreen in for a while

[Mrs H]

We're drifting - car stickers are mostly too esoteric to be any use for publicity purposes - and they don't prove you're "hard"

I know an orienteer who has posted one of the fasted times in their age group in the WHOLE WORLD - under their athletics club name. But to be honest if they had used their O club name people wouldn't be much the wiser - somehow you MUST get the word ORIENTEERING in there.