Role With It
2 GoodGymers made their way to help the parkrun - Pitshanger junior parkrun in Ealing.
- Sunday, 19th of May 2024
- Led by Sevan
Sevan arrived at this morning at Pitshanger Junior parkrun expecting to be a marshal and Kash, having forgotten to sign up didn't know what role would be in store for her. It turned out that they were both assigned to be funnel managers, a role that neither of them had done before. Apparently last week the funnel was a problem
"It was chaos" - marshal
"Last time the funnel manager set it up then went to run with her daughter" - frequent run director
Oh well, said Kash and Sevan. They'd roll with it. Kash was stationed at the entrance to the funnel to siphon adults away and Sevan was at the finish line to make sure that everyone stayed in finish order and took the left turn to pick up a finish token.
"You're doing a much better job than last week" - frequent run director
"You mean I'm doing better than no one? Just kidding" - Sevan
Kash had the harder job, with people milling around the funnel entrance and some adults and children being confused by being asked to split up. Sevan on the other hand only had to gently cajole to get children running all the way to the finish line and not stop dead on the line.
In total, 96 runners were shepherded through the funnel. The same number as last time, but with 3 funnel managers in action this week, everything worked like a well oiled machine.
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