Dating for people who know where they will be at 9am on Saturday

Free, weekly, 5k, and famously not a race. parkrun is a community first, and the people you keep seeing in the finish funnel deserve a better introduction than a nod.

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How it works for parkrunners

No scraping, ever. parkrun's API programme is on hold and it does not condone scraping, so Affinity Atlas would use Interest Q&A plus optional Strava data for Saturday 5ks. You tell us what you want to share.

A parkrun has a home event, a tourism list, milestones, and volunteer roles
Matching happens at every level: same home event, overlapping tourism, shared roles and challenges
Runs and volunteer credits per year provide engagement data, finish times are never ranked
It started with 13 runners and 5 volunteers at Bushy Park on 2 October 2004. Small shared places still matter most

Niche overlap > mainstream overlap

Both run a Saturday 5k? With more than 11 million registered parkrunners, that is not much of a signal. Both chasing the Alphabet challenge, or both proud members of the Pirates club (seven Cs and an R)? That is a shared kind of mad.

Mainstream

Home event only, first 10 runs

Very common → NicheWeight 0.12

Niche

Pirates club + Alphabet challenge

Rare → NicheWeight 0.93

The Pirates challenge and Alphabet challenge are community traditions; parkrun has asked people not to crowd single events chasing them, so we would never nudge anyone towards a particular run on a particular day. NicheWeights are illustrative.

What gets scored

Shared home event - the strongest local signal. You already share a Saturday ritual

Tourism overlap - events you have both visited, weighted by how rarely each event gets tourists

Volunteering - marshal, tail walker, run director, barcode scanner. Volunteers are the backbone, and shared roles count

Milestones - the 25, 50, 100, 250 and 500 clubs reward turning up, not speed, so we do too

How you parkrun - running, jogging, walking, with a buggy, with a dog. Pace is not scored, style is

Post-run coffee - whether you stay for the cafe is, frankly, a compatibility question

Example match

"You share a home event and 6 tourist events avg NicheWeight 0.58. Both in the 100 club. Both volunteer roughly once a month (tail walker and timekeeper). Both working on the Alphabet challenge, 14 letters each. Both stay for coffee."

Not "you both run." The actual Saturdays. The actual volunteering. The actual coffee.

Integrations

Interest Q&A

Home event, tourism, milestones, volunteer roles

Strava

Live link · Saturday 5k activity and consistency

Meetup

Partner access · Running clubs and social runs

All opt-in. All revocable. Not affiliated with parkrun. We follow its data wishes and never scrape results. Live links use an official API you authorise; file imports use the data export the service gives you; partner access needs the service's agreement; anything else you add by hand.

Keep reading: The Hobby App Takeover · Affinity Atlas for Athletes

Affinity Atlas is in development

No real matching is live yet. If you want someone who thinks 9am on a Saturday is a perfectly reasonable first date - get in touch.

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