parkrun Report – Saturday 19th November 2016

This week, the cool damp conditions had a detrimental effect on parkrun attendances, with Ashton Court, Pomphrey Hill and Chipping Sodbury, all being down on last week.

At Ashton Court, the Club’s first runner to finish was Henry SLY in second position in a time of 17:51. Greg CHANCE, on his first appearance on the hill in over three years, had a twenty-five second PB in 18:32 and was in fourth position. Bill HULL was the first VM45-49 in 19:55 and Jane COLMAN was first VW45-49 in 22:53. Antonia GOODER and Jennifer OWSLEY were the first VW50-54 and first VW55-59 respectively. Lesley EVANS was the only other PB, with a time of 24:56, a thirty-nine second improvement.

At Chipping Sodbury, Nathan HEMINGBROUGH was in tenth position, in a time of 19:12 and was second SM25-29. Bruce SELLERS was the second VM50-54 in 21:10 and Graham CRUMP was second VM55-59 in 22:00.

Maciej BIALOGONSKI was the third finisher at Pomphrey Hill in 17:32 and was second SM30-34. Jay AKBAR was the second JM11-14 in 21:04. Helen NEWBERRY, Rosey MUSHENS and Claire SHINE were first SW30-34, first VW50-54 and first VW45-49 respectively.

Also in the local area, Karen WATSON was the first VW50-54 at Wotton and Anne GARNISH had a time of 29:33 at Bath Skyline. Daryl PHILLIPS had a two second PB of 17:51, finishing in second place at Burnham & Highbridge with Martha WHEELER completing the course in 31:53.

Over in Wales, Helen SHARPE was the second female at Cardiff in 18:53. This was a PB by twenty –three seconds. Daryl BEGGS also had a PB with a time of 20:08. Peter MORTON was in first place at Newport with a time of 17:49.

In London, the SALTER family were at Ally Pally. Abby had a twenty-three second PB in a time of 25:04. Maggie and David were both first in the 55-59 Age Categories. At Southwark, Phil PARRY was first VM55-59 in 18:29 and with an Age Grade of 81.79%.

Jack MILLAR, running at Beeston, was first finisher in 15:59 and had an Age Grade of 81.54%.

There were two first females this week. Lizzi ELTON-WALTERS, having recently moved to New Zealand, made her debut at the Puarenga parkrun in Rotorua, Lizzi was third overall and first SW25-29. This was Lizzi’s highest finish position in 212 parkruns. Lizzi has written a full blown blog on her achievement which can be found here

https://redwightblue.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/puarenga-parkrun/

Lizzi is awarded the Performance of the Week.

The other first female was Claire Hallissey, who ran at Tring, finishing in a time of 20:42.

Saturday’s results for Bristol & West club members are at the following link: http://www.parkrun.com/results/consolidatedclub/clubNum=245&eventdate=2016-11-19