parkrun Report Saturday 14th January 2017

There were more large attendance figures at the local parkruns on Saturday with 548 at Ashton Court, 401 at Chipping Sodbury and 394 at Pomphrey Hill.

At Ashton Court, David ENGLEDEW was the Club’s best finisher with a time of 19:58 in eleventh place. Neil LIGHT was three seconds behind in thirteenth position. Tracy ALLAN and Alison ENGLEDEW had Age Grades of 82.15% and 80.87% respectively. There also were PBs for Molly CHILTON, Nicola OLDROYD and Lesley EVANS.

Maciej BIALOGONSKI was the second finisher at Pomphrey Hill in 17:06, with Jonathan BENNETT and Bill HULL in the top ten. Rosey MUSHENS was the first female and there was a big PB of forty seconds for Grace CLARIDGE, who was also the first JW11-14. This earned Grace the Performance of the Week.

Daryl PHILLIPS was another second finisher, this time at Chipping Sodbury, and with a time of 17:49. Jonathan GOODLAND and Paul SMARDON were first in their respective Age Categories with times of 21:11 and 21:20 respectively. John DWYER was first finisher at the other local parkrun, Wotton, in 20:15

Running in London, Paul JEFFERSON was the second finisher at Gunnersbury in 17:49 and Polly AINSLEY was the second female at Brockwell in 19:54, a PB by fort-nine seconds. In Wales, Peter MORTON was the first finisher at Newport in 17:53.

Finally, Mark BURLEY and Lizzi ELTON-WALTERS were fourth overall and fourth female at Tewkesbury and Puarenga respectively.

Saturday’s results for Bristol & West club members are at the following link: http://www.parkrun.com/results/consolidatedclub/clubNum=245&eventdate=20170114