parkrun Report – Saturday 18th March 2017

There was a larger than normal number of Club runners at Ashton Court, with many of the reinforcements being members of the Under-13 and Uunder-15 boys supporting the Under-15 endurance team manager, Emma WITHERS, running her 250^th parkrun.  Emma is the Club’s first female runner to achieve this significant milestone.

The first finisher at Ashton Court was Maciej BIALOGONSKI in 17:03, a fifty second PB, with Helen NEWBERRY on her debut on the hill, completing the course as first female in 19:59. Amos KINGSTON with a time of 24:11, and Jemima DUTTON finishing in 28:51, had PBs on Saturday. Amos with a sixty-six second improvement is awarded the Performance of the Week.

Rebecca AWDE was the second finisher and first female at Basingstoke in 19:24, an eight second PB and her brother David, was the first finisher at Yeovil Montacute in 16:51.

There were two other female first finishers; Polly AINSLEY at Worcester in 20:18 and Claire HALLISSEY at Milton Keynes in 18:49. For the men, Gary STANDINGER was first at Burnham & Highbridge in 18:54 and Mark BURLEY led the field home at Wotton in 19:19, closely followed by John O’DWYER in 19:35, with Bob COX in fifth position in 23:10, a PB by twenty-eight seconds.

There were two other PBs; from Isie BATES at Lydney and Myra EVANS at Pomphrey Hill.

Saturday’s results for Bristol & West club members are at the following link: http://www.parkrun.com/results/consolidatedclub/clubNum=245&eventdate=2017-03-18