parkrun Report – Saturday 14th October 2017

With the Club’s main effort at the weekend focused on the combined Cross Challenge/Gwent League Meeting at Llandaff Fields in Cardiff, numbers were down, particularly among the juniors at Saturday’s parkruns.

Looking at this week’s results, Andrew DEAN-YOUNG was tenth at Cardiff with a time of 17:50, while at Basingstoke, Rebecca AWDE was the first female and first SW340-34 in 20:23.

At Ashton Court. Nick ROBERTS and Peter GANDON were in the top ten in times of 18:32 and 19:06 respectively. Nick’s time was a seventy-seven second PB and is adjudged to be the Performance of the Week. Andrea GOUDE also recorded a PB with a time of 29:24. Alice DOGGRELL was the second female in 21:28, with Jane COLMAN and Tanya CHOWDHURY in fifth and seventh places in times of 22:08 and 22:56. Congratulations are due to Henrietta ANSTEY on completing her 100^th parkrun on Saturday, prior to her setting off to Cardiff for the Gwent League.

David AWDE was the first finisher at Chipping Sodbury in 16:50. At Pomphrey Hill Timothy WHITE was the second finished in 18:53, with Henry ORNA and Matt BURDEN in seventh and ninth places in times of 19:25 and 19:43 respectively. Matt’s time was a PB by thirty seconds. Anna FORD was the first female in 22:54. Julie ILOGU and Karen WATSON both recorded PBS of 25:23 and 25:53 finishing as sixth and ninth females.

Rob COLMAN and Michelle EDGELL were the only overseas travellers, running at parkrun Krakow; completing the course in times of 26:06 and 32:26. Meanwhile Sheila WILCOX sampled the delights of Minehead, finishing in 27:30. Bruce SELLERS was the first VM50-54 at Hastings in 21:06 and Graham CRUMP, a regular parkrun tourist visited Burnham, completing the course in 22:37. Finally David and Maggie SALTER ran at Lancaster, both coming first in their respective Age Categories in times of 23:08 and 25:07.