Parkrun Report Saturday 15th September by Roxane Pratt

Pos Parkrunner Time Cat Grade Cat Pos Note Runs Parkrun
126 Nicky CHRASCINA 25:01 VW50-54 70.49% 23 New PB! 10 Longrun
81 Wendy DRIVER 28:31 VW55-59 66.16% 21 New PB! 20 Street
25 Martin HOOPER 22:41 VM40-44 61.57% 22 New PB! 32 Street
58 Hazel SHEARS 24:42 SW30-34 60.05% 7 New PB! 29 Burnham
55 Richard GANDY 25:33 VM50-54 58.19% 47 New PB! 4 Street
31 Colin EVANS 24:53 VM45-49 57.87% 27 First Timer! 129 Henstridge Airfield
48 Dave WESTERMAN 24:59 VM45-49 57.17% 41 PB stays at 23:01 17 Street
132 Nick PRATT 27:28 VM50-54 54.13% 112 PB stays at 24:47 131 Montacute
233 Roxane PRATT 32:11 VW50-54 52.72% 63 PB stays at 30:03 142 Montacute
143 David GERMAN 40:23 VM80-84 52.04% 95 New PB! 132 Street
153 Brian CLARK 54:29 VM80-84 38.37% 99 PB stays at 26:46 9 Street

It was a Saturday dominated by PB's:

- Speedy Nicky at Taunton topped our table - PB by 52 seconds and hit over 70%

- At Street's 20th event, Wendy PB-ed by 6 seconds, Martin by 20 seconds, Dave G by 1 minute 31 seconds, Richard by 2 mins 9 seconds.

- And at Burnham, Hazel joined their monthly Pacer Event and PB-ed by 20 seconds.

With only 359, numbers were noticably down at Montacute compared to recent weeks. Nick and I were the only ones representing Langport. A fairly warm morning, RD Lynda warned us all about the sheep poop around the course. She was right, there was a lot!

On Street's 20th run, it was great to see Brian back on the course. Like Dave G, this was Brian's first run in his shiny new age category. He tail walked with his wife Wenda; who, he tells me, broke the record for her age/sex category. 

 

One to try a new Parkrun, Colin headed over to the second Henstridge Airfield event. He joined 78 other newbies, out of a total of 116 runners there this week.

 

Interesting Parkrun fact: this week there were 1,301 Parkruns held worldwide, with 225,437 participants and 19,400 volunteers. The biggest events in the UK remain Bushy Park (1392), Southampton (874) and Poole (801).

 

Photos:

 

(1) Nick & Billy at Longrun:

Nickydog

 

(2) Rox half way up 'The Hill' at Montacute:

2 ROX HILL

 

(3) Respect to pushing a double buggy up 'The Hill' at Montacute:

3 DOUBLE BUGGY Montacute

(4) The start at Montacute:

4 the house