Parkrun round up 10 May 2025
31 Members at 10 venues with a fantastic 16 of those at Poolsbrook for the Juniors Club Championship Event.
Sarah Austin celebrated her 250th parkrun today at her favourite venue, Clumber Park ,earning her the Green T-shirt. That’s quite some dedication and half way to that very, very special Blue T-shirt. Congratulations Sarah.
David Howarth had a great run down at Gladstone parkrun, London with an excellent time of 24.19 for 74th place.
At the main event Poolsbrook Country Park, Pasco Reynolds ran a superb 19.36 for 8th place with Arthur Collis only 8 seconds behind in 19.44 and 10th place. (Can these teenagers manage 4.5 miles and compete in the Derby Runner League races?)
Matlock’s third junior running in the JM11-14 category was Alfie Campbell completing the 5k in an amazing 21.12 for 22 place.
Oliver Jones, also in the JM11-14 category ran a new PB of 22.46 for his 46th place finish out of 325 participants.
For the girls, Lilika Yokoyama-Nichols, JW11-14, running at Poolsbrook for the first time finished in the superfast time of 23.46 exactly to the second with Emily Jones, JW10, for whom this was a new PB!
Heidi Ayres, Charlotte Allaway, Max Gill and Bethany Roberts were the other MAC juniors all of whom ran fantastically well in completing this 5k for the club championship. Well done to all juniors and to all seniors who helped out as responsible adults.
Sarah Witham sometimes behaves like a child but was a grown up for her run at Scunthorpe where she finished in a speedy 23.55 for 81st place.
Kate Ruffell added Skinadin parkrun ,on the Isle of Sky to my list of never heard of parkruns, and trust that it may be undulating judging by her time of 25.36 which earned her a 9th place finish.
Trelai parkrun in Cardiff was the venue of choice this week for young Oscar Szabo where he ran a steady 23.43.
Finally, Dennis Holmes completed his African adventure with a run at Zandvlei parkrun, Cape Town and a respectable if not remarkable 26.19 finish.
Finally, finally. Looking at the age grading scores this week shows that the girls are really outshining the boys. Top scorer with 77.00% is Ayako Yokoyama-Nichols, whilst Emily Jones (JW10!!!) is second highest with 76.23%. Third position is Kate Ruffell on 74.74% and fourth place is JW10 Heidi Eyres with 71.61%. For the boys only Arthur Collis and Alfie Campbell scored above 70% with 70.52% and 70.13 respectively.
