parkrun News – Saturday 19 September 2026
27 participants at 13 venues makes it a healthy turnout
Very very brief comments due to technical issues with mountains not being helpful to tech in the Outer Hebrides.
Ian Pitkin and Paul Clark both ran cracking times and earned age gradings of 71% but young Emily Jones’s 78% at Black Rocks takes that prize.
A return of Captain Greg Hopkinson to parkrun at Endcliffe with a 8th place finish and 18.56 time shows there is still hope he will make a good runner one day if he puts the training in.
Christine Howard having only walked about one thousand seven hundred miles or so these last few months felt the need to walk a further 3 miles at Milton Country.
10 MAC members ran the Black Rocks event with 8 of those finishing in the top 100.
Dennis Holmes takes the tourist award with his trip to Lews Castle, Stornaway on the Isle of Lewis, a venue he can totally recommend for its scenery if not its weather.
Apologies for the brevity
