Parkrun News Saturday 26 April 25
A great turnout with something like 27 members but only spread across 8 events. Black Rocks to no surprise is our most popular parkrun with 11 members in attendance. Ian Watson had a cracking run finishing in 19.19 and 10th position whilst Jack Cummins was not far behind in 20.49 and 16th place. Star performance at the event goes to Emily Jones who as a JW10 ran 24.34 in 66th position and an amazing age grading of 73.74%. Well run Emily and mum Lisa.
A new parkrun to this group somewhere down South is the catchily named Egham Orbit parkrun which enticed Beccy and Rob Curtis to take a trip to visit old friends or something as it certainly wasn’t to run any PB’s at this venue. Possibly a bit too much cheese and wine accounting for their leisurely paced runs?
Sarah Witham was back on it with serious alphabet hunting in mind when visiting Jesmond Dene parkrun up North to grab that all important letter “J”. 25.10 on a course with a serious hill in it was not a bad time all things considered. Parkrun world tourist Dennis Holmes joined over 100 other social misfits and travelled to Eswatini to run Mbabane parkrun which is out in the middle of nowhere in South Africa and found that running up hill at even slight altitude is not his forte, thereby recording a seasons worst time of 29.14.
Greg Hopkinson who actually likes running up hills perversely ran Monsal Trail parkrun which is obviously pretty flat explaining his 17.07 time and first finisher. There is obviously plenty of oxygen in Bakewell. The 6 other MAC athletes who ran Monsal obviously all found it easy to breath as every one of them ran great times and finished within the top 50.
At the penultimate venue of Rother Valley Country park Cherry Moger ran a very impressive 23.53 for 104th place whilst Roy
Austin must have been taking it easy or suffering high altitude issues as per Dennis Holmes when he finished in 28.39. Sarah Austin was taking it much more seriously with an excellent run of 29.16.
Finally, at a parkrun on the authors bucket list, The University of Stirling parkrun, Kate Ruffell returned to parkrunning once more with a super speedy time of 24.36 for 54th position and this weeks MAC highest age grading score of 77.78%!
