Summer Series: Parkrun report – August

PARKRUN RACE SERIES COMPETITION – END OF AUGUST REPORT

We now find ourselves in the last quarter of the parkrun competition.  For those calculating whether they have time left to qualify we now have another nine parkruns left, as the final date to be counted will be Saturday 27^th October.  So, it is still possible to qualify for both parkrun competitions and get two entries on the summer series tables.

The end of August sees another three qualifiers on the tables.  Congratulations go to Catherine Machin who has completed the ‘Popular’ courses at Lyme Park, Wilmslow, Bramhall and Congleton to qualify, and to James Macdonald and Mark Crossland who have completed the ‘Enthusiast’ courses at Wythenshawe, Sale Water, Stretford and Burnage. This also means that both Catherine and James have completed all 8 courses – Well Done!

Qualifying points and times are as follows :-

Popular Courses

Andy Whittingham          1hr 13m 27s       100 points

James Macdonald            1hr 20m 22s       99 points            **completed all 8 courses

Tim Billington                     1hr 20m 44s       98 points            **completed all 8 courses

Graham Duce                     1hr 20m 53s       97 points
Matt Taylor                         1hr 22m 20s       96 points
Richard Lawson                 1hr 24m 24s       95 points            **completed all 8 courses

Gareth Trimble                  1hr 32m 15s       94 points

Ian Smallwood                  1hr 33m 4s          93 points

Tony Hulme                        1hr 36m 31s       92 points            **completed all 8 courses

John Porteous                   1hr 37m 59s       91 points            **completed all 8 courses

Catherine Machin            1hr 38m 20s       90 points            **completed all 8 courses

Colin Walton                      1hr 40m 7s          89 points

Chris Cannon                     1hr 40m 17s       88 points            **completed all 8 courses

Ian Ashcroft                       1hr 50m 7s          87 points            **completed all 8 courses

Roy Pownall                       1hr 57m 28s       86 points

 

Enthusiast Courses

James Macdonald            1hr 17m 49s       100 points

Tim Billington                     1hr 18m 49s       99 points

Richard Lawson                 1hr 24m 38s       98 points

Tony Hulme                        1hr 35m 30s       97 points

John Porteous                   1hr 36m 6s          96 points

Chris Cannon                     1hr 36m 16s       95 points

Alan Turner                        1hr 36m 47s       94 points

Catherine Machin            1hr 37m 24s       93 points

Mark Crossland                 1hr 37m 53s       92 points

Jan Wyles                            1hr 38m 34s       91 points

Sue Strang                           1hr 44m 4s          90 points

Ian Ashcroft                       1hr 48m 49s       89 points

Carolyn Hirons                   1hr 54m 45s       88 points

 

The following people have completed three courses and need only one more for qualification in September, the list is as follows:

Popular Courses:

Sharon Johnson  –  Congleton

Catriona Marshall –  Bramhall

Mark Crossland, Kate Sutton, Alan Turner, Nicola Coppock and Carolyn Hirons – Lyme Park

Enthusiast Courses:

Sharon Johnstone, Jarrod Homer, Gareth Trimble, Rob Jackson and Patrick Grannan – Stretford

Andy Whittingham and Ian Smallwood – Burnage

Another month without any parkrun milestones, though we do have a winner of the most exotic parkrun which this month goes to Mike Hill who ran at Crissy Field parkrun in San Francisco. He is not the first WRC member to run this course though ….. any guesses?  Answer – Pete Stock who ran the course in 2015.

Notable runs include Daniel Bundred who took first runner at both Wilmslow and Eglington parkruns earlier in August and then ran his first sub-18 min parkrun with a great pb of 17.53 last Saturday.  Following his London Marathon training earlier this year Colin Walton continues to consolidate and advance, running a PB at Wilmslow on 25^th August with a sub-23 min time of 22.59.  It was good to see Mark Crossland back to regular parkrunning in August following his recent period of injury and Kate Sutton continues to improve with her August parkruns back in the 23 minute range, good training ready for her upcoming Ethiopian Challenge!

Happy September parkrunning.

Elspeth