Another great report from Elspeth. A few comments would be nice!
parkrun Race Series Competition 2018 – End Of June Report
The sudden rise in temperatures this month has not affected the numbers of WRC runners attending park runs and we have six qualifiers to congratulate this month. Both James Macdonald and Tony Hulme qualified for the ‘Popular’ courses at Lyme Park, Wilmslow, Bramhall and Congleton. Jan Wyles, Tim Billington, John Porteous and Carolyn Hirons have also qualified for the ‘Enthusiast’ courses of Sale Water, Burnage, Stretford and Wythenshawe. Tony and Tim both join Richard Lawson in completing all eight courses.
Qualifying points and times are as follows :-
Popular Courses
Andy Whittingham 1hr 13m 2s 100 points
James Macdonald 1hr 20m 22s 99 points
Matt Taylor 1hr 22m 20s 98 points
Tim Billington 1hr 23m 19s 97 points
Richard Lawson 1hr 24m 24s 96 points
Gareth Trimble 1hr 32m 15s 95 points
Tony Hulme 1hr 36m 31s 94 points
Colin Walton 1hr 44m 9s 93 points
Enthusiast Courses
Tim Billington 1hr 20m 26s 100 points
Richard Lawson 1hr 24m 38s 99 points
Tony Hulme 1hr 36m 6s 98 points
John Porteous 1hr 36m 9s 97 points
Chris Cannon 1hr 36m 28s 96 points
Alan Turner 1hr 36m 47s 95 points
Catherine Machin 1hr 37m 24s 94 points
Jan Wyles 1hr 38m 34s 93 points
Sue Strang 1hr 44m 4s 92 points
Carolyn Hirons 1hr 54m 45s 91 points
Ian Ashcroft 1hr 57m 11s 90 points
The following people have completed three courses and need only one more for qualification in July, the list is as follows:
Popular Courses:
Sharon Johnson & Graham Duce – Congleton
Ian Smallwood, Ian Ashcroft & Roy Pownall – Bramhall
Mark Crossland, Alan Turner, John Porteous & Nicola Coppock – Lyme Park
Enthusiast Courses:
Sharon Johnstone & Rob Jackson – Stretford
We have one official parkrun milestone this month with Daniel Bundred running his 50th parkrun at Wilmslow. Although not an official T-Shirt Milestone, congratulations should go to Paul Garnett who reached 300 parkruns this month with a ‘tourist’ run at Perth parkrun.
Notable runs must include our travelling parkrun tourist Richard Lawson who added another four different courses to his list and came 1st at Chadderton Parkrun on the 16th June. Andy Whittingham knocked his course PB at Wilmslow down to 17.42 on 23rd June, an excellent run in the heat that morning. Richard Coen managed to PB at Bramhall on the 9th June, also taking 1st runner. Sharon Johnstone increased her double to a triple coming in as first lady at Bramhall on the 16th and 23rd June following Wythenshawe on the 9th. Although not members of the club it was nice to see WRC offspring taking 1st Lady at Lyme Park (Juliet daughter of Rob Downs) and Wilmslow (Louisa daughter of Andy Whit) on the 16th June … looks like both Rob and Andy will have to keep up the training to stay ahead of those girls!
The prize for most exotic parkrun is awarded this month to Roy Pownall who ran at Heartlands parkrun in Redruth, Cornwall. Roy showing dedication to fitness in between those Cornish clotted cream teas!
With the heat set to continue into July we may struggle to see many PBs however the sunshine hopefully will still keep numbers up.
Happy July parkrunning.
Elspeth
I’m glad to have qualified.. now do I focus on knocking a minute or so off my total enthusiasts.. or diversify into the populists courses.. race tactics!!
Thanks Elspeth for another great report. The course in Cornwall was four times around a twisting park that included going around flower beds and a children’s playground. Not the best for a fast time! I managed to resist the Cornish clotted cream teas, but the odd G&T did go down well in the heat!