Elspeth writes:
This month’s parkrun competition continues to heat up in line with the current temperature as we have another six qualifiers to congratulate this month. All six have completed the ‘Popular’ courses at Lyme Park, Wilmslow, Bramhall and Congleton to qualify. So, congratulations go to Graham Duce, John Porteous, Chris Cannon, Ian Ashcroft, Roy Pownall and Ian Smallwood. Chris, John and Ian Ashcroft have all now completed the full eight courses in the competition – well done!
Qualifying points and times are as follows :-
Popular Courses
Andy Whittingham 1hr 13m 2s 100 points
James Macdonald 1hr 20m 22s 99 points
Graham Duce 1hr 50m 53s 98 points
Tim Billington 1hr 21m 24s 97 points **completed all 8 courses
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
Chris Cannon 1hr 40m 17s 90 points **completed all 8 courses
Colin Walton 1hr 44m 9s 89 points
Ian Ashcroft 1hr 50m 7s 88 points **completed all 8 courses
Roy Pownall 1hr 57m 28s 87 points
Enthusiast Courses
Tim Billington 1hr 20m 26s 100 points
Richard Lawson 1hr 24m 38s 99 points
Tony Hulme 1hr 35m 30s 98 points
John Porteous 1hr 36m 6s 97 points
Chris Cannon 1hr 36m 16s 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
Ian Ashcroft 1hr 51m 41s 91 points
Carolyn Hirons 1hr 54m 45s 90 points
The following people have completed three courses and need only one more for qualification in August, the list is as follows:
Popular Courses:
Sharon Johnson – Congleton
Catriona Marshall – Bramhall
Catherine Machin, Mark Crossland, Alan Turner & Nicola Coppock – Lyme Park
Enthusiast Courses:
Sharon Johnstone & Rob Jackson – Stretford
We have no official parkrun milestones this month but our new chair Paul Norris must be congratulated for reaching his 400th parkrun this month. Our outgoing chair Chris Cannon should be also mentioned and thanked for his support of the parkrun competition, he completed all 9 courses in the first 2016 competition, all 8 courses in 2017 and has this month now completed all 8 courses this year. Well done to both Paul and Chris!
I was hoping that the start of the summer holidays would see the prize for most exotic parkrun awarded to a far-flung traveller, however we are still firmly in the UK with Ian Smallwood taking the prize for his trip to Seaton parkrun in Devon. Apologies must also go to Ian as he qualified for summer series points for the Popular Courses earlier in the year, I had apportioned his points to Wilmslow instead of Bramhall, I realised my mistake this month, so his points will be added to the table. Apologies Ian!
Notable runs must include our most renowned park-runner Rob Downs, who had a tourist run at Leamington parkrun coming in 1st place with his daughter Ellen hot on his heels 12 seconds later to take 2nd place and 1st lady. Tim Billington has had a good month knocking a couple of minutes off his overall total for three of the popular courses on the table. The best overall improvement on any of our parkrun competition times this month goes to Ian Ashcroft who knocked 5m 30s off his previous Wythenshawe score. Ian modestly puts this down to initially having a poor run in January though his new time does represent one of his fastest at parkrun this year – Well done Ian! Also, it was great to see our new club member Claire Clancy run her park run debut at Wilmslow with a time of 19.57 taking 1st Lady.
With many members off on their summer hols we may see a dip next month in qualifiers but hopefully we will may see some good contenders for most exotic parkrun
Happy August parkrunning.
Elspeth
Thanks for crunching the number for us Elspeth, your lovely reports make it all so clear. Could you do something to help us understand Brexit?