This Saturday, 199 parkrunners braved the winds of storm Callum to take part in the 18th parkrun in Pocket park. Of course as well as the wind there was the rain! I thought that we’d just got away with it but no - it really chucked it down at about the 40 minute mark. 62 parkrunners were first timers to Pocket (31% of the field) and 8 of those ran in their inaugural parkrun with us this weekend. Of those runners joining is for their first time, Steve Grout ran at his 50th different event dressed in a cow onesie. We also had 17 tourists from Eye Community Runners join us in Pocket park.
Both of our first finishers were first timers in Pocket this weekend, Paul Keating was finished in a time of 18:58 and Hannah Mcinroy Naylor finished 17th overall in a time of 21:29. 47 people achieved new PBs this weekend including 11 under 18s! Tyler Parker was one of those under 18s, he ran a time of 21:09 and is trying to gain sponsorship forhis Camp Equador Adventure in 2020. Tim Butterworth had the highest age grade once again this week with 78.20% and a time of 19:39.
Round Results
- Grayham Joynes finished in exactly 33 minutes
- Kathy Unwin had an age grade of exactly 44%
- Rob Smith had an age grade of exactly 68%
A massive thank you to our 27 volunteers, especially the younger marshalls enthusiastically cheering us parkrunners on!
Ellie Barker, Jaimee Barker, Becki Barnett, Steven Barnett, Joanne Carrington, Joana Cerveira, Mark Crane, Fiona Dew, Tony Hainsby, Caroline Holmes, James Holmes, Diane Hufford, Trevor Hufford, Joanne Kirkham, William Kirkham, Kenny Leckie, Antony Moore, Jennie Moore, Steve Moore, Stephanie Pagio, Michaela Parr, Jenny Pepper, Natasha Pepper, Kirsty Rapley, Rodrigo Santos, Christopher Skepper and this week’s run director, Charlotte Simpson.Trevor Hufford, on of our marshals, was taking photos as people were passing him today. He’s uploaded them to Facebook and you can see them here (you might have to scroll down a bit).
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Thanks to everyone who came out to support Pocket parkrun this weekend, whether you ran, walked, jogged, cheered or volunteered. If you’d like to volunteer next week (or any week) you can go to www.parkrun.org.uk/pocket/volunteer/ to find out more or email pockethelpers@parkrun.com to see what you can do.
Until next week,
DFYBC - (7 of you did this weekend)