170 people turned out in freezing conditions on Saturday morning for the 20th Pocket parkrun. 41 people ran their first Pocket parkrun this weekend and 12 of them ran their first ever parkrun with us this weekend. 53 people ran new PBs including 5 Junior runners! John Smith was on of 1,144 people globally to run their 50th parkrun this weekend.
Everyone who came top of their various leaderboards this week were first timers. The first finisher was Christopher Wright who ran a time of 17:37 and our female first finisher, Kate Hughes, finished 19th overall in a time of 22:09. This week the person with the highest age grade was David Wright who achieved 77.46% and finished 12th in a time of 20:42.
Round Results
- David Hodges finished in exactly 23 minutes
- Paul Ruffles finished in exactly 28 minutes
- Ellie Barker finished in exactly 38 minutes
A massive thank you to all our volunteers who stood in the cold to ensure the event could happen safely: Jen Banfield, Becki Barnett, Steven Barnett, Natalie Bartlett, Kirstie Buck, Mark Crane, June Hainsby, Tony Hainsby, Caroline Holmes, James Holmes, Abigail Jackson, Caroline Jackson, Kenny Leckie, Andrea Mallett, Natalie Matthews, Steve Moore, Jennie Moore, Antony Moore, Connie Nutter, Kirsty Rapley, Barry Robinson, Katie Rush, Maya Rush, Charlotte Simpson, Lizzie Souter, Holly Souter, Evie Souter, Laura Steed, Kerry Surkitt.
As I said last week, Saturday was the last week on the summer course and next week we’ll be parkrunning on the new winter course!
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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.
My apologies for a very stat heavy run report this week but half term stuff has meant I couldn’t join you all in Pocket park. I will hopefully be with you next week to run my 10th parkrun!
Until next week,
DFYBC - (Only 4 of you did this weekend!)