269 people ran, walked and jogged in slightly miserable conditions on Saturday morning. That’s a new record of participants at a ‘normal’ parkrun (ie. on a Saturday) in Pocket park continuing our growth this year. We had 66 first timers and 26 people took part in parkrun for the first time ever! Of the 203 people who had run Pocket parkrun before, 90 ran a new PB.
Both male and female first finishers this week were fist timers in Pocket park: Ian Hammett ran a 17:47 and Helen Rhodes ran a 23:29.
New Club Members
- Lola Philpott joined the junior 10 club with a new PB of 25:20
- Mollie Childerley joined the junior 10 club with a new PB of 28:09
- Laura Steed was handing out the Finish Tokens as she joined the Volunteer 25 club
Round Results
- Ben Goddard finished in exactly 21 minutes
- Hayley Lathwell finished in exactly 28 minutes
- Joanne Kirkham finished in exactly 48 minutes
Thanks to all our volunteers this week: Amanda Brown, Becki Barnett, Caroline Holmes, Christopher Skepper, Ellie Barker, Emily Bunting-Cleary, Finley Roberts, Ian Newland, Jaimee Barker, James Holmes, Jane Jarvis, Jen Banfield, Julia Page, Kathy Unwin, Kenny Leckie, Kirstie Buck, Lara Smith, Laura Steed, Louis Phillips, Mark Crane, Max Carrington, Nick Gellatly, Samuel Kirkham, Sarah Maplesden-Jenkins, Sarah Tully, Sharon Williamson, Sonny Roberts, Stefanie McCabe, Steve Moore, Steven Barnett and this week’s run director, Joanne Carrington
I’d like to thank Amanda Brown for being a 30 minute pacer this week. While I didn’t quite keep up right all the way to the end, it was really helpful to have a flag bobbing up and down in the distance to try and stay in sight of!
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Thanks to everyone who ran, jogged walked, supported or volunteered at Pocket parkrun this weekend. If you’d like to volunteer next weekend (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.
Untill next weekend,
DFYBC (12 of you did this week)
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