This weekend’s parkrun was certainly a windy one. 162 runners, joggers and walkers avoided getting blown over and 24 people joined us for the first time including John Robert Richardson of Swaffham parkrun in Norfolk. He had a 7am departure this morning to join us this weekend as he completed his third county of parkruns. As of today he’s run all the parkruns in Norflok, Suffolk & now Cambridgeshire. Congratulations!

This week, 215 braved the strong winds at Pocket parkrun to complete our 40th event. 39 people joined us for the first time and 6 people ran thier first parkruns. 35 people also beat the wind to set new PBs this weekend. Callum Nicholson was this week’s first finisher in a time of 18:42 and Hayley Read was the female first finisher in a time of 20:27. She also had the highest age grade of the week with 77.67%.

This weekend, 196 runners and 33 volunteers joined us on a drizzly morning in Pocket park. 63 people ran PBs and we had 31 people doing Pocket parkrun for the first time, including 15 taking part in a parkrun for the first time.

This weekend saw Pocket parkrun’s first takeover event. Girlguiding took over events all over the UK as part of their world thinking day. Another reason they were here in Pocket park was to ask if anybody would be willing to volunteer at Rainbows, Brownies or Guides. If you’d like to you can register to volunteer by clicking here or you can find out more by clicking here.

Today, 237 ran, walked and jogged round Pocket parkrun. We had an unusually large group of first timers this morning - 42 in fact, 22 of whom were running a parkrun for the first time. Among those who had run Pocket pefore, there were 52 PBs today. We also had a number of tourists with us from Kings Lynn, Milton Keynes, St Albans and Cambridge. Perhaps the loudest tourist we’ve ever had, Sharon Threlfall, an RD at Westmill parkrun, celebrated an arbitry 150th parkrun with us this weekend. #BlameStephen This week, our first two finishers forgot thier barcodes! So our first finisher with a barcode was Callum Nicholson who finished in a time of 18:40. Our first female finisher was Hayley Read in a time of 20:25. The person with the highest age grade this weekend was first timer Fiona Downie with 80.09% and a time of 22:01.