The good weather brought 34 Nymac members out at Saturday’s Parkruns with several achievements to note. At Albert Park, David Watkins celebrated his 503rd run with a year’s best time and a WAVA rating of 85.4%. Alex Bos, continuing his recovery, Stuart Dawes at Stewart Park and Nick Smith at Flatts Lane all produced their […]
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The prospect of seeing Dave Robinson run his 250th Parkrun drew 22 Nymac members to Flatts Lane on Saturday. Inspired by the surroundings, Jack Hustwitt was first male home and Kirsty Struthers first female. Also first finishing was Jeff Belt, a long, long way away at Anacostia Parkrun in Washington DC. By comparison , even […]
The blue T shirt club for 500 Parkruns gained its 4th member at Nymac on Saturday. David Watkins passed the milestone at Albert Park in the company of two other members, Eddie Meehan and David Ainsley. David’s first Parkrun was on June 28 2008 (event 5) when he ran as a ‘young’ VM in the […]
In a search for ever more exotic Parkrun Courses, Angus Sanderson hit gold, running at the Dallas Burston Polo event which turns out to be near South in the Midlands not in Texas. It is a real Polo Club though. Sharon and William Gayter ran at Clare Castle in Eire which looks like another lovely […]
There was more tourism on Saturday’s Parkrun events from the inevitable Iain Hall checking out the hills of Chevin Forest to PaulLevett at Monsal Dale in the Peak District, David Allison away from his usual Scottish courses at Harrogate and Gavin Struthers at Victoria Park in Glasgow. I got to try out the mud of […]
According to my version of AA Autoroute, it’s 215 miles from Albert Park in Middlesbrough to Houghton Hall in Luton. Iain Hall was working through his latest Parkrun challenge (all 12 Hall events) so missed Each record her second pb of successive weeks, last week at Stewart Park and this Saturday at Albert. Unusually, Iain […]
41 Nymac members turned out at Parkruns on Saturday and I thought it was worthwhile checking out a few statistics provided by Parkrun Central. So here goes:* There are 3 members with over 500 runs and 19 with more than 250. One, Dave Watkins, is only 3 away from his 500.* One member, Iain Hall, […]
36 Nymac members braved the subzero temperatures on Saturday. That was 10 more than took part at Flatts Lane where Chris Wright and myself were treated to wonderful, icy scenery. Milestones for the day were to:* Stuart Dawes reaching his 100 th run at Albert Park.* Still at Albert, Rach Hall was first placed woman.* […]