A bright, sunny morning – though it was cold for marshalling in the wind at the Whitley Bay seafront! We were fairly well spread around the North East venues, and there was some tourism too.
Holly Porter had an impressive debut at Keswick, recording her fastest ever parkrun! Claire Taylor ventured south to Knaresborough. Further south still, Aoife Monaghan and Jack Shawcross swelled the numbers for the last ever running of the Epworth Equestrian parkrun, which is on the Lincolnshire / South Yorkshire border.
London was as far south as we got, with Laurie Johnson and Cate Walker visiting Southwark, which Laurie described as: “3 leafy laps around a flat, spacious park. The start was reminiscent of Bushy, though with far fewer participants, as a hoard about 100 metres wide and 4 rows deep, charged across the grass before joining the main path.
Still sadly unable to run, I had a enjoyable co-tailwalk with a woman who filled me in on her parkrun journey, initially inspired by chemotherapy-induced weight-gain, and now cancer-free, but battling gout of the knee!”
A real rarity this week, as there were no official PBs for Claremont parkrunners (Holly’s run, as a first timer at Keswick, doesn’t show as a PB). However, there were 3 podium finishers – Harry Mawdsley was 3rd at Leazes, Roberto Marzo 2nd at Denton Dene and Sarah Kerr was 2nd female on the Town Moor.
