Yesterday it was time for our latest round of the Striders Parkrun Championships at a very warm and sunny Alvaston. For this round, our Parkrun Championship organiser Charli Land came up with a brilliant idea for bonus points – a ‘naked’ parkun! (thankfully for everyone present at Alvaston this just required removing our watches rather than anything else!). The idea here is that we all predicted our finish time beforehand, then tried to run to this time without watch assistance. It was very refreshing to ‘just run’ on feel rather than regularly checking pace etc which some of us are guilty of! Thanks for this idea Charli, we really enjoyed it!
We had a massive 36 Striders running in total, across 5 parkruns, with 32 of these at Alvaston! Those eagle-eyed amongst you may spot this is one higher than the stats. Unfortunately our chief photographer Eamonn Hughes picked up 2 barcodes with his daughters details, meaning he accidentally scanned in as a 19 year old lady! (who had already scanned in, so he got no time!) Gutted for you mate, as we know how much you put into the run. Thanks for all of your brilliant pics though :)
We also had 4 lovely Striders volunteering at Alvaston, so thanks very much to Angela Monk, Louise Hart, Rob Higson and Ray Evans! Thanks also to Ana Hagan for cheering us all on!
As for the run itself – congratulations to Paul Pearce for completely nailing it! He was so far clear in 1st place, 53 secs clear in fact, and only 6 secs off his PB! Matt Bailey came 3rd and got his PB! Jamie Atkinson flew round in 4th place only 3 secs off his PB! Well done to Steve Cartwright who continued his excellent form and also PB’d, fantastic running everyone, especially in the heat!
Elsewhere, Martin Kerr switched to Shipley and came in an impressive 2nd place, getting a course PB in the process! Well done mate!
Tourists this week were Tim Bentley down at Eastleigh (near Southampton), which he did before his first ever music festival (which had a cracking 80s line up!), Chris Halliday was down at Brueton (near Solihull) for his first run there. Then up in South Shields Jonny Branch had his first go and came 2nd place, narrowly pipped to the 1st spot by a South Shields local, great running all of you!
Remember we have our next Striders Tourist trip to Colwick coming up on the 23rd July and we also have an ‘Alvaston Parkrun takeover’ on the 30th July, which is where we are taking on all of the volunteering duties for that day! Please contact Pascale Holden if you’d like to help out, thanks in advance!
UPDATE: Eamonn now has his result, so he’s in! :)
Alvaston parkrun (269 runners) |
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| Position | Gender Position | parkrunner | Run Time |
| 1 | 1 | Paul PEARCE | 00:17:12 |
| 3 | 3 | Matt BAILEY | 00:18:11 |
| 4 | 4 | Jamie ATKINSON | 00:18:25 |
| 9 | 9 | Andrew MILLER | 00:19:06 |
| 10 | 10 | Kenneth MALTON | 00:19:11 |
| 17 | 17 | Robert HUTCHINSON | 00:20:04 |
| 18 | 18 | Tim SPATE | 00:20:23 |
| 25 | 25 | Richard JACKSON | 00:21:05 |
| 29 | 28 | Paul James ROOME | 00:21:41 |
| 35 | 34 | Richard TISSINGTON | 00:21:56 |
| 36 | 2 | Pascale HOLDEN | 00:22:08 |
| 37 | 35 | Sam KITCHEN | 00:22:09 |
| 48 | 3 | Liz PHILLIPS | 00:23:18 |
| 57 | 53 | Max ATKINSON | 00:23:36 |
| 68 | 62 | Ian CROMPTON | 00:24:06 |
| 69 | 63 | David GREEN | 00:24:09 |
| 108 | 91 | Steve CARTWRIGHT | 00:25:49 |
| 119 | 97 | James REALEY | 00:26:42 |
| 122 | 19 | Samantha JAMES | 00:26:56 |
| 129 | 100 | Matthew HENNING | 00:27:09 |
| 137 | 106 | Steven OLIVER | 00:27:37 |
| 143 | 28 | Sally CARTWRIGHT | 00:27:52 |
| 150 | 31 | Amanda WILSON | 00:28:14 |
| 157 | 117 | Paul WEBSTER | 00:28:41 |
| 169 | 37 | Alex HALL | 00:29:15 |
| 193 | 138 | Eamonn HUGHES | 00:31:33 |
| 196 | 140 | Paul PHILLIPS | 00:31:41 |
| 206 | 56 | Rachel FARROW | 00:32:47 |
| 208 | 57 | Margaret COWLING | 00:33:03 |
| 226 | 69 | Charlotte LAND | 00:35:12 |
| 228 | 149 | Stephen AYNSLEY | 00:35:26 |
| 231 | 150 | Luke BREMMER | 00:35:52 |
Shipley Country parkrun (157 runners) |
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| Position | Gender Position | parkrunner | Run Time |
| 2 | 2 | Martin KERR | 00:18:01 |
Eastleigh parkrun (248 runners) |
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| Position | Gender Position | parkrunner | Run Time |
| 152 | 103 | Tim BENTLEY | 00:32:13 |
Brueton parkrun (346 runners) |
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| Position | Gender Position | parkrunner | Run Time |
| 33 | 28 | Christopher HALLIDAY | 00:21:49 |
South Shields parkrun (230 runners) |
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| Position | Gender Position | parkrunner | Run Time |
| 2 | 2 | Jonathan BRANCH | 00:18:45 |