Park Running

Hallam Park Run - Hope they don't mind us sharing their photo!

Quite a few people at the Barnsley Park run this week. I couldn't find any reports about the second anniversary of this event but there may be a piece in the Barnsley Chronicle at the weekend. Well done to Paul and Sophie who achieved PB's. It is a tough course and the conditions at this time of year aren't that easy. Lack of training due to bad weather hasn't helped. Lisa Taylor has kindly written a report about her 1st ever park run AND it was the 1st one to take place at Hillsborough.

7 Martin COOPER 19:46 VM45-49 71.75 % PB stays at 00:18:43 31 Michael WALSH 25:01 SM30-34 52.17 % PB stays at 00:24:00 35 Paul FRYERS 25:27 VM45-49 55.73 % New PB! 39 Sophie POGORZELEC 26:17 SW30-34 56.56 % New PB! 42 Kelvin BOWSKILL 26:55 VM60-64 59.57 % PB stays at 00:22:43 48 John SPENCER 27:41 VM55-59 56.47 % PB stays at 00:26:46 64 Norman COLE 30:13 VM75-79 65.09 % PB stays at 00:29:06 83 David HORSFALL 36:59 VM70-74 49.62 % PB stays at 00:31:00

1st Hillsborough Park Run    - Lisa Taylor                                                                                                                                                                       172 runners turned out for the 1st Hillsborough park run yesterday!! Really well organised race!! 1st one I've ever done so I was very impressed!! I did the run in 27:21!!! & only got lapped by two male runners, next time I plan to be faster so they don't lap me again lol!! I finished in 106 position!! I then did a further 10.5 miles for my London marathon training, so my legs were very stiff at the end of that!! Good run & I'd defo recommend it to all u PFR!!                                                                                  I asked Lisa about the parking situation in case I turned up one week:                                                                                            I parked on side street because there were parking attendants on the park's car park & at Hillsbro' gym, so people weren't allowed to park lol!! I probably could have got in at the gym car park if I'd got my membership card!!           Park Run News from Tom (each member receives this email)   welcome to this week's newsletter In this week’s packed newsletter Chris Davies raves about his amazing volunteers, adidas Boost your running, three UK parkrunners head off to New York City, Lucozade offer four pairs of race entries to the Bath Half, Clare and Mary update us on SparkLE-2 and I wax numerical. After four weeks of rather grown up newsletters this week I really felt the need to kick back and write something trivial and fun. Being a big fan of numbers I thought I'd enlist the help of a few friends and look up some barcodes that could be fun to have… My own barcode (A6013) is pretty dull, although as James Kemp (Marple parkrun ED) pointed out it is also a road between Bamford and Ashopton near the Ladybower Reservoir in Derbyshire. His is a fish pump part number apparently, although I'm not sure exactly what a fish pump is? Simon Bruce Lake said that his parkrun ID of choice would be A2 as he felt the husband of Jo Sinton-Hewitt should have A1, Paul's ID is actually a rather mundane A1674. The lowest registered parkrun ID is A5 as A1 to A4 were put aside for a rainy day, not sure why. The owner of that wonderful piece of parkrun identity, Abigail Storms, has sadly only run three times, all at Bushy and not since 2005. Fortunately we don't have to look too far down the list to find our shortest ID still being used, Abu-Turab Bharwana has taken A6 across parkrun finish lines in 2005, '08, '09, '10, '11 and as recently as his 45th run in September 2012 at Richmond Park. A100 is rather fittingly a member of the 100 club thanks to Andrew Allen who ran his 157th event at Bushy last month. A1000 is a little less prolific but thankfully still in action with John Taylor. Sadly A10000 is yet to be taken out of the wrapper by Eleanor Horsman, however A100000 can regularly be seen at Brighton & Hove with Jane Pidgeon. The million dollar question of course is who will end up with A1000000? As for patterns, John Broom suggested A54321 for some Manfred Man Nostalgia, unfortunately that rather cool ID seems to have been retired by Colin Robertson after just four runs at Black Park. Sadly the combined run count for A12, A123, A1234, A12345 and A123456 is a meager 35 and it's been three and a half years since any of those have turned up on a Saturday morning. Despite spending a good few minutes trying to think of some funny ones my mind remained blank, Jono Cook and Sarah Stott did go back to school however with A58008 and A55378008. We'll have to wait a while for the latter but the former is owned by John Goalen, a regular runner at Bushy. If I could choose my own I might go for my birthday A270674 which sadly Ama Acheampong has yet to run with, A42195 (the number of metres in a marathon) which Davinia Williams (nice surname) carries round Wycombe Rye parkrun or maybe the simple yet appropriate A5000 owned by Bushy parkrunner Stephen Barry. I would have quite liked the recently awarded A400000 but that ended up in the Southern Hemisphere with Sarah Brocklehurst of North Beach parkrun in South Africa. Last time I looked we were only about six or seven weeks away from A500000 saying hello to the World, I wonder where it will be? I guess the best parkrun ID will always be your own, which makes me wonder what Rosie will end up with when she finally gets round to registering. Let's say that's not for another three years… A2345678? That would be pretty cool ;-) Speak next weekend, Tom (get in touch)