24 Nov Weekend Roundup 23-24 November 2019

Cover girl this weekend is the ever-smiling Madeleine ‘Alice’ Attridge…great run from a few weeks back, the Bierton 10k, where she finished 2nd Woman and 13th overall in a super time of 48:31. Apparently her kids were less-than-impressed, but we are Madeleine…well done you!

Fast forward to this weekend, and some impressive parkrunning out there. Pride of place goes to Bethan Apglyn, who smashed her 5k PB out of the park (!) at Riverfront Newport with a fantastic 20:49, and a cheeky gatecrash on the P&D Women’s 5k (parkrun) rankings, joint 5th now with Lisa Cleary. Here’s Beth with some of her mates, several of whom notched up PBs as well….

I had to chuckle at Janice Clement’s Strava description of her run up at Springburn, which I hope she won’t mind me reproducing here….we’ve all been there with similar experiences, Janice!

“Interesting run this morning. Vied with a male runner from the top of the hill first time round all the way to the end. At one point, I told him he would have to work to beat me. He did. Outsprinted me on the final run-in. Then, while all this was going on, I caught up with Lucy on the 2nd lap. She just wouldn’t give in and although I overtook her on the hill, she didn’t let me get away and she totally left me behind on the final run-in. She’s 7 years old. You’ve got to take whatever positives you can from a drubbing like that. I got the best age-graded score out of the three of us, she says smugly”.

Here are the composite results….nice running by Gary Brown, 8th at Cardiff and Ruth Cann 1st Female at Penallta.

Cardiff parkrun

A total of 576 runners took part.

View full results for Cardiff parkrun event #624

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Run Time
1	1	Jack HOPE	Kettering Town Harriers	00:15:50
8	8	Gary W BROWN	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:17:21
34	1	Caroline WARRINGTON	Bromsgrove & Redditch AC	00:18:54

Preston parkrun

A total of 454 runners took part.

View full results for Preston parkrun event #371

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Run Time
1	1	Matthew James HOLMES	Unattached	00:17:58
17	1	Jessica SLATER	Unattached	00:20:46
29	28	Paul MCGILVRAY	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:22:02

Oxford parkrun

A total of 496 runners took part.

View full results for Oxford parkrun event #413

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Run Time
1	1	Adam WALDRON	Unattached	00:16:58
10	10	Frederick BROWN	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:18:45
36	1	Ellie FOTHERGILL	Unattached	00:20:45

Riverfront parkrun

A total of 268 runners took part.

View full results for Riverfront parkrun event #148

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Run Time
1	1	Lloyd COTTRELL	Lliswerry Runners	00:18:13
14	1	Helen OLIVER	Les Croupiers RC	00:19:58
25	3	Bethan APGLYN	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:20:49

Penallta parkrun

A total of 98 runners took part.

View full results for Penallta parkrun event #225

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Run Time
1	1	David LOCKE	Unattached	00:16:54
18	1	Ruth CANN	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:22:28

Springburn parkrun, Glasgow

A total of 97 runners took part.

View full results for Springburn parkrun, Glasgow event #279

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Run Time
1	1	Mark PORTER	Bellahouston Harriers	00:17:43
7	1	Karen EDGAR	Unattached	00:19:45
41	12	Janice CLEMENT	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:26:05

Exeter Riverside parkrun

A total of 252 runners took part.

View full results for Exeter Riverside parkrun event #275

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Run Time
1	1	Greg ATKINS	Ranelagh Harriers	00:18:44
15	1	Amy JONES	South West Road Runners	00:20:44
178	58	Beverley WARBURTON	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:31:19

Barry Island parkrun

A total of 112 runners took part.

View full results for Barry Island parkrun event #234

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Run Time
1	1	John MORRIS	Les Croupiers RC	00:17:59
5	5	Andy PEARCE	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:20:20
7	7	Kevin CHALKE	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:20:47
12	1	Alice DAVIES	Cardiff AAC	00:22:17
55	18	Julie BROUGHTON	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:27:33

Grangemoor parkrun

A total of 128 runners took part.

View full results for Grangemoor parkrun event #210

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Run Time
1	1	Chris INGLIS	CDF Runners	00:19:16
11	1	Elinor KEETCH	Pontyclun Road Runners	00:22:13
17	2	Rachel EALES	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:23:00
20	18	Mark TAYLOR	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:23:21
47	8	Arabella CALDER	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:26:15
52	42	Tom EALES	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:26:47

Tremorfa parkrun

A total of 107 runners took part.

View full results for Tremorfa parkrun event #5

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Run Time
1	1	Oliver WILLIAMS	White Rock Runners	00:16:49
6	1	Elizabeth DIMOND	Lliswerry Runners	00:18:56
14	13	Christopher Daniel SEAL	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:21:42

After Janice had taken on the might of Scotland’s under-8 girls, it was Clem’s turn…ok, they weren’t under 8, or girls for that matter, but it was in Scotland! He decided to get his feet wet with a bit of cross country, toeing the line in the Lanarkshire XC Championships. Don’t have full results, but Clem took 34:03 to cover 7.5k….great running, which I reckon might have been good enough for about 300th in a Gwent League…😉

Meanwhile there was more action on Sunday. Ian Southwell took on the Chilly 10k, which looks like a circuit at Castle Combe in Wiltshire. Ian finished a fine 14th in 36:36.

And “Mr Ultra” Steve New was back wearing his legs out again, with marathon #239, which was also his 18th long race of 2019. The Freezing Arundelle Greenham Common Marathon, which appears to have been 7km loops around the old RAF base. Interesting medal Steve…feel there is a whole world associated with this that I know nothing about!