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Event 124 - 6th March 2010 |
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Dave breaks age group record
Fiona wins 21st run
BARCODES, BARCODES, BARCODES
A cold morning at Hove Park (again) but bright and sunny saw the 124th running of parkrun Brighton and Hove. We had a slight drop in the number of volunteers but with a corresponding drop in the number of athletes, had no problems dealing with the parkrunners
Dave Carter set off at a cracking pace chased by club mate James Miles, with the first lady Fiona Powell running in one of the front groups closely followed by Helena Tobin. Really that was pretty much it at the front, except for John Moores getting past James on the last lap for second. Dave recorded his fourth win but Fiona with her win completed her 21st victory and is well clear in total victories at Hove Park. Dave also took the M35-39 course record with his 16.36 having just moved up an age category – his fastest in the younger age group was 15.51, which he should hoping to beat on a warmer and more competitive parkrun.
A little down the field, we had one of our fastest baby-buggy runs as Jim Roberts (and baby) got round in 19.36 and Will Russell completed his 10th run to join the 10 club.
Being so short on volunteers this week does bring forward the suggestion of more parkrunners having a go and joining the ever-increasing volunteers/heroes list. All jobs are straight forward and you will get guidance on everything that you have to do. Please come along and ask to help sometime – we are always glad to have boy/girl friends, parents etc. helping just make sure that they are registered as well and then they will get credit for the help on the website.
Running etiquette has been followed very well lately with front runners saying that it has been much easier to move through the back markers when we have these large fields. Please remember to move to the right of the path to allow other parkrunners to pass you. Also always look out for park users with dogs and children as we don’t want any accidents.
Finish line procedures could be improved as we have had some instances lately of runners running through the line having not completed the course, or it being a second time, having jogged along the course and run in with a friend or partner. This messes up the timing/ position figures and has resulted in John losing even more of the hair that he can ill-afford to lose. Please take your first position tag and by all means cheer on loved ones up the course BUT PLEASE do not run across the line if you don’t want to have a position and time recorded. The volunteers thank you.
The Stats
In his 7th appearance, Dave CARTER (SM35-39) of Phoenix Athletics Club won for the 4th time in a time of 16:26. John Alan MOORES (VM45-49) representing Steyning AC took second by 21 seconds recording 16:47. James John MILES, (SM25-29) also of Phoenix Athletics Club placed third in a time of 17:26
In her 31st appearance, Fiona POWELL (SW25-29) of Brighton & Hove City AC won in a time of 18:28 for the 21st time. She beat Helena TOBIN (SW25-29) also from Brighton & Hove City AC by 22 seconds recording 18:50 in the process. Claire DILLON, (VW35-39) placed third in a time of 22:16.
In today's Age Graded competition, John Alan MOORES recorded a performance of 85.10%
In the points competition Simon HO has a lead of 165 points over second placed Michael BANNISTER. Clare MILSOM leads Fiona POWELL by 275 in the ladies competition
This week there were 16 first timers
41 runners recorded PBs, bringing the total number since the Brighton & Hove parkrun started to 3504. In this time, 2276 runners from 121 different clubs have completed the race 13686 times covering a distance of 68430 kilometers
The male course record is held by Josh GUILMANT who ran 15:08 on 29/08/09, event #98. The female equivalent is held by Caroline HOYTE who ran 16:43 on 30/05/09, event #84
Brighton Marathon News
The Clock Tower Sanctuary has five places available for the Brighton Marathon. This is a local charity supporting homeless young people in Brighton and Hove. It provides a day centre with food and hot drinks and supports clients with homelessness, employment training, drug and alcohol miss use etc - most of all it provides a warm and friendly environment. For further details visit www.theclocktowersanctuary.org.uk.
Kind regards
Sean Gibson
Chairman - The Clock Tower Sanctuary
London Marathon News
I had a huge response from parkrunners around the country to my appeal for volunteers at the Virgin London Marathon on April 25th. If any Brighton and Hove parkrunners would like to join us please contact me on 07711-243393 or e-mail rich_the_runner@hotmail.com
We will be moving to barcode only soon – so PLEASE remember to bring your barcode with you to the park every Saturday. At the moment, we are having about 20% of parkrunners not bringing their cards which results in longer lines at the computers (we will have 2 from now on) and often mistakes made. Look around the start and finish area and see how others keep their barcodes. I have seen them laminated and sello-taped, attached to card and pinned to running vests; many are kept in wallets or put on key-chains. I love to hear the excuses of parkrunners who don’t have them – with by way and away the most common excuse being ‘I left it on the table by the door!’ When I hear that for the fifth time from the same parkrunner I do question how awake that person is on a Saturday morning.
When we do move to barcode only – you will not be credited with a run if you do not have your barcode, so look at ways of bringing it with you every parkrun event. Thank you.
The next two weeks we have special events with event 125 on Sat 13th March being our Annual St Patricks Day reverse run. Dress up in green – run from the Finish to the Start – and cheer on Ireland in the rugby whilst drinking Guinness or Magners (except if you are under 18)
The following week on Sat 20th March we will do a fancy dress Comic Relief run – with donation bucket for Comic Relief. The following day at Maderia Drive is the actual CR Mile/5k/10k runs and if any parkrunner would like to be involved in helping at the event please get back to me as soon as possible.
Richard Carter
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Event 122 - 20th February 2010 |
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We are moving to BARCODE ONLY SOON
Pictured is winner Ben Warren
Event 122 was down on the Calendar for Saturday, 20th February 2010 and as we looked at the races on this weekend earlier in the year, John, Matt and I shrugged our shoulders and thought that this would be a quiet weekend at Hove Park. Later in the day, after parkrun would be the final Sussex X-country League race at Lancing Manor and on the Sunday morning was the Beacon Half-Marathon in Brighton, now a 7,000 runner event that would attract a great number of out parkrunners as they train up for the Brighton marathon in April. As we prepared for the start at the Park, we could see numbers were down but on the plus side, there were volunteers everywhere as runner saved themselves for the other events. We did actually finish with 140 parkrunners, which was really good in the circumstances.
One runner not saving himself was Ben Warren who wanted a fast run before next weeks 9 mile National XC slog in Leeds. He chased the lead bike around the newly-lengthened (and now incredibly accurate) 5km course, finishing with 15:30 and his 7th win. Behind him, Geoff De Courcy managed to pull away from the other chasing parkrunners for second whilst Andy Payne grabbed a great third, staying ahead of the fast finishing Mark Halls and Helena Tobin – the first lady. Mark later went on to run the XC League and do the half Marathon – not bad from somebody only just back in Brighton after a Winter holiday.
No ‘clubbers’ to report this week, although we have a large number of parkrunners approaching 50 and lots of younger parkrunners moving up on the 10 club mark. We will mention all parkrunners on the report when they reach a target and hope to celebrate with them at the Park when they receive their tee-shirt.
We will be moving to barcode only soon – so PLEASE remember to bring your barcode with you to the park every Saturday. At the moment, we are having about 20% of parkrunners not bringing their cards which results in longer lines at the computers (we will have 2 from now on) and often mistakes made. Look around the start and finish area and see how others keep their barcodes. I have seen them laminated and sello-taped, attached to card and pinned to running vests; many are kept in wallets or put on key-chains. I love to hear the excuses of parkrunners who don’t have them – with by way and away the most common excuse being ‘I left it on the table by the door!’ When I hear that for the fifth time from the same parkrunner I do question how awake that person is on a Saturday morning.
When we do move to barcode only – you will not be credited with a run if you do not have your barcode, so look at ways of bringing it with you every parkrun event. Thank you.
Here’s the Stats
In his 8th appearance, Ben WARREN (SM25-29) of Hailsham Harriers won for the 7th time in a time of 15:30. Geoffrey DE COURCY (VM40-44) took second recording 18:00. Andy PAYNE, (VM45-49) of Arena 80 AC placed third in a time of 18:36.
In her 22nd appearance, Helena TOBIN (SW25-29) of Brighton & Hove City AC won in a time of 18:40 for the 14th time. She beat 2nd placed Emma WILLIAMS (SW30-34) representing Brighton & Hove City AC who recorded 21:37 in the process. Louise WISE, (VW45-49) placed third in a time of 23:00.
In today's Age Graded competition, Ben WARREN recorded a performance of 83.23%
In the points competition Simon HO has a lead of 170 points over second placed Michael BANNISTER. Clare MILSOM leads Claire BROOKS by 261 in the ladies competition.
This week there were only 14 first timers.
19 runners recorded PBs, bringing the total number since the Brighton & Hove started to 3410. In this time, 2236 runners from 121 different clubs have completed the race 13273 times covering a distance of 66365 kilometers.
The male course record is held by Josh GUILMANT who ran 15:08 on 29/08/09, event #98. The female equivalent is held by Caroline HOYTE who ran 16:43 on 30/05/09, event #84.
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Event 121 - 13th February 2010 |
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Exciting racing at the front of the field
Large number of parkrunners taking part
Huge group of PB’ers,
Lucozade man Gareth was here
First official charity event with the Carers Centre from Brighton
Event 121 saw some exciting racing at the front of the field, a very large number of parkrunners taking part including a huge group of PB’ers, Lucozade man Gareth here to give us some tips on nutrition and our first official charity event with the Carers Centre from Brighton having a stall at the café after the event.
One of our finest, Matt Bristow took up the running from the start and soon dragged himself and Mark Burchett away from the rest. Mark went to the front as they went into the last lap and pulled away to record his 2nd win.
Close behind was the first lady Rachael Ogden, a teammate of Mark’s from Worthing Harriers who also recorded her 2nd victory and picked up the SW 30-34 course record with her time of 18:12. She now holds this and the SW 25-29 record having just moved up an age group.
We were fortunate to have three ’50 clubbers’ reach their tee-shirt mark today. Michael Saunders first ran in event 18 and has a best of 21:53; Amanda Woodhams first appeared at Hove Park in event 51 and before her knee problems ran 30:53; whilst pride of place has to go to Roger Foord from Brighton & Hove City who only reached parkrun at event 72 and has now done 50 successive events to reach the 50 club in less than one year – a fantastic achievement.
Simi Rogaly reached her 10 club target as she continues to participate in parkrun as part of her Duke of Edinburgh Award. Well done all.
After the run, as parkrunners stood in the computer line, they were able to buy tombola tickets, cakes and flowers for their Valentines in a stall put up by the Carers Centre from Brighton. We were very happy to help them and will be continuing charity events each month in an attempt to put something back into the local community. The organisers are delighted to announce that the morning raised over £200 for the charity which will go towards helping young carers go on away day trips. The main prize in the tombola was a meal for two at Café Nia in Brighton, which was won by Ashley Bauermeister, who only decided to run at the last minute and is now very happy that he decided to come down to Hove Park and not just for the FUN, FREE physical activity that he did.
Race Stats
In his 3rd appearance, Mark BURCHETT (SM20-24) of Worthing & District Harriers won for the 2nd time in a time of 16:12. Matt BRISTOW (SM30-34) representing Brighton & Hove City AC took second place recording 16:39. Tom COATES, (SM25-29) of Phoenix Athletics Club placed third in a time of 17:19.
In her 2nd appearance, Rachael OGDEN (SW30-34) of Worthing & District Harriers won in a time of 18:12 for the 2nd time. She beat Helena TOBIN (SW25-29) representing Brighton & Hove City AC who recorded 18:54 in the process. Caroline WOOD, (VW45-49) of Arena 80 AC placed third in a time of 19:56.
In today's Age Graded competition, David BEATTIE recorded a performance of 83.96%
In the points competition Simon HO has a lead of 179 points over second placed Michael BANNISTER. Clare MILSOM leads Claire BROOKS by 261 in the ladies competition.
This week there were 30 first timers to the Brighton and Hove parkrun. In the time we have running, 2222 runners from 119 different clubs have completed the race 13133 times covering a distance of 65665 kilometers.
An incredible 73 runners recorded PBs at the event, bringing the total number since the Brighton & Hove parkrun started to 3391.
The male course record is held by Josh GUILMANT who ran 15:08 on 29/08/09, event #98. The female equivalent is held by Caroline HOYTE who ran 16:43 on 30/05/09, event #84.
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Event 120 - 6th February 2010 |
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Stuart Moran wins his first parkrun (pictured)
Girls go PB crazy
Charity activities at next weeks event
Please bring your pennies to the Park!
It is always a privilege to see special runs at parkrun and whilst it is great to talk about how fast somebody has run the event and we seem fixated on times as people chase PB’s, sometimes we lose sight of the everyday runner, working as hard as they can week after week . At Hove Park, we are fortunate to have huge numbers turning up to every event which can then make my job of picking storylines to follow for each news page very difficult.
As we move into Marathon season, there is now a large number of our parkrunners gearing up for the long miles of preparing for their Marathon event. In event #120, we saw one of the fastest Marathon runners from Sussex for the last few years, blow some cobwebs away as he trotted around to the 3rd fastest time seen at Hove Park. Brighton-born Stuart Moran has been a life-long member of the local Brighton & Hove City AC, and whilst a youngster get a scholarship though the club to run and go to college in the USA. He took the opportunity with both hands and over the last 8 years has developed into a fine distance runner. Now living in the States and married to a top American athlete, he returned to London in 2009 to record 2:29:11 finishing 48th in the Marathon. He came home this month to run the Chichester 10k (where he finished 4th in 2005 in 30:26) but after suffering an injury and having too much snow at home he decided the distance was too great a risk.
This, of course, did not preclude him from running his virgin parkrun this week. After seeing Chris Thomson’s powerful run last week, Matt Bristow knew that a fit Stuart could also go very fast but how fit was he? Well after the first lap Matt was struggling to stay in touch and Stuart was able to effortlessly (well, that’s how he looked) move away. With our large numbers at the Park, the main thing that could slow him was the sheer mass of vests he had to negotiate through to get to the finish. As his wife Amber watched on (she won the Ladies race next day at Chichester) he finished in 15:16, just 8 seconds off Josh’s fine record of 15:08.
Behind him another fast finisher was James (not Jamie) Oliver, fresh from his County Under 13 XC victory, who passed a number of older (and far taller) athletes on the last lap to run a fine PB of 18:20.
I decided to have a run out but not to push it too hard, and so gave my services as the first parkrun Brighton & Hove pacemaker. Announcing at the start that I was aiming for a target of 25:00, I had a small group with me as we went through 3km in 14:50. The group broke a little on the last lap but I finished in 24:42 and was then able to see 50 clubber Nick Coard post an impressive 24:46, almost a 30 second PB. This is something that we would like to encourage more of in the future, so if anybody wishes to run a certain pace for the event please make yourself known and we will give the necessary announcements at the start of the run
Coming across the line in an unremarkable 27:31 was one of my favourite parkrunners - no, not my wife, she was a little further back - the absolutely mad 'Shoeless Joe' Addison. Why mention him? well, that morning he had arrived at Hove Park late (tut, tut) but with a brilliant reason. He had just been on local radio talking about his charity running and getting a mighty mention for parkrun. Thanks Joe and to honour my end of the bargain here is Joe's charity link - check it out - he really is a little bit nuts! https://www.bmycharity.com/V2/joeaddison
and link to the radio show is at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p0066wz6 (Joe talks at 1hr 18). The other part of the lateness was doing a 12 mile run before parkrun, now he 'reckons' he started almost 7minutes late and so 'could' have smashed his PB - watch out for a flying 'Shoeless Joe' next run!!
In the ladies race, Angel Collins ran to her 2nd parkrun win with a 17 second PB of 19:57. She looked very comfortable and must now be looking forward to a good summer track season. It was a morning of best times for the Ladies as both Claire Brooks and Louisa Wilson in the next two places ran their fastest ever parkrun times.
As we grow in numbers, please can everybody be mindful of other park users and, if you are towards the back of the field, the faster runners coming up behind you. The last thing we want to see is a collision between parkrunners, so please can we request that if you are one of our slower, but just as valuable parkrunners, could you move to the right side of the path, especially if you know that the leaders are about to overtake you. This is probably most important from the train tracks to the cafe as runners approach the finish. Many thanks.
Clubbers
We had two 10 clubbers today, as Reuben Hoyte and Emma Leeson both completed their 10th event. Reuben is the son of Kurt (Run shop) and Caroline (female record holder) and despite his tender years is already running great times – today was no exception as he clocked 20:50.
We also had two visiting 100 clubbers as Daniel Parish and Clare Beckwith joined us from their usual haunts of Bushy and Basingstoke. I chatted to them after in the café and between mouthfuls of cake and coffee; they seemed to be very impressed with their visit. Come back soon.
We look forward to next week as Roger Foord, this months ‘parkrunner of the month’, runs his 50th consecutive event and so gains his coveted red tee-shirt. Good luck Roger.
Event Stats
In his 1st appearance, Stuart MORAN (SM30-34) of Brighton & Hove City AC won for the 1st time in a time of 15:16. Matt BRISTOW (SM30-34) representing Brighton & Hove City AC took second with 16:19. Zared HALE, (SM25-29) of Brighton & Hove City AC placed third in a time of 16:44.
In her 5th appearance, Angel COLLINS (JW15-19) won for the 2nd time in a time of 19:57. She beat Claire BROOKS (SW30-34) representing Brighton & Hove City AC who ran 22:04 in the process. Louisa WILSON, (SW30-34) placed third in a time of 22:09.
In today's Age Graded competition, Stuart MORAN recorded a performance of 85.48%
In the points competition Simon HO has a lead of 182 points over second placed Michael BANNISTER. Clare MILSOM leads Claire BROOKS by 174 in the ladies competition.
This week there were 30 first timers which means that since November 2007, 2190 runners from 118 different clubs have completed the race 12893 times covering a distance of 64465 kilometers.
At event 120, we had 59 runners recording PBs, bringing the total number since the Brighton & Hove event started to 3317.
The male course record is still held by Josh GUILMANT who ran 15:08 on 29/08/09, event #98. The female equivalent is held by Caroline HOYTE who ran 16:43 on 30/05/09, event #84
News
We have to give a huge thank you to all the parkrunners who brought their barcodes to the event and then lined up in the barcode queue to register their name. We are still going to be using our Q-busting system for parkrunners who forget their barcodes (or haven’t bothered to print it off yet!). As we have to keep reminding you, the barcode system is used to ensure that your results are caught promptly and, most importantly, accurately. If you can remember your unique reference number then it will allows us to ensure that you are not muddled with anybody else in the results. Last week the parkrun website managed to register 1000 new parkrunners and as we have new events lined up all over Britain for the rest of the year, we are going to have a much larger database of names to choose from later in the year.
We are looking to support local charities once a month at parkrun Brighton and Hove and will be starting next week on February 13th with a Valentines Special to help The Carers Centre from Brighton. The Carers Centre for Brighton & Hove is a local charity which exists to support anyone caring for a partner, relative or friend who needs help because of illness, disability, substance misuse or old age. http://www.thecarerscentre.org/
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Event 119 - 30th January 2010 |
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Cold day but a hot run from Chris Thomson
More parkrun 'club'ers reach their target
Charity event in two weeks!
It was a bitterly cold morning at Hove Park with our car thermometer only reading minus 1 as we drove there. This did not deter our fantastic parkrunners, as with 15 minutes to the start, they all began to turn up including a good number of newbies. With a group of our regulars running a half Marathon in Spain and the Area cross-country Champs in London the same day, we were expecting a drop in numbers but as we walked to the start, there did not appear to be any reduction at all.
From the start there was only going to be one winner, Chris Thomson. As a 9 time winner, he was soon well clear of any chasers and all at the finish line could only see one thing stopping him breaking his PB – having to thread his way through the back markers as he caught them on the last lap. Chris is training hard for the inaugural Brighton Marathon - http://brightonmarathon.co.uk/ and having put in a number of 100 mile training weeks wanted to test his legs before next weeks Chichester 10k. Well he now knows his legs are fine as he charged through the back markers to win by 2 ½ minutes with a new PB of 15:46, his 10th win. Behind him the Battle of the Andies was won by Andy Bone who managed to pull clear of Andy Payne on the last lap, just missing his PB for a fine second place.
In the Ladies race, it was more a Junior Ladies event as 14 year old Josephine-Joy Sunderland pushed the pace with the men from the start and held a good lead going into the last lap. Then the experience of soon-to-be 50 clubber Jeanette Kenneally began to show as the gap started to close but in the end a spirited finish by Josephine-Joy produced her 4th victory by 9 seconds.
We have to give a huge thank you to all the parkrunners who brought their barcodes to the event and then lined up in the barcode queue to register their name. We are still going to be using our Q-busting system for parkrunners who forget their barcodes (or haven’t bothered to print it off yet!). As we have to keep reminding you, the barcode system is used to ensure that your results are caught promptly and, most importantly, accurately. If you can remember your unique reference number then it will allows us to ensure that you are not muddled with anybody else in the results. Last week the parkrun website managed to register 1000 new parkrunners and as we have new events lined up all over Britain for the rest of the year, we are going to have a much larger database of names to choose from later in the year.
Stats-time
In his 11th appearance, Christopher THOMSON (SM25-29) of Brighton & Hove City AC won for the 10th time in a time of 15:46. Andy BONE (VM40-44) representing Phoenix Athletics Club took second place recording 18:14 with Andy PAYNE, (VM45-49) of Arena 80 AC placing third in a time of 18:27. Chris’s time was the 2nd fastest parkrun of the day nationally and he was only beaten by 3 seconds by Josh GUILMANT (our course record holder) who was winning at Finsbury Park. Well done Josh by breaking the Finsbury Park course record by almost 30 seconds with his 15:43.
In her 7th appearance, Josephine-Joy SUNDERLAND (JW14) of Worthing & District Harriers won for the 4th time with 20:14. She beat Jeanette KENNEALLY (VW40-44) representing Brighton & Hove City AC who ran 20:23 in the process. Alex SNOW, (SW30-34) placed third in a time of 20:57.
In today's Age Graded competition, Christopher THOMSON recorded a performance of 81.82%.
In the points competition Simon HO has a lead of 93 points over second placed Tom ‘100 club’ FALLON, who rested his legs this week by doing a spot of volunteering. Clare MILSOM leads Claire BROOKS by 178 in the ladies competition.
A fantastic 45 runners recorded PBs, bringing the total number since the Brighton & Hove parkrun started to 3258. In this time, 2154 runners from 113 different clubs have completed the race 12679 times covering a distance of 63395 kilometers.
The male course record is held by Josh GUILMANT who ran 15:08 on 29/08/09, event #98. The female equivalent is held by Caroline HOYTE who ran 16:43 on 30/05/09, event #84
Clubbers
Today, we had a new 50 club member when Jennifer Horton ran her 50th event at Hove Park. Jennifer has a fastest time of 24:17 from last summer after running a series of 6 PB’s in a row in April.
I apologise at missing Naomi Schubert who joined the Junior 10 club last week, but can report that Ben Stephens completed his 10th run today and should be receiving his special tee-shirt shortly.
Special News
We are looking to support local charities once a month at parkrun Brighton and Hove and will be starting on February 13th with a Valentines Special to help The Carers Centre from Brighton. The Carers Centre for Brighton & Hove is a local charity which exists to support anyone caring for a partner, relative or friend who needs help because of illness, disability, substance misuse or old age. http://www.thecarerscentre.org/
We would like as many runners as possible to wear red for the occasion, will have some spot prizes for best costumes and please bring some pennies as The Carers Centre will be selling Valentines goodies for you to buy your loved ones.
Richard Carter
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