Parkrun Report Saturday January 28th 2012

It was an important day on the racing calendar this Saturday with the launch of Eastbourne’s Parkrun which attracted over 100 runners – a strong start.

The South of England Cross Country Championships were held at Stanmer Park the same day, the first time since 1986 that this event has come to Sussex bringing with it some good runners and racing.

It was also the first time in over three years that I have been in Hove (about to depart to marshall at said xc) and not gone to Parkrun. It was strange not to be at the Park.
Well done to all the volunteers who braved the elements to help on Saturday – having stood outside for six hours I know that it was a tad chilly if you were not running.

405 people enjoyed our Parkrun on Saturday with 93 people (nearly a quarter of the field) achieving a PB – a pat on the back to all of you.

Visitors

This week’s furthest travelled club runner was Rob GRAFTON (Harrogate) and from closer to home we welcomed Adam LAW (Reading AC) and Ruth BLANCO (Reading Joggers).


Results

This week’s winner in 16:03 taking his fourth first placing was Tonbridge’s Dan BRADLEY (SM 25-29)who attained an age graded percentage of 80:37%
In second place with 16:38 was First Timer and SM 25-29 Dave BRADFORD (Lewis) and four seconds behind in third place was clubmate Matt BRADFORD (SM 30-34)
Fourth (also Lewis) in 16:44 was Tom MORRIS (SM 30-34)
VM 50-54 Pete O CONNELL (Horsham Joggers), running 17:54 attained this week’s highest age grade percentage of 83:05%

Arena’s Emily PROTO (SW 20-24) was well out in front for the women this week taking her fifth win and going sub 20 mins for the first time with a new PB of 19:55
Second again was last week’s second lady Alison REED (SW 30-34 – unattached ) in a PB of 21:08 and third in 21:14 was Arena’s Charlie WALTERS (SW 25-29)

This week there were 26 First Timers and 93 people recorded PBS.

The female course record is held by Caroline HOYTE 16:43 at event 84 30/05/09
The male course record is held by Ben TICKNER 14:30 at event 215 03/12/11
The Age Graded Course Record is held by Karen BOWLER (VW 60-65 -20:51) who recorded 94% on 20/08/11

Caroline Wood


 

Parkrun Report Saturday January 21st 2012

On Friday evening I had a knock at the door and opened it to find last week’s 100 runs t shirt winner Cathy Fall offering to volunteer, the offer of course being gratefully accepted!

Once again we were lacking volunteers this week and with 452 runners it is not good that so few of you are not coming forward to help. We will shortly be putting a four week signup sheet on the homepage of Brighton and Hove Parkrun so you will all be able to see whether or not we are short of volunteers on any particular week. 

The signup sheet and volunteer situation is not to be ignored! If we are too short of volunteers we will not start Parkrun until some of the runners step out of the race and help or if we are very short of help we will cancel the event on the day. We would be very reluctant to do this but with so many people not helping it is a possibility.

Break in near Hove Park

As you heard at the briefing, a local resident had her car broken into overnight and one of our Parkrunners found some things possibly belonging to the victim scattered near the Park– many thanks to Parkrunner Pip Henderson

Parkrun photos

On a lighter note some of you will have noticed on the Internet the photos taken at this Saturday’s event by Ant Bliss of Sussexsportphotography who was testing out a new bit of kit – the results are superb record of the run.

Eastbourne Parkrun

With great pleasure I announce the start of a second Parkrun in Sussex – Eastbourne (Shinewater Park) which launches on Saturday Jan 28th. Good luck to all involved. I would recommend going along to another Parkrun at some point as it is good to experience a different course.

One of those involved in the new Eastbourne Parkrun is our regular pacer, Russ GARDHAM who has done sterling service pacing from 30 minutes down to this week’s 20 minutes so many thanks to
him.

Visitors

Our furthest travelled runner this week was Ken KAISER (Horsforth Harriers) – Ken I hope you found your club vest.

Missing Position Tags

There are several missing tags this week. These tags cost 30p each and if they are missing someone has to go through all of the tags and put in replacements, all of which takes time. Please return the tags in time for next week’s run

Missing tags – 204 212 (Susanna ETHERINGTON) 218 253 276 (Paul GERRY) 287(Faith JOHNSTONE) 397 406 (Charlotte GARWOOD) 411

Results

Out in front running for his first win in 17:18 was Brighton and Hove’s Adam W SMITH (JM 15-19)
In second place with a PB of 17:48 was clubmate Chris MALLINSON (SM 35-39) and two seconds behind taking third was Stephen BRYANT (VM 40-44 – unattached)
VM 55-59 Paul GASSON (Arena), running 19:30 attained this week’s highest age grade percentage of 80:85%

Julia LEWIS (VW 40-44 – unattached) led the women to take her first win in 21:14
Second was Alison REED (SW 30-34 – unattached ) in 21:21 andThird in 21:29 was Arena’s Issy MUIR (SW 30-34)

This week there were 60 First Timers and 78 people recorded PBS.

The female course record is held by Caroline HOYTE 16:43 at event 84 30/05/09
The male course record is held by Ben TICKNER 14:30 at event 215 03/12/11
The Age Graded Course Record is held by Karen BOWLER (VW 60-65 -20:51) who recorded 94% on 20/08/11

Caroline Wood

 

Parkrun Report Saturday January 14th 2012

A bright, crisp morning greeted the Parkrunners on Saturday , a landmark day in Parkrun history with the 1 millionth parkrunner crossing the line at one of the many Parkrun events. Brooks League XC at Bexhill kept some of the speedier runners away from our event but this did not dent the field with 426 runners turning out.

Amongst the runners was Parkrun regular Mike BANNISTER , recently returned with a win at Melbourne Parkrun under his belt and swapping 40c for chilly 4 and a down under 18:49 for something a bit slower!

Visitors

Two visitors who caught my eye this week are Georgina DANDO (Brigend ) who must have been the furthest travelled and Andrew HORNE (Kingfisher Triathletes – Surrey)

100 runs

Congratulations to Cathy FALL who becomes the first person in 2012 to gain the coveted 100 T shirt

Results

With a commanding lead and taking his seventh win was Brighton and Hove’s Kevin ROJAS (SM 30-34 ) was this week’s front runner in 16:40
In second place in 18:02 was BMF’s Tim LUNNON (SM 25-29) and two seconds behind him in third place was Stephen BRYANT (VM 40-44 – unattached)

Also worthy of mention again are two VM 55-59 Paul GASSON and Brian FRIEND who ran 19:21 and 19:25 respectively for this week’s highest age graded percentages of 81:48 and 81:20% respectively

Arena’s Emily PROTO (SW 20-24) led the women also taking her third win in 20:18
Second was Brighton and Hove’s Gail NERURKAR (VW 45-49) in 20:39
Third in 20:48 was first timer Louise O CONNOR (VW 35-39 – unattached)

This week there were 42 First Timers and 83 people recorded PBS.

The female course record is held by Caroline HOYTE 16:43 at event 84 30/05/09
The male course record is held by Ben TICKNER 14:30 at event 215 03/12/11
The Age Graded Course Record is held by Karen BOWLER (VW 60-65 -20:51) who recorded 94% on 20/08/11

Caroline Wood
 

Parkrun Report Saturday January 7th 2012

Happy New Year Parkrunners and welcome to 2012 which we hope will be another fantastic Parkrun year (oh and there is a rumour that an important sporting event is being held in London too).

Saturday was in fact not the first Parkrun at Brighton and Hove – that honour went to the Parkrun free event organised by John Japp on Monday January 2nd – I was in the park training at the time and can report on a select bunch of Parkrunners taking part.

A really good start was made for our first “official” Parkrun of 2012 with a new age group record being set for VM 85-89 by John HAY who got round in the course in 45 minutes exactly. Very well done to him and great inspiration to the rest of us

The New Years resolutions were out in force and 440 were running this week despite the Sussex XC Championships being held at Stanmer Park the following day

Pacing

Thanks to Russ for pacing 21 minutes. Russ will be pacing 20 minutes in two weeks time on 21 January 2012

Lost Property

Please make sure you take all your kit home with you. We picked up a dark jacket which had been left under the tree. None of us has space to store excess clothing so if the jacket has an owner please let John Doc know.

Volunteering

Many of you will have read in the Global Parkrun news that a request has gone out nationally that each Parkrunner volunteers three times a year. I make no apology for repeating that request here.
Brighton and Hove Parkrun has grown rapidly and it takes a MINIMUM of 12-15 volunteers per week to run the event safely and successfully. With more volunteers that that we can put people out on the course to keep it safe and to encourage all participants.

Three lots of volunteering a year is not much to ask. If you’ve got time to run, you also have time to volunteer and it is of course possible to come down and help set up then run, or once you have finished you run to help sort out finish tokens or help with the results on the computer. It is unreasonable to expect the same few people to give up hours of their free time week after week when some people never lend a hand. Parkrun is a “free” event and part of its ethos is that everyone should put something back in the form of volunteering. Also, by lending a hand, it gives each and every one of you an insight into some of the issues and challenges faced by Parkrun and why every week at the pre race briefing we have to give a description of the course, explain what happens in the funnel etc.

We ALWAYS need volunteers and we need to know who is coming along and on what date. Please drop us an email or let one of the managers know . We require volunteers to be at the Park around 0830 so that we can fully brief them on their task.

Managing Parkrun

Have you got what it takes to join our Management team? We are on the lookout for more people to join our happy ranks. Managers do the pre race brief, organise the volunteers on the day and help with the results (but not all three tasks on the same day). We have social events too so it is not all work. If you would like to join us we would like to hear from you.

Results

Well out in front at the start of 2012 in 15:43 and easily taking his third win was Eastbourne Rovers Chris DODD ( SM 20-24 ) Chirs also achieved this week’s highest age graded percentage of 82:08%
In second place in 17:20 with a new PB was Tobias BREMNER (SM 30-34 – unattached)
Third in 17:51 was First timer Steve NICHOLLS (VM 35-39 Horsham Joggers )

Also worthy of mention are Paul GASSON (19:16) and Brian FRIEND (19:30), who attained age graded percentages of 81:83% and 80:85% respectively

Arena’s Emily PROTO (SW 20-24) led the women also taking her third win in 20:30
Second was Brighton and Hove’s Jeanette KENNEALLY (VW 40-44) in 21:07
Third was First Timer Julie LEWIS (VW 40-44 – unattached)

This week there were 45 First Timers and 56 people recorded PBS.

The female course record is held by Caroline HOYTE 16:43 at event 84 30/05/09
The male course record is held by Ben TICKNER 14:30 at event 215 03/12/11
The Age Graded Course Record is held by Karen BOWLER (VW 60-65 -20:51) who recorded 94% on 20/08/11

Caroline Wood