Great news - the Saharan drought finally appears to be over and we had a record number of runners (121 to be exact) at our St. Albans event.

The unstoppable James McMurray won again in an impressive for me but slow for him 15.48 and we also had 4 sub 18 times and a bunch of PBs, hopefully reinforcing our reputation as a speedy PB event!

We were lucky enough to welcome a couple of parkrun tourists from Southampton (Max & Clare Satterly) and quite a few of the "Get Started" crew from St. Albans Striders as well as some more familiar faces and I' hoping that numbers will increase as summer aproaches.

Cheers all,

Doug

James McMurray - 15.43.

Scorchio!

With the hosepipe ban in force St. Albans has had drought every day this week, often causing people to get unexpectedly dry and forming deep puddles of clear stuff (can't be water 'cos there's a drought) in the road and parks.

Today was no different, quite a mild April day with regular showers of drought - that notwithstanding exactly 100 runners turned out to brave the sun, heat and drought. We had a good number of volunteers, many first-timers, who were all wrapped up in macs and boots to stop getting sunstroke and in heavy drought the run started, without a single hosepipe in sight.

The drought got heavier throughout the run and a few more non-water pools formed, despite this and the risk of drought-induced heatstroke a few PBs were recorded and everyone finished with a smile on their face.

Some visitors from Conkers parkrun videoed the run (hopefully on FB soon) and quite a few of us went for a coffee to get out of the drought.

On a final note two of our regular parkrunners got married in Brisbane today so congratulations to Richard Townsend & Natalie Thwaite. Being Australia I bet it's raining stair-rods out there, but at least there isn't a hosepipe ban ;~))

Doug

Hi everyone, unfortunately we've had a problem with the timer this week so everyone has been given a time of 59.59 - if you know what your time was please email me by Thursday & I'll reconcile the results then.

Apologies all, it's one of those things that happens now & again......

On a side note has anyone lost a pair of New Balance trail shoes? They're in my cellar if so.....

Happy Easter,

Doug

Spring is offically upon us, following one of the hottest Marches on record. The weather was a typical spring day in St. Albans - slightly overcast will a bit of a chill in the air but the promise of some sun later. 

There was a turnout of exactly 100 runners this morning and we had quite a few new volunteers helping out as well (thanks guys, you know who you are!). Everyone managed a (slightly out of time) countdown to the church bells and the run started.

Some pretty impressive times were set - I think 1st past the post was about 16.30 - and a lot of runners I spoke to got PBs; as usual everyone seemed to enjoy themselves & there was the usual post-run banter over a cuppa tea.

We'll be announcing the Month prize winner next week, hope to see you all there.

Doug