Hello everyone,
What a fantastic turn out on Saturday; 228 of you battled against the wind in order to complete the parkrun course and somehow, 27 of you managed to achieve PB’s! How did you do that? All I can say is a big ‘congratulations’ to everyone who did run. I hope the weather is better this weekend if you decide to do parkrun in Trowbridge?
On that subject, please note that
SWINDON PARKRUN IS CANCELLED THIS SATURDAY (28
th January), due to a number of CaniX events taking over Lydiard Park at the weekend. Entries are now closed but feel free to pop along to one of the events and support the runners (
www.canix.co.uk) However, for those of you who are still keen to run, why don’t you drive to Trowbridge that day and join everyone for parkrun at Southwick Country Park instead (
www.parkrun.org.uk/southwickcountrypark/) I talked to a number of you on Saturday and there seems to be a good crowd of you going; I just hope that Trowbridge parkrun know what they are letting themselves in for?!
Well done to Paul Appleby who achieved his 50th parkrun on Saturday; a great achievement! Keep up the good work Paul! And congratulations to Chris Reade who smashed the course record that day, completing it in a mere 15 minutes and 17 seconds. I remember Chris at our very first Swindon parkrun nearly 2 years ago now, on Saturday 6th March 2010, and he didn’t fail to turn heads even back then!
As a little reminder, we will be having a parkrun meeting on Saturday 11th February at 10:15am at the DeVere Hotel, West Swindon, for anyone who would like to come along and talk about parkrun matters. We will be discussing our plans for our 2-year anniversary, so feel free to turn up and drink coffee with us!
I hope you have a great weekend, whatever you decide to do, and I look forward to seeing you all again in February!
Take care and best wishes.
Emma X