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TBAS spot prize winner


 

Well done to Kimbery Jayne Wilson; who collected this week's TBAS spot prize for completing Swindon parkrun in 100th position. 

 

Well done Kimberley and thank you to Jason and the TBAS team for their continued support of Swindon parkrun.

Don't forget that presenting your parkrun barcode will get you 10% off at TBAS!

 

Michael @ Swindon


 



Sun 05/20/2012

 
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Event 109 Run report


 

Swindon parkrun
Event number 109
19th May 2012

Men's placings:
Ian READE (VM45-49) of Canix, was first in 16:56 - 13th win in 23rd appearance.
Jason PINKNEY (SM30-34) (Unattached) was second in 18:12 - 4 previous wins.
Thomas HEMMING (SM25-29) (Unattached) was third in 18:21.
 

Current standing in the Men's annual points competition:
Mark MALHAM (Unattached) 1070 pts.
Damien GRACE (Unattached) 1056 pts.
Jon ANDREWS (Unattached) 946 pts.
 

Women's placings:
Claire PARNELL (VW35-39) (Unattached) was first (19th overall) in 21:06 - third win in 34th appearance.
Elaine DEAN (VW45-49) (Unattached) was second (20th overall) in 21:06 - 5 previous wins.
Becky CAMPBELL (JW14) of Tigersharks on the Road, was third (41st overall) in 22:36 - 2 previous wins.
 

Current standing in the Women's annual points competition:
Alethia REID (Unattached) 1126 pts.
Elaine DEAN (Unattached) 1092 pts.
Rachel Mary MCADAM (Unattached) 927 pts.
 

The following runners recorded the best Age Grade scores:
Ian READE (VM45-49) was graded 85.04 % for the time 16:56 (first overall).
Tony SHELBOURN (VM65-69) was graded 81.28 % for the time 20:50 (16th overall).
Elaine DEAN (VW45-49) was graded 78.52 % for the time 21:06 (20th overall).
 

This week there were 270 runners, of whom 39 were first timers and 54 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 16 different athletics clubs took part.

Swindon parkrun started on 6th March 2010, and since then 2,575 different runners, including participants from 141 athletics clubs, have completed 15,532 runs covering a total distance of 77,660 km, and there have been 4,194 new Personal Bests.

The Women's course record is held by Amy CHALK who ran in a time of 17:07 on 23rd April 2011 (event number 56).
The Men's course record is held by Chris READE who ran in a time of 15:17 on 21st January 2012 (event number 93).
The Age Grade course record is held by Peter MOLLOY who recorded a 90.98 % run (18:06) on 12th May 2012 (event number 108).
 

Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Swindon parkrun Results Page.


Michael @ Swindon



Sun 05/20/2012

 
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Event 109 photo link


 

Hello parkrunners,

Here is the link to this weeks photos.

https://picasaweb.google.com/118300173734098027958/Event109SwindonParkrun120519?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCNvv56mI9ZyF4QE&feat=directlink

 

I'll be away from Swindon next weekend, so if anybody else would like to take photos next week that would be great!

Michael @ Swndon


 



Sun 05/20/2012

 
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Club shirts


 

They are here!

The new batch of club shirts has arrived from parkrun HQ.

Congratulations to all of our parkrunners who have completed the number of runs needed to get into the club.

If you completed your runs before 27th April 2012 you should be on this list, if you completed your runs after the 27th April your shirt will be in the next batch.

If you have completed the number of runs and are not on this list please let me know and I'll see if I can find out why.

Junior club (10 runs):

Callum Bampton

Luke Campbell

Jayden Daniels

Hanna Tapley

Senior club (50 runs):

Paul Arthurs

Paul Fishwick

Leon Grother

Bradleigh Harris (I think Bradleigh is our first junior runner to clock up the 50 runs required for a senior red shirt. Well done Bradleigh!)

Matt Holland

Mark Malham

Keith Williams

 

See you all in the morning!

Michael @ Swindon


 



Fri 05/18/2012

 
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Run Report, Saturday 12 May 2012


 

Hello everyone!

 What a fantastic turn out on Saturday! 283 of you turned up to run the course at Lydiard; our biggest attendance so far. I hope that you all enjoyed the relaxed and friendly atmosphere? I do wonder whether we will hit the 300 mark over the summer months. What do you think?! All I know is that we will need more and more jelly babies if the numbers continue creeping up. So please grab a couple of bags the next time you go shopping!
 
A big welcome to our 22 first timers, particularly the ‘beginners’ from the Slinn Allstars; I hope that Swindon parkrun becomes a regular slot in your running diaries?! Over the past few weeks, the sea of red from the Slinn Allstar T-Shirts has been getting bigger and bigger. Thank you so much for all of your support; I hope that parkrun helps with your training plans?
 
Congratulations to Gordon Wilson who ran his 50th parkrun on Saturday and Louis Brown who ran his 10th parkrun. Remember that every adult receives an Adidas t-shirt once they have completed 50 runs and every child gets one after 10 runs. So keep up the good work everyone; in order to get a t-shirt you all need to come back and run the course every week!
 
Thank you to Kelly Rumble from Cancer Research UK who joined us on Saturday to help promote Race 4 Life taking place in Swindon’s Lydiard Park on Saturday 9th June and Sunday 10th June. Kelly was pictured with some of our parkrunners in the Swindon Advertiser on Monday; please take the time to have a look at the article: http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/local/9703521.Women_urged_to_sign_up_and_Race_for_Life/ Thank you to Mary Wakefield and the other ladies in the photograph. Your help was much appreciated! We will NOT be having a parkrun on Saturday 9th June, so lady parkrunners – why don’t you enter Race for Life instead? And gentlemen – please put the dates in your diary and come and support us! Or why don’t you put names forward as volunteers? For further information please follow this link to the Race for Life website: http://raceforlife.cancerresearchuk.org/index.html
 
Finally, I just wanted to thank Vivienne Wise from the Commonweal 5 who also joined us on Saturday to tell us about a new 5-mile race on Sunday 27th May 2012 from Commonweal School in Swindon. Follow this link for more information about this new and exciting event in Swindon: http://www.commonweal5.co.uk/
 
Sorry to keep on…but please remember that we now have a ‘NO BARCODE NO RESULT’ policy. If you do not have a barcode or your barcode is damaged or faulty and won’t scan, we will no longer be able to add your name to the results list. So please bring a barcode that works every Saturday morning. Thanks must go to Pat Matthews, who has offered to laminate your bar codes for you; please leave them at the registration point after you have completed the course tomorrow and hopefully you will be able to collect them the following week fully laminated! 
 
I hope you have all had good week so far and I look forward to seeing you tomorrow!

Emma @ Swindon



Fri 05/18/2012

 
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