Report Event No 880 – 11 June 2022

Posted on June 15, 2022 by bushyoffice

A Volunteer Special

The first week in June was National Volunteers Week; a chance to recognise the fantastic contribution volunteers make to our communities and say thank you. I thought it would be nice therefore to use this addition of the run report to highlight the roles of the volunteers and to say thank you for their support.

ANYONE can, and is encouraged, to volunteer at parkrun. No special skills are required and there is no ongoing commitment. To make the cogs of Bushy parkrun turn smoothly, we require over 60 volunteers each week. We are lucky to have a fair number of young people volunteering as part of their Duke of Edinburgh Award programme. It has to be said, that some weeks, without them, we would be struggling to fill the positions.

The day before this parkrun, our wonderful coordinator of all volunteers, Pat, sent out a final plea email because we still had quite a few gaps on the roster. So please do consider volunteering, even if its only two or three times a year, it will make a big difference. Please email us if you would like to get involved and volunteer or speak to the Volunteer Coordinators by the Welcome flag.

Pleading over, it's now time to say thank you to all the volunteers this week: Richard BATE, Donald BELL, Nick BLANCHARD, Shirley BUCKLEY, Lauren BURKE, Jonathan BURSON, Jocelyn COLLIE, Ruby COLQUHOUN, Nicolette CRINALL, Carol DICKINSON, Deirdre DOE, Jack EDWARDS, Sam EDWARDS, Robert EVESON, Zoe Alison FAIZ, Jake FOX, Erin GOODWIN, Richard GRAY, Stella HAMMOND, Mac HARROWELL, Julie HAWORTH, Robby HEDGES, Jack HINDE, Andrew HOWARTH, Susan HOWARTH, Gabriel HUXLEY-JENNINGS, Dewi JAMES, Ali KENNEDY, Leonie KENNEDY, Katie KNOTT, Catelin LE FRANC, Margaret LE FRANC, Amanda LITTLECOTT, Amelia MACFARLANE, Fiona MCANENA, Rodney Howard MCCULLOCH, Jackie MELIA, Steve MILLER, Simon MORTON, Diane MULLEN, Ryan MULLEN, Joseph MURPHY, Isaac NOVELL, Keara-Valentine O'BRIEN, Ray O'NEILL, Carmen PALMER, Jeremy PALMER, Richard PATIENT, Tricia POWERS, Rosie RENDALL, Verity RIDING, James SELL, Phoebe STOKES, Matt SUNG, Alexander SWEETING, Charlie THOMAS, Alexa TYNAN, Simon WALLWORK, Fi WEBSTER, Bill WOODS

So, as promised, a homage to the volunteers. Firstly, a big thanks to Pat who coordinates all the volunteer requests and completes the roster every week and has done so for many years.

Today's Volunteer Coordinators were Verity and Steve, along with Jake. Their job is to check that everyone who signed up for the roster has turned up and knows what they are doing.

While this is going on, Jeremy who has volunteered to do the pre-event set up starts to build the all important funnel.

Diane is a funnel manager and is getting the 'gate' ready. Ryan has the letters ready to give out when the gates are switched. Sounds complicated, but anyone wanting a go will be shown what to do.

Andy, one of our Event Directors, assisted by Leonie (who was also a funnel manager), doing the pre-event set-up which involves lining up the speakers and setting out the start line. Run Director (and also mother of Leonie) Ali, in the background.

Time is ticking on now and Nick gathers together all the first timers and Bushy visitors to explain the course, and importantly, where coffee can be found after the run.

Gathering at the start are Fiona and Simon who both volunteer as guide runners for those who have a visual impairment. Today they are running with Jo and Alan. Fiona is always keen to add more volunteers to the guide roster, so again, please speak to us if you are interested.

Nearly time for the start, and Run Director for this week, Ali, briefs the assembled multitude.

Two of our DofE Volunteers Dewi and Jack making sure that nobody runs into the bin at the start before going off to tail walk. All parkruns have tail walkers to ensure that no one gets lost or left beind.

Rosie was our third tailwalker today.

The Marshalls

We have marshalls at strategic points along to course so that everyone knows where they are going. It's great fun being a marshall, your main role is to clap and cheer and encourage everyone along. It has to be said that there is a serious part to volunteering too. All volunteers wear high-vis jackets so they can be easily seen as well as a lanyard with the phone number of the Run Director, just in case there is an emergency.

At the 1km mark we have Bushy regular Zoe

Ensuring that we all turn left, not right, Erin and Katie

At the point where those who are more my pace can see the fast runners turning for home, we had Isaac, Alexander and Phoebe.

At Elizabeth corner (named after one of our great supporters from the care home opposite) we had parkrun regular, Shirley.

At Teddington Gate, Nicolette and Robby, with Ray and Matt keeping people away from the tree line along Chestnut Avenue.

Turning towards the 4K mark on Cobblers Walk was Fi and at the turn where we have 800 metres to go were Deirdre and Sam accompanied by small dog!

Last but definitely not least, Donald, a Busy Park Stalwart who kindly stood in at the last minute for the original marshall.

The Finish

We have a team of funnel managers who 'gently' try to move everyone along the funnel so we don't have runners backing over the finish line. We also 'encourage' people not to duck out of the funnel as this messes up the times of everyone behind - who knew it was so complex?!

Rodney watching for a gap to 'switch the gate'

We have two timers clocking everyone that crosses the line, not an easy job at all, particularly around 25 minutes when a huge bulk of the runners finish. Today's timers were Lauren and Amelia.

A team of scanners 'beeping' finish tokens and barcodes.

Tokens taken over to the table to be sorted by Joseph and Mac.

Sue and Ruby had been feverishly handing out tokens to finishers. Now as the rate of finishers slows down, Sue is able to bring the tokens down to the finish line. Similarly Catelin who had been in the team of scanners, now comes to greet the final finishers.

Finally, someone has to pack all the kit away and take it home to store for next Saturday. Today it was the turn of Carol, who has volunteered at parkrun nearly 400 times, as well as running it over 500 times!! Carol can often be seen bringing her wonderful homemade banana cake for the volunteers. Lovely gesture, and much appreciated. Carol doesn't always walk around with a glass of prosecco, (just some of the time) this was from another runner's milestone celebration, more of which later.

Visitors

There were 1107 runners and walkers on a lovely sunny parkrun morning with a lot of visitors joining the run today. Walking down to the start I couldn't help but notice a dinosaur among the runners. The dinosaur turned out to be Mark who explained that he was wearing the costume for 24 hours to help support his wife Nina to raise money for Princess Alice Hospice. Mark had already commuted home from London as a dinosaur the day before, and was now going to run a 5K. The before and after shots demonstrate just how hard it was! It certainly didn't help that his fan broke half way round. Well done Mark.

Joining us from Leeds, Samantha and Craig.

We had a large contingent from Tczew parkrun in Poland. One of the members of the group explained to me that they are from a small town of 60,000 inhabitants and the previous week they had 1000 people at their parkrun, second place in Poland, quite a feat.

A great group from Gorey parkrun

I came across more visitors during the run. Unfortunately my technology let me down (or it may have been user error) so I'm afraid I don't have your names.

I'm pretty sure that this duo were from Cleethorpes and Hartlepool

I met this cheerful group from Orpington who had just finished and were admiring the park.

And finally a group from Colchester Castle parkrun, whose names I did catch L - R, Hannah, Neil, Bret, Rob, Ben,Tania.

I understand that we also had quite a big group from Hayle parkrun. Unfortunately public transport let them down and they raced across the start line just after 'the off'. I managed to catch one of your group on the way round; we hope you enjoyed your visit.

The Run - can you spot yourself?

Milestones and celebrations

I spotted two celebrations today, firstly Antonia celebrating her 350th run along with Nick celebrating his 50th.

Milestones reached this week:

25 runs

9	Keaan AMIN 25 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Male 6/623	SM25-29 71.60% age grade	18:01 PB 17:50
87	Graham SPARREY 25 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Male 76/623	VM45-49 68.58% age grade	21:10 First Timer!
181	Andrew PEEL 25 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Male 154/623	VM35-39 57.40% age grade	22:58 PB 22:44
198	James ADBY 25 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Male 168/623	VM40-44 59.70% age grade	23:12 PB 21:35
248	Joe WRIGHT 25 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Male 210/623	VM45-49 61.18% age grade	23:55 PB 22:02
264	Andy GREENE 25 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Male 220/623	VM45-49 60.47% age grade	24:12 PB 21:45
318	Sophie COCHRANE 25 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Female 44/434	SW25-29 59.08% age grade	25:03 New PB!
483	Sophie COLLIER 25 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Female 97/434	SW30-34 54.64% age grade	27:07 PB 25:45
700	Wanda PETRUSEWICZ-ALLEN 25 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Female 192/434	VW55-59 62.51% age grade	30:11 New PB!
730	Emily BEECH 25 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Female 206/434	SW30-34 48.26% age grade	30:42 PB 29:15
989	Rina MIAH 25 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Female 362/434	SW30-34 38.96% age grade	38:02 PB 34:12

50 runs

271	Michael HONAN 50 parkruns \| Member of the 50 Club	Male 227/623	VM55-59 63.24% age grade		24:18 PB 20:58
328	Mark LA FRENAIS 50 parkruns \| Member of the 50 Club	Male 263/623	VM45-49 56.32% age grade	26.2 RRC	25:11 PB 19:02
413	Richard SHARP 50 parkruns \| Member of the 50 Club	Male 323/623	VM45-49 55.64% age grade		26:18 PB 24:55
431	Nicholas LAMB 50 parkruns \| Member of the 50 Club	Male 333/623	VM45-49 54.75% age grade		26:31 PB 23:19
512	Clive KITSON 50 parkruns \| Member of the 50 Club	Male 382/623	VM65-69 62.80% age grade	Stragglers	27:28 PB 26:43
515	Lauren AVERY 50 parkruns \| Member of the 50 Club	Female 109/434	SW20-24 53.85% age grade		27:29 PB 22:41
673	Alasdair FRASER 50 parkruns \| Member of the 50 Club	Male 464/623	SM30-34 43.35% age grade		29:50 PB 26:56
685	Kirsten PRIDE 50 parkruns \| Member of the 50 Club	Female 186/434	VW45-49 52.94% age grade		30:00 PB 28:14
737	Catherine WILSON 50 parkruns \| Member of the 50 Club	Female 209/434	VW45-49 53.79% age grade		30:48 First Timer!
777	Edward WALDEN 50 parkruns \| Member of the 50 Club	Male 504/623	VM50-54 46.83% age grade	Mel's Milers	31:30 New PB!
938	Jigna BHUDIA 50 parkruns \| Member of the 50 Club	Female 330/434	VW35-39 42.86% age grade		35:28 First Timer!
953	Nigel WHITEHEAD 50 parkruns \| Member of the 50 ClubMember of the Volunteer 100 Club	Male 572/623	VM65-69 46.53% age grade		36:02 First Timer!

100 Runs

69	Robert STUCKEY 100 parkruns \| Member of the 100 Club	Male 61/623	VM45-49 69.90% age grade		20:46 First Timer!
576	Danica MCGUINNESS 100 parkruns \| Member of the 100 Club	Female 140/434	VW55-59 63.51% age grade	Stragglers	28:30 PB 24:24

Finally a very jolly 40th birthday celebration for Louise, with very good cake (thank you)!

That's it for this week

See you Saturday to do it all over again!

Stella

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Report Event No 874 – 30 April 2022

Posted on May 1, 2022 by bushyoffice

Just a perfect day

Not too hot, not too cold, clear blue sky, what more could we ask for on a Saturday morning?

I was multi-tasking today as Report Writer and Volunteer Coordinator, welcoming all our lovely volunteers and explaining their roles to them. We very much welcome new volunteers so please, if you would like to help out occasionally, contact us at bushy@parkrun.com. No experience necessary! We would also like more people to help out as VI guides. You may have noticed that each week we have a number of Visually Impaired runners who are guided round the course helping them to avoid the hazards. Again, if you can help us occasionally, please contact us.

So to today's 61 volunteers. Our thanks go to: John ALTMAN, Richard BATE, Chloe BAYLIS, Nick BLANCHARD, Phil BLUER, Louise BOOLS, Chris BRIMACOMBE, Richard BULKLEY, Lauren BURKE, Jonathan BURSON, Jocelyn COLLIE, Ruby COLQUHOUN, Nicolette CRINALL, George DAUBNEY, Richard EVANS, Sadie EVANS, Ava EVENSEN, Jake FOX, Erin GOODWIN, Richard GRAY, Sophie GREENWOOD, Stella HAMMOND, Mac HARROWELL, Robby HEDGES, David HOPPE, Melanie HOWES, Charlotte INGYON, Louis JOLL, Katie KNOTT, Steve LORDE, Amelia MACFARLANE, Peter MARTIN, Marina MARTINEZ-BARROSO, Steve MILLER, Diane MULLEN, Ryan MULLEN, Emma May MURPHY, Joseph MURPHY, Simon NEWTON, Martin NICHOLDS, Keara-Valentine O'BRIEN, Carmen PALMER, Jeremy PALMER, Richard PATIENT, Rosie RENDALL, James RIMMER, Alice ROBERTS, Sally ROWE, Anna SAVILL, Nick SAVILL, Fiona SCOTT, James SELL, Merran SELL, Joanne SINTON-HEWITT, Diana SMITH, Lucy THATCHER, Charlie THOMAS, Alex TICKELL, Rebecca WALLIS, Rhiannon WILLIAMS, Rhys Thomas WILLIAMS

The founder of parkrun, Paul Sinton-Hewitt joined us today and I introduced 7 year old Jonah to him. Jonah was about to complete his 25th parkrun and Paul chatted to him explaining the history of parkrun. For anyone that isn't aware, the first ever event was in Bushy park on 2 October 2004 when 13 runners got together for a 5k timed run. Originally known as the Bushy Park Time Trial, it took nearly two years before the event spread beyond Bushy, taking the name parkrun in 2008 and expanding into other countries. Now there are hundreds of thousands of parkrunners worldwide.

Paul Sinton-Hewitt with Jonah.

There was quite a crowd listening to Nick give the first timers briefing this morning with visitors from far and wide.

Mark joined us from Central Queensland

Christopher from Neckarufer parkrun in Germany

Maria from Australia and Nigel and Wendy from New Zealand

1061 runners ready on the start line

and they're off.......

Meanwhile the preparations continue. The funnel is almost ready, Lucy the Run Director briefs the scanners and the token sorters prepare to sort.

I made my way to the bridge, the point with about 800 metres to go, and was surprised to see the lead bike arrive so quickly, followed by the first runner home, Harry Smith who finished in a fantastic time of 15:18. Extraordinarily he was a full 1 minute and 34 seconds ahead of the rest of the field. A very well done to Harry.

The ducks seemed completely unfazed by over a thousand runners thundering past them!

Paul cheered on by volunteers Richard and Sadie.

The home straight round the pond

At the finish

Andrew with dog Buddy, the first dog home. Andrew clocked his time as 21:20 and said it was down to 'dog power'!!

The funnel doing its job

This young man from Turkey doing his first parkrun

Eugene from Sheffield, Devin doing his first parkrun (in a very creditable 25:45) and Nick who normally runs in Richmond.

This great group is called 'Run Mummy Run' and they were very happy to have their photo taken with Paul.

As was Wendy

This happy group are all friends and neighbours. Marla, doing her 3rd parkrun, Lynn her 2nd, Eddie his 3rd and Dina her 1st.

12 week old Danny completed his 2nd parkrun, with a little help from Alex and Kate!

And finally, a big congratulations to Dolly the Dog, pictured here with Harry, who completed her 100th parkrun today! Dolly can be seen most weeks with Bushy regulars Les and Jackie.

Milestones

I think we need to start off with a massive congratulations to Ramona for running her 700th parkrun today - what an achievement.

Completing 25 runs today

79	Tom BALL 25 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Male 70/601	VM50-54 72.76% age grade		20:26 PB 19:20
160	Elliot KORTENRAY 25 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Male 136/601	SM30-34 58.50% age grade		22:10 PB 20:43
312	Duncan HUI 25 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Male 250/601	SM25-29 52.37% age grade		24:38 PB 23:51
417	Henry RATA 25 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Male 324/601	JM11-14 58.70% age grade		26:04 PB 25:40
540	Eugene CHANG 25 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Male 400/601	VM35-39 47.72% age grade	GoodGym	27:48 First Timer!
546	Jonah THOMPSON 25 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Male 404/601	JM10 63.84% age grade		27:53 New PB!
673	Barry HOULSTON 25 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Male 459/601	VM70-74 59.70% age grade		29:54 PB 28:39
758	Ryan STACEY 25 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Male 500/601	SM20-24 41.15% age grade		31:21 First Timer!
870	Gareth WOODS 25 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Male 539/601	VM40-44 41.12% age grade		33:58 PB 29:09
940	Nick PAGE 25 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Male 568/601	VM35-39 36.89% age grade		35:58 First Timer!
963	Adele LOYE 25 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Female 343/402	VW50-54 45.47% age grade		37:19 New PB!
1028	Gemma SEARLE 25 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Female 388/402	JW10 36.62% age grade	Shepperton Running Group	46:36 PB 36:45

A PB for Jonah, smashing his previous personal best

Completing 50 parkruns today

107	Amelia TEARLE 50 parkruns \| Member of the 50 Club	Female 9/402	SW25-29 69.27% age grade	Stragglers	21:22 PB 20:22
528	Elizabeth ELSOM 50 parkruns \| Member of the 50 Club	Female 114/402	SW30-34 53.59% age grade		27:37 PB 27:32
621	Louise FORD 50 parkruns \| Member of the 50 Club	Female 160/402	SW25-29 50.92% age grade		29:04 PB 25:30
884	Charlotte SKLAVOUNOS 50 parkruns \| Member of the 50 Club	Female 297/402	VW55-59 52.92% age grade		34:12 PB 33:11

Charlotte celebrating her 50th run with sister Katherine

Completing 100 parkruns today

701	David MANNING 100 parkruns \| Member of the 100 Club	Male 472/601	VM35-39 43.91% age grade		30:24 PB 25:11
924	Graham BERRY 100 parkruns \| Member of the 100 ClubMember of the Volunteer 25 Club	Male 561/601	VM45-49 41.51% age grade	Shrewsbury Renegade Runners	35:15 First Timer!

First 5 men...

1	Harry SMITH 31 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Male 1/601	SM25-29 84.31% age grade	Bournemouth AC	15:18 New PB!
2	Joe GOMES 9 parkruns	Male 2/601	VM35-39 79.74% age grade	Ranelagh Harriers	16:52 PB 16:43
3	Chris DAVIDSON 159 parkruns \| Member of the 100 Club	Male 3/601	VM35-39 77.40% age grade	Elmbridge RRC	17:02 PB 16:45
4	Mike BELL 26 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Male 4/601	SM25-29 75.37% age grade		17:07 First Timer!
5	Daniel JELFS 6 parkruns	Male 5/601	JM11-14 84.30% age grade	Thames Turbo Triathlon	17:12 New PB!

1st 5 women

10	Eliza HAWTHORN 16 parkruns	Female 1/402	SW30-34 83.08% age grade	Stragglers	17:50 New PB!
24	Gina GALBRAITH 146 parkruns \| Member of the 100 Club	Female 2/402	VW45-49 86.01% age grade	Hercules Wimbledon AC	18:28 New PB!
55	Kayleigh COPELAND 211 parkruns \| Member of the 100 Club	Female 3/402	SW30-34 75.06% age grade	Thames Turbo Triathlon	19:43 New PB!
68	Rebecca MOORE 114 parkruns \| Member of the 100 Club	Female 4/402	SW30-34 73.39% age grade	Chichester Runners & AC	20:10 First Timer!
70	Brooke TAYLOR 44 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Female 5/402	JW15-17 75.62% age grade	Epsom & Ewell Harriers	20:14 PB 19:45

1st 5 boys

5	Daniel JELFS 6 parkruns	Male 5/601	JM11-14 84.30% age grade	Thames Turbo Triathlon	17:12 New PB!

6	Dan SLAVEN 31 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Male 6/601	JM15-17 78.96% age grade	Epsom & Ewell Harriers	17:21 PB 16:58
7	Sam ATKINS 15 parkruns \| Member of the 10 Club	Male 7/601	JM15-17 78.70% age grade	Kingston AC and Polytechnic Harriers	17:41 New PB!

42	Michael GARCIA 3 parkruns	Male 39/601	JM11-14 74.94% age grade		19:21 New PB!

45	Harry TUCKMAN 101 parkruns \| Member of the 100 Club	Male 42/601	JM15-17 71.37% age grade	Walton AC	19:30 PB 19:18

1st 5 girls

70	Brooke TAYLOR 44 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Female 5/402	JW15-17 75.62% age grade	Epsom & Ewell Harriers	20:14 PB 19:45

152	Ella HENDERSON 11 parkruns \| Member of the 10 Club	Female 15/402	JW11-14 71.44% age grade		22:00 PB 21:46

315	Lucy NOBLE 90 parkruns \| Member of the 50 ClubMember of the Volunteer 10 Club	Female 49/402	JW15-17 61.24% age grade		24:41 PB 22:46
353	Megan KOTZE 18 parkruns \| Member of the 10 Club	Female 55/402	JW15-17 61.51% age grade		25:12 New PB!

376	Alice KEMP-POTTER 42 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Female 61/402	JW11-14 65.02% age grade		25:35 PB 25:15

Over 80% male

POSITION	PARKRUNNER	GENDER	AGE GROUP	CLUB	TIME
51	Mike ANDERSON 373 parkruns \| Member of the 250 Club	Male 48/601	VM65-69 85.54% age grade		19:36 PB 17:06
1	Harry SMITH 31 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Male 1/601	SM25-29 84.31% age grade	Bournemouth AC	15:18 New PB!
5	Daniel JELFS 6 parkruns	Male 5/601	JM11-14 84.30% age grade	Thames Turbo Triathlon	17:12 New PB!
64	Bernie MULVANY 470 parkruns \| Member of the 250 Club	Male 58/601	VM60-64 82.33% age grade		20:00 PB 17:42
34	Roy REEDER 583 parkruns \| Member of the 500 ClubMember of the Volunteer 25 Club	Male 31/601	VM55-59 81.65% age grade	Stragglers	18:59 PB 16:22
22	Crispin ALLEN 291 parkruns \| Member of the 250 Club	Male 20/601	VM50-54 81.50% age grade	Stragglers	18:23 PB 17:36
12	Jeremy GARNER 180 parkruns \| Member of the 100 Club	Male 11/601	VM45-49 80.95% age grade	Epsom Oddballs RC	17:56 New PB!

Over 80% - women

POSITION	PARKRUNNER	GENDER	AGE GROUP	CLUB	TIME
716	Judy M. NUTTING 49 parkruns \| Member of the 25 Club	Female 204/402	VW80-84 91.21% age grade		30:42 PB 29:56
130	Patricia RONKSLEY 160 parkruns \| Member of the 100 Club	Female 11/402	VW60-64 90.43% age grade	Stragglers	21:46 PB 21:23
24	Gina GALBRAITH 146 parkruns \| Member of the 100 Club	Female 2/402	VW45-49 86.01% age grade	Hercules Wimbledon AC	18:28 New PB!
105	Polly ADAMS 664 parkruns \| Member of the 500 Club	Female 8/402	VW55-59 84.84% age grade		21:20 PB 19:44
237	Ramona THEVENET 700 parkruns \| Member of the 500 Club	Female 27/402	VW60-64 83.52% age grade	Stragglers	23:34 PB 19:24
198	Shirley BUCKLEY 199 parkruns \| Member of the 100 ClubMember of the Volunteer 25 Club	Female 20/402	VW60-64 83.25% age grade	Stragglers	22:59 PB 21:56
10	Eliza HAWTHORN 16 parkruns	Female 1/402	SW30-34 83.08% age grade	Stragglers	17:50 New PB!

That's it for another week.

Just another reminder that we always welcome more volunteers.

Stella Hammond

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Run Report Event No 868 – 19 March 2022

Posted on March 21, 2022 by bushyoffice

Spring is finally here

A beautiful morning for running round the park, and 1112 runners agreed!

A lovely atmosphere this morning as runners and volunteers assembled under blue skies and lovely spring sunshine. Walking down to the start this morning, I couldn't miss the numerous bright green tops which turned out to belong to a large contingent of visitors from Milton Keynes, The Redway Runners (named as such as they mostly run around the 'redways' of Milton Keynes).

Another group of visitors joining us today were the Blackwater Valley Runners from Aldershot.

I met another extraordinary lady, Ange, who had just completed 5 marathons in 5 days to support the Motor Neurone Disease Association, and then turned up with her friends to complete parkrun and celebrate Gary's 250th run. The four friends Gary, Liz, Ange and Simon met when doing a spot of parkrun tourism in Inverness.

It was a morning for visitors - I met a group from Cranleigh - we hope you enjoyed your morning with us.

The last group I found were actually at the finish, the Blackburn Road Runners. A lovely friendly group who had a great run despite it being the 'morning after the night before'!

And so to the start, a lovely colourful sight under the bright blue sky.

Meanwhile, the finishing touches are being put on the funnel and the barcode scanners are waiting for their briefing.

I hopped on my bike and went up to the 'pinch point', the part where the slower runners like me who have about 3.5K to go, get to see the very speedy runners turn for the finish with 800 metres to go!

Spot Carol pacing 31 minutes and Dave 33 minutes in the photos above. Thanks to all our pacers today (odd numbers for an odd month on the third Saturday of the month).

Here comes Alex on the Lead bike followed by the eventual 1st and 2nd place runners, Mohamed and Georgia who both ran extraordinary times, 16:11 and 16:14 respectively.

This was a PB for Mohamed, and an amazing 91.17% age grade for first timer Georgia - very well done both of you.

Now the rest of the field stream down Cobbler's Walk heading towards the finish.

Finally across the finish line and into the funnel.

TODAY'S MILESTONES

Joining the 50 Club

Congratulations to the following runners for completing 50 runs today:

Mark WHELAN
Stuart BOYNE
Evan CULLEN
Keshav RAMDUNY

Joining the 100 Club

I spotted Chrissie Shepherd crossing the finishing line with Sam.

Anna Price also completed her 100th run today

Congratulations on completing 100 runs also go to:

Rob CARMICHAEL
Phil ROEBUCK
Jadie STONE
Tara FAIRBAIRN
Sophie DENTON
Philip STONE
Nina WATERS

Joining the 250 Club

Very well done:

Gary MORAN
Rovena NDREU (below)

Finally, many congratulations to Charles Worth (below) for completing 500 runs today, an amazing achievement and still an elite club.

The Results

Ably uploaded by Run Director Lucy

1^st finishers

Men

Mohamed HASHI	00:16:11	SM25-29	79.71%
Craig JARMAN	00:16:16	SM30-34	80.23%
Ryan KEANE	00:16:18	SM30-34	79.35%

Women

Georgia BELL	00:16:14	SW25-29	91.17%
Gina GALBRAITH	00:18:36	VW45-49	85.39%
Lucy HOSEASON	00:19:07	SW18-19	78.29%

Boys

Jake VALKENBURG	00:17:21	JM15-17	80.21%
Tom MYTHEN	00:17:55	JM11-14	82.98%
Arthur MILLES	00:19:05	JM15-17	71.79%

Girls

Jenna BAILEY	00:19:23	JW11-14	81.08%
Isabel MELBOURNE	00:22:38	JW11-14	71.94%
Brooke TAYLOR	00:23:37	JW15-17	64.78%

Age Grade performances

Well done to all those who achieved fantastic age grades over 80%

Judy M. NUTTING	00:30:31	VW80-84	91.75%
Georgia BELL	00:16:14	SW25-29	91.17%
Mike ANDERSON	00:19:23	VM65-69	86.50%
Polly ADAMS	00:21:07	VW55-59	85.71%
Gina GALBRAITH	00:18:36	VW45-49	85.39%
Ramona THEVENET	00:23:33	VW60-64	83.58%
Tom MYTHEN	00:17:55	JM11-14	82.98%
John MAYOCK	00:18:07	VM50-54	82.06%
Darren BRADLEY	00:18:17	VM50-54	81.95%
Mike DENNISON	00:20:20	VM60-64	81.72%
Ruth HUTTON	00:22:32	VW55-59	81.43%
Daniel JOHNSON	00:18:34	VM50-54	81.42%
Jenna BAILEY	00:19:23	JW11-14	81.08%
Christine FLYNN	00:26:38	VW65-69	80.91%
Scott FORSYTH	00:19:02	VM55-59	80.74%
Craig JARMAN	00:16:16	SM30-34	80.23%
Jake VALKENBURG	00:17:21	JM15-17	80.21%

The Volunteers

As always we are very grateful to the volunteers who made this event happen. Usually events run smoothly, but occasionally we do have an incident out on the course and that's where are volunteers are especially important. Our thanks go to Suzanne Green and Martin Nicholds who dealt with a couple of incidents today swiftly and efficiently.

Why not get involved and volunteer?

Today's Volunteers: Andrew ALLEN, Chloe BAYLIS, Joy BELL, Marisa BILLETT, Phil BLUER, Daphne BOYLE, Mark BOYLE, Shirley BUCKLEY, Thomas CASSIDY, Rachel CHURNEY, Liz COLLISON, Ruby COLQUHOUN, Carol DICKINSON, Chloe EAGAN, Sadie EVANS, Ava EVENSEN, Alex FERGUSSON, Casper FINNIGAN, Erin GOODWIN, Nicola GOSCOMB, Suzanne GREEN, Sophie GREENWOOD, Stella HAMMOND, Mac HARROWELL, Oliver HESTER, Heather Lynn HORLER, Andrew HOWARTH, Susan HOWARTH, Charlotte INGYON, Pam JARMAN, Louis JOLL, Lucy KATESMARK, Amelia MACFARLANE, Peter MARTIN, Marina MARTINEZ-BARROSO, Rodney Howard MCCULLOCH, Steve MILLER, Christopher MODOO, Diane MULLEN, Joseph MURPHY, Martin NICHOLDS, George NOBLE, Keara-Valentine O'BRIEN, Owain OSMOND GILLAM, Jeremy PALMER, Sian PRITCHARD, Rosie RENDALL, James RIMMER, Viv ROOT, Duncan SCOBLE, Fiona SCOTT, James SELL, Rosemary SHEPHERD, Diana SMITH, Wendy STOKES, Carol SWAFFER, Alexander SWEETING, Lucy THATCHER, Alex TICKELL, Graham TITCOMBE, Henry TYSON, Colin WOODS

And that's it, nothing left to do but have coffee in the sun!

Stella Hammond

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Return of Bushy parkrun – 24 July 2021

Posted on July 13, 2021 by bushyoffice

We are all looking forward to welcoming you back to Bushy parkrun on 24 July.

parkrun Covid-19 Framework

Please note that there are one or two changes in the light of the Covid-19 pandemic on how parkrun is operating. Check out the parkrun COVID-19 Framework which has been supporting 5k and junior events around the world for some time now. parkrun will continue to operate under these guidelines until we are confident that it is appropriate to remove them permanently. In addition, have a look at the COVID-19 Walker & Runner Code and the COVID-19 Volunteer Code for more information.

Access to Bushy Park

We encourage you to walk, jog or cycle to Bushy parkrun where possible. If you are driving, please note you can no longer drive through the park from Teddington Gate to the Lion Gate at Hampton Court or vice versa. Therefore, the Diana Fountain Car Park is only accessible via the Lion Gate on the Hampton Court side of the park and the Pheasantry car park is only accessible via Teddington Gate.

In addition please note that the Pheasantry Gardens pedestrian gates now do not get unlocked until 9am, so if you plan to park in The Pheasantry car park please give yourself extra time to walk the long way around to the volunteer meeting point. In addition dogs are not allowed in the Woodland Gardens, and until 4 August all dogs are required to be on a lead in Bushy Park. Dogs need to be on a short lead at all parkruns.

Course adjustment

For conservation reasons to avoid compaction of the tree roots, we are asked to avoid running and walking under the leaf canopy of the trees on Chestnut Avenue between Teddington Gate (approx. 3k) to the left turn onto Cobblers Walk (approx. 3.5k), including avoiding the path under the trees. There will be tape, cones and marshals on this stretch encouraging the field to run or walk down the open strip of grass away from the trees, and not on the road or the path.

Start

The start will move right towards the playground, to avoid damage to the anthills just beyond the old start. Please be mindful of the bin and benches just outside the toilets at the start. Marshals will be present to guide you safely past them. Runners and walkers are kindly invited to position themselves at the start according to their expected finish position - with faster runners at the front and vice versa.

Volunteers

We are looking to fill the vacant positions and welcome hearing from you if you are able to help. We particularly welcome additional scanners as under the Covid-19 framework under which we are operating, more scanners are required. Pls email bushy@parkrun.com if you can help.

Scanning

Please be aware that the scanning process is now undertaken on volunteer’s own smart phones using the Virtual Volunteer App. Please hold your personal barcode and finish token at arms length for them to scan and put the token in the bucket yourself so they don’t have to touch either. If you do not have a barcode, we cannot give you a time, just return your finish token to the volunteers collecting them. We cannot scan barcodes on phones. No barcode, no result.

Finally if you are thinking of visiting Bushy from afar as a tourist, please note that the parkrun COVID-19 framework notes that participants should be encouraged, where possible, to attend their local events and avoid unnecessary travel to non-local parkrun events.

Very best regards,

Bushy parkrun

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Run Report Event No 834 – 14 March 2020

Posted on March 15, 2020 by bushyoffice

Still Muddy

A glimpse of sunshine as Andy gives his run brief.

But out there, the course is still rather muddy and damp as beautifully illustrated on the legs of today's course checker!

Course checker is just one of the many volunteer positions that need filling each week. Please do check the roster and see if there is a job that you would like to do. If you are unsure, then email bushyhelpers@parkrun.com and Pat, our friendly Volunteer Coordinator will be happy to assist you.

Thank you to those of you who volunteered today: Rosanna BARTLETT, Jack BENNETT, Nick BLANCHARD, Allan BRAY, Lou COAKER, Alexander COLLIE, Julia CURLEY, Deirdre DOE, Fred William DRAPER, Zoe Alison FAIZ, Janice FRANKS, Ray FRANKS, Christine FRY, Sam FUTCHER, Amelia GOODWIN, Erin GOODWIN, Paige GOODWIN, Stella HAMMOND, Bianca HOLLIS, Emilie HOWES, Melanie HOWES, Trevor HUGGINS, Gabriel HUXLEY-JENNINGS, Stephen IGGLESDEN, Iris JOHONSON, Robbie JONES, Jack KENNEDY, Keira KING, Amy KING-HALE, Katie KNOTT, Catelin LE FRANC, Courtney LE FRANC, Margaret LE FRANC, Rachael MACKLEARN, Susie MCNICOL, Sophia MONS, Grace MORENO-MASEY, Diane MULLEN, Megan PORTER, Kevin QUINN, Ian RILEY, Emily RIMMER, Abbie ROSS, Duncan SCOBLE, Toni SHEW, Carol SWAFFER, Charlotte THOMSON, Richard VAN DER LEEDEN, Heather WALLINGTON, Rowan WALSH, James Oliver WELCH, Dorrie WHITING, Katherine WILDE, Laura WILDE, Alice WILSON, Andrew John WINGATE, Maja WOSZCZAK

Two more volunteers, Jan and Carol ready to give out tokens to the 1,148 runners who took part today.

Some lovely photos out on the course taken by Brigid Hibberd

Ladies in tutus! Must be a celebration - all will be revealed!

Amongst the visitors today were Stacey Kite and three generations of her family who had travelled down from Leeds to run at Bushy parkrun.

Also joining us today were a group from Lordshill Road Runners (Southampton). Abbie was a member of the group and was celebrating her 100th run today, well done Abbie.

From Derbyshire, the Smalley Road Runners

Achievements

Welcome to the 157 new visitors to Bushy Park.

94 Bushy PBs this week - many congratulations to you all. Worthy of a mention is PB regular David Gannon; 369 parkruns and still improving his PB. Jealous!

3 of this week's Bushy regulars have run over 1,500 times between them, and each achieved impressive age grades of over 80%. Congratulations to Ruth HUTTON (87.15%), Polly ADAMS (82.14%) and Jeremy PALMER (80.59%).

Milestones

5 runners reached the 250 milestone. Many congratulations to Mark COOP, Graham LAND, Kishore DESAI, Shaun FRY and Lorraine DILLAMORE. Graham and Shaun were running Bushy for the first time - come back soon!.

Lorraine Dillamore, a Bushy parkrun regular, celebrated her 250th run in style wearing a very fetching coloured tutu. The supporting cast dressed to match and certainly brightened up the proceedings. Very well done Lorraine.

Photos courtesy of Wendy Stokes

9 athletes reached their 100 milestone. Congratulations to Jane WHITROW who topped it with a PB - come back again soon!. Also achieving the milestone were Christopher BEAVIS, Abbigail DENT, James TRUEMAN, Nyree STEWART-BEAVIS, Mandy RAMSDEN, David BRIGHT, Clive NAISH and Rachel GREGORY.

Just 3 athletes to have a 50 t-shirt in the post this week. Well done Lianne FLYNN, Alec BROOM and Catherine REAY

Receiving their 10 Milestone t-shirt: Jacob KEMP-POTTER (JM10), Alice KEMP-POTTER (JW10) and Iris WHITE (JW10), all with very impressive times. Many congratulations to you.

Final photo by Brigid - spring has sprung!

That's it for another week. I should finish by saying, that for the current position regarding COVID-19 and implications for parkrun events, please see https://www.parkrun.com/news and the parkrun social media pages below.

Stella Hammond

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Run Report Event No 825 – 11 January 2020

Posted on January 13, 2020 by bushyoffice

The Young Ones

Today a Bushy Park regular ran her 250th parkrun. Not too remarkable these days; today there were 188 people at Bushy parkrun who have run 250+ parkruns. However, what does make this particular young lady remarkable is that she is only 9 years old!! Isabel you are a star.

Isabel's achievement is the inspiration for this week's report - the young people who turn up on a Saturday and trundle round 5K in all weathers. It has to be said, some are happier about it than others, but the fact they are there at all is to be commended.

The first youngster I met this morning was Eva, only 8 years old, and at parkrun as a volunteer. Today Eva was tailwalking - thank you so much Eva, your support is much appreciated.

The next two were Sophie age 9 and Alice, just 4. They were visiting Bushy parkrun with their running group - Burgess Hill Runners

Here are the rest of the group which includes the Brighton and Hove parkrun core team.

Walking down to the start I met Eva aged 8 on her third parkrun and Jack aged 10 on his fourth.

Sophie and Alice were both listening intently at the First Timer's briefing ably given by Mike Tivnen

I came across teenager, Isla 13, at the briefing doing her first parkrun today......

........ and at the start found Leah, another 13 year old, who has done over 200 parkruns.

Counting down to the start now, and on the line I found regulars Seth age 7, and Kit age 5. Seth has done an amazing 124 parkruns. Kit ran parkrun number 56 today and got a new PB. Well done both of you.

Georgie age 8 was waiting to start her 14th parkrun.

Now back to Isabel who was with her family and waiting to run parkrun number 250

Off we all go again for Bushy parkrun number 825. We had a field of 1663 runners - 152 less than last week, have they all fallen off the New Year's Resolution Band Wagon already?!!

I spoke to a number of youngsters on the way round. I caught up with Ralph who was running as part of a group celebrating a 40th birthday. Ralph had not done parkrun before and had intended to stop at the 'Butterfly' where their cheer group was waiting. However, he decided to push on to the end, and beat me on a sprint to the line. Well done Ralph, hope to see you back again.

Sporting a very fetching Spiderman top was 6 year old Tyler completing his 26th parkrun. Tyler has also completed 41 Junior Parkruns - well done Tyler.

Daniel age 9 has done over 50 parkruns. Great action picture with excellent 'photobombing' by Joy!

8 year old Molly was completing her first parkrun today and did really well.

And so to the finish, as we walked, pushed, stumbled, jogged or sprinted our way across. The welcome sight of the funnel and the orange finish signs spurs us all on.

Thank you funnel team

So another parkrun is over, and as we mill about under the famous tree, chatting and basking in the post run glow, I find Matthew and James, the 9 year old twins who run at Bushy parkrun week in, and week out. Matthew has completed 213 runs and 168 Junior parkruns, James has completed 210 runs and 171 Junior parkruns - how amazing is that?!

Some interesting stats about youngsters completing today's run

Totally useless fact:

Most popular female name for 17 and under was Sophie, followed by Ella
Most popular male name for 17 and under was Matthew, followed by Oliver/Olly

More interesting fact

We had 22 Junior men 10 years old and under (JM10)
These ranged from first time runners, second time runners (well done for coming back), to James and Matthew who have run over 200. One young man is two runs off his 50th, three have recently achieved their 50th and two are on the way to 100. Oliver and Seth are well over 100 now having completed 147 and 124 respectively.

There were 28 Junior women 10 years old and under (JW10)
There were eight first time runners, two on their 2nd and three on their 3rd. Two girls are not far off their 50th parkrun, one has just achieved hers and another half way between milestones on 70 runs. Then there is a massive gap to Isabel on her 250th.

What amazing statistics for children only 10 and under.

In the JM (11-14) we had 21 runners and in the JM (15-17) we had 19 young men.
In the JW (11-14) we had 20 runners and in the JW (15-17) we had 15 young women

Who says you can't get teenagers out of bed in the morning?! Well done to all of you and to the wonderful young volunteers who come out to help parkrun flow like a well oiled machine.

Volunteers

Thanks to all our volunteers this week, young and not so young:

Iain BELL, Jack BENNETT, Marisa BILLETT, Phil BLUER, Tim BOWDEN, Ted BRAMPTON, Alexander COLLIE, Janet CUNNINGHAM, Lucas CURTIS, Lola DACHTLER, Sheila FERGUSSON, Justine FOX, Jake FOX, Ray FRANKS, Christine FRY, Wally GARROD, Erin GOODWIN, Paige GOODWIN, Nicola GOSCOMB, Stella HAMMOND, Sofia HAWKINS, David HOPPE, Susan HOWARTH, Trevor HUGGINS, Gabriel HUXLEY-JENNINGS, Lucy KATESMARK, Keira KING, Jim KINROSS, Katie KNOTT, Liane KUFCHOCK, Catelin LE FRANC, Margaret LE FRANC, Courtney LE FRANC, Selma LEE, Stephen MARFLEET, Sophia MONS, Grace MORENO-MASEY, Diane MULLEN, Ronit NARAYAN, Martin NICHOLDS, Jason NOURSE, Paul OPPENHEIMER, Meera PANCHARATNAM, Kevin QUINN, Peter REAY, Verity RIDING, Ian RILEY, Sally ROWE, Alicia SMITH, Eva SMITH-MARTIN, Pauline STONES, Lucy THATCHER, Mike TIVNEN, Michael TROTT, Colby WALLACE WATERSON, Heather WALLINGTON, James Oliver WELCH, Dorrie WHITING

Visitors

Among the visitors were the Itchen spitfires

From Australia, Karen, Abbie, Lara, Emily and Matti.

From Wales, Beth whose home parkrun is Barry Island, and Ben who is sporting a t-shirt from the new Cosmeston Lakes parkrun nearby.

A lovely group of Polish friends and partners joined us from various parkruns. Welcome to Karolina, Wojtek, Ewica, Kamila and Adam.

Bushy parkrun regular Mel, and friends, from the Fordy Runs online running club were at Bushy parkrun today. The club had a challenge for all members across the country to get their shoes on this weekend and complete a run. Total miles logged by the club - over 4000, very impressive.

Milestones

About to get their number 50 T-Shirt

Paul RUSTON
Jamie HOLLINS
Simon MACFARLANE
Izzy POWERS

Reaching their 100 milestone

Daniel GASK
Oliver BOWERS
David Thomas Simon LEEN
Kevin DAY
Ian LEWENDON
Gemma HIGGS - I met Gemma walking to the Pheasantry with her wonderful cake - well done Gemma

Achieving their 250th milestone

Geoff NEWMAN
Stephen PENPRAZE
John HOLLANDS
Isabel MELBOURNE - Isabel has also completed 117 Junior parkruns

A very special well done to Isabel, and her lovely family with their never ending supply of cakes. Isabel celebrating below with brothers Oliver and Thomas.

Finally, well done to the 96 of you who ran parkrun for the first time. We hope you enjoyed it, and are already hooked!

See you next week

Stella Hammond (thank you Duncan Scoble for the additional, and much better taken, photographs)

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Run Report Event No 819 – 14 December 2019

Posted on December 22, 2019 by bushyoffice

Let's Get This Parkrun Done!

Whether we awoke disappointed, elated or indifferent to the previous day's election results, even grey skies and slippery conditions provided the perfect pick-me-up for those wanting to forget all about politics for at least an hour or two!

Mob Match

Today's 1259 field was given a boost to the tune of 83 runners due to a mob match that was taking place between the Thames Turbo Triathlon and the Ful-On-Tri clubs. This is a friendly annual gathering (you may have spotted them sharing mince pies and mulled wine after the run), and is scored by ordering all participants by finish time, with top points going to the first finisher, down to 1 point for the last finisher.

The 44 runners of Thames Turbo edged the match (reversing the result from previous years) by 1833 points to Ful-On-Tri's 1653, which was largely thanks to the 528 points contributed by 13 runners from the excellent junior section of the Turbo's. In fact top scorer was junior triathlete Jonny Brook (7th place with a time of 17:18).

FulOnTriAndTurbosTogether

Post mob-match photo of Ful-On-Tri and Thames Turbo

Thames Turbo triathletes - (they didn't know they had won the match as this point; they're always this happy!)

PB's!

Despite the slippery conditions, 67 of you managed a PB today; Many congratulations to Charles Clifford who beat a 7.5 year old PB on his 169th Bushy Parkrun

Although not a PB, Shaef Shifter Tom Parmiter's performance deserves a special mention; He was celebrating his 34th birthday, and completed his 2nd parkrun since being diagnosed with a severe case of miopericarditis, which led to advise that he may never be able to run competitively again. This time last year Tom struggled to walk for 20 minutes, but his perseverance led to him achieving a speedy 19:34 today. Many congratulations!

Tom after his 2nd parkrun of the year.

Good For Age

Just in case you need even more inspiration, many congratulations to the 12 runners who achieved an Age Grade score of above 80% despite the slippery conditions (love this category, you guys are my heroes!)

Nancy SCOTT 17:48 83.15% age grade

Harvey DIXON 15:34 82.87% age grade

Andrius JAKSEVICIUS 16:16 82.68% age grade

Emma HARRIS 20:21 82.39% age grade

Laurence DUFFY 19:30 81.54% age grade

Mara YAMAUCHI 19:43 81.32% age grade

Judy M. NUTTING 32:51 81.13% age grade

Teresa WILLCOX 23:18 80.97% age grade

Joanne HARVEY 18:17 80.95% age grade

Euan LEES 17:41 80.77% age grade

Polly ADAMS 21:51 80.70% age grade

Ruth PURBROOK 18:28 80.14% age grade

Fast Men

1 Harvey Dixon 15:34

2 Andrius Jaksevicius 16:16

3 Nicholas Landeau 16:48 (New to Parkrun!)

Harvey earns the right to tread the funnel at it's least muddiest!

Fast Ladies

1 Nancy Scott 17:48 (New PB!)

2 Joanne Harvey 18:17

3 Ruth Purbrook 18:28 (New PB!)

Fast Boys

1 Jonny Brook 17:18

2 Ajay Welsh 18:42 (New PB!)

3 Ross Hyde 19:06

Fast Girls

1 Imogen Deakin 20:18

2 Isabel Livesey 21:30

3 Sophie Desmond 21:59

Tourists

There were 125 runners visiting Bushy for the first time today, of which 23 were undertaking their first ever parkrun! Welcome aboard all, hope to see you back soon.

Michael & Colleen from Menai parkrun in Sydney

Visitors from Cleveland Parkrun, Australia

David & Jenny from Lyme Park parkrun (one of my favourite courses! Stunning views)

Visitors from Berlin & Eastbourne

From Mole Valley

Milestones

250 Club

Emma Wager

100 Club

Michael Holmes, Louise Stent, Orla White, Allie Short, Alan Lightfoot, Amanda Littlecott, Juliette Jowit

Louise and friends celebrate 100!

Orla marks her joining of the 100 club with friends Jacqui and Wendy.

Volunteers

Don't forget to email Pat McGrath on bushyhelpers@parkrun.com if you would like to volunteer, particularly important at this time of year when we have extra parkruns on Christmas and New Year's Day. Many thanks to this week's Hi-Viz heroes:-

Jack BENNETT, Marisa BILLETT, Phil BLUER, Tim BOWDEN, Ted BRAMPTON, Chris BRIMACOMBE, Shirley BUCKLEY, Alexander COLLIE, Lorna CURRY, Tamsyn EVESON, Paddy FITZPATRICK, Justine FOX, Jake FOX, Ray FRANKS, Janice FRANKS, Christine FRY, Amelia GOODWIN, Paige GOODWIN, Erin GOODWIN, Claude HARRY, Emilie HOWES, Ann JACHMICH, Iris JOHONSON, Jack KENNEDY, Keira KING, Jim KINROSS, Katie KNOTT, Margaret LE FRANC, Catelin LE FRANC, Selma LEE, Steve LORDE, Susie MCNICOL, Ronit NARAYAN, Meera PANCHARATNAM, Ellen PARRY, Peter REAY, Ian RILEY, Sumita SARMA, Duncan SCOBLE, Merran SELL, Wendy STOKES, Carol SWAFFER, Mike TIVNEN, Pip TODD, Michael TROTT, Karen WALLACE, James Oliver WELCH, Dorrie WHITING

Gavin & George combined this week's event with purchasing their Xmas tree! Great efficiency guys!

Many thanks to Duncan, Wendy, Orla and Ed for providing photos.

See you Saturday

Chris Brimacombe

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Run Report Event No 814 – 9 November 2019

Posted on November 11, 2019 by bushyoffice

First Frost of the Season

A lovely crisp and rather chilly autumn day greeted us this morning.

Arriving at 8.30, the park was still shrouded in fog, but the sun threatened to break through. Thanks to Rodney McCulloch for the two beautifully taken photos.

Fifteen minutes later, and the fog melted away just in time for Nick to give his briefing to the first timers.

Meanwhile, back at the finish, Ray was giving funnel management instructions to two of our wonderful Duke of Edinburgh volunteers.

This week, we were all very fortunate that 19 lovely DofE young people got out of bed early on a Saturday morning to help ensure the smooth running of Bushy parkrun. Without their help, we would be struggling for volunteers some weeks. If you would like to help as a marshal or scanner or in one of the many other positions, please sign up as a volunteer. You don't have to help on a regular basis, just every now and then is fine, there is no commitment. Have a look at the volunteer rota which is available on the Bushy parkrun website under 'Volunteering' https://www.parkrun.org.uk/bushy/futureroster and see if there is anything you fancy. Drop an email to Pat at bushyhelpers@parkrun.com and he will add your name.

Many thanks to all the volunteers this week:

Anand AGGARWAL, Joy BELL, Jack BENNETT, Nick BLANCHARD, Ted BRAMPTON, Tony CATON, Carolyn COOPER-BURROWS, Lucas CURTIS, Lola DACHTLER, William DUMBRELL, Alex DUMBRELL, Paddy FITZPATRICK, Ray FRANKS, Janice FRANKS, Christine FRY, Paige GOODWIN, Stella HAMMOND, Samantha HANLEY, Olivia HEATLEY, David HOPPE, Andrew HOWARTH, Emilie HOWES, Gabriel HUXLEY-JENNINGS, Lucy KATESMARK, Bert KIDWELL, Katie KNOTT, Catelin LE FRANC, Margaret LE FRANC, Selma LEE, Angela MACSON, Stephen MARFLEET, Fiona MCANENA, Steve MILLER, Trevor MITCHELL, Grace MORENO-MASEY, Diane MULLEN, Zainab OSAMA, Meera PANCHARATNAM, Hannah ROBERTSON, Nick ROWE, Anna SAVILL, Nick SAVILL, Merran SELL, James SELL, Julie SMITH, Jonathan SMITH, Jonty STEGMANN, Carol SWAFFER, Lucy THATCHER, Alex TICKELL, Lia TYNAN, Colby WALLACE WATERSON, Simon WALLWORK, James Oliver WELCH, James WHISTLER, Dorrie WHITING, Andrew John WINGATE

AN APPEAL on behalf of WRAP UP LONDON

Some of you may have noticed Bushy parkrun regular Julie Papworth, stuffing coats into her boot this morning. This is because Julie has kindly volunteered to collect unwanted coats on behalf of the Wrap up London appeal. Coats are then distributed to homeless people who may be very much in need as the weather gets colder. If you are able to donate an unwanted coat to the appeal, Julie will again be collecting at Bushy parkrun on Saturday 16th November. You will be able to find Julie by the Volunteer Station (bin)! In case you are unsure who Julie is - see below. Thank you for your support.

....and now to the run

A total of 1331 of us set off at 9.00am to enjoy what had become a lovely morning (of course, it's parkrun day).

Amongst our numbers were 32 First Timers - welcome to you all, hope you enjoyed it and will be back next week. One first timer who definitely had a good time was Georgina who was encouraged to come along to parkrun by her friend Neo.

Another First Timer to be congratulated is Sophie. She had been round before in a buggy, but this was the first time she had gone round on two feet - brilliant, especially as Sophie is only 5 years old, well done Sophie.

MILESTONES

10 RUNS

Junior runners who will be getting their 10 tee-shirts:

Isla, (JW 11-14) a Durham City Harrier, who was visiting today with her family and friends (you can see her picture in 'Today's Visitors'). Isla has completed 24 junior and 10 senior parkruns and today ran in an impressive time of 27:04, an age grade of 61.45%. Well done Isla.

Lexi (JW 10), a Bushy parkrun regular, is also to be congratulated today. Lexi has completed 16 junior and 10 Senior parkruns - fantastic achievement, well done Lexi.

50 RUNS

Congratulations to:

Oliver JACKMAN
Kate HOLMES (visiting Bushy Park for the first time today, from usual parkrun at Richmond - welcome Kate)
Steve LORDE
Charlotte FRAMPTON
Alex MAY

I spotted Alex proudly holding his '50' balloon at the start - well done Alex.

100 RUNS

Lorna OLIVER
Annabel CROUCH
Kelly BURKE (pictured below)

and Gavin SLATER (pictured below)

PERSONAL BESTS

An amazing 104 of you achieved a PB this week - congratulations to you all. A special 'well done' should go to Ralph Blackbourn who has done nearly 300 runs and today achieved a PB. There is hope for us all! Well done also to Emma Poole and Georgina Lever who also achieved PBS and have both completed over 200 runs.

THE 80% AND OVER GROUP

Well done to the runners below who managed to achieve an impressive age grade of 80% and above.

Simon BAINES	88.52%
Pamela WHITTER	87.68%
Laurence DUFFY	85.10%
Andrius JAKSEVICIUS	84.50%
Vincent RIVIERE	84.10%
Polly ADAMS	84.03%
Ross FRANKS	81.82%
Stephen JACKSON	81.31%
Patricia RONKSLEY	81.15%
Luke PIKETT	81.06%
Jonathan MAINWARING	80.88%
Szymon CHOJNACKI	80.75%
Shirley BUCKLEY	80.46%

SOME OF TODAY'S VISITORS

Visiting us today from Guernsey - Francis

From Brisbane - Stuart

From Ryazan, Russia - Anna and Constantin

From Splinters Running Group - Clare, Karen, Alice and Jenny

From Durham - 'Durham Mum's on the run', Abigail and Vics, Elvert Striders, Rory and Corrine, and from Durham City Harriers, Isla (10 Parkruns today) and Lewis who is one parkrun behind his sister having achieved 9 senior runs and a fantastic 30 junior parkruns. Today Lewis (JM10) also had a great run time of 24:10, and age grade of 67.66% - well done Lewis - 10 tee-shirt next week.

From 'Parkrun Laughs' a group of runners who met on Facebook and created a Group. Their group page states that they are a group dedicated to laughing along with parkrun - what could be better?! The group today hailed from across the country, and they all looked to be fulfilling their remit - lovely to meet you.

We also had a running champion in our midst today. Charlotte Purdue and her training group joined us for parkrun. Charlotte has an impressive career history and is the UK junior record holder for the 10,000 m with a time of 32:36.75 minutes (quicker than my 5K)! This year Charlotte was 10th in the London marathon in an amazing time of 2:25:38.

TIME TO GO HOME

The last bar-code is scanned and the volunteers troop off for their well earned coffee at The Pheasantry

One lucky volunteer also gets to take home all the kit - and bring it back again next week!

A special thanks to Una who is with us whatever the weather to help collect and sort the tokens. Here she is on her way to The Pheasantry, ably assisted by Les.

The work isn't over yet. All the tokens, all 1331 of them, have to be sorted into groups of 50 ready for next week. This is mostly done over convivial conversation, a warm drink and frequently a sneaky bacon sarnie - well that's why we run isn't it?!

Finally, some shots of the Woodland Garden with beautiful Autumn trees, to remind us, as if we need it, how lucky we are to have such a beautiful park in which to run.

See you next week

Stella Hammond

Christmas and New Year

Posted on October 29, 2019 by bushyoffice

We're pleased to let everyone know that as in previous years, we will be hosting a parkrun at Bushy on both Christmas Day and New Year's Day, both will start at 9am.

On Christmas Day we'll be providing minced pies and mulled wine and as usual we'll be encouraging everyone to dress up in Fancy Dress!

On New Year's Day, if you're looking to do a double, please check the Christmas Compendium for other local parkruns that are starting at a time later than 9am.

Run Report Event No 792 – 8 June 2019

Posted on June 13, 2019 by bushyoffice

Graced By Dame Kelly

This week, we were honoured to host a moving tribute to Milo Little, whose friends, family, classmates and teachers from Raynes Park High School were meeting to run / walk in memory of Milo and to raise money for CLIC Sargent. Milo was sadly lost to cancer last year, and this week he would have celebrated his 16th birthday. Anyone wishing to donate to CLIC Sargent can do so here:-

https://www.justgiving.com/remember/679768/Milo-Little

Family, friends, classmates and teachers of Milo Little

The event was organised by teacher Ben Smith, who was adding to the challenge by carrying a 50 lb rucksack.

Supporters of Milo approaching the big oak.

To the delight of many of us, we were visited by a pretty good runner from Tonbridge; Dame Kelly Holmes was taking part in the filming of a documentary in the park.

Warming up ready to field the adoration of the 1265!

Dame Kelly took time out to meet regulars and visitors; those born after Athens 2004 and many who can still remember those amazing heroics vividly!

British Athletics’ First Lady talks to Parkrun’s First Man

Run director Rob Phillips on his best behaviour today as his boss (Dame Kelly) was around! Addressing the 1265 strong field prior to the event.

First Timers

167 were taking part in their first parkrun at Bushy today, (over 14% of the registered field) of which 50 were brand new to Parkrun.

One of the first timers today was Bala from Malaysia (where they currently have 2 parkrun venues)

The magnificent Riverside Rebels provided 3 of the first timers completing their couch to 5K programme today; Congratulations to Sally, Karen and Lucy, hope to see you back here for more!

Milestones

No new members joined the 500 or 250 club today. However, John Clifton from Arrow Valley parkrun marked his 300^th run by making the trip down from the midlands with fellow runners from Arrow Valley and Redditch.

There were 4 runners joining the 100 club this week; Congratulations to:-

Vicky Webb

Andrew Limbrick

John Altman

Charley Stephens (First timer at Bushy)

Actor John Altman overcomes knee pain to complete his first parkrun for nearly 2 years to join the 100 club and claim the privilege of a photo with Nick Blanchard!

50

Paul Angulo

Jamie Baird

Marianne Wyles (first timer at Bushy – her 50 runs have been achieved acrossed 48 Venues!)

10

Joe Wilson

Rebecca Turpin (first timer at Bushy!)

More Visitors…

Fellow “moonrakers” (that’s a citizen of Wiltshire) from the City of Salisbury Athletics Club

Visitors from Huddersfield & Preston Parkruns

Lesley from Woodley parkrun

Visitors from Lincolnshire and Newark

The Run

Fairly blustery today (maybe costing 15 – 20 valuable seconds to my time?). However, there were still some super speedy performances today:-

First Men

1. Elliot Dorey 15:44

2. Will Woodcock 16:00

3. Simon Baines 16:32

First Women

1. Mara Yamauchi 18:31

2. Charlotte Ragan 19:04

3. Alice Patterson 19:26

Boys

1. Yann Sydow 19:16

2. Adam Conway 19:47

3. Ryan Lynch 20:41

Girls

1. Isabel Melbourne 22:40

2. Ellena Deakin 24:43

3. Abigail Shackleton 26:03

Bushy Personal Bests

119 achieved today; quite an achievement in this wind, particularly by the following members of the 250 and the 100 club:-

Michael Hickey (321 runs) 19:59

Richard Lyons (276 runs) 24:57

Catherine Stephens (120 runs) 23:55

Eirwen Campbell (112 runs) 23:46

Denise Von Roretz (112 runs) 29:54

And Finally…

My dog Daisy uses her considerable spaniel strength to drag my wife (Rowena) and my daughter (Rowena) into this week’s run report!

See you on Saturday...

Chris Brimacombe

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