Canons Park parkrun
Event number 143
15th June 2019
It was surprisingly dry, warm and sunny for the parkrun at least.213 of you ran, jogged and walked the course. We welcomed 32 first timers to the parkrun family. Hope you had a great time and hope to see you next week. We also had tourists from Australia.
Craig Chapman volunteered for 50th time and Saul Grant joined us with group of friends to do a parkrun before his wedding on Sunday. Not sure whether the bride party or the groom party won#. We wish you all the best from Canons park parkrun.
The event was made possible by 18 volunteers:

Bev THOMAS • Mark MULVENNA • Chris PARKINSON-BEST • Meryl WALKER • Nathan POWELL • Sakina SIDIK • Penny HUDSON • Barry NOLAN • Chris WOODWARD • Pauline BISHOP • Wendy MULVENNA • Alisha SIDIK • Zaheer SIDIK • Craig CHAPMAN • Martin EDEN • Deri ANSHER • Richie HARRIS • Robert COTTINGHAM
We are running low on tea, coffee and biscuits. If you would like to donate or bring your favourite to share with everyone that would be great.

Have a great week and see you next Saturday with your barcodes.

Run Director,
Sakina Sidik.

What a great run we had this week. Despite the lousy weather we had an amazing 204 of you run, jog and walk the course. 34 of you were first timers and 23 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 15 different clubs took part.

The event was made possible by 18 fantastic volunteers:

Chris PARKINSON-BEST • Steven MADDOCK • Barry NOLAN • George NOLAN • Pauline BISHOP • Simone WRIGHT • Sabira JUMA • Rajinderjit DUHRA • Jenin-Fatema MEGHJEE-CAINE • Andrew SOUTHERLAND-KIRBY • Sean SOUTHERLAND-KIRBY • Hannah Fatema MEGHJEE-CAINE • Anthony SINDOLE • Tom BRADY • Tahera KASSAM • Richie HARRIS • Deborah GREATREX • Olivia GREATREX

This list doesn't include the ladies who provided all those Eid goodies. Thank you so much for helping to make it such a special morning. It really was great to see so many of you hang around to help celebrate.The sun even made an appearance towards the end!

A special call out to those celebrating milestones this week

Raaje DUHRA - 25th volunteering

Mehboob DHARAMSI - 50th run

Tanya KEENE - 50th run

Penny HUDSON - 50th run

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

Eid Murabak!

Barry Nolan - Run Director

Event 140 Stats

3 - milestones

16 - number of volunteers

17 - first timers

18:48 - time of first male (Richard Houghton)

19 - tourists

19:09 - time of first junior (Callum Smyth)

19:53 - time of first female (Kat Alpe)

41 - new PBs

74.77% - highest age grading (Kat Alpe)

86 - female participants

119 - male participants

125.1 - average number of runners per week

140 - event number

205 - participants

We had a great turnout this weekend as we celebrated several milestones yesterday. Huge congratulations to Meryl Walker on her 200th run, Dave Merrigan on his 100th and Michele Mountford-Brock on her 50th. We love celebrating milestones with our regulars, especially when they bring cake!!
Speaking of cake, we will be holding our annual Eid parkrun on Saturday 8th June - make sure you put the date in your diary!

 

Thank you to all our wonderful volunteers who made the event possible this week:

Pre-event set up - Nathan Powell and Andrew Southerland-Kirby

First timers briefing - Chris Parkinson-Best

Timekeepers - Becca Carnac and Heer Pattni

Barcode Scanners - Naz Asam and Bilal Ali

Marshals - Wendy Mulvella, Anthony Sindole, Craig Chapman and Scott Davies

Finish Tokens - Hayden Pronto-Hussey and Kiran Patel

Tail Walker - Soraya Janmohamed

Equipment Storage and Delivery - John Ayton and Chris Parkinson-Best

 

Click here to sign up for volunteering in future weeks.

Hope you are enjoying the Bank Holiday weekend and see you soon!

Emma

Run Director

Canons Park parkrun

Event number 140

25th May 2019

This week 205 people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 36 were first timers and 41 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 24 different clubs took part.

The event was made possible by 16 volunteers:

Chris PARKINSON-BEST • Emma RACKHAM • Nathan POWELL • Wendy MULVENNA • John AYTON • Andrew SOUTHERLAND-KIRBY • Soraya JANMOHAMED • Anthony SINDOLE • Craig CHAPMAN • Bilal ALI • Heer PATTNI • Naz ASAM • Hayden PRONTO-HUSSEY • Scott DAVIES • Becca CARNAC • Kiran PATEL

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

The male record is held by Alex BAMPTON who recorded a time of 16:16 on 21st April 2018 (event number 82).
The female record is held by Jennifer ARMSON who recorded a time of 19:30 on 1st January 2019 (event number 120).
The Age Grade course record is held by Nigel RACKHAM who recorded 89.00% (17:16) on 5th August 2017 (event number 44).

Canons Park parkrun started on 8th October 2016. Since then 3,235 participants have completed 17,508 parkruns covering a total distance of 87,540 km, including 3,554 new Personal Bests. A total of 301 individuals have volunteered 1,999 times.

It was another great turnout on Saturday with 183 participants! The good weather clearly helped too - as 39 people got a PB (nearly a quarter of all people who returned to Canons Park!). We'd like to give a also give a shout out to Eliot who ran his 50th parkrun this week - a great achievement and hopefully we'll be celebrating more milestones very soon!

We also had 17 newcomers to Canons Park on Saturday, with 9 completing their first ever parkun. We welcomed tourists from across the country and internationally, with one runner hailing from Brisbane.

As always, we are very grateful to the volunteers who made this event happen: Naz ASAM, Tom BRADY, Craig CHAPMAN, Sharon DONOVAN, James DONOVAN, Dan FOW, Sharon GRAHAM, Ramesh HALAI, Iain NELDRETT, Arti PATEL, Pravin SAVJANI, Sean SOUTHERLAND-KIRBY, Andrew SOUTHERLAND-KIRBY, Simone WRIGHT. It was a little tight getting volunteers this week, so please have a look at our future roster and put yourself down for something in the upcoming weeks!

Well done to everyone who participated this week and we look forward to seeing you again soon.

Andrew Southerland-Kirby

Run Director

Canons Park parkrun
Event number 139
18th May 2019

This week 183 people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 17 were first timers and 39 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 14 different clubs took part.

The event was made possible by 14 volunteers:

Simone WRIGHT • Sharon DONOVAN • James DONOVAN • Ramesh HALAI • Andrew SOUTHERLAND-KIRBY • Sean SOUTHERLAND-KIRBY • Sharon GRAHAM • Craig CHAPMAN • Tom BRADY • Naz ASAM • Pravin SAVJANI • Arti PATEL • Dan FOW • Iain NELDRETT

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

The male record is held by Alex BAMPTON who recorded a time of 16:16 on 21st April 2018 (event number 82).
The female record is held by Jennifer ARMSON who recorded a time of 19:30 on 1st January 2019 (event number 120).
The Age Grade course record is held by Nigel RACKHAM who recorded 89.00% (17:16) on 5th August 2017 (event number 44).

Canons Park parkrun started on 8th October 2016. Since then 3,199 participants have completed 17,303 parkruns covering a total distance of 86,515 km, including 3,512 new Personal Bests. A total of 300 individuals have volunteered 1,983 times.

Stats:

12 - first timers

12 - tourists

18:58 - time of first male (Kieran Hyland)

19 - number of volunteers

19:42 - time of first female (Kat Alpe)

22:13 - time of first junior (Louis Pelta)

33 - new PBs

75 - female participants

95 - male participants

124.1 - average number of runners per week

138 - event number

170 - participants

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It was a great morning for a run, and we welcomed lots of people to their first ever parkrun - inspired by the London Marathon perhaps? We also had a few tourists including Rebecca from Southampton who stayed behind afterwards to help with token sorting - thank you!

 

Several of our volunteers were resting ahead of the Sudbury Court 10k - well done to Tom, Dave, Pravin, Tanya and Jennifer who volunteered yesterday and ran the 10k today! Also Craig who marshalled at Canons Park on Saturday as well as volunteering for the race on Sunday.

No milestones today but I wanted to give a special mention to Dilip Kotecha who completed his first parkrun today after two recent heart attacks. I hope you continue to attend parkrun as part of your recovery to good health.

A few reminders to you all:

1. #dfyb - for your time to be recorded, you must bring a printed barcode. We are not able to use barcodes displayed on your phone! If you are likely to forget, please pop a spare one into your backpack/ wallet/ car etc.
2. Tea and coffee are provided at Canons Park parkrun free of charge! If you would like to donate towards supplies, please bring along some tea bags/ coffee/ sugar/ long life milk/ biscuits. You can also donate online to our event fund. For environmental reasons, we encourage you to bring along a reusable cup rather than taking a disposable one.
3. Our event would not be able to go ahead without members of the community volunteering. Please have a look at the future roster and sign up to help when you can! We are now using the parkrun ‘Virtual Volunteer’ app for timekeeping and barcode scanning. I would recommend downloading this ahead of time - it’s very easy to use. Get in touch with the team if you have any questions!

Thank you to everyone who joined us for event #138. Looking forward to seeing you again soon!

 

Emma

Run Director

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Canons Park parkrun
Event number 138
11th May 2019

This week 170 people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 24 were first timers and 33 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 8 different clubs took part.

The event was made possible by 19 volunteers:

Jenny STORER • Nigel RACKHAM • Emma RACKHAM • Rebecca STORER • Brian MCGRORY • Barry NOLAN • Craig CHAPMAN • David MERRIGAN • Heer PATTNI • Tom BRADY • Pravin SAVJANI • Deri ANSHER • Hayden PRONTO-HUSSEY • Tanya KEENE • Andrew BORLEY • Jennifer O'SULLIVAN • Allegra KEENE • Bijan KEENE • Murtaza MOLEDINA

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

The male record is held by Alex BAMPTON who recorded a time of 16:16 on 21st April 2018 (event number 82).
The female record is held by Jennifer ARMSON who recorded a time of 19:30 on 1st January 2019 (event number 120).
The Age Grade course record is held by Nigel RACKHAM who recorded 89.00% (17:16) on 5th August 2017 (event number 44).

Canons Park parkrun started on 8th October 2016. Since then 3,182 participants have completed 17,120 parkruns covering a total distance of 85,600 km, including 3,473 new Personal Bests. A total of 298 individuals have volunteered 1,969 times.