After a slightly damp start it turned out to be perfect parkrun weather this morning.  We had 231 runners with a handful of first timers and visitors from Leeds, Sheffield & Barnstaple amongst others, with the furthest travelled coming from Ireland.

There were a couple of milestone runs today with Richard Scoppie & Suzanne Williams both completing their 50th parkruns, well done to both of you.

Numpty of the day has to go to Diane Warren, our regular Run Director who turned up to volunteer today without even being on the roster.  She was a welcome addition though and we then sent her straight off to Plymouth wishing her all good luck for the Half Marathon tomorrow.

All that remains is to say well done to Chloe who almost correctly guessed the number of finishers today and a bit thank you to all today's volunteers who were Diane P, Diane W, Jo, Craig, Oliver, Chloe, Rik, Amelia, James, Jane, Max, Stacey, Marie, MIck, Katie & Jess.

See you all again soon. All today's stats are below.

Laura  xx

This week 231 people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 24 were first timers and 35 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 19 different clubs took part.

The event was made possible by 18 volunteers:

Diane PHILLIPS • Marie KAY • Diane WARREN • Laura MILLWARD • Mick RANDALL • Jo SMITHERAM • Stacey HOCKING • Craig TONKIN • Chloe MORGADO • Katie THURSTON • Oliver TONKIN • James LAY • Jess WHITEHOUSE • Will HARPER-PENROSE • Max HOCKING • Rik KERSLAKE • Jane CANNON • Amelia KERSLAKE

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

The female record is held by Grace BROCK who recorded a time of 16:32 on 29th December 2018 (event number 197).
The male record is held by Peter LE GRICE who recorded a time of 14:38 on 1st January 2019 (event number 198).
The Age Grade course record is held by Emma STEPTO who recorded 93.43% (17:31) on 25th August 2018 (event number 178).

Penrose parkrun started on 28th March 2015. Since then 8,455 participants have completed 38,318 parkruns covering a total distance of 191,590 km, including 7,978 new Personal Bests. A total of 336 individuals have volunteered 2,850 times.

 

Another beautiful morning, another beautiful parkrun. Today was an Iconic day for Hamish Cullen and Loki Curtis Cullen who both ran their 50th parkruns and Sarah Richards who ran her 100th parkrun ! Well done all of you! Emily Craggs, who is a volunteer at Newbury park run visited us today with her husband James who came first !!
Lovely to see both of you here. This week 245 people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 47 were first timers and 46 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 33 different clubs took part.

The event was made possible by 15 volunteers:

Emma STEPTO • Graham STORER • Diane PHILLIPS • Diane WARREN • Mick RANDALL • Jack BURTENSHAW • Rachael HILLIARD • Craig TONKIN • James HOUSE • Oliver TONKIN • James LAY • Jess WHITEHOUSE • Rik KERSLAKE • Jill RANDALL • Mike WHITEHOUSE

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

The female record is held by Grace BROCK who recorded a time of 16:32 on 29th December 2018 (event number 197).
The male record is held by Peter LE GRICE who recorded a time of 14:38 on 1st January 2019 (event number 198).
The Age Grade course record is held by Emma STEPTO who recorded 93.43% (17:31) on 25th August 2018 (event number 178).

Penrose parkrun started on 28th March 2015. Since then 8,431 participants have completed 38,087 parkruns covering a total distance of 190,435 km, including 7,943 new Personal Bests. A total of 332 individuals have volunteered 2,831 times.

Hope you all enjoyed it

Craig Tonkin
run director

For the first time at Penrose, our event fell on May the forth which meant only one thing, Star wars day!! Star wars fancy dress was the order of the day. The lovely sunshine brought out over 300 runners including visitors from Norfolk, Thailand and even Jacinta Scanlon from Canning river park run, Perth, Australia !
It was my first time as run director but my fabulous band of volenteers made the whole event run like clockwork and with the guidance of event director Yvonne Turner, I survived to tell the tail.

The first unassisted runner home was Jon Barnes who was running his first ever park run and he completed the course in 17:32 !

Thank you to everyone who took part and everyone who helped. I hope you all had fun !!

Craig Tonkin
run director

This week 304 people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 54 were first timers and 62 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 23 different clubs took part.

The event was made possible by 24 volunteers:

Yvonne TURNER • Rachel FLANAGAN • Graham STORER • Ian MATTHEWS • Marie KAY • Carole DREW • Barry DREW • Robin WATSON • Chris HUGHES • Mick RANDALL • Craig TONKIN • Thomas ROSENFELD • Jane PETT • Oliver TONKIN • Geoff LETCHFORD • Andrew STAPLES • Alun EVANS • James LAY • Katherine DILLEIGH • Claire WHITEHOUSE • Jess WHITEHOUSE • Jill RANDALL • Hannah DUTCHAK • Helen SISEMAN

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

The female record is held by Grace BROCK who recorded a time of 16:32 on 29th December 2018 (event number 197).
The male record is held by Peter LE GRICE who recorded a time of 14:38 on 1st January 2019 (event number 198).
The Age Grade course record is held by Emma STEPTO who recorded 93.43% (17:31) on 25th August 2018 (event number 178).

Penrose parkrun started on 28th March 2015. Since then 8,384 participants have completed 37,842 parkruns covering a total distance of 189,210 km, including 7,897 new Personal Bests. A total of 330 individuals have volunteered 2,816 times.

After a cold hailstorm before the start today it turned out ok in the end with a lot of first timers and a smattering of tourists making up the numbers.  We had visitors from Crawley, Manchester, Sheffield, Lancashire, Berkshire & the defunct Little Stoke amongst others.

Craig was shadowing me today before his first attempt at Run Director next week, please be kind to him and follow all the parkrun rules to the letter.  Please don't go through the finish funnel more than once and Under 11s, please stay with your adult runner.  As long as he doesn't pick up any of my bad habits he'll be fine, I'm sure Yvonne will see to that!!!

Here are the stats.  I'll see you again in a couple of weeks.

Laura xx

This week 189 people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 39 were first timers and 27 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 24 different clubs took part.

The event was made possible by 17 volunteers:

Rob JORDAN • Ian MATTHEWS • Diane PHILLIPS • Marie KAY • Diane WARREN • Laura MILLWARD • Liz PRADY • Clare HUGHES • Chris HUGHES • Mick RANDALL • Andrea HUNT • Craig TONKIN • Dean EVANS • Oliver TONKIN • Andrew STAPLES • Tabitha WHITEHOUSE-BANKS • Jess WHITEHOUSE

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

The female record is held by Grace BROCK who recorded a time of 16:32 on 29th December 2018 (event number 197).
The male record is held by Peter LE GRICE who recorded a time of 14:38 on 1st January 2019 (event number 198).
The Age Grade course record is held by Emma STEPTO who recorded 93.43% (17:31) on 25th August 2018 (event number 178).

Penrose parkrun started on 28th March 2015. Since then 8,330 participants have completed 37,538 parkruns covering a total distance of 187,690 km, including 7,835 new Personal Bests. A total of 329 individuals have volunteered 2,791 times.

 

 

What a glorious Easter Saturday at Penrose parkrun today.  The course was stunning as the carpet of bluebells have blossomed and the sun was shining through the trees which obviously boosted parkrunners as the first 5 across the line recorded personal bests with many more PB's to follow during the rest of the morning.

We had a whole host of local runners plus visitors from far and wide; across the border (Tavy and Ivybridge I believe), Kent, Leeds, Cheshire, Newcastle and Peterborough to name a few.  There were bunny ears a plenty and thanks to our parkrun volunteers we were lucky to have had a visit from the Easter Bunny with some sweet treats after.

Our regular 'guess the total of parkrunners' comp was won by today's co-RD Jess...who was one out with a guess of 356.  Well done Jess on a great job as run director AND winning this too!  Good work bunny!

Heres your stats, cheers and gone

Janna and Jess

This week 356 people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 97 were first timers and 61 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 44 different clubs took part.

We are very grateful to the volunteers who made this event happen.  The event was made possible by 21 volunteers:

Yvonne TURNER • Graham STORER • Diane PHILLIPS • Sarah TREGEAR • Diane WARREN • Laura MILLWARD • Ali GALLOWAY • Janna EYRE • Mark DORRELL • Alan PEARSON • Mick RANDALL • Hayley ORCHARD • Craig TONKIN • Oliver TONKIN • Alun EVANS • Julie EVANS • James LAY • Tabitha WHITEHOUSE-BANKS • Jess WHITEHOUSE • Rik KERSLAKE • Reuben WHITEHOUSE

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

The female record is held by Grace BROCK who recorded a time of 16:32 on 29th December 2018 (event number 197).
The male record is held by Peter LE GRICE who recorded a time of 14:38 on 1st January 2019 (event number 198).
The Age Grade course record is held by Emma STEPTO who recorded 93.43% (17:31) on 25th August 2018 (event number 178).

Penrose parkrun started on 28th March 2015. Since then 8,291 participants have completed 37,349 parkruns covering a total distance of 186,745 km, including 7,808 new Personal Bests. A total of 329 individuals have volunteered 2,774 times.