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Street parkrun report #110 16/10/2021

Posted on October 17, 2021 by streetoffice

A thin mist hung over the Tor, framing a cool and still morning for 146 people to complete the Street course. First time visitors numbered 25 and the perfect conditions aided 29 parkrunners to record new Personal Best times. A string of fast finishers and friendly competition at the top resulted in some long sought after firsts: Edward Brown sub 19, Marc Rossiter sub 20, Peter and Jack Barker sub 23, Carol Martyn and Mark Pople sub 24.

Meanwhile, just 20 minutes later, Teresa England proudly celebrated her Milestone 50 event with a tailwalk!

Many congratulations to all!

We are fortunate at Street to always have plenty of keen volunteers to cover each role every week. A rota of Run Directors, a reliable setup and takedown crew, an army of enthusiastic and cheerful marshalls, at least 2 tailwalkers each week, knowledgeable barcode scanners, a fully manned funnel team, a professional photographer (usually) and in the background the all important results-processing wizardry, volunteer coordination, report writing and stream of social media updates. Huge thanks to every one of you for, not just making parkrun happen, but making Street parkrun such a positive, welcoming and wonderful place! This week the stars were:

Anthony LIPMANN • Emma POWELL • Martin HOOPER • Jon FORSYTH • Teresa ENGLAND • Isaac HOOPER • Sophie HOOPER • Tim RICE • Shaun RIGBY • Graham PERRYMAN • Benjamin HOOPER • Charlie BARTLETT • Sandra CINICOLA • Peter GRAINGER • Judy BEVERIDGE • Jackie RICE • Anita FORSYTH • Stephen THRESH • Ray CULLIFORD • Jacqui KNIGHT • Nick JONES • Justin ROGERS • Emily KNIGHT • Sid GREEN • Elaine GIDDENS • Melanie CHADWICK • Poppy CHADWICK • Oliver MILLS • Joshua MORSE-JONES • Thomas HOOPER • Jill PERRYMAN

The photographer was Martin Hooper who has added over 250 pictures to the Street parkrun flickr site. As usual, these are free to download and save. A few of our favourites capturing the fun of the morning are included below:

Thanks for joining us, well done, hope you all enjoyed yourselves and see you next week!

Report by Judy Beveridge

for the Street parkrun team

Street parkrun report #109 09/10/2021

Posted on October 10, 2021 by streetoffice

A warm autumn sun cast long shadows from the feet of 123 parkrunners as they made their way around the course, grass glistening with morning dew. Charlie Bartlett briefed 14 first-time visitors and the Run Director was Shaun Rigby.

Personal Best times were recorded by 16 people including Kirsty Percival and Sharon Masters who ran their first sub 30 minute times. Well done to both for breaking through this significant 5k time barrier!

Congratulations to Sharron Hutchings for running her Milestone 100 parkrun.

The event was made possible by 26 dedicated volunteers:

Anthony LIPMANN • Emma POWELL • Martin HOOPER • Jon FORSYTH • Lisa CROSSMAN • Isaac HOOPER • Tim RICE • Shaun RIGBY • Benjamin HOOPER • Charlie BARTLETT • Sandra CINICOLA • Peter GRAINGER • Judy BEVERIDGE • Jackie RICE • Anita FORSYTH • Stephen THRESH • Philip HUMPHRIES • Jacqui KNIGHT • John MITCHELL • Emily KNIGHT • Sid GREEN • Oliver MILLS • Peter LEGGETT • Joshua MORSE-JONES • Laurence BADMAN • Thomas HOOPER

Photos were grabbed on her phone by Jackie Rice. Thanks for stepping in to do this Jackie when no high tech long lens yielding photographer available! Our (technically my) favourites have been posted to the Street parkrun flickr group and are included below.

Well done to each and all, hope you enjoyed yourselves and we look forward to seeing you next week!

Street parkrun report #108 02/10/2021

Posted on October 2, 2021 by streetoffice

School was out for autumn at Street parkrun on the first Saturday in October. Thanks to an impressive team of over 30 current and alumni Crispin School students and staff, volunteer roles were more than fully covered. The Run Director was Jacqui Maxfield aka Mrs Maxfield the Art and Photography teacher.

Persistent heavy rain failed to dampen spirits as school tie wearing volunteers cheered parkrunners on around the increasingly wet and slippery fields.

Congratulations at the front of the field to James Maxfield, Cedryc Noumsi Mbopda, Rowan Lisk and Mark Powell for racing each other home to each record their first sub 22 minute PBs. Great teamwork!

Meanwhile Patrick Langworthy (24:22), Jon Nichols (24:35) and Jon Forsyth (24:55) all recorded their first sub 25 minute times at Street. Extra congratulations to Jon Forsyth (best known for his dedicated marshalling and towing the trolley full of equipment to and from the bottom field) for making the very most of his rare opportunity to take part himself thanks to the Crispin School team.

Keeping their successes local, Alison Badman (25:31, 21 parkruns) and Linda Hughes (27:18,18 parkruns) both recorded new PB times having both completed all of their parkruns at Street.

The event was made possible by 36 hardy volunteers:

Anthony LIPMANN • Kelly Joanne DAVIES • Emma POWELL • Martin HOOPER • Jon FORSYTH • Jacqui MAXFIELD • Jenny ADAMS • Eleanor WATTS • Isaac HOOPER • Tim RICE • Phoebe BAKER • Charlie BARTLETT • Sandra CINICOLA • Peter GRAINGER • Judy BEVERIDGE • Jackie RICE • Anita FORSYTH • Louise TRELOGGEN • Jacqui KNIGHT • John MITCHELL • Lucie HARMSWORTH • Emily KNIGHT • Melanie CHADWICK • George CHADWICK • Poppy CHADWICK • Oliver MILLS • Debra DREW • Joshua MORSE-JONES • Ben PERCIVAL • Judith HIGHET • Thomas HOOPER • Jessica LEE • Mia HARMSWORTH • Michelle DAVEY • Charlie STRAKER-NESBUT • Imogen DAVEY

Despite appalling photography conditions some terrific shots have been added to the Street parkrun flickr group this week. The bad news is that the camera failed to record the volunteer group shot and autofocus drifted in and out of action during the morning. The good news is that the camera is spending the weekend being revived by drying out on radiator. Apparently this works wonders.

A few of our favourites are included below:

Thanks for joining us in the rain, well done and see you next week!

Street parkrun report #107 25/09/2021

Posted on September 26, 2021 by streetoffice

162 parkrunners turned out in force to run, jog or walk the course for the final weekend in September. A heavy police presence surprised 31 first timers and an amazing 39 people recorded new Personal Best times.

Super double congratulations to Debora Walker for celebrating her Milestone 100 and recording a fantastic first sub 35 minute time of 34:35. Deb is well known to countless visitors as the welcoming friendly face of Street parkrun holding our course map aloft and delivering her enthusiastic first timers briefing.

Double congratulations to Peter Burden for his first sub 25 time and Sarah Burden for her first sub 30. Peter and Sarah have been parkrunning in Street since 7 August and getting faster each week. Very well done to both for keeping in step together!

Not forgetting double congratulations to Street parkrun core team members Emma Powell and partner Shaun Rigby for both recording PB times, Emma 22:13 with Shaun determinedly trying to catch her up in 22:51!

Adding to her recent string of PBs Cath Goldsmid went sub 25 with 24:53 meanwhile Chris Ford recorded 34:42 to go sub 35 and Sarah Bolt 39:09 to safely make sub 40.

Apologies to everyone I've missed for a personal mention and very well done to all those recording PB times this week.

Almost unoticed at the front, first time visitor Ben Miles from Wales shaved a second from our course record which now stands at 15:55. Thanks for visiting Ben, we like to keep challenging all our visiting top athletes!

The Run Director was Mark Pople, better known to many in Street (in a good way) as one of our local Street Police Constables. Huge thanks to the team from Street Police Station for joining in to volunteer, run, engage brilliantly with the local community and provide free security-marking of bicycles at the start/finish.

The event was made possible by 30 volunteers:

John P DOHERTY • Emma POWELL • Martin HOOPER • Jon FORSYTH • Isaac HOOPER • Tim RICE • Debora WALKER • Shaun RIGBY • Victoria HILL • Benjamin HOOPER • Charlie BARTLETT • Sandra CINICOLA • Peter GRAINGER • Judy BEVERIDGE • Jackie RICE • Anita FORSYTH • Stephen THRESH • Jacqui KNIGHT • Kim SADD • Justin ROGERS • Walter ANTONELLO • Emily KNIGHT • Sid GREEN • Mark POPLE • Millie LANG • Janet THOMAS • Oliver MILLS • Joshua MORSE-JONES • Lee HOWARD • Thomas HOOPER

The Run Photographer was Lee Howard with one or two extra shots of the volunteer team added by Tim Rice. Please remember to download and save any you want as they are not stored on flickr longterm. In the meantime here are a few of our favourites:

Thanks Street Police for bike security marking

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Look carefully #mischief

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#mischief where are the police?

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Thanks for joining us everyone, well done and hope you've enjoyed yourselves. Don't forget it's the turn of staff and students from Crispin School take over the event. Dig out your old school tie (any school, friendly rivalry welcome!) and see you next week!

Run report by Judy Beveridge

on behalf of the Street parkrun team

Street parkrun report #106 18/09/2021

Posted on September 18, 2021 by streetoffice

Another morning of beautiful September sunshine welcomed 159 people as they set off to run, jog or walk the course. First time visitors numbered 28 and 30 people recorded new Personal Best times.

Triple congratulations to core team member Charlie Bartlett for recording his 100 Volunteer Milestone, running a perfect pacer time of precisely 30:00 minutes and (on his second attempt) bringing the keys to open up the course first thing this morning. Well done Charlie and thanks for always being there!

Many of the Street core team are reaching Volunteer Milestone 100 about now and as soon as the new range of parkrun Milestone Club T-Shirts are available (if anyone hears when this will be please do let us know) you will no doubt spot a few!

The event was made possible by an army 33 volunteers, many of whom were taking the opportunity to give their legs a rest the day before the popular, pancake flat and fast Glastonbury Levels 10k:

Emma POWELL • Dave WESTERMAN • Martin HOOPER • Jon FORSYTH • Roxane PRATT • Caroline WATTS • Jacqui MAXFIELD • Jenny ADAMS • James MAXFIELD • Eleanor WATTS • Isaac HOOPER • Tim RICE • Debora WALKER • Shaun RIGBY • Sean DICKINSON • Benjamin HOOPER • Charlie BARTLETT • Sandra CINICOLA • Judy BEVERIDGE • Jackie RICE • Anita FORSYTH • Jacqui KNIGHT • Kim SADD • Elaine GIDDENS • Paul CLARKE • Janet THOMAS • Oliver MILLS • Kevin PENNY • Joshua MORSE-JONES • Jo TAYLOR • Andrea POWER • Fee NUNN • Thomas HOOPER

The Run Director was Emma Powell.There was no official Run Photographer but Event Director Tim Rice grabbed a few shots on his phone including our cover photo today of our famous Glastonbury Tor start. Here are a few more of our favourites:

First time visitors numbered 28 but how many were there in time for the briefing?

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Finish team and spectators peer into the sun for the front runners

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Thanks for joining us everyone, well done and hope you enjoyed yourselves as much as the volunteers did!

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Don't forget next week is our Street Police take over so please be on your best behaviour!

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