The theme for the day is JUBILEE, so let's see your finest Royal/British colours and fancy dress! (there will be a prize for the best dressed ;))

We will also be running the course in REVERSE to mark the occasion. It will be interesting so see if this gives people an advantage an we get a flurry of PBs!

After the run, and continuing with the theme, we will have a TEA PARTY. Please bring down some brunch snacks and refreshments so help us toast the celebrations!

Then the moment we've all been waiting for; the AWARDS CEREMONY! With prizes covering a range of categories, the greatest achievements at the Scrubs this year will rewarded. Having looked through the nominations, many of the awards are still up for contention, so there's still a lot to play for! 

This promises to be an unmissable event, and as always, everyone is welcome :)!

Looking forward to it already,

The WSparkrun Team x

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Run Report -  Wormwood Scrubs parkrun number 51
2nd June 2012

This morning was cool and drizzly on the Scrubs, a stark contrast to last week's heatwave.  A good turnout of 42 runners took part, including 6 first-timers, and 11 people achieved new PBs.

Before the start, our Bradley Cahoon was presented with his parkrun 50 shirt, to loud applause.  Brad has run here 18 times, with 6 of those runs being PBs, and volunteers regularly, a leading light on the Scrubs.

First home today in his usual apparently effortless style was Sean Renfer, with a new PB of 16:31.  That's 14 runs, 14 wins for Sean.  Nearest to him was James Rouse in second, two minutes later, then Hugh Mason in third, three minutes later.  Alex Pellew was fourth, just three seconds outside his PB with 19:38.  Fifth overall and first female was Claire McMahon in 19:51 - that's a perfect 12 runs at the Scrubs, 12 wins for Claire.  First-timer Kosana Weir (JW14) was second female in 24:36, and Matilda Ferrand was third, just six seconds behind Kosana.

Good performances worth a mention from further down the field: Kiyan Nobary, Janice Moore, Sam Britton, Avedis Kabrielian and Rizwan Rauf all took big chunks out of their PBs.  Riz has crept up to third place in the Male Points table after 28 runs at the Scrubs now.  James Malcolm is uncatchable at the top and is king of the male points table, even though he'll be away next week, so well done James.

So, all eyes turn to the anniversary next week! - as you can see from the message above it should be great fun.  I'm looking forward to running the course backwards (if that makes sense!) - will it be easier or tougher?  It will be weird looking forward to the slopes we usually dread, and dreading the slopes we usually enjoy.  Remember to dress in Jubilee style and bring some goodies for the party!

See you on Saturday. Meanwhile, please join us for some chatter on facebook (just search for wormwood scrubs parkrun).  The facebook page is taking off recently: on May 25th it reached the landmark of 100 "likes," and now just a week later there are 128. Maybe it's reached tipping point!
 

Cheers

Tim Barlow

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