parkrunday 9th December 2017

There were 55 Hyde Park Harriers out parkrunning across 14 different venues this week. A few less than last week, probably down to the icy weather causing a few local postponements and also people saving themselves for the second PECO XC race at Golden Acre Park on Sunday.

Nicola Forwood added Poolsbank parkrun to her list, bringing the total to 100 different venues. This is called a “Cowell” – named after Chris Cowell who was the first person to achieve this feat. She is the fourth Hyde Park Harrier to get to the 100, behind Chris Jones currently on 120, Liz Jones on 109 and Andrew Nicholls on 107. Nicola also managed to run her fastest ever parkrun in the process – finishing at Poolsbank in 24:08, 2 seconds better than her previous best which was achieved at Woodhouse Moor.

Two Hyde Park Harriers were first finishers this week. Naomi Kellett with a time of 22:20 at Royal Tunbridge Wells and Matthew Pinnock in a time of 18:25 at Bramley – a new PB. There were four other PBs. These were by Jack Rose with 19:09 and Adam Jowett with 21:48 at Woodhouse Moor; and Jane-Marie Bracchi with 25:10 and Chris Bracchi with 25:46 at Wakefield Thornes. Chris actually forgot his barcode but the day was saved by Jane-Marie who ran home and back to pick it up so the run could be recorded.

Heather Fulton joined the parkrun 50 club with her run at Woodhouse Moor.

Top Age Grade% by the ladies was 66.77% by Rebecca Gray at Newcastle and for the men was 75.13% by Gordon Crawford at Woodhouse Moor.

Here are the details of all this week’s parkrunning Hyde Park Harriers.

Ladies

Men