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- Bretts Parkrun Roundup

Parkrun Report Saturday 30th March 2019

by Brett Rumfitt

Parkrun Report Saturday 30th March 2019

Parkrun report Saturday 30th March 2019.I make no apology for starting at Southsea where a whopping 71 Baffineers (surely a record for a club here) made their way down to where I was celebrating my 250th parkrun. They made up a record Southsea crowd of 547, beating 12th of January's 546 by one! Firstly thank you to all who came down and made a wonderful start to the day. Thanks to Nikki Tout who made some lovely cakes, and to all who donated to the Brain Tumour Research bucket collection organised by Debbie Pentland. Over £150 was collected! Denyse King was turnaround marshall and Katherine Newell and Laura Hyman also volunteered.There were debuts for Lisa Duke, Terry Neale and Kylah Collis. The almost perfect conditions meant there were some great times including PBs for Tom Heard 0:53 APPB (All-parkrun PB), Kevin Rowsell 1:34, Matthew McLean 0:15 (2nd best at any PR), Joshua McPheat 5:50!!! and also an APPB by 1:20, Paul Griffin 0:05 APPB, Louise Griffin 0:31 APPB and 2nd lady!(This added to Louise's 10k PB last week at Eastleigh). Kirsty Williams ran 1:06 better than before and David Sharp a 0:19 PB. Liam John Bradshaw was only 0:01 outside his best, Fiona Shaw ran her 3rd best, best since 4th June 2016 and best age-graded time. Kevin Aylward, Neil Priddle, Brenda Bradshaw and Kirsty Davidson ran their fastest for a while too. There were also PBs for 2 friends who came down, Dan Daniel Shawyer ( who started at Southsea in the early days when I could actually beat him) and Robert Duncan Clayton my oldest mate (timewise I mean!). Some came down in the middle of Marathon Training when a parkrun isn't really on the agenda for them. In the Deep Blue on the Pier after, many came in for breakfast, where I was surprised to be presented with another lot of cakes by Christopher Stocks who is sometimes Run Director and his partner Susan Bryan. It was also nice that Elliot Webber was RD for the first time on my 250th. Some more stats, some about me! We now have the most runs and runners at Southsea. My time was 20:01, five seconds better than my good time in February and my best since July 2017(that was a freak one, I haven't run these times regularly since 2015). My age-graded time was my best ever. I won my age-group and was 1st age-graded time in this run. Louise Griffin had 8th best and Fiona Shaw 12th. I apologise if I have forgotten anyone or anything! I await my 250 parkrun shirt, which just happens to be GREEN.


Southsea parkrun event #290

Position ↓ Gender Position ↓ parkrunner ↓ Club ↓ Run Time ↓1 1 Will HENDERSON Unattached 00:16:5415 1 Katie SIMISTER City of Portsmouth AC 00:19:3222 21 Brett RUMFITT Baffins Fitclub 00:20:0127 2 Louise GRIFFIN Baffins Fitclub 00:20:2040 36 Paul GRIFFIN Baffins Fitclub 00:21:0253 45 Joshua MCPHEAT Baffins Fitclub 00:21:3374 62 Matthew MCLEAN Baffins Fitclub 00:22:1589 14 Alanna BURCHETT Baffins Fitclub 00:22:4891 77 Ian BRISCOE Baffins Fitclub 00:22:4998 83 Dave OLIVER Baffins Fitclub 00:23:07101 85 Kevin ROWSELL Baffins Fitclub 00:23:10106 17 Bella SANDERSON Baffins Fitclub 00:23:15107 90 Tom HEARD Baffins Fitclub 00:23:16113 94 Paul NORRIS Baffins Fitclub 00:23:26117 98 Martyn THREADER Baffins Fitclub 00:23:29125 106 Steve CROSS Baffins Fitclub 00:23:47126 107 Jason SMITH Baffins Fitclub 00:23:48145 125 Kevin AYLWARD Baffins Fitclub 00:24:24149 21 Fiona SHAW Baffins Fitclub 00:24:33151 130 Gary COOK Baffins Fitclub 00:24:35154 133 Matthew HEDLEY Baffins Fitclub 00:24:39155 134 Daniel WALTON Baffins Fitclub 00:24:40162 141 Paul WADE Baffins Fitclub 00:24:47189 31 Natasha JACKSON Baffins Fitclub 00:25:12205 34 Nikki TOUT Baffins Fitclub 00:25:44219 180 Kam FAN Baffins Fitclub 00:26:02230 40 Lisa CROSS Baffins Fitclub 00:26:26233 192 Martin COUMBE Baffins Fitclub 00:26:29243 199 David SHARP Baffins Fitclub 00:26:46246 46 Kirsty DAVIDSON Baffins Fitclub 00:26:49248 202 Kev BUDD Baffins Fitclub 00:26:54262 214 Liam BRADSHAW Baffins Fitclub 00:27:14267 217 Alex MILLHAM Baffins Fitclub 00:27:23271 221 Neil PRIDDLE Baffins Fitclub 00:27:38281 228 Matt STANDEN Baffins Fitclub 00:27:48295 237 Terry NEALE Baffins Fitclub 00:28:08298 60 Lisa DUKE Baffins Fitclub 00:28:11301 239 Richard HARRIS Baffins Fitclub 00:28:13302 63 Camelia BIGGS Baffins Fitclub 00:28:16306 65 Lucy HUNT Baffins Fitclub 00:28:20315 70 Nikki WRIGHT Baffins Fitclub 00:28:33318 72 Sarah OTTERY Baffins Fitclub 00:28:36342 80 Kim STROUD Baffins Fitclub 00:29:26343 81 Vicky ANDERSON Baffins Fitclub 00:29:27348 83 Olivia SCAMMELL Baffins Fitclub 00:29:43355 268 Steve O'SHEA Baffins Fitclub 00:29:54370 277 Colin SOUTHWELL Baffins Fitclub 00:30:26371 94 Alison SOUTHWELL Baffins Fitclub 00:30:27372 278 Lee COLLIER-WILLIAMS Baffins Fitclub 00:30:28373 95 Amy HEDLEY Baffins Fitclub 00:30:29391 107 Tina MATHEWS Baffins Fitclub 00:31:24395 287 Matt HUME Baffins Fitclub 00:31:29397 110 Colette BROWN Baffins Fitclub 00:31:36398 111 Mirinda BAILEY Baffins Fitclub 00:31:38422 120 Alice BIRD Baffins Fitclub 00:32:36449 136 Alex YORKE Baffins Fitclub 00:33:58453 140 Brenda BRADSHAW Baffins Fitclub 00:34:03456 314 Robert TURNER-DIAMOND 34:10 464 147 Kylah COLLIS Baffins Fitclub 00:34:47465 148 Sarina COLLIS Baffins Fitclub 00:34:48466 318 Dan BAILEY Baffins Fitclub 00:34:48467 319 James YORKE Baffins Fitclub 00:34:51473 152 Kirsty-Jo WILLIAMS Baffins Fitclub 00:35:03486 159 Jan SULLIVAN Baffins Fitclub 00:36:23494 166 Cerys WALTON Baffins Fitclub 00:37:25501 171 Carol CARBERRY Baffins Fitclub 00:38:09507 175 Vanessa WILLIAMS Baffins Fitclub 00:38:30512 177 Sarah PLATTS Baffins Fitclub 00:39:18514 178 Janet SAMPSON Baffins Fitclub 00:39:41521 338 Robert BILTON Baffins Fitclub 00:41:17533 342 Kevin PAYCE Baffins Fitclub 00:44:22545 198 Katherine NEWELL Baffins Fitclub 01:01:53
Meanwhile, parkruns were going on everywhere. A total of 245 runners took part at Bedfont Lakes parkrun event #503

Position ↓ Gender Position ↓ parkrunner ↓ Club ↓ Run Time ↓1 1 Ian HARDING Morpeth Harriers & AC 00:15:504 1 Natalie HAARER Oxford University Cross Country Club 00:19:3581 61 Scott COBB Baffins Fitclub 00:25:55

A total of 569 runners took part at Swindon parkrun event #442

Position ↓ Gender Position ↓ parkrunner ↓ Club ↓ Run Time ↓1 1 Simon BYRNE Swindon Harriers 00:16:2229 1 Leah BAKER Unattached 00:20:10286 229 Ben ELLWOOD Baffins Fitclub 00:28:28
A total of 308 runners took part at Portsmouth Lakeside parkrun event #152. 3 runners kept the green flag flying at Lakeside where Chichester's James Baker was an unsurprising winner.

Position ↓ Gender Position ↓ parkrunner ↓ Club ↓ Run Time ↓1 1 James BAKER Chichester Runners & AC 00:16:1425 1 Natalie THOMPSON Portsmouth Joggers Club 00:22:04176 130 Gary SEAMAN Baffins Fitclub 00:30:23186 133 Colin EDWARDS Baffins Fitclub 00:31:03271 113 Laura DIAMOND Baffins Fitclub 00:38:52
A total of 398 runners took part at Fareham parkrun event #161 Rob Cooke made his debut here won by another local speedy Adam Barlow.

Position ↓ Gender Position ↓ parkrunner ↓ Club ↓ Run Time ↓1 1 Adam BARLOW Royal Navy AC 00:16:4831 1 Amy INCHLEY Leighton Buzzard AC 00:22:09100 88 Rob COOKE Baffins Fitclub 00:25:33
I will post this report as always on the website of course should you wish to refer to it again as it will surely be lost on the facebook page soon!