parkrun Review from Saturday 15th February 2020

Well after last week's globetrotting including Japan and New Zealand, we were back to the bare bones this week. This was in part due to Storm Dennis and the massive amount of rainfall we have endured in the past few weeks. Many parkruns were cancelled including Havant and QE, Chichester, Brockenhurst, IOW, Winchester, Southampton, Eastleigh, Littlehampton, Whiteley and Hogmoor Inclosure.

. However Lakeside and Southsea (where our own inimitable Kev Baffins was RD) managed to get their events run.

Firstly at Lakeside, where a few of us had been on a long run on only 2 days before, noticing that the lake was overflowing onto the path in places. Four of our Baffineers ran through the puddles and mud

A total of 355 runners took part at Portsmouth Lakeside (restricted course still) parkrun event #197

Position ↓ Gender Position ↓ parkrunner ↓ Club ↓ Run Time ↓

1 1 Simon GILL Victory AC 00:18:22

5 1 Nikki MOXHAM Gosport Road Runners 00:19:42

210 156 Gary SEAMAN Baffins Fitclub 00:30:46

233 58 Helen NEWMAN Baffins Fitclub 00:31:52

332 197 Geoffrey NEWMAN Baffins Fitclub 00:42:11

349 134 Wendy DUFF Baffins Fitclub 00:48:46

At Southsea, the winds were stronger than the previous week, but I have known worse. Kev Baffins and a few others were down there early at 8:00 to check the course and Mick Michael Conway told us he'd walked the entire course from Eastney and although there was some shingle on the prom, it was OK. Kevin Friery had already posted the previous evening to advise that low tide was at 9:30 so there was no danger of the sea coming over the wall. Run Britain rated it a difficulty of 3.6 whereas last week's was graded at 2.2. Thankfully, the rain held off until later in the morning. A smaller than usual total of 342 runners took part at Southsea parkrun event #335

Despite the conditions, Chris King and Ricky Smith were within 30 seconds of their PBs and Louise Griffin, Julie Allan Fuller and Fiona Shaw were in the top 10 ladies and Rich Harris Roty ran his best here for over a year.

In the Age-Graded times, Julie Allan Fuller was 19th out of 342, Louise Griffin 14th, Michael Rae 7th, Fiona Shaw 3rd (despite her bike fall resulting in a nasty-looking bruised knee) and I was 2nd, so Baffins continue to do well in this category.

Position ↓ Gender Position ↓ parkrunner ↓ Club ↓ Run Time ↓

1 1 Benedict SAUNBY City of Salisbury A & RC 00:18:25

10 1 Hannah BARNARD Bracknell AC 00:20:17

18 15 Brett RUMFITT Baffins Fitclub 00:21:08

36 4 Louise GRIFFIN Baffins Fitclub 00:22:03

48 41 Michael Rae 00:22:27

53 44 Ricky SMITH Baffins Fitclub 00:22:50

66 56 Ian BRISCOE Baffins Fitclub 00:23:17

68 57 Warren BARKER Baffins Fitclub 00:23:28

72 61 Paul NORRIS Baffins Fitclub 00:23:39

81 9 Julie ALLAN Baffins Fitclub 00:24:11

83 69 Richard STEVENS Baffins Fitclub 00:24:14

87 10 Fiona SHAW Baffins Fitclub 00:24:22

89 11 Rebecca NILES Baffins Fitclub 00:24:31

104 85 Paul GRIFFIN Baffins Fitclub 00:25:04

106 14 Laura RICHARDSON Baffins Fitclub 00:25:11

108 87 Paul HARRISON Baffins Fitclub 00:25:18

109 88 Richard HARRIS Baffins Fitclub 00:25:22

110 89 Matt HUME Baffins Fitclub 00:25:23

121 99 Matthew MCLEAN Baffins Fitclub 00:25:52

145 114 Joshua MCPHEAT Baffins Fitclub 00:26:48

150 118 Kam FAN Baffins Fitclub 00:27:02

154 24 Rebecca KNOWLES Baffins Fitclub 00:27:13

155 121 Keith CAUNT Baffins Fitclub 00:27:13

168 129 David SHARP Baffins Fitclub 00:27:47

189 32 Fiona BUCK Baffins Fitclub 00:28:51

193 148 James YORKE Baffins Fitclub 00:28:56

197 34 Camelia BIGGS Baffins Fitclub 00:29:08

199 36 Zoe FITZGERALD Baffins Fitclub 00:29:16

213 161 Chris KING Baffins Fitclub 00:29:39

218 164 Paul ALLAND Baffins Fitclub 00:29:54

259 57 Lisa DUKE Baffins Fitclub 00:32:14

264 60 Alex YORKE Baffins Fitclub 00:32:27

269 64 Annaleise VOKES Baffins Fitclub 00:32:40

291 73 Sarah SPRAGG Baffins Fitclub 00:34:42

295 199 Robert TURNER-DIAMOND Baffins Fitclub 00:34:46

299 77 Sarah ELLIS Baffins Fitclub 00:34:50

Volunteers enduring the blustery conditions included Kev Baffins, Kevin Aylward, Katherine Newell, Kate English, Helen Mayhead, Janet Sampson, Martyn Threader, Nikki Tout and(sorting tokens in the warmth and comfort of the Deep Blue on the Pier) Rebecca Niles and myself.

Incidentally, quite a few go to the Pier after if you fancy a sociable tea, coffee or breakfast, inevitably talking about all things running.

If you have not got Baffins as your parkrun registered club and you wish to do this, just go to your results email, select profile and look for us on the drop-down list. Conversely, if you are no longer a club member, you can remove us the same way.

If you want to have your progress tracked on Run Britain, please log onto

runbritainrankings.com

You should then use your parkrun ID number on your barcode and, once registered, you will receive a handicap as in golf. It will track your progress and rate each parkrun automatically and some other races. There are also races you can input manually going back to 2011 if you wish. You can choose Baffins as your club and 15 of us are already registered as below.

Paul Alland V45 M Baffins

Ian Briscoe V40 M Baffins

Kev Budd V55 M Baffins

Kevin Friery V65 M Baffins

Paul Ingleby V45 M Baffins

Joshua McPheat U23 M Baffins

Alex Millham V45 M Baffins

Sarah Platts V55 W Baffins

Brett Rumfitt V60 M Baffins

Clare Rutter V45 W Baffins

Dean Schubert V45 M Baffins

Gary Seaman V55 M Baffins

Fiona Shaw V55 W Baffins

Jason Smith V45 M Baffins

Martyn Threader V55 M Baffins

As usual, this post will be preserved for posterity on our website.