parkrun review New Year's Day 2023 (runs I am aware of)
We begin at a very wet Great Salterns. In such conditions and maybe also after some late New Year's Eve celebrations, unsurprisingly nobody was within a minute of their PB. Some good top 10 male finishes from Alex Gannon and Paul Griffin, and female top 10s from Louise Griffin and Laura Hyman on her debut.
We were joined by some fast runners including some from Denmead Striders including Julian Manning. Also Skeleton Boib medallist Alex Coomber was back along with Emma Jolley who many of us know.
POSITION PARKRUNNER GENDER AGE GROUP CLUB TIME
1 Julian Manning Denmead Striders Male 1/1 18:45
2 Emma Jolley City of Portsmouth AC Female 1/26 20:29
11 Alex GANNON Male 9/41 23:25
12 Paul GRIFFIN M10/41 23:29
15 Louise GRIFFIN Female 3/26 23:4
16 Brett RUMFITT Male 13/41 23:55
17 Dave REES-WHELAN Male 14/41 24:00
22 Craig LUNN Male 19/41 25:19
24 Eric DE GREEF Male 21/41 25:26
27 Ian SAYNOR Male 24/41 26:32
35 John BURCHETT Male 29/41 28:53
36 Nigel SO Male 30/41 28:58
40 James YORKE Male 33/41 30:22
46 Laura HYMAN Female 10/26 32:45 FIRST TIMER!
59 Alex YORKE Female 19/26 39:16
66 Robert BILTON Male 41/41 1:09:58 Tailwalker
67 Helen BURCHETT Female 25/26 1:11:33 Tailwalker
68 Carol CARBERRY Female 26/261:11:34 Tailwalker
Thanks to the volunteers
We are very grateful to the volunteers who made this event happen: Robert BILTON, Helen BURCHETT, Carol CARBERRY, Kate ENGLISH, Matthew FLEET, Ian GREGORY, Anthony JOHNS, Lynne JOLLEY, Helen MAYHEAD, Edward MORRIS, Paul NORRIS, Ryan RICHARDS, Brett RUMFITT, Helen SMALLWOOD, Jason SMITH, Jeanette SMITH, Nigel SO, Colin SOUTHWELL, Kim STROUD, Jo WILKINS, Samuel WINTON
Why not get involved and volunteer?
At Southsea Nicola Carlile ran a 1 sec PB, but it beat her time from 2016!! Also Robert Marsh wasn't far off his best here.
60 Ian BRISCOE Male 51/214 22:44
127 Laura RICHARDSON Female 14/116 26:09
156 Robert MARSH Male 122/214 27:27
201 Matt HUME Male 150/214 29:19
204 Kam FAN Male 153/214 29:35
234 Nicola CARLILE Female 52/116 30:44 New PB!
240 Hannah BALDASSARRA Female 53/116 30:55
249 Tracy STRYDOM Female 57/116 31:49
260 Vicky COOPER Female 63/116 32:53
329 Martyn THREADER Male 206/214 45:12
330 Andy GUBBS Male 207/214 45:35
In Southampton, Sonny Locke ran a slower one in 558th place, 345th male in 34:07, Becci Knowles was 253rd, 42nd female in 25:42
At Whitehaven in Cumbria, Gordon Scruton was our 1st runner in 21:35 in a great 2nd place. The course is at Whitehaven Cycle Track, Whitehaven. The course is run entirely on tarmac paths.
At Crawfordsburn Country Park, Bangor NI, the course is run on a mixture of tarmac paths and trail paths. Here Christine McCullough was 2nd female in her 1st run here in a good time of 22:11.
The course is a single lap on a mixture of tarmac and trail paths around the beautiful country park. The start and finish points are close to the Countryside Visitor Centre where the Woodlands Cafe is also located.
The route takes you up and around Skelly Hill before heading along the coastal path at Crawfordsburn beach, it then tracks inland following the Crawfordsburn river upstream to the impressive railway viaduct where it turns into the glen and crosses the river. A steep climb takes you from the foot of the glen to the edge of the wild flower meadow, from there the route crosses Windmill Road into 21 Acre Wood. Once 21 Acre has been traversed a zig-zag downhill trail takes you back to the coastal path. Upon reaching the Crawfordsburn river we again head inland before taking the third and final bridge to cross the river and head back to the coast retracing the outward route along Crawfordsburn beach to the foot of Skelly Hill. This time we don’t climb Skelly Hill with the route staying on the low path along the bottom of the hill to the finish line back near to the visitor centre.
parkrun do not provide a summary for runs that are not on a Saturday so this review and the one from Christmas Day may be missing some runners expoits, sorry, as it is a bit of guesswork as to who has run where!
