Race Report 29 June 2013 There is an international theme running through this week’s Bramhall race report. We welcomed a runner taking part at Bramhall today from America. Conversely, Gareth Hurfurt who has run Bramhall many times ran the Orlando parkrun last week and won it in very hot and humid conditions. If you didn’t already know, speedy J15-19 Ellen Downs has now been picked to run for England at the International Youth Cup in Gap, France next weekend (Sunday 7th July). Finally, Steve Shaughnessy came 2nd in his age group at the Boston BAA 10k last weekend. Continuing this theme, it is good to see that the 100th Tour de France started today. Many of us runners cross train on bikes, many bike riders also run to keep cardio vascular fit and then there are those who combine both sports in the form of duathlon and triathlon (note that Julie’s Bramhall Runners are hosting a mini triathlon on 4 August with a 400m swim, 16.5k cycle and 4.7km run if you are interested – more to follow). Here are a few facts about the Tour de France: each day a rider burns 6,000 calories (compared to about 3,000 calories for a marathon runner and 2,000 for the recommended daily guidance). This year’s Tour covers 2,100 miles in 21 days with only two rest days, averaging 110 miles per day with many mountainous sections. Today the Bramhall 5k peloton could not catch the three breakaway rookies otherwise known as Andrew Whittingham (17.26), Tom Peers (17.33) and Tim Hudspith (17.39). All three gained or equalled their PB’s with Tom pushing Andrew, Tom dragging Tim and Tim breathing down the neck of Tom made this a rewarding day for them all. The frontrunners have their own challenges such as avoiding sleepy ducks and geese (Congleton parkrun last week needed a marshal to relocate 12 sleepy swans and their cygnets off the course at 8.45am!) and carefully weaving their way past other runners when lapping them along the narrow 2km/4km sections. For the women, only 23 seconds separated the first three. Our very own Janine Ellis came first yet again in 20.31 (a PB by 22 seconds). This is Janine’s third PB on the bounce and has now knocked 2 minutes off her time since March. Second lady, close behind, was Jennifer Hack in 20.39 and third was Claire MacNeill in a PB performance of 20.54. For the juniors, there was a good turnout today. Jay Wood turned in a good time of 18.47 but was chased to the line by the much younger Flynn Walsh in 18.50 who continues to consistently run sub 19 minutes for an 11 year old which earned him the highest age grading of the day at 81%. Third was Ben Batho in 20.22 who seems to run better during the colder winter months as he struggles to go sub 20 at the moment. Jennifer Hack has already been mentioned on the ladies podium but not the fact that she is a J15-19 runner. There were some great performances from long standing runners today amongst the 98 PB’s: - Andrew Cordes ran a 9 second PB of 21.13 on his 123rd run - Rachel Penney ran a PB of 23.04 on her 115th run - Kathryn Rogers ran a PB of 27.11 on her 113th run - Paul Garnett ran a 7 second PB of 19.15 on his 102nd - Gareth Maher ran 21.34 on his 41st making it his 4th PB in five runs. - The Tavini family will be celebrating as all three got PB’s today; Karl (18.27), Jill (22.01) and daughter Natalia (23.41). A surprising theme developed today: With a time of 23.23 was Nicola Lloyd on her 150th run. Running 24.24 was a PB from Elaine Mackintosh on her 90th run. Running 25.25 was a PB from Jonah Wall. Sam Pendrill ran a PB of 26.26 (yes, son of Jim the time keeper) – with these running genes Sam will regularly chip away at this time. Finally, Mark Grundy ran a time of 28.28 for a new PB. I think I’m onto something big here and might have a go at the lottery. As far as attendance goes, there were 411 runners today. This was split as follows: 15% had run 100 or more times, 15% had run between 50-99 times, 15% had run 25-49 times, 50% had run less than 25 times and the remaining 5% were “unknown”. This tells us that we very much still have fresh blood coming through (or not returning!!). Today there were 22 first timers which included two parkrun tourists; Michael Raynes (52 parkruns) from York and Anthony Collins from Reading (62 parkruns). Of the 20 “genuine” first timers to the parkrun concept today, it is pleasing to see that nearly half of these were juniors – Harry Meats, Jessica Connors, Will Woodall, Ben Allen, Zain Kamran, Sophie Shaw, Jon Keogh and Joshua Scott-Thomas. We hope you return. Congratulations to Adrian Rigby-Bates and Stuart McCormick on their 100th runs and Brian O’Mullane on his 50th run. The Hammerton family have the Bramhall parkrun royalty status well and truly won as Chris has now run 219 times, Michael (J15-19) 177 and Sue 168. If you found that your bar code didn’t scan very well today could you please print another one off for next week as with 400+ runners with only three scanners the queues were building as we struggled to scan sweaty or crumpled bar codes. Finally, a point of correction: I have been wisely told that Bert is a Terrapin (fresh water) not a turtle (sea water). Sorry about that. Charlie
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