It was not too hot, not too cold for running, reports Kate O'Donoghue

A  'Goldilocks' day for running...

...not too hot, not too cold. Nicely muddy and wet though, so a warm welcome to 52 runners taking part in the 247th Wormwood Scrubs parkrun, including six first timers and five parkrun tourists. We do hope you all come back.

Events of the day included two runners who lost shoes to the Kraken lurking in the mud. As the Kraken’s legendary home is the coast of Norway, perhaps Lars has an explanation as to why a giant Scandinavian sea monster is living on the Scrubs?

In other news, a boxer* stole a course flag. Thank you Charlie for the heads up on this. In the interests of adding colour to the news report, it was a red flag.
*dog, not pugilist.

A round of applause to our volunteers: Run Director Ben LE ROUGETEL, Timekeeper William PAYNTER (who kindly donated his upright hours to parkrun. In preparation for his Half Marathon tomorrow he is going to spend the rest of the day lying on the sofa. Hope you kept within your 3000 step target, Will), Barcode Scanning George Robert BARNES, Finish Tokens Stephen HUTCHINSON, Pre-event Setup Kirstie TEW and Nick MICHAEL (whose sterling efforts have reduced incidents of corner cutting), Post-event Close Down Peter JORDAN, Run Report Writer Kate O'DONOGHUE, and most importantly our talented and tireless tea topers Charlie LE ROUGETEL and Marion BRYDSON

James Spender achieved the big One Hundred today. Looking forward to seeing you in black, James. And a special shout out to Lan Lan who chose parkrun over cycling and came one closer to her fifty shirt, only nine more to go...

A fact for the day: did you know?
‘Research’ shows there is a window of opportunity for the body to refill its glycogen stores within the first hour or so after exercise. So that fantastic TVH post run flapjack is actually doing you the power of good.

Drum RRRRR oOOOO Lllllllllll here are THE RESULTS

There were four personal bests, so well done Sarah COLLINSON, Eva KYNASTON, Murray LINDSAY and Louis SAMUELS.

In the women’s race, Andrea BROUGHTON was first (22nd overall) in 25:59, her 26th first place in 65 appearances, Kate O'DONOGHUE was second (27th overall) in 29:28 - has been first to finish on 12 previous occasions and Sarah COLLINSON was third (29th overall) in 29:48.

In the women's annual points competition Marion BRYDSON has 2404 points, Kirstie TEW has 2343, pushing Andrea CALDERWOOD into third with 2270 points. It’s too close to call.

In the men’s race, Richard FLINT was first over the line in 19:43 – his first win in his second appearance, Thomas DALEY was second in 20:18 and James SPENDER was third in 20:46 - has been first to finish on six previous occasions.

In the men's annual points competition James SPENDER has 2808 points, Nick MICHAEL has 2685 points and Manuel CORRIENTE has 2681 points.

So that's all folks. See you next time.

Kate O'Donoghue

February 22, 2016