By Mitch | October 3, 2015
Most enjoyable Park Run at Coventry this morning. Decided to attend the newbies’ talk, no idea why, but ironically I met up with 4 friends from Redway Runners, Milton Keynes, who were attending Coventry Park Run for the very first time (en route to Chester for the Chester Marathon tomorrow). Garry Biddle, I’ve known for a couple of years from the EMGP circuit and his partner, Rose Turney, I met in Lanzarote. They were accompanied by Becky and Simon Read, the former looking for a Park Run PB quicker than 29:27. We all ran together and with great encouragement from the other three and a bit of local knowledge from yours truly Becky knocked a massive 45 seconds off her time, coming in at 28:26. A great morning and what Park Run is all about really. Wishing them all the best for Chester.
In Rose’s words:
Becky got a 45 second PB with help from Mitch and the rest of us. Mitch was explaining the course to her as we ran round having not previously done it before. Letting her know where the hillier and easier parts were. Very well organised and marshalled event that we will definitely be returning to.
Coventry
13 Sphinx AC runners/family/friends ran this weekend, with no first-timers and 1 PB.
Official results are here:
http://www.parkrun.org.uk/coventry/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=285
4 Andy Wilkinson 18:22 VM35-39 73.23% 4 PB stays at 17:30 8 Paul Slatford 18:37 VM35-39 71.26% 8 PB stays at 18:11 56 Alex Bartlett 21:17 SM30-34 60.92% 54 PB stays at 19:46 105 Ian Wilkinson 22:59 VM40-44 59.39% 100 PB stays at 17:27 112 Amarjit Singh Randhawa 23:11 VM50-54 65.20% 104 PB stays at 21:12 127 Steven Osmond 23:36 VM40-44 57.84% 118 PB stays at 22:40 175 Nigel Bassnett 24:47 VM50-54 59.52% 158 PB stays at 20:01 177 Narinder Bains 24:48 VM45-49 59.01% 160 PB stays at 20:38 183 Will Robertson 24:55 VM40-44 55.18% 166 PB stays at 23:00 192 Jonathan Dowds 25:07 VM45-49 56.87% 174 PB stays at 23:35 297 Lucy Wheatley 28:03 JW10 64.59% 46 New PB! 298 Rob Wheatley 28:04 VM35-39 47.92% 252 PB stays at 18:54 311 Mitch Timms 28:27 VM55-59 54.95% 255 PB stays at 20:17
And 4 Redway Runner friends ran this weekend, with 4 first-timers and 1 PB.
310 Becky Read 28:26 VW35-39 53.22% 56 New PB!
312 Simon Read 28:28 VM40-44 47.95% 256 First Timer!
313 Rose Turney 28:29 VW45-49 58.16% 57 First Timer!
314 Garry Biddle 28:29 VM50-54 52.19% 257 First Timer!
