Monica susan hennes
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Parkruns everywhere wouldn’t happen if there weren’t people prepared to don the high-vis jackets, so a massive thank you to this week’s wonderful volunteers for getting the event on. I see Christina is a member of Thames Hare & Hounds: I sometimes do their ‘Second Sunday 5’ at Wimbledon Common so I wonder if I’ve ever seen her there? She was pipped by Christina O’Donovan Rossa who’s done 320. Claire was the participant with the second-most parkruns to their name. Second home, and first female, was Carmel Edwards, just six seconds behind Ken. A great route, marshalled by some very friendly folk.įirst home today was Ken Lennon, in a super 19:43, all the more so given Ken’s age category he also topped the age-grade standings at today’s parkrun. Then it was up some steps onto a tarmac path, with the wind at your back, all the way to the coastguard station, before another 180 degree turn, back into the wind, up onto the grass all the way to the finish. The first half kilometre on firm sand on a sploshy wet beach, then a 180 degree turn near a jacketed iron man, and back on softer, drier sand. Claire’s 300 th was applauded as was a 69 th birthday – afraid I missed the birthday boy’s name. Aside from me (Harrow), Claire (Humber Bridge) and Pirjo, there was Mary from Long Eaton who I’d spoken to when I’d first arrived, Keith from Edinburgh, and others. Claire got to about two feet away which I thought was a pretty good effort! The ceremony involves the chosen person facing one way, taking one look behind to see where the other sign is, going backwards with the rake and seeing how close they get to the other sign. Claire’s home run is Humber Bridge but she’d come to Crosby, with her friend Pirjo Johnson, to celebrate Claire’s 300 th parkrun. Today’s honoured participant was Claire Wookey. Jan had chosen ‘Raindrops are Falling on my Head’ as our greeting on the PA system!Ĭrosby has a – unique? – parkrun ceremony in inviting someone to mark out the start by raking a line in the sand between the two start signs. But everyone had to do that ten or so minutes later, and we made our way to the start on the beach. Run Director Jan Mullin was briefing her volunteer team beneath the entrance roof, with only those being dispatched to the further parts of the course forced at 8:40 to venture out into a stiff wind and driving rain. The weather was very much ‘summer at the British seaside’ when I arrived at the Crosby Leisure Centre.
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The choice of Hoylake for the 2023 Open Golf Championship (for I am a keen golf fan) gave me the chance to visit before heading to the Wirral coast. Once a week, the parkrun shares the beach with the statues, and indeed some of them become part of the event! I’d visited Gormley’s ‘Angel of the North’ at Gateshead and had wanted for years to see ‘Another Place’. 100 cast iron men, spaced well apart, some standing and some half-buried, and all facing out to sea.
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Today I was lucky enough to visit another that belongs on that list.Ĭrosby parkrun is found on the west Lancashire coast, at the home of Sir Antony Gormley’s truly-wondrous art installation, ‘Another Place’. There’s the pilgrimage (Mecca-like, any serious parkrunner should do it once!) to the first-ever parkrun, at Bushy, with its mass start reminiscent of the charge in ‘Zulu’ there’s Land’s End, at the furthest tip of our nation there’s the barmy fun of Somerdale Pavilion’s ‘curly wurly’ and there’s Severn Bridge: a parkrun that lets you start in one country, cross into another, and then return to the first. However, there are a few that deserve to have the ‘iconic’ moniker, too.
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There are 769 parkruns in the UK, and every one of them is unique.