20/07/2024
On Wednesday, we once again hosted the Doug Anderson 5k race. 389 pairs of feet flew around grade 2 listed Bedford Park and as our 5K club championship race, 103 of us raced, and were supported by 105 of our club volunteers. Our thanks to everyone who entered, raced, helped out and made the race another fantastic success. 🎽🏃🏼♀️🏃🏻♂️💛🖤
Last weekend, our yellow army were at the Welly Five and the Ultra 5ks at Box End, whilst on Saturday, Joe Warren did the pilgrimage of parkruns – Bushy parkrun in Teddington and Stephen Ball found a newish event in our region - Bug Hunter Waters parkrun in Cambridgeshire.
Ronnie SL finished the first week of her beginners Welsh course at Aberystwyth University and attended the local Aberystwyth parkrun. She wasn’t the furthest tourist though - a classmate had come all the way from Switzerland and after being told about parkrun, he registered that morning and made his debut! Well done Ronnie! 🏴
Bedford parkrun had 28 Harriers, whilst Great Denham parkrun had 13 club members – Elaine did her 180th parkrun and as a massive fan of the duodecimal system of counting, Chris Fadden timed in his 144th parkrun. 🧮
A number of Harriers were also instrumental in the start up of a new junior parkrun event – at Great Denham junior parkrun, where over 70 children took part, including 30 who were new to parkrun.
On Wednesday, 10 July Juan Carlos Augusto ran 1:15:49 and was first in his AG at the Gateley Victoria Park 10 mile. 🏆
Over the weekend of 5-7 July, Shuan Busby ran 44:42 at Beds AAA 10k, and then 22:24 at GD parkrun the next morning.
Richard Lawson, Elaine Massie and Sylvia Jones ran the - FetchEveryone F'laps challenge, finishing on 10x2-miles, 12x1-mile and 5x1-mile respectively.
Chris Capps was one of 6 Harriers at the Hitchin Sprint Triathlon, consisting of a 400m outdoor pool swim, a 20km cycle into East Bedfordshire and a 5km run around Hitchin town centre, whilst Eva Kovacs did away with a run by competing in the St Neots Standard Aquabike. Also completing solo was Dea Ditchfield, completing the Challenge Roth Tri in 4:18:40. Well done everyone! 🖤💛
On Saturday 6 July, getting thoroughly soaked to the skin, Group 8 did Millennium Country parkrun, Sheila Nicolson was at Flegg High parkrun, Noel enjoyed GD. David Sheffield & daughter did Moors Valley parkrun in the New Forest in 34 minutes and Peter and Chris Fadden were in Buxton, at Pavillion Gardens parkrun.
Hooray to only marvellous milestone achiever:
Huafu Wang, 250 runs 💚
Thank goodness it’s the weekend now, are we going to rest or race ❓
