21/06/2026
🎉🎉🎉Event 636 - Katherine's parkrun # 5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🎉🎉🎉🎉
Well! What an event we had yesterday.
There was lots to celebrate and unpack from yesterday - June 20th
First of all - what a glorious, sunny morning we had - specially ordered by the parkrun weather fairies for our celebratory parkrun.
Before I go into some fun facts about our milestone Queen, here are some other titbits from yesterday.
Let's welcome 14 brand new First Timers to parkrun:
Aimi Aljafri
Becca Cain
Erin McBride
Ethan Lowe
Harriet Wilkinson
James Beel
Katrina Kavanagh
Laura MacDonald
Lisa Judge
Mohamed Shah Wan Hashim
Nazeh Nadzru
Robert Elvin
Stuart Beel
Victoria Beel
We hope you enjoyed your first experience of taking part at parkrun, and look forward to seeing more of you in future weeks.
#1 Diehard athlete for attendance at Burnage - Tony Chapell - did his Double-Double-Tonne
(400th occasion of doing Burnage)
Podium athletes (w. times):
Ollie Sterne - 17:40
Chris Bramwell - 18:27
Mike Dixon - 19:30
Rebecca Jackson - 20:51
Marta COSP MORATÓ - 20:59
Victoria Creighton - 22:30
Yesterday was the 21st time Ollie Sterne has come 1st at Burnage.
Yesterday's 'Runniest' athletes
(w. number of parkruns):
Mike Jones - 629
Maggie Jones - 688
Official milestones:
Amy Stewart - 25
Caitlin Moore - 25
Marie Coldrick - 25
Paul Wilson - 50
Other Milestones:
Melissa Dooley - 150
Lawrie Gloster - 200
Joanne Hill - 350
Katherine Parker - 350
Last, but not least -
Some stats surrounding our one-time Event Director, Katherine Cole:
Number of parkruns 5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ 🎉
Volunteered on 379 occasions in total
*216 at Burnage
*60 of these were in 2024 - including stints at Wilmslow Junior parkrun
95 different 5k locations that she has ran, walked or jogged.
Saturday was Katherine's 54th time doing the First Timers Welcome
Has been Run Director 92 times for Burnage.
Katherine's 153rd occasion of participation equals that of her friend Peter Stanley.
Katherine was also instrumental in getting both myself and Lynsey to be onboard with Run Directing during her 6 and a bit year tenure as Event Director for Burnage.
Just a note about our other unusual feature to yesterday - the presence of one of 10 touring boomerang mascots that are currently travelling the world - visiting parkruns, and creating connections wherever they visit. I will post a link to the website that gives more context about their journeys. However, if you want to follow B12 'Ozzy' whilst the 🪃 is still in the North West region, then you can see the boomerang next at Kingsway parkrun in Urmston on June 27th.
A big thank you to all of our volunteers from yesterday. It was a great team effort, and we hope that everyone who was there on the day - whether you ran, walked, jogged, volunteered or spectated, enjoyed the occasion as much as Lynsey and I did.
A big thank you also goes to our special guest photographer - Jan Christoph-Telford. Jan took something close to 1,000 photos yesterday, and as you can imagine, it takes time to sort through and present them. So we'll do a different post when those come in.
