06/09/2026
Longrun Meadow parkrun
5 September 2026
Event number 585
Courtesy of tourist Dianne Ronson
My husband, Neil, and I are from Halifax, West Yorkshire and we use parkrun as an opportunity for a spot of tourism and visiting different places within the UK and around the world 🌎
Earlier in the week Neil announced he had bought a bicycle in Devon, approximately 300 miles and 5 hours from home 🚲 Yes! The perfect opportunity to visit Somerset on the way, and collect Lu for my periodic table challenge. Other challenges are available and congratulations to Hannah, completing her 2nd alphabet today 🔠
Special mention goes to Johnny who was getting married later today 🤵 The 5th September is an amazing day for a wedding... Neil and me are celebrating our 31st wedding anniversary today 💕
We arrived early, loo stop at nearby Tesco, and parked up near the Castle School and Sports Centre, which was £1 for the day. A quick walk to the Oak Barn, which serves as the meeting point. It did look fairly quiet, but then people appeared from every direction!
Plenty of visitors today, including Becky and her group from Porthcawl, who were tasked with handing over B16, one of the Boomerangs released into the wild as part of the second tranche from the Facebook group "10 Boomerangs South Beach Fremantle" 🪃
The course is a lovely 2-lap, flat, trail(ish) course through woods, across field and grit paths, and around meadows. There were a few pinch points at the beginning, but nothing major, and plenty of smiley faces from participants and marshals.
The results show that 37 different clubs were represented today, including Neil and me from Sowerby Bridge Snails Running Club.
This week 450 people ran, jogged and walked the course, including 55 visiting Longrun Meadow for the first time.
Huge congratulations to the 58 who recorded new Personal Bests and got to ring the PB bell 🔔
First male finisher was Harry Perkins, with an impressive time of 17:06 on his 10th parkrun. Caroline Arckless was first female finisher with a time of 20:22 on her 376th finish!
Top age grades went to Sarah Capstick with 88.53% and Richard Marriott with 83.04%
Milestones completed today:
3️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ David Poulsom
2️⃣5️⃣0️⃣ Lucy Watson, Diana Violet
2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ Edmund East
1️⃣5️⃣0️⃣ Becca Locke
1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ Matthew Haslett, Kat Perry
5️⃣0️⃣ Alec Mackendrick, Justine Brunton
2️⃣5️⃣ Charlotte Kee, Vinayak Sabrish Vivekanandan, Claire Hodgson, Annalise Piper
1️⃣0️⃣ Harry Perkins
Today’s runniest parkrunners (in terms of total parkrun finishes!) were Jeremy Creasey, with 662 parkrun finishes, and Sarah Capstick, with 517. Impressive guys!
Post-parkrun faffing was at The Weir, the community café in the nearby COACH [Centre for Outdoor Activity and Community Hub] facility ☕️🍰 Nice to see it well supported by parkrunners.
Lovely to chat with locals and get some ideas of other parkruns in the vicinity… definitely another visit is on the cards.
parkrun would not be possible without volunteers, and your 24 hi-viz heroes this week were:
Nic MONTEIRO • Zac MONTEIRO • Marcus ALBANO • Morwenna DUNSTAN • Carol LLOYD • Duncan MOORE • Stephen TRAYNOR • Scarlett BURNELL • Ben FROWDE • Brian BANDYSZEWSKI • Andy GEORGE • Adele DONEGAN • Will OSMOND • Nigel BIRLEY • Jakki MACPHAIL • Jane KNIGHT • Leo ROCHE • Alec BURFORD • Margaret BURFORD • Dianne RONSON • Andrew FORD • Rob TREM • Bruce CROSLAND • Scarlett MACKENDRICK
If you want to volunteer over the next couple of weeks, take a look at the future roster - I’m sure they’d be delighted with some extra support.
https://www.parkrun.org.uk/longrunmeadow/futureroster/
Many thanks for the very warm welcome
Dianne & Neil
Sowerby Bridge Snails 🐌🐌
