Ashford Parkrun
This week’s Ashford Parkrun was taken over by members of Ashford & District Road Running Club. Thanks to everyone who volunteered to make this week’s event happen.
15 members of Ashford Striders turned out on Saturday morning to run the 5km event around Victoria Park. First Strider to cross the line was Keith Haynes with a super quick time of 20:54. Well done Keith. Adam Thomas was next with 25:36, just behind him was Hazel Turner and Terry Sellen with times of 25:54 and 25:57 respectively.
Next was Richard Randle, 26:36, Graham Troman, 27:50, Siobhan Hagan, 29:06 and Amanda James, 29:19.
Sonette Schwartz achieved a time of 30:40 just ahead of Lisa Gribbin who finished in 30:45. Jayne Hatton was next at 31:42, followed by Michelle Bryant, 32:02, Lisa Fulcher, 32:13, Rita Cooke, 33:28 and Jenny Watts, 33:46.
Well done to you all!
Strider Tourism
This October marks the 18th anniversary of Parkrun. To commemorate this, Parkrun are dedicating the whole of October to Parkwalk at Parkrun. The lovely Tamsin Ritchie decided to travel to Whitstable Parkrun and had a fabulous time Parkwalking along the promenade in a time of 48:11.
Rachel Tomsett also Parkwalked whilst away in South Wales, completing Pontypool Parkrun in 43:12.
Two Striders ventured to Sittingbourne Parkrun, running 5km around Milton Creek Country Park. Justin Burden achieved a time of 24:29 and Nicola Crawley finishing in 26:25.
Colchester Stampede Half Marathon
Aimee Donohue went to Essex on Sunday to run the Colchester Stampede Half marathon which starts in the centre of Colchester Zoo.
Aimee achieved a brilliant new half marathon PB with a time of 2:04:30. She even ran her fastest ever 10k (57:25) within the run. She said that there were a few nasty hills on the route, but starting and finishing running past elephants and rhinos made up for it!
Congratulations Aimee!
London Marathon
Our capital city was host to the 42nd London Marathon on Sunday. 42,000 runners gathered at Greenwich Park to run the 26.2-mile route to the Mall.
Six brave Striders took park. Andy Found was raising money for Muscular Dystrophy UK, and had a brilliant run, coming across the line with a time of 4:50:32. Justine Wearn got herself noticed by the cameras with her union jack running gear and her beaming smile. She finished in 5:07:02 just ahead of Richard Barnes, who was running for King’s Health Partners and finished in 5:07:29.
David Helme completed the course with a time of 5:10:35 followed by Angie Craffey & Julie Moore, who both ran a time of 5:37:29 for Whizz-Kidz. Next came Clare Maxlow, who finished in 6:17:15.
Huge thanks to the Ashford Strider members who made their way to the event to volunteer and cheer on the runners.
London Virtual Marathon
Two Striders completed 26.2 miles in the London Virtual Marathon. Lisa Gribbin completed her marathon route in 5:02:30 and Simon Richter finished in 5:13:55.
Well done to you all for training so hard and battling to complete this awesome achievement. You should all be very proud!
Report by Paul Dunning.
