Bramhall Run Report 321 Dusty Bin We’ve now all heard Tim Vine’s award winning one liner at the Edinburgh Fringe Festive; “Ive decided to sell my Hoover... well, it was just collecting dust”. Co-incidentally it was Bramhall Park’s 321st run today (picture Ted Rodgers doing “3-2-1” on his Dusty Bin TV programme in the 1980’s). The village of Bramhall also got an award (or rather accolade) of its own – perhaps you saw The Telegraph property section which recently ran an article on “Britain’s 20 friendliest places to live” which included Harrogate, Knaresborough, Taunton, Keswick and BRAMHALL amongst them. This is what it said; “In 2010, researchers at Sheffield Uni tried to identify Britain’s friendliest communities. The one that impressed them the most was Bramhall, a leafy village near Stockport. Among 30,000 residents, they found few who were obviously lonely or ‘felt they did not belong’. This might be because the village has 70 odd clubs, societies and sports groups. Consequently, property isn’t cheap here”. I felt like writing a letter to the Editors asking why they didn’t specifically mention parkrun as to what made Bramhall friendly! That heavy and persistent rain from 6am was the main culprit as to why only 268 turned up today. In fact at 8.50am there was only a marshalls briefing and very few runners as everyone decided to time their arrival to precisely 8.58am to avoid a dowsing. Well done to young Matthew Cordes for his announcements at the start (Nick Bishop better watch out) as proud Dad looked on like a Cheshire Cat. Matthew took his role so seriously that he ran with the megaphone to Duck Poo Corner to ensure he was there earlier enough to cheer on the lead pack. The rain must have been heavy as those ubiquitous puddles about 50m past the 2km sign which usually disappear after 420 people have splashed their way through them once still remained on the second lap this week (with 150 fewer people this week to help). Gareth Griffiths was first to finish in 18.18 with Ian Keeling second in 18.33 and third was Robert Wilson was third 18.47. Jennifer Hatch was first today in 21.52 with a new PB and only 12 places and 53s behind Dad, Steve Hatch. There was a real tussle for 2nd place with Natasha Moore running 22.18 and Katie Haynes 22.22 (both J11-14). So how many people holidayed in the UK and took their bar codes with them? Jennifer is off to New Zealand soon for a short holiday and she’s already done her homework on which NZ parkruns she can run which fit into her itinerary. I also found the perfect location for a parkrun – Herm in the Channel Islands. The entire circumference of the coastal paths on the island is exactly 5km I discovered – was there ever a location made for parkrunning? Special mention must go to John Jones (V65) who achieved a PB in poor conditions today of 31.34 who started running Bramhall around 42 mins and has knocked off a huge 10 mins since then. Well done to the ten first timers, six of whom were completely new to parkrun, and to turn out in those conditions today shows true commitment to the cause. Charlie Batho
Posted on: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 01:41:38 +0000
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