The triple crown for the Canning River parkrun community occurred today on our 71st parkrun. CR parkrunners have collectively ran over 1000 marathons with a total of 42,690 km clocked up to date – that is a huge distance! parkrun turned 10 and today we celebrated International parkrun Day, a day to commemorate the launch of Bushy parkrun on the 2nd of October, 2004. Incredibly, Bushy is running it’s 538th event today. CR is a relatively young parkrun, but we have a lot of new entrants in the 50-club. Congratulations to Neil Richardson on his stealth 50 today. parkrunners who have completed 50 parkruns up until the end of July received their brand spanking new red 50-club shirt too. Congrats team! Of note, was Carolyn Stephens who has only missed five Canning River parkruns, chalking up her 66th event today! Today’s parkrun was all about celebrating personal achievements that we are personally proud of. In doing so, CR parkrun asked our parkrun community to wear a shirt of an achievement that each runner is proud of! What an amazing selection of shirts were visible today, but more so was having over 200 parkrunners and 31 first timers attend. Today was Canning River parkrun’s second largest attendance – woot woot! The highlight for the day was the number of visitors or parkrun tourists today. We had representation from Guildford in the UK, Wellington in NZ, Wollongong, Albert Park in Melbourne, Brisbane, and of course two from nearby Pioneer (welcome back Jez and Kelly – nice PB too Kel). CR parkrun is truly an International event. Our volunteers, who I can’t thank enough, did a splendid job and to those regulars who joined in to help at the end – thank you. Our wonderful baking parkrunners made cakes for all of us to share. Thanks team. Special thanks to Allison for her great cake to mark this special occasion. International parkrun Day commemorates the launch of Bushy parkrun in 2004 and to celebrate this huge milestone parkrun is attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the ‘most participants in a 5km run across multiple locations’. The current record was set by Cancer Research UK at the Race For Life One Big Day event and involved 101,246 participants at 23 locations across the UK on 4 June 2006. It’s early days yet, but we had an exceptional turn out across Australia today. Check out all of the new event records set around Australia on the link below. parkrun.au/results/attendancerecords/ The results are up on the Canning River parkun page. Now for some stats: Mens placings: Kim THOMAS (VM40-44) of Squash+RunningWorks, was first over the line in 17:59 - 13th time in 36 appearances. Joshua BAKER (JM15-17) of Baldivis Runners Club, was second over the line in 18:32. Nic TAYLOR (SM25-29) (Unattached) was third over the line in 18:48. Current standing in the Mens annual points competition: Kim THOMAS (Squash+RunningWorks) 1489 pts. Jeremy SELTEN (Squash+RunningWorks) 1384 pts. Shane DURYEA (Unattached) 1343 pts. Womens placings: Caitlin JAMESON (SW20-24) of Squash+RunningWorks, was first (11th overall) over the line in 20:23 - 25th time in 32 appearances. Rochelle RODGERS (SW25-29) (Unattached) was second (16th overall) over the line in 22:00 - was first to finish once before. Fiona CHOI (SW20-24) (Unattached) was third (20th overall) over the line in 22:25 - was first to finish once before. Current standing in the Womens annual points competition: Carolyn STEPHENS (Unattached) 1584 pts. Delia BALDOCK (Masters Athletics W.A. (Western Australia)) 1523 pts. Salena OTNESS (Squash+RunningWorks) 1356 pts. The following runners recorded the best Age Grade scores: Paul ODAM (VM50-54) was graded 75.98% for the time 20:03 (7th overall). Kim THOMAS (VM40-44) was graded 75.90% for the time 17:59 (first overall). Joshua BAKER (JM15-17) was graded 75.09% for the time 18:32 (second overall). This week there were 205 runners, of whom 31 were first timers and 33 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 13 different athletics clubs took part. Canning River parkrun started on 1st June 2013, and since then 1,488 different runners, including participants from 49 athletics clubs, have completed 8,538 runs covering a total distance of 42,690 km, and there have been 2,080 new Personal Bests. The womens record is held by Chantal KILLEN who ran in a time of 00:18:33 on 2014-01-11 (event number 33). The mens record is held by Scott THOMSON who ran in a time of 00:15:38 on 2014-05-17 (event number 51). The Age Grade course record is held by Jennifer WILLIAMS who recorded a 89.64% run (23:19) on 1st January 2014 (event number 31). See you all back at parkrun soon. - Dan
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 04:44:06 +0000
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