President's Challenge

Several PB's at Parkrun

Eight of our Longrun Parkrunners

Published: Sat 14 Sep 2019

Was it the lure of the wine that did it? About 10 turned up for our President's Challenge, with several registering PB's (personal bests). All the more amazing when you consider our contestants between them had hundreds of Parkruns under their belts.

Everyone was in the top half of all runners in their age grading, with our fastest runner Pete Shirvington just outside the top quarter of his and son Sam in the top third of M15 to M17s.

But as we know scoring is never straightforward in our sport and Roger has consulted the BOF handicap tables to see who will be taking home the prize of a bottle of wine.

Photos

Link: The challenge explained

Link: Our Parkrun info page, with leaderboards for each venue

Results: President's Challenge

Pos/ name	Class	Handicap	Adjusted time
1- Pete Shirvington	M45	0.84	16min20s
2- Sam Shirvington	M16	0.84	17min4s
3- Vikki Page	W45	0.62	17min44s
4- Roger Craddock	M75	0.46	18min3s
5=- Owen Maynard	M16	0.84	19min2s
5=- Jacob Shirvington	M10	0.70	19min2s
7- Mark Maynard	M50	0.79	19min23s
8- Thomas Hasler	M18	0.88	20min40s
9- Andrew Page	M14	0.80	21min28s
10- Martin Lewis	M50	0.79	21min37s
11- Phil Sorrell	M40	0.89	22min19s

Results: 5km Parkrun

the leaderboard from the Parkrun website

Message from Roger and Judy

Thanks to those who accepted the challenge and congratulations to those who achieved PB’s as a result!

A great race between the Shirvingtons, who were running for the first time on Longrun Parkrun. Well done to Jacob, who should be doing the Junior run!

QO had great exposure and were able to launch the new season of JOGs starting next week

- Roger and Judy