110 People Run, Jog and Walk the Wormwood Scrubs Parkrun
Call for extra volunteer marshalls with an ever busier July ahead
Wormwood Scrubs was busy on Saturday 9 June with the 24 hour football event and the softball / baseball. Nevertheless someone must have heard Nick Michael's suggestion to mow the grass further towards our course! The weather was overcast with a temperature of around 14 degrees and north-easterly wind of 14 km/h but the sun came out as we were running! The going was firm.
Run Director Rob Ferguson was also busy collecting volunteers and had some news:
- Wormwood Scrubs parkrun is cancelled on Saturday 23rd June due to another event taking place
- NO Gunnersbury parkrun for the month of July 2018 - and as we are one of the 3 parkruns within 3 miles of Gunnersbury (that usually attracts nearly 500 runners) we are expecting a large number of their regulars (like Ealing Eagles and West 4 Harriers) will be visiting. So please could we have more volunteers in July to act as marshals?
Gideon REID was running his 100th parkrun and was in high spirits running alongside the barefoot Sage PEARCE-HIGGINS and there was talk of PBs. Unfortunately my phone dropped out of my pocket on the opening straight and I had to go back to retrieve it before anyone trod on it so I had some catching up to do. Sharon LEMBERGER was running a good pace and gave me some encouragement as I caught up but I couldn't keep up her pace in the second half.
The first places were:
- Sage PEARCE-HIGGINS of Thames Valley Harriers in 17:12
- Gideon REID of Serpentine RC in 18:06
- Pierrer LEROYER set a new PB of 18:32
Amongst the Ladies:
- Sharon LEMBERGER kept up her 5 from 5 winning streak finishing in 20:37 just behind her PB of 20:34
- Janine MAKARONIDIS of London City Runners ran 24:54 in her Wormwood Scrubs debut
- Sonya Lukic of Ravenscourt Park Runners in 24:56
Adjusting for age and gender:
- Sharon LEMBERGER scored 76.31%
- Sage PEARCE-HIGGINS was very close with 76.26%
- Gideon REID was 75.41%
This week 110 people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 30 were first timers and 19 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 12 different clubs took part.
The event was made possible by 11 volunteers:
Robert FERGUSON was Run Director • Nick MICHAEL did Pre-Event Setup with Craig GUNN • Paul OPPE scanned all the barcodes • Rizwan RAUF was Tail Walker • James DOE was TimeKeeper • Fran SANTOS handed out the Finish Tokens • Marion BRYDSON was Tea Lady • Fraser BRYDSON did the washing up • James SPENDER wrote this report • Peter JORDAN did post-event close down
If you would like to help and volunteer, please email wormwoodscrubshelpers@parkrun.com and check online.
Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Wormwood Scrubs parkrun Results Page.
James Spender
June 25, 2018
