Thank you all so much for coming: 10 ran for Chiltern, 7 for Good Shepherd, 11 for St Patrick’s, 9 for Holy Trinity Church Wallington, 3 for Emmanuel, 6 for Refresh and 11 for Selsdon Baptist – 57 runners in total.

Our last Bushy mob match was the last ever running of that particular course at Bushy – the new course is rather nice, and maybe rather quick!

In all 1060 people ran Bushy parkrun that day, and we were spread from position 8 to position 1054!

A little busy at the start as ever.

Some of us were fortunate enough to see the deer roaming, in fact Sue and Marie had to stop briefly to let them pass!

The  churchrunner Handicap Cup

Well done to SBC very good – the handicaps shift again for the next one though folks, so anything can happen!

Jason chases Mark!

Within the churches

First women (first column) and girls home:

First women home for their teams otherwise were; Lazar Stella (Refresh), Maria Lawrence (CCR), Joy Harris (SBC). First girl for her church otherwise was Marie Gray (CCR).

First men (first column) and boys home:

Some of us just before the start.

First men home for their teams otherwise were; Ian Smith (HTW), Ken Wight (CCR) and Ron West (Emmanuel). First boy home otherwise for his church was Matthew Gray (CCR).

Awards

The Family Prize (one or two adults, one or two 14 or under juniors) went to the;

So well done to the Cotton’s by a good few minutes.

The two achievement awards that move from runner to runner went to;

Michael Ogunnaike & Ken Wright.

Also medals to Olivia Simpson & Matthew Gray.

Speaking of achievements, not an exhaustive list but course PBs for; Matthew & Marie Gray (also earning her 10 t-shirt!), Adam Hudson, Matthew Stone, Marcus Griffiths, John Punt, Martin Drake, Micky Wheeler, David Root, Ian Smith, Gavin Hamilton, Michael Ogunnaike, Aaron Simpson, Elaine & Ian Jones, Yan Hua, Geoff Nunn, Rajka Kuhar, & Eleanor Woodman.

I understand a lot of the St Patrick’s runners got personal bests for their 5k times, though under the parkrun system they of course all showed up as first timers!

I won’t give away a ladies age by mentioning her name, but I note one of our churchrunners was the oldest lady participating.

We got some good coverage from the Bushy Run Report here’s a little excerpt:

We also got a lovely little plug on Premier courtesy of Mark Blythe – we’ll see if we can get that audio onto the site.

First Timers to Bushy included Tom & Emily Higgs, Ian St John, Kirsty, Deborah, Ian & Thomas Cotton, Mike Harris, Ailish Atkinson, Richard Springate, Deborah Burrows (first ever parkrun), Norman Robinson, Jo Wheeler, Olivia (first ever parkrun), & Chris Simpson, Hannah & Sophie West, Sylvia Symes, Alison Symonds-Tayler, and Jean Quested.

Also running but not mentioned yet were Andrew Crossley, Colin Jackson, Cleide Burgess, Ken ‘Blessed are the Pacemakers’ Wright, Lisa Mainwaring, Allan Kuhar (completing his 249^th parkrun), Louise Sherlock, & Rupert Quested.

A massive thank you to our scorer – Mrs Blythe.

Apologies to anyone I have missed.

Keep the training and we will see you at Lloyd parkrun on May 14^th!