All posts by Tim G.
Meet an award-winning churchrunner…
Name: Zac Carpenter
Club: Croydon Vineyard Church Runners
Age: 17
Home parkrun: Riddlesdown parkrun
Nonsuch Inter-Church Mob Match (Nov 2017)
Brilliant to see you all, 27 ran for Chiltern, 16 for Good Shepherd, 15 for Croydon Vineyard, 14 for Sutton Vineyard, 1 for Carshalton Beeches Baptist (first time with us – welcome), 4 for Holy Trinity Church Wallington, 1 for Emmanuel, 10 for St Patrick’s, 1 for Springfield, 4 for the Salvation Army, 6 for Selsdon Baptist & 3 for Cheam Baptist – 102 runners in total, and from 12 different Churches.
Riddlesdown Inter-Church Mob Match (Sep 2017)
Thank you all so much for coming, 30 ran for Chiltern, 11 for Good Shepherd, 6 for Holy Trinity Church Wallington, 15 for Emmanuel, 9 for St Patrick’s Tigers, 4 for Christ Church Purley, 7 for Croydon Vineyard, 5 for the Salvation Army, 2 for New Creation Church London, 14 for Selsdon Baptist Church, and 4 for Springfield Springers, 107 runners in total!
Holy Trinity Hastings
HTH Runners (Holy Trinity Hastings) has got off to a really good start!
A few weeks ago we started a weekly Monday evening get-together in the park – there were 7 of us the first week, 16 the second, and 18 this week! Originally we thought we’d just trial it over the summer – we weren’t sure anyone would actually be interested! – so we’ve been really pleased with the turnout and feedback. It’s so encouraging to see people with all levels of running ability / experience enjoying the evening together.
Then, last Saturday 19th we had our first group outing to the Hastings parkrun – 14 took part on the day, including 3 parkrun first-timers.
– we celebrated the occasion with cake afterwards 🙂
If you are down that way look out for the HTH t shirts and say Hi!
Roundshaw Inter-Church Mob Match (Jul 2017)
Thank you all so much for coming, 42 ran for Chiltern, 7 for Good Shepherd, 2 for New Creation Church London, 6 for Holy Trinity Church Wallington, 6 for Emmanuel, 22 for St Patrick’s Tigers, 1 for Christ Church Purley, 9 for Croydon Vineyard, 10 for Springfield, and 10 for Selsdon Baptist– 115 runners in total!
Lloyd Inter-Church Mob Match (May 2017)
Brilliant to see you all, 22 ran for Chiltern Church Runners, 10 for Good Shepherd, 6 for Holy Trinity Church Wallington, 18 for Emmanuel, 14 for St Patrick’s, 3 for Springfield, 5 for the Salvation Army, 2 for New Creation Church London, 12 for Croydon Vineyard, 3 for the Springfield Church Springers and 32 for Selsdon Baptist, – 124 runners in total – 2 up from last year, and from 10 different churches.
We were spread from position 1 to position 345. Once again we helped Lloyd break their attendance record – 350 now, up from 317 set at last year’s mob match!
Also as ever we had a great welcome from Debra and her volunteer team (thanks to all).
churchrunner Tourist Event – 18th March 2017
Our first ever try at this one, and it does look as if some of you had some fun with it, so good on you!
116 of you were running somewhere & we even got a few pictures back in.
The Tourist Weekend
On 18th March we have a ‘not a mob match’ which is us trying out a new idea; a ‘Tourist event’. Basically we’d like to encourage you to try a new parkrun, either solo, or in a group, and send us in a photo or a little ‘report’. It’s a chance to fly the flag for your club somewhere else, and have some fun with a new location at the same time. You could even meet up with another club.
So for example here’s one I prepared earlier;
Running in Faith – the National Virtual Mob Match
Well this was the first time we’d moved the inter church ‘mob match’, in a deliberate way, to January, it looks like we got a few new year’s resolution runners – but the icy weather meant some parkruns were shut for health and safety reasons.
In total there were 120 runners, across 29 parkruns running for Christian running groups/churches.
Obviously none of this would be possible without parkrun – so a big thank you to them.