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).

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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.

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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.

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Ken Wright – previously featured here in a runner profile ran his 250^th parkrun on December 10^th – joined by son James & nephew Stevie in his run. He’s a Roundshaw Downs parkrun regular (212 runs), but also has some internationals to his name; Gdynia & Gdansk in Poland, and Bere Island in Ireland.

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Ken Wright – previously featured here in a runner profile ran his 250^th parkrun on December 10^th – joined by son James & nephew Stevie in his run. He’s a Roundshaw Downs parkrun regular (212 runs), but also has some internationals to his name; Gdynia & Gdansk in Poland, and Bere Island in Ireland.

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Brilliant to see you all, 18 ran for Chiltern, 12 for Good Shepherd, 2 for St Paul’s (bonus runners who joined us on the day), 10 for Holy Trinity Church Wallington, 3 for Emmanuel, 12 for St Patrick’s, 3 for Springfield, 4 for The Salvation Army, 3 for Cheam Baptist Church, 2 for Sutton Vineyard, 6 for Croydon Vineyard, 6 for Selsdon Baptist, 2 for Christian Runners UK & 1 for Christ Church Chelmsford  – 84 runners in total, and from 14 different Churches.

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Thank you all so much for coming, 8 ran for Chiltern, 6 for Good Shepherd, 1 for Christ Church Chelmsford, 6 for Holy Trinity Church Wallington, 15 for Emmanuel, 9 for St Patrick’s Tigers, 9 for Christ Church Purley, 3 for Croydon Vineyard, 3 for the Salvation Army and 17 for Selsdon Baptist, 1 for Springfield, 1 for Sanderstead Evangelical Church – 79 runners in total!

As to the National – I’ll come on to that in a bit, but that took in over 150 runners (including those of us at Riddlesdown) – so quite a big event. A special mention to the effort on the part of Wrangthorn Church Runners – not quite the win, but a big effort, for a small club!

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Thank you all so much for coming, 45 ran for Chiltern, 16 for Good Shepherd, 2 for New Creation Church London, 17 for Holy Trinity Church Wallington, 14 for Emmanuel, 9 for St Patrick’s Tigers, 8 for Christ Church Purley, 3 for Croydon Vineyard, 5 for the Salvation Army and 9 for Selsdon Baptist, 4 for Springfield – 132 runners in total!

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Thank you all so much for coming, 15 ran for Chiltern, 8 for Good Shepherd, 2 for New Creation Church London, 8 for Holy Trinity Church Wallington, 17 for Emmanuel, 24 for St Patrick’s Tigers, 1 for Christ Church Purley, 2 for Cheam Baptist Church, 9 for Springfield, 3 for Croydon Vineyard, 7 for the Salvation Army and 26 for Selsdon Baptist – 122 runners in total!

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Report by Don Brims

Last Autumn, my older daughter Sarah, she is 40, and my son Andrew, he is 33, were discussing how to do their first marathon, and decided on entering the Madrid Marathon taking place on April 24th, the same day as the London Marathon. They mentioned that there was a 10k run as part of the programme, so I decided to go for that.

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