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!
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!
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.
Maybe you are not a runner, maybe you are – but if you would like to one day get to here…
…then maybe we can help encourage you, and so can parkrun, you need faith to run…
Just get in touch and we will try and help you and your Church take the first steps on your journey.
Well done to all the Running Church members who completed Shrewsbury parkrun on 26th March.
A founder member of Chiltern Church Runners Allan made it to 250 parkruns at Banstead March 2016, the first Chiltern Church Runner to do so. He was joined by 19 other club members, including his wife Rajka and son Sven.
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 message from Mark;
As you probably know Bushy is the home of parkruns and now attracts over 1100 every week, yes really! It’s a lovely flat one loop course with a chance for supporters to cheer and take photos of runners at the start, the 4k mark and the finish.
The aim is to create an opportunity for us to spend time with our fellow churchrunners and, more importantly, with our running friends at Bushy.
We, Refresh Runners, entered our first mob match at Nonsuch parkrun in 2013 and had a great time with our mainly non-church team and 3 other churches, think there were about 50 of us. It’s great to see how you folks have helped this outreach grow. I’ve been plugging it on the UK Sports Ministries website and every opportunity I get.
Saturday 19th March, 2016 is the date and the address is Bushy Park, Teddington. The main southern side entrance is on Hampton Court Road, I can only find the postcode for the Palace not the Park which is very close and is KT8 9AU. It’s a 20 minute walk from Hampton Court Train station.
Usual start at 9.00am.
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Name: Cleide Burgess
Club: Refresh Runners
Home parkrun: Bushy Park
Occupation: Psychologist – Counselor – Life Coach
Number of Runs: 35 parkruns
Having realised we had to cancel our Riddlesdown mob match over health and safety concerns (raised quite rightly by Emmanuel Runners) at putting an extra 50-70 runners onto a very muddy and slippery course we didn’t want to miss out completely – so we decided to switch to a virtual mob match instead.
We realise this gave the non-London clubs very little time to react as we had not advertised Riddlesdown nationally, apologies. Just to even things out we will run Riddlesdown in September, but also run a national virtual, rebranded as the churchrunner National Mob Match the same day – September 10th, feel free to put it in your diaries now.
In total there were 143 runners, across 41 parkruns (actually more than the last virtual) running for 18 Christian running groups/churches.