Well done to all the Running Church members who completed Shrewsbury parkrun on 26th March.
Allan Kuhar – 250 and counting
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.
Bushy Inter-Church Mob Match (Mar 2016)
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!
Bushy Refreshed – March 19th
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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Meet churchrunner Cleide
Name: Cleide Burgess
Club: Refresh Runners
Home parkrun: Bushy Park
Occupation: Psychologist – Counselor – Life Coach
Number of Runs: 35 parkruns
The ‘Riddlesdown’ that wasn’t – Virtual
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.
Transformation from Riddlesdown to Virtual
We have been made aware that the Riddlesdown parkrun course is getting very wet and somewhat risky, with mud, and some concealed hazards in deep puddles. Consequently we will NOT run the mob match this coming Saturday at that venue. The extra 50-100 runners we bring would not be a good idea. Runner safety is a high priority for us, as is accessibility of events.
Instead we will run the Virtual Mob Match we were due to run in September this Saturday (9th January), and pencil in the September date (10th) for Riddlesdown, subject to confirmation of the convenience of that date to Emmanuel, and Riddlesdown.
That means you can still parkrun this Saturday, as part of a mob match, but at a course of your choosing that you are confident on. It also means our mob matches are still evenly spaced at one every 2 months for the year.
Especially for those who do not like mud, here’s a fairly local list for those in the South London area – Dulwich, Peckham Rye, Crystal Palace and Brockwell are all courses that are tarmac.
God bless,
Tim
Nonsuch Mob Match (Nov 2015)
Thank you all so much for coming, 15 ran for Chiltern, 21 for Good Shepherd, 1 for Sutton Christian Centre, 6 for Holy Trinity Church Wallington, 1 for Emmanuel, 19 for St Patrick’s, 1 for Springfield, 19 for the Salvation Army, 1 for Refresh (Molesey) Church, 4 for Sutton Vineyard, 2 for New Creation Church London, and 7 for Selsdon Baptist – 93 runners in total, and from 12 different Churches.
Nonsuch in November
Saturday 21st November 09:00 at Nonsuch parkrun, Nonsuch Park, Cheam.
The Good Shepherd Runners would like to invite you to Nonsuch parkrun on Saturday the 21st November for our ‘Nonsuch in November’ mob match.