Jo's Jogging Journal 22-29 September

This weekend lots of the usual faces were missing from their respective 'home' parkruns due to the club mass exodus to Berlin for the weekend. In spite of this, PWR still managed a pretty good showing of members in the results with Wendy Tung, Dan Budgen and Andrew Breese all getting new PBs. Andrew managed a PB at Bromley a fortnight ago and this weekend dipped under 21 minutes for the first time at Orpington- great parkrunning, Andrew!

Bromley parkrun
6  Stuart J SCOTT 19:06
11 Paul LENG 19:39
21 Matthew William SELLWOOD 20:08
45 Stu MCKENZIE 21:12
 57 Murat ASKIN 21:34
 72 Robert Scott WHITE 22:19
 74 Matt JONES 22:26
 80 Jenny LENG 22:37
 93 Martin Andrew CUNNINGHAM 22:59
 159 Jon AITKEN DYTE 25:08
 166 Natalie COMPTON 25:17
 186 Alison MACOWAN 26:03
 188 Paula DIMOND 26:04
 203 Fiona ABIOLA-MUSA 26:30
 217 Emma HAY 26:56
 233 Katherine WALKER 27:49
234  Robert BLAZYE 27:50
263  Jonathan DEAN 28:52
265  Wendy TUNG 28:53 PB
270  Helen HART 28:59
279  Susan Louise HANNEY 29:18
305  David ALLISON  30:10

Bexley parkrun
22 Jane BRANCH 00:22:43

Dulwich parkrun 
38 Daniel BUGDEN 00:20:02  PB
 
Orpington parkrun 
19 Andrew BREESE 00:20:58 PB
68 Janet LITTLEJOHN 00:28:37

The big event and the culmination of months and months of training in the hotter than usual weather for 13 club members was Sunday's Berlin Marathon. Lots of PBs to be had and a couple of club records broken I think... It was a real shame to hear that Laura Stables was poorly and didn't manage to finish. Luckily she had Karen Barritt to look after her en route. Next time Laura! 

Berlin Marathon
» O'Connor, Brian    02:47:13 PB
 » Gurney, John       03:14:49
 » Robson, Stephen  03:14:51
 » Niblock, Alan        03:18:18
 » Vaughan, Gary       03:18:47 PB
 » Roberts, Hannah 03:30:35
 » Robson, Sigrid 03:49:29
» Barritt, Christopher 03:54:42
 » Vaughan, Sian 04:01:12 PB
 » Esterhuyse, Karien 04:03:50
 » Graham, Emma 04:54:48

Dan Palmer took a trip in a different direction and went all the way to Bonnie Scotland for the Loch Ness Marathon. Despite a recent injury he still managed a very respectable marathon time. Hope that knee is ok Dan! Did you see Nessie?

Loch Ness Marathon
2144 Daniel Palmer 04:50:32

Geraldine Schaer and Pete Eves decided to take on the Ealing half marathon on its second year running. This race has pretty good reviews and might be one to consider for the future. Geraldine loved it so much she got herself a shiny new PB!

Ealing Half Marathon
287  Geraldine Schaer   01:32:37 PB
1693  Peter Eves        01:54:49

Three PWRs decided to take on the Dartford Bridge 10k, a fast and flat 2 lap course on the outskirts of Dartford. Although this race doesn't have the best sounding scenery, reviews are actually pretty good especially if you are after a new 10k PB

Dartford Bridge 10k
35  Sam  Perry 146  00:43:11 
55  Stephen  Faulkner  0:45:07
118 Richard  Dunstan  00:52:33

And to end this weeks report on a slightly different result, Michael Maxted took on the Cancer Research UK SHINE walking marathon where he finished in an incredible 15th place (out of 16,000 people) in a brilliant time of 6 hours 13 minutes. That is some FAST walking!

Until next week.....happy running everyone.