parkrun – 04/07/2026
10 July 2026 - By Steven Alder
This week we were located at: Great Notley, Walton Promenade, Harrow Lodge, Thorney Bay Beach, Chelmsford Central, Keswick, Maldon Prom, Rendlesham Forest, Młynówka Królewska (Poland), Roding Valley, Harlow, Hockley Woods, Markshall, Margate and Penrith.
Great Notley had Leo Cole (22:01) and Mike Struthers (35:08), whilst elsewhere in Essex were the Beazeleys at Walton Promenade (Chris – 25:25 and Nichola 26:28 as 1st VW55-59), Adam Hocken (28:52) at Harrow Lodge and Dawn Shilling (31:38 and ready for her 250th next week) doing Thorney Bay Beach. Chelmsford Central was a popular choice this week seeing Lee Tooey (23:00), Kevin Harper (23:28), Daniel Griffiths (23:37), Vicki Riley (25:56), Nicola Digby (34:25 – her first time at Chelmsford) and Simon Handley (34:25).
Steven Alder (28:31) nipped over to Poland for a long weekend, completing Młynówka Królewska, whilst Patrick Hinchliffe went to the North of England to do Penrith in 37:52. The Wallens were down the road from Patrick, at Keswick parkrun with Tony in 23:05 and Brigid in 24:54.
As popular as ever, Maldon Prom saw Jamie Marlow (20:19 and 1st SM30-34), Andrew Lager (23:21), Dean Whittaker (23:50), Steve Hookings (24:55), James Attenborough (26:19), Ian Lucas (27:09), Sean Purcell (27:11 & parkrun PB), Chrissy Israel-Jones (30:23), Ian Cuthbert (30:23), Sue Shippey (30:28), Denise Smith (31:20) and Joe McEwan (01:00:09).
At Rendlesham Forest, Geoffrey Reddin (30:23) was looking for UFOs, Lisa Leader (32:34) at Margate, Andrew Smith (27:41) and Angela Read (32:00) at Markshall with DJ as Timekeeper and Ross Silverton (35:38 his 333rd parkrun and 1st VM75-79) at Hockley Woods. Finally at Roding Valley was Giles Sowerby (21:52 and 1st VM45-49) and at Harlow was Karen Pickering (20:47, 1st VW40-44 and course PB).
The full set of results can be found here. Don’t forget to add Witham RC to your parkrun profile!
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It looks like parkrun is expanding into many British Overseas Territories this year. They’ve already got the Falkland Islands and Gibralatar, along with military bases in Belgium and Cyprus, but St Helena and the Cayman Islands are coming soon – and who knows where they’ll pop up next?!
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