WRC Maldon Parkrun Takeover – Thank You!

8 October 2016 - By Anita Grainger

On a fresh autumn morning Witham Running Club took over the volunteering for Maldon Parkrun for the day. We provided pacers from 20 to 34 minutes at 2 minute intervals with the award for the most accurate going to Bill Smythe as the 26 minute pacer, finishing right on the nose! The presence of pacers seemed to help runners achieve PBs giving them something or rather someone to focus on, follow or generally just try and hang onto!  76 new PBS were achieved, fabulous! Usually there are around 35-50.

 

The club provided a friendly atmosphere in the spirit of parkrun and hope that everyone enjoyed themselves as much as we did! Looking at the focus on some of our pacers was highly amusing as they were trying to stay on target pace and not revert to their normal speed. Our volunteers had fun offering lots of encouragement and smiles, with Tracey Denby in her element keeping everyone in check at the finish as funnel manager.

 

Our pacers did an awesome job and came in pretty much on time

 

20 min – Scott Darney 19.56

22 min – Andy Lager 22.10

24 Mins – David Hunt 23.56

26 Mins – Bill Smythe 26.00

28 mins – Simon Scott 28.01

30 mins – Vicky Hunt 29.20

32 mins – Bob Taylor 32.12

34 mins – James Blackshaw 33.39

 

Thanks to everyone for taking part today (listed below for reference) there were 285 runners that turned and we didn’t lose any of them which is good . Here’s to the next parkrun takeover!

 

Run Director – Parkrun	Belinda Amner
Volunteer Co-ordinator – Parkrun	Bob Gear
Volunteer Co-ordinator – WRC	Anita Grainger
Pre-event Setup	Stewart Waller
Pre-event Setup	Jo Smythe
Pre-event Setup	Brigid Lager
Pre-event Setup	Andy Lager
Pre-event Setup	Colleen Rae
Marshal	Brigid Wallen
Marshal	Tony Smith
Marshal	Becky Grimwood
Marshal	Colleen Rae
Tail Runner	Ross Silverton
Funnel Manager	Tracey Denby
Timekeeper	Steve Hennings
Timekeeper	Martina Byrne
Finish Tokens	Jo Smythe
Barcode Scanning	Louise Pascoe
Barcode Scanning	David Emerick
Barcode Scanning	Naomi Emerick
Barcode Scanning	Anne Johnson
Run Report Writer	Anita Grainger
Photographer	Stewart Waller
Pacers
20	Scott Darney
22	Andrew Lager
24	David Hunt
26	Bill Smythe
28	Simon Scott
30	Vicky Hunt
32	Bob Taylor
34	James Blackshaw