parkrun – 31/10/2026

6 November 2026 - By Steven Alder

Hope you all had a spooktacular Hallowe’en parkrun! We had some great pacing being done at Maldon this week. We were also at Colchester Castle, Great Notley, Chelmsford Central, Walton Promenade, Durlston Country Park, Sizewell, Dunstable Downs, Northala Fields, Queensway, Frank’s Farm, Southall, Chesterford Research Park and Milton Keynes.

Starting off with Maldon, this is how close our pacers actually were:

Name	Pacer	Actual	Difference
Dean Whittaker	23:00	23:01	00:01
James Attenborough	26:00	26:01	00:01
Andrew Read	32:00	31:57	00:03
Daniel Griffiths	21:00	20:57	00:03
Banksy	20:00	20:06	00:06
Sian Tate	28:00	27:54	00:06
Darren Ward	29:00	29:06	00:06
Tom Kilbey	22:00	21:53	00:07
Karen Flowers	30:00	30:09	00:09
Kerry Townsend	40:00	39:51	00:09
Sarah Naughton	33:00	33:10	00:10
Jodee Mayer	35:00	34:43	00:17
Annalise Etherington	25:00	24:42	00:18
Natalie Lilley	34:00	33:41	00:19
Patrick Hinchliffe	38:00	38:23	00:23
Glen Waller	27:00	27:28	00:28
John Sutcliffe	31:00	30:30	00:30
Beth Shippey	36:00	35:29	00:31
Charlotte Roberts	24:00	23:27	00:33

Also attending Maldon was: Jamie Marlow (19:39), Sally Hoyle (21:56), Claire Lucas (23:32), Nadia McLeod (23:48), Steve Hookings (24:06), Alan Cutler (25:05), Beth Pullen (29:47), Ian Cuthbert (29:48), Andrew White (30:43), John Flowers (31:44), Leo Cole (32:57), Ann G Johnson (34:51), Sue Smith (37:02), Angela Read (39:05), Christine Israel (39:31), Sue Shippey (41:29) and Joe McEwan (47:59).

Chesterford Research Park had a trio this week: Andrew Smith (20:07), Fiona Collins (24:44) and Clive Smith (24:46). Sticking with trios, also at Great Notley was Dawn Shilling (32:13), Lysia Jiggins (36:51) and Simon Parsons (45:49).

The remaining parkruns each had just one runner from WRC:

Colchester Castle
Adam Hocken (25:49).

Chelmsford Central
Luke Jackson (22:56).

Walton Promenade
Michael Poulter (33:00).

Durlston Country Park
Vicki Riley (33:09).

Sizewell
Geoffrey Reddin (24:27).

Dunstable Downs
Christine Wager (31:30).

Northala Fields
Steven Alder (28:32). This was also Steven’s 400th different parkrun location.

Queensway
Giles Sowerby (18:55).

Frank’s Farm
Karen Pickering (21:05).

Southall
Simon Gill (20:53).

Milton Keynes
Mike Struthers (32:45).

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