Sue and Martin in Mallorca 2019

Sue and Martin in Mallorca 2019
On the Archduke's Path in Mallorca

Saturday 30 September 2017

Saturday 30 September 2017 – Wythenshawe parkrun Number 308

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Well, we are back at home and spent this morning down at Wythenshawe Park.

Paul (hidden behind Jan in the above picture) and Jan kindly agreed to pace Sue to a personal best time, despite cool, rainy conditions for this morning’s 261 participants. Sue finished the 5 km course in 24.40, one minute 46 seconds faster than her previous best, on her 74th appearance here. Well done Sue!

Meanwhile I finished last, as planned – it is actually a requirement of the ‘Tail Walker’ to finish last, which I did in a leisurely 53.36.

That gave me a chance to take a few photos, most of which are out of focus…

The pictures are below the captions.

Cromwell looks on with disdain

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Richard and Greg vie for position

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Behind the leaders

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Further behind the leaders

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Even further behind…

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These guys were some way ahead, finishing in a little over 17 minutes

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Richard had now pulled away from Greg

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Mark was enjoying a gentle jog

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This chap was taking a break from run directing… Yes Andy, I know it’s not a race!

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Now listen Greg: “It’s Not a Race!”

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Well, a jolly time was had by all, and it was great to see so many friends after our eight week sojourn in Canada.

Thanks again to Jan and Paul for pacing Sue to her PB.

Full results are here.

3 comments:

Sir Hugh said...

Welcome home both of you. Well done Sue for your pb. I have just replied to Martin's comment on my blog and for some inexplicable reason re-named you as Sheila - the error has now been corrected. sorry about that.

AlanR said...

Well done Sue. Thats a great time.

Gayle said...

Well done Sue! That's a time I can only dream about. After my spate of PBs last winter I'm currently getting slower and slower (entirely my own fault for carelessly losing a big chunk of fitness).