Saturday 30 March 2019 – Wythenshawe parkrun 384, and Jacob’s first 5km at Burnley

Back at Wythenshawe, after touring in Hull last week. Today’s conditions were in complete contrast to the rain we endured here a fortnight ago, and the attendance more than doubled from then. We were happy to mill around at the start in the warm weather before Dan’s briefing for the normal course.

 

Today was the auspicious occasion of fellow veteran Michael’s 300th parkrun. He still doesn’t have a readily legible barcode; as you can see below, he is holding up the queue for scanning, with Jan – a few paces back – getting desperate for his post run coffee, cake and croissants (thanks to the various donors of these goodies, especially the chocolate croissants).

Norma wrestled with Michael’s duff barcode, whilst he showed off his exclusively designed ‘300’ tabbard. I’ll be following that around many times in the future as Michael usually outpaces me with ease.

Full results here.

Meanwhile, up at Burnley, seven year old Jacob was doing his first ever 5 km run – Burnley parkrun number 348. He finished in a creditable 31.34, some way ahead of his mum. Coming 278 out of 412 participants, he was still full of beans when he arrived in Timperley a little later. Well done Jacob. Full results here.

We topped him up with some more beans and a few pancakes.

Click on the image to see a more legible version!

I think Jacob, unlike some of us, can expect a good number of PBs in the future…