Saturday 4 October 2025 - Wythenshawe parkrun number 634

Can you guess? ...this was Sue's 250th parkrun at Wythenshawe. That's about five years' worth of Saturday mornings. No wonder then that we know lots of the regular participants and marshalls. Here they are, gathering at the start for the usual briefing.

With rain forecast, I donned full waterproofs and went slowly around the 5km course in over 37 minutes. Sue and the others were much quicker (apart from Jeanette who was at the tail, doing her first outing for some time thanks to her nagging injury).

Full results are here.

Afterwards we congregated in the café and sorted the 250 barcode tokens. Fewer than usual, but they do stick together when wet, so it's a tedious job. There were plenty of us to help.

L-R: Andy, Jeanette, Martin, Rufus (hiding), Rob, Paul, Sophie and Laura

Trying to dry the tokens

Meanwhile there was a deluge outside, and Chief Run Director, Andy, came in after everone had finished and the signage etc had been cleared up, looking very much like a drowned rat!

As usual , a great way to spend a Saturday morning. Just as well, the number of times we've done this.