A quieter week numbers wise on the parkrun front, maybe in preparation for the cross country that afternoon.
Albert park hosted eight Striders. Tracy Bradburn PB’ed for the second consecutive week and Claire Wilson joined the parkrun world with her first parkrun. It’s only a number – but quite a big one – as David Horton completed his 750th parkrun kilometre. Not to be outdone, Caroline Horton was 1st female finisher.
Locally we also had 14 Striders at Tees barrage, two at Stewart park and two at Sedgefield where Darren Mitchell set himself a new best time.
A little further afield we had an athlete at Riverside and a first timer at Harrogate.
However, tourist of the week was Diane Johnson who became the first Strider to fly the flag at Guildford.
For any of you committed tourists out there who may have already bagged all the North East events – Prudhoe Riverside joined the party this week with a very large first event.