Castlemaine has now held 334 parkruns since its inception seven years ago. Three regular parkrunners have completed over 250 parkruns. We can now add our fourth local parkrunner, Michael Constable to the over 250 club. Michael is very active in the parkrun universe. He is a current Run Director, has completed 175 runs at Castlemaine and a staggering 50 at other places including, Perth, Darwin, and Ballina NSW.
Michael is also a Parkrun Pirate, having completed 7 parkruns at events starting with C and one with an R. Parkrun has provided Michael access to a running community and a stepping stone to some epic events, including high country trail runs, 100 k ultra runs, marathons and many, many fun runs. With Molly the dog at his side there is nowhere Michael
cannot run.
78 people participated last Saturday including first ever timer Liza Shaw, and 12 visitors including the Gaertner family from Germany, Sarah Langley and family from Shepparton and long-time park runner and regular visitor Alan Mitchell from Westerfolds parkrun.
Many of us enjoyed the sunshine this week, whilst there were many significant efforts. David Readie remains the top age grader consistently coming in the 85% for his age grade, Kyan Mill finished first with a Personal Best, Ray Radford achieved a new PB at age 75 and Lucy Medely took another minute off her time.
Castlemaine have held 49 parkruns this year and will have completed 52 by the last Saturday in December. With only one week off due to the flood, it has been a very steady year providing people with a regular opportunity to get outside and get active every Saturday.
Parkrun will be held four times in the festive season – Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. We look forward to seeing you at one or all of those parkruns and all of next year as well. Now is the time to get active for your healthier future.
Thankyou to the volunteers, Dianne Cox, Geoff Faircloth, Jane Harding, Judy Hill, Pam Joseph, Patricia Barrett, Paul Martin, Ronder Clayton and Steve Harris.
Parkrun is held every Saturday at 8am in the Botanical Gardens. Register https://www.parkrun.com.au/castlemaine/ or just come along and find out all about it.