Parkrun Castlemaine is settling into its eighth year and completed 344 parkruns this week.
Saturday saw 117 participants welcomed to the Botanical Gardens course including 14 visitors from across Victoria, Queensland and NSW. Castlemaine Parkrun members especially welcomed regular overseas visitors Helen Storrar (295 parkruns) from Pegwell Bay Kent, and Susan Farmer (95 parkruns ) from Comber, Ireland both who have family in Castlemaine. Members hope they are here long enough to achieve their next milestones in Castlemaine. Welcome to seven first ever parkrunners Flynn Hart, Tom Manderson, Grant Hickey, Hadley Cole, Frankie Chapman, Mary Vieceli, and Dhi Singh.
Going faster isn’t necessary but can be a bonus to just getting around the 5k. Special congratulations to Reece Hodge who achieved a PB of 1 minute whilst pushing two infants around in their pram. They looked very comfortable! Andrew Kraulis, a committed athlete and parkrunner of four years is still running faster and can now run now well under 20 mins for the 5k. Well done also to Laurie Vigor, Travis Leversha, Trent McGregor, Lucy Medley and Sam Gearing all who will have stories to tell about their fastest run ever at Castlemaine Parkrun. Well done to Kerry Calkraft for smiling all the way and also to walkers Sharon Hughes, Nikki Alvery and Hannah White who came to Castlemaine for the weekend and managed to get the 5k walk in together. A significant milestone this week was for Clovis Mpundu for 50 parkruns. Clovis has been a regular Castlemaine participant for three years and has maintained his form the whole time. First women this week were Claire Brien, Piper Marshall and Jodi Oakman. First men were Andronis Ndihokubwayo, Jarred Combe and Andrew Kraulis. Best age graders were David Reidie and Helen Storrar both over 80% of their age group. Volunteers this week were Ronder Clayton, Michael Constable, Dianne Cox,
Bessie Faircloth, Geoff Faircloth, Henry Faircloth, Jane Harding, Pam Joseph, Jodi Oakman and Dave Petrusma. See you all next week.
Castlemaine Parkrun is a weekly, free, timed event held in the Botanical Gardens commencing 8am. It is a participation event for fitness and fun. You can come to walk, run or jog or volunteer. See https://www.parkrun.com.au/castlemaine/ to register and get your barcode.
– Di Cox.