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12 parkrun before mayday! Uni parks

4 GoodGymers made their way to help the parkrun - University Parks parkrun, OXFORD in Oxford.

  • Ruth
  • Trev
  • Mary Clarkson
  • Ben Foster
 
Saturday, 30th of April 2022
 
Led by Trev

thanks everyone for helping here is Uni parks report


๐Ÿ“Š ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜€๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐˜€! ๐ŸŽž๏ธ With a full report from event 12 in the pipeline, we thought we'd share with you some highlights from last Saturday's parkrun ๐ŸŒณ including lots of milestones and several shout-outs to our awesome volunteers ๐Ÿ˜Š ๐Ÿ“ธ We've also got another fantastic album for you! Rose joined us again to take these beautiful photos of you all enjoying yourselves in the sunshine ๐ŸŒž Rose has an amazing eye for a good shot and we're so grateful to Rose for volunteering her skills ๐Ÿ˜Š

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ESf5VJMTMapuGDJS6

๐Ÿ‘‹ Amongst the ๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿฒ๐Ÿณ ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€ who joined us, ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿญ were new to University Parks parkrun and ๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿฌ completed their ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐˜ ever parkrun! This included Tail Walker Joe, who volunteered to hand out finish tokens at event 10 before trying out our course on Saturday ๐Ÿงก Welcome to the parkrun family everyone! ๐Ÿ”” A big well done to the following on reaching new ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜€: 1๏ธโƒฃ0๏ธโƒฃ0๏ธโƒฃ Emma and Matt ๐Ÿ‘ 5๏ธโƒฃ0๏ธโƒฃ Oliver ๐Ÿ‘ 2๏ธโƒฃ5๏ธโƒฃ Elaine, Christopher and Justin ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿฆบ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฒ wonderful ๐˜ƒ๐—ผ๐—น๐˜‚๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ helped make event 12 happen... ๐Ÿ‘Œ Trev donned the Run Directorโ€™s vest for the second time and dealt magnificently with some curve balls thrown at him mid-event โšพ Thank you so much for taking everything in your stride with such good humour as always Trev ๐Ÿค— ๐Ÿคนโ€โ™€๏ธ David proved himself a master juggler of tasks too at an unusually busy marshal point 4 ๐Ÿ”‚ David also dished out motivational stats to parkrunners on their way round ๐Ÿ˜ Did you know that, on your second lap, you have completed 72% of the course and have just 1.4km left to go when you pass Marshal 4? Weโ€™re thinking of adding these numbers to our Marshal lanyards ๐Ÿ˜ David โ€“ youโ€™re an absolute legend and weโ€™re very lucky to have you at University Parks! ๐Ÿ”” Core team member Tilly flew round the course to set a new parkrun PB before throwing on a hi-vis and managing the flow of finishers through the funnel ๐Ÿ“ฃ Great work Tilly! ๐Ÿ™Œ Anthony completed his 250th parkrun at event 11 and volunteered to scan barcodes the following week (along with his mini assistant) to celebrate ๐ŸŽ‰ Needless to say, Anthonyโ€™s 250 milestone t-shirt was much admired by all ๐Ÿ‘• Thank you so much for joining our hi-vis team Anthony, and congratulations on a fantastic achievement ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ“ฒ Henry is back in town for Trinity Term (after an Easter break parkrunning at Sandhurst Memorial parkrun) and joined us in hi-vis to scan barcodes after his run ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ Itโ€™s lovely to have you back Henry! ๐Ÿšด Nick was visiting us from his home parkrun of Banbury, where he is a Run Director. Nick took on the not-insubstantial task of Lead Biking (his debut in this role) before handing our finish tokens at the funnel with University Parks regular Kersti ๐ŸŽซ Thanks for joining us David โ€“ we hope you enjoyed your visit! ๐ŸŒŸ Ben came to the rescue yet again this week when we needed to fill a Marshal slot at the last minute ๐Ÿฆธโ€โ™‚๏ธ Calm and collected as ever, Ben handed back his pink tokens bucket and scooted off down Oak Walk to marshal point 8 ๐Ÿฆบ Thank you so much for everything you do Ben! ๐Ÿ” Oof, we lost a lot of tokens this week ๐Ÿ˜ฅ ๐—ง๐—ผ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜€ ๐Ÿฐ๐Ÿฎ, ๐Ÿต๐Ÿฏ, ๐Ÿต๐Ÿฐ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿณ๐Ÿต didn't make it back to our pink buckets after the event. All of these finishers were Unknowns in our results. If anyone knows where any of the tokens might have ended up, please do get in touch! #loveparkrun

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