Although it is a quiet period for races, that doesn’t mean that Folkestone Running and Athletics members have not been busy. Many members can be seen out doing longer and longer runs at all hours of the day in training for their marathons, which will be coming oh too soon. This hard work can be seen in some of the results that have been seen over the past couple of weeks. In last weekend’s parkruns Tomas Aspinall achieved a PB of 20:25, as did Ian Merrick in 18:08. Even more impressive was Torben Jessen’s parkrun of 18:57, which was the fastest vet male 60 to 64 time in all of the parkrun’s across the country last week.
In addition to this Gary Brazier ran the Serpentine End of the Month 5k and achieved a PB of 24:54, and not content with waiting for the marathon season to start, Tara Baker ran the Unicorn run marathon in a time of 4:21:49.
This Saturday, Rachel Smith and her dog, Jensen, ran the Bedgebury Spring CaniX 10k in a time of 57:47, with Philip Heathfield and his dog, Banjo completing the 5k course in 24:28.
This weeks parkruns:
Maidstone parkrun
At Maidstone, the second lady back was Folkestone’s Deborah Jeffery in a time of 21:03.
Lincoln parkrun
Roy Atkins completed the course in 32:37.
Whitstable parkrun
Vicky Scott was the second lady back at the Whitstable parkrun in a time of 22:10.
Burgess parkrun
Jason Henwood finished in a time of 24:07.
Margate parkrun
Julia Henwood ran the course in a time of 31:29
Bedgebury Pinetum parkrun
Karla Larnder was the third lady to complete the undulating trail course in a time of 24:16.
Wammy parkrun
Kevin Whitby finished in 23:34
Street parkrun
Tomas Lane ran the course in a time of 25:19
Dover Waterfront parkrun
David Tyler finished in second place, only 6 seconds behind first place, in a fantastic time of 16:39
Folkestone parkrun
In Folkestone, Prakash Gurung was the first to finish in 17:17, with Simon Ramsay finishing second in 18:15. Hazel Green was the third lady in a time of 22:56. Also running were Krzysztof Klidzia 18:32, Ian Merrick 18:50, Simon Coffey 21:31, Jason King 22:07, Chris Addison 22:11, Darren Philip 22:50, Anthony Scott 23:41, Jordan Dixon 23:54, Thomas Aspinall 24:35, Simon Burvill 24:36, Paul Bartlett 24:51, Alan Randall 25:25, Louisa Eede 25:34, Anh-Van Whitby 25:40, Nikki Goodwin 25:42, Trevor Devooght 26:08, Christopher Woolgar 26:09, Stuart Erskine 26:38, Ian Vousden 26:41, Torben Jessen 26:42, Ron Bell 26:43, Neil Adams 26:44, David Botting 26:46, Ben Hancox 26:48, Philip Maull 26:53, Jane Wren 26:58, Aldous Hosking 27:21, Kirsty Gardiner 27:36, Paul Hannay 27:49, Catherine O’Connor 28:01, Linnaea Stockall 28:02, Collette Windsor 28:22, Deirdre Coombs 28:31, Gary Brazier, 28:39, Henry Axon 29:00, Kirsty Wilson 29:40, Amy Owen 29:52, Jason Crockford 30:42, Rebekah Newton 30:57, Jason Herridge 30:58, Sonia Markwell 30:59, Joe Finnigan 33:13, Shelley Godden-Duske 33:23, Lisa Smith 35:09, Kate Lancefield 35:11, Trudi Curd 37:16, Julie Gibbs 56:39.