On Tuesday 23rd July, Layla D’Monte competed in The Standard Chartered Great City Race 2024 around the city of London as part of the corporate team of King and Spalding and finished the 5k course in a time of 23.41.
On Saturday 27th July, Dave Bowerman ran the Runbelievable Summer Party. He completed the marathon distance in 4:56:09 at Betteshangar park on the course, which was all gravel paths, hot weather and lots of elevation which made for a challenging run!
This Friday night, nine FRAC runners travelled to Rye Harbour to compete in the second 10k race of the Rye Summer Series. Stephen Male was the first of the FRAC runners back in a time of 37:28, followed by James Barney 40:02, Dan Mccarthy 44:24, Martin Salmon 47:26, Karla Larnder 48:17, Carrie Thomas, who got a PB. Her old time was 50.04 and she was desperate to get a sub-50, but it was windy, however, despite her watch failing at mile four and her completing losing faith and thinking she had lost it, she came in at 48.29, Jane Wren 54:57, Anthony Scott 55:07, Alan Randall 57:33.
The Centurion North Downs Way 100 is a 103 mile continuous point to point trail race along the North Downs Way from Farnham in the Surrey Hills to Ashford in Kent. The race began at 0700 on Saturday 3rd August 2024. Runners had to reach the finish line in Ashford within 30 hours in order to be recognised as an official finisher. There were further cut offs at every aid station on route.  Jodie Jackman completed the gruelling race in a time of 28:31:25.
This weeks parkruns
Wimbledon Common parkrun
Deborah Jeffery was the second female back in a time of 21:44
Ashford parkrun
Maria Chapman 29:40
Canterbury parkrun
Rachel Smith 30:55
Lymington Wood parkrun
Simon Coffey 22:31
Margate parkrun
Kate Lancefield 31:29
Pegwell Bay parkrun
Martin Salmon 24:00
Skipton parkrun
Philip Maull 25:31
Fulham Palace parkrun
Jacob Henwood 20:02
Dover Waterfront parkrun
David Tyler was the first runner back in a time of 17:39
Folkestone parkrun
Henry Axon was the third runner back overall in a time of 18:45, with Manda Gurung being the first female back in a time of 19:52 and Nikki Goodwin the third female back in 21:03. also running were: Kevin Newman 18:55, Rob Collier 19:09, Dominic Shepherd 19:26, Elliot Chapman-Jones 19:35, James Springett 19:56, Ben Hancox 19:57, Ian Merrick 20:25, Miles Gawthorp 21:11, Darren Philip 21:24, Kev Howse 21:31, Joshua Pine 21:32, Greg Dixon 21:37, Paul Bartlett 21:40,  Phil Haines 22:05, Stephen Deeming 22:11, Hazel Green 22:12, Linnaea Stockall 22:35, Anthony Leyton-Thomas 22:54, Anh-Van Whitby 23:28, Anna Thomsen 23:39, Ian Vousden 23:48, Tim Warren 23:57, Joseph Carroll 24:09, David Botting 24:38, Anthony Scott 25:45, Tekah Barrow 25:54, Alan Randall 26:25, Tomas Lane 26:55, Christopher Woolgar 27:19, Jason Herridge 27:29, Stuart Erskine 27:36, Neil Adams 27:39, Brian Austin 27:48, Jonathan Drinkwater 28:15, Trudi Curd 28:34, Rebekah Newton 28:45, Deirdre Coombs 29:32, Julie Gibbs 30:09, Jason King 30:24, Roisin Bunt 30:24, Amy Owen 30:44, Malcolm Gibbs 31:39,  Diane Parsons 32:10, Philip Bridges 32:11, Catherine-Anne Curtis 35:54, Kevin Whitby 37:49.