The parkrun PBs keep on coming and this time its was the turn of Jon (24.30). Anna-Marie (25.58), David (27.36), Andrea (29.15), Viv (30.29) & Ruth (32.21). In addtion, Richard took on his first parkrun, finishing in 40th place with an impressive 20.13 which is …
35 of us headed over to Peterborough parkrun on what was a bright, crisp winters morning. The main business of the day was seeing our None To Runs complete their first ever parkrun. This group started running 30 second segments just 12 weeks ago – …
Our village charity CARESCO do a fab job of running the food bank in the village. Every year they give people the opportunity to provide a ‘reverse advent calendar’. This year, Sawtry Walk To Run got together to provide a number of hampers to help CARESCO provide food to those most in need. Between us we collected quite a haul which was delivered to CARESCO where its weighed in and then distributed to families around the village.
Every year Huntingdon Round table bring Santa to Sawtry but this year his round was cancelled due to a lack of volunteers. Oh no! We couldn’t have that as the children (of all ages) would be disappointed and so we stepped up to offer a …
On a crisp morning with some ice on the ground, Helen S, Nadine, Joe, Ken & Ryan headed off for the Grafham Water 10k. Ryan finished in 16th overall in a time of 41.04 and he was followed by Joe in his first 10k (51.08), …
This week’s parkrun PB goes to Meg with an impressive finish time of 23.53 making her our fastest lady at the 5k distance.
Congratulations to Meg who is now looking to improve again and get sub 23.30.
Meg’s dog looks pretty impressed too!
A big group of us headed off to Stamford for the Round Table Santa Run. This was a 5k that you could run or walk and there was about 1200 people who did just that. Buggies & dogs included. It was fun even if finding …
This time the PB belonged to Helen J who knocked 6 minutes off her previous parkrun finishing in 33.46 – what a result! Not to be outdone, 12 year old daughter Isabel ran her first parkrun after joining our None To Run programme in September …
This week saw 2 more PBs with Lizzie completing Huntingdon parkrun in 28.11. Clearly though a PB was not enough to satisfy Lizzie as she ran the 10 or so miles back home to Sawtry with mum Andrea who is the club’s representative in the 2019 London Marathon.
The second PB went to Tara who was running at Rutland Water parkrun and came home in 31.33. She credited her success to her fellow Canadians – the geese who were also flying round the course!
Well after we won Community Club of the Year, we absolutely did not expect to win a second award but that is what we did. Nona was nominated as Community Volunteer of the Year for her tireless work in getting the group set up. She …