Notfast Running Club
60 NOTFAST members took part in Parkruns this week, with runners at Newarkand Forest Rec. 24 of the team completed the Poznan Parkrun in Poland while over for the half marathon on the Sunday. Cath and Lynn Hare completed the Tewkesbury ParkRun, while Rachel Sheldrake took part in the Seaton Parkrun, and Claire Simmonds in the Cleethorpes Parkrun. There were lots of Parkrun PBs this week, for Janet Davies, Andy Floyd, Kimberley Etherington-Bates, Sue Stott, Simon Ecclestone, Chantelle Hallam, Andrew Jenkinson, Kirsty Abbotts, Lisa Tindall, Nicola Dawes, Tracey Hart, Camilla Grant, LaceySimons, Claire Simmonds and Rachel Sheldrake.
On Tuesday, Adam Holland went to Shropshire for the CODopoly Marathon. This was a marathon trail run around a circular track. Adam got very muddy in the process, but came in first in 2:55:42, his 85th sub 3-hour marathon. On Saturday, he then entered the Canalathon 50K. This involved being in Bradford to catch an early bus through to Manchester to the start, and following the canal course back to Bradford. Adam managed another sub 3-hour marathon in the process of completing the course in 1st place in a time of 3:34:37.
The other big NOTFAST event for the weekend was the Poznan half marathon, in Poland. 26 NOTFAST runners went across to Poznan on Friday, and lined up with a couple of Striders, who also joined them. Damien Davies was the first NOTFAST member back in 1:24:52, followed by Adrian Dix (1:26:27), Piotr Dura (1:31:49), Diana Wakefield (1:42:41, and 1st Half Marathon), Jim Lovett (1:47:37), Janet Davies (1:48:52, and new PB), Martin Dickenson(1:51:19), Claire Wood (1:54:09), Stuart Chase (1:56:30), Steve Needham(1:57:36), Caroline Upton (2:00:00), Cliff Robinson (2:01:36), Adam Jackson (2:02:13), Stuart Hawkes (2:03:54), Nick Rayns (2:05:09), Angela Brown (2:11:02), Annette Taylor (2:11:03), Kerry Robinson (2:22:29), Lisa Needham-Leach (2:22:41), Sue Needham (2:24:18), Kirsty Watson(2:25:14), Faye Hemingway (2:28:18), Kirsty Jackson (2:28:18), Cathy Clarke (2:35:07), Ernie Clarke (2:35:07), and Julie Mumby (2:52:01)