CO:parkrun Recaps

[Fiona T]

Maus and I did Cannon Hill

Samuel did Edgbaston

[Thomas Carey]

Did anyone at CO:Brum do a parkrun?

me and fona for cannon hill, sam did edgbaston but got lost on the way so started 15 minutes late

[Gavin Chipper]

Having watched Only Connect - does James Haughton do parkrun?

[Fiona T]

Having watched Only Connect - does James Haughton do parkrun?

Are you suggesting we fibbed? A10823473

[Gavin Chipper]

Birmingham. Cannon Hill:

36 (1). Thomas Carey - 20:33 (62.77%) (667 points)
490 (2). Fiona Titcombe - 33:54 (54.13%) (333 points)

Edgbaston Reservoir:

294 (1). Samuel Louis - 35:31 (36.32%) (500 points)

And the table:

1. Thomas Carey - 4798
2. Samuel Louis - 3416
3. Dan Byrom - 2635
4. Fiona Titcombe - 2170
5. Mike Springett - 2167
6. Gevin Chapwell - 1389
7. Oliver Garner - 1250
8. Bradley Horrocks - 1223
9. Dave Robjohns - 833
10. Steve Anderson - 667
11. Adam Dexter - 583
12. Richard Barnett - 571
13. Stephen Read - 500
=. Matthew Tassier - 500
15. Chris Marshall - 472
16. Dave Ryan - 429
17. Suzy Turner - 286
18. Callum Todd - 111

24,000 points from 48 scores, averaging 500.

I'll add James Haughton to the PB list at some point along with Steve Anderson and the other ones Carey mentioned.

[Fiona T]

For co:Rea, Maus and I ran at Woodley, Mike ran at Reigate Priory and Sam ran at Wycombe Rye. Think that was it!

[Gavin Chipper]

Reading. Woodley:

17 (1). Thomas Carey - 20:34 (62.72%) (667 points)
312 (2). Fiona Titcombe - 34:38 (52.98%) (333 points)

Reigate Priory:

189 (1). Mike Springett - 27:26 (47.39%) (500 points)

Wycombe Rye:

16 (1). Samuel Louis - 21:04 (61.23%) (500 points)

And the table:

1. Thomas Carey - 5465
2. Samuel Louis - 3916
3. Mike Springett - 2667
4. Dan Byrom - 2635
5. Fiona Titcombe - 2503
6. Gevin Chapwell - 1389
7. Oliver Garner - 1250
8. Bradley Horrocks - 1223
9. Dave Robjohns - 833
10. Steve Anderson - 667
11. Adam Dexter - 583
12. Richard Barnett - 571
13. Stephen Read - 500
=. Matthew Tassier - 500
15. Chris Marshall - 472
16. Dave Ryan - 429
17. Suzy Turner - 286
18. Callum Todd - 111

26,000 points from 52 scores, averaging 500.

Mike jumps 2 places to 3rd, but it's very tight for 3rd, 4th and 5th.

[Bradley Horrocks]

Co:Blackpool - Bradley Horrocks, Stephen Read and Tasneem Rana at Blackpool, Mike Springett at Congleton

[Gavin Chipper]

Blackpool. Blackpool:

84 (1). Bradley Horrocks - 25:05 (51.43%) (750 points)
206 (2). Stephen Read - 29:19 (46.22%) (500 points)
348 (3). Tasneem Rana - 36:22 (49.13%) (250 points)

Congleton:

85 (1). Mike Springett - 24:59 (52.03%) (500 points)

And the table:

1. Thomas Carey - 5465
2. Samuel Louis - 3916
3. Mike Springett - 3167
4. Dan Byrom - 2635
5. Fiona Titcombe - 2503
6. Bradley Horrocks - 1973
7. Gevin Chapwell - 1389
8. Oliver Garner - 1250
9. Stephen Read - 1000
10. Dave Robjohns - 833
11. Steve Anderson - 667
12. Adam Dexter - 583
13. Richard Barnett - 571
14. Matthew Tassier - 500
15. Chris Marshall - 472
16. Dave Ryan - 429
17. Suzy Turner - 286
18. Tasneem Rana - 250
19. Callum Todd - 111

28,000 points from 56 scores, averaging 500.

[Gavin Chipper]

Did anyone parkrun at Dublin? It seems from Strava that Carey did Shanganagh. Any others?

[Thomas Carey]

Did anyone parkrun at Dublin? It seems from Strava that Carey did Shanganagh. Any others?

I believe I was the only one mental enough to go out in this weather. Chris, Mike and Joe didn't and I don't think any other attendees regularly run them. About half the ones in Dublin cancelled cause of the wind and I was super lucky the one I picked didn't. Three unrelated countdowners at Warrington though!

[Gavin Chipper]

OK so Shanganagh parkrun:

18 (1). Thomas Carey - 21:40 (59.54%) (500 points)

And the table:

1. Thomas Carey - 5965
2. Samuel Louis - 3916
3. Mike Springett - 3167
4. Dan Byrom - 2635
5. Fiona Titcombe - 2503
6. Bradley Horrocks - 1973
7. Gevin Chapwell - 1389
8. Oliver Garner - 1250
9. Stephen Read - 1000
10. Dave Robjohns - 833
11. Steve Anderson - 667
12. Adam Dexter - 583
13. Richard Barnett - 571
14. Matthew Tassier - 500
15. Chris Marshall - 472
16. Dave Ryan - 429
17. Suzy Turner - 286
18. Tasneem Rana - 250
19. Callum Todd - 111

28,500 points from 57 scores, averaging 500.

Easy one for me today.

[Gavin Chipper]

I was on 1389 points this time last year as well.

[Fiona T]

Quite a few parkrun names contain notable* countdowner surnames

Ashington Community Woodland (or any other Wood)
Ashton Court
Bevendean Down
Brockenhurst (Sandhurst/Wakehurst)
Brockwell
Chalkwell Beach (or any other beach)
Chilton fields
Cleethorpes/Fleetwood promenade (or any other Lee)
Corby
Dartford Heath/Hampstead Heath
Fell Foot
Fletcher Moss
Higginson, Marlow
Hunstanton Promenade
Hyde
King George V Playing field (or Woking,Workington any 'king thing)
Lordship Recreation Ground
Marshall Drive
Nobles
Reading
Stockley County
Thomas Mills
Wakefield Thornes
Whiteley
Worsley Woods


Would make a nice custom challenge Suggestions for inclusion (or exclusion) welcome!


*names I recognised/spotted!

[Thomas Carey]

To preemptively answer gevin - me at auldcathie district and Sam at the imaginatively named Edinburgh, missing his sub 20 due to getting clattered by a dug

[Thomas Cappleman]

To preemptively answer gevin - me at auldcathie district and Sam at the imaginatively named Edinburgh, missing his sub 20 due to getting clattered by a dug

Rogue to see one of these in Edinburgh: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Dug

[Thomas Carey]

Rogue

one

nice

[Gavin Chipper]

Auldcathie District:

14 (1). Thomas Carey - 20:57 (61.58%) (500 points)

Edinburgh:

67 (1). Samuel Louis - 20:00 (64.50%) (500 points)

That pesky dug! 3 runners under 16 minutes at this one, including a Mark Webber!

And the table:

1. Thomas Carey - 5965
2. Samuel Louis - 4416
3. Mike Springett - 3167
4. Dan Byrom - 2635
5. Fiona Titcombe - 2503
6. Bradley Horrocks - 1973
7. Gevin Chapwell - 1389
8. Oliver Garner - 1250
9. Stephen Read - 1000
10. Dave Robjohns - 833
11. Steve Anderson - 667
12. Adam Dexter - 583
13. Richard Barnett - 571
14. Matthew Tassier - 500
15. Chris Marshall - 472
16. Dave Ryan - 429
17. Suzy Turner - 286
18. Tasneem Rana - 250
19. Callum Todd - 111

29,000 points from 58 scores, averaging 500.

[Gavin Chipper]

Apparently Jonathan Rawlinson did the London Marathon as well and absolutely smashed it in 2:58:36. So we have:

1. Tim Down - 2:57:19
2. Jonathan Rawlinson - 2:58:36
3. Gevin Chapwell - 3:09:16
4. Matt Bayfield - 3:09:22
5. Giles Hutchings - 4:19:15

Since this post from ages ago, Jonathan Rawlinson has done a time of 2:48:10, which I found on his Power of 10 profile page. I also did a marathon the other day in 2:59:40, so I've joined the sub-3 hour club. I'm sure lots (well some) of the other people on the parkrun PB list have done marathons too, so it might be worth me looking into it.

I should probably make an effort to update this one day given I know a few others have done marathons. I did another marathon earlier this month and got 2:57:04. Hopefully that will also get me into London 2027 (too late for next year).

[Fiona T]

Four of us at Worcester Pitchcroft - me, Sam, Maus and co-event newbie, Stephen Harding

[Gavin Chipper]

OK, so Worcester Pitchcroft:

31 (1). Samuel Louis - 20:48 (62.02%) (800 points)
116 (2). Thomas Carey - 24:35 (52.47%) (600 points)
149 (3). Stephen Harding - 25:48 (55.81%) (400 points)
362 (4). Fiona Titcombe - 33:38 (54.56%) (200 points)

And the table:

1. Thomas Carey - 6565
2. Samuel Louis - 5216
3. Mike Springett - 3167
4. Fiona Titcombe - 2703
5. Dan Byrom - 2635
6. Bradley Horrocks - 1973
7. Gevin Chapwell - 1389
8. Oliver Garner - 1250
9. Stephen Read - 1000
10. Dave Robjohns - 833
11. Steve Anderson - 667
12. Adam Dexter - 583
13. Richard Barnett - 571
14. Matthew Tassier - 500
15. Chris Marshall - 472
16. Dave Ryan - 429
17. Stephen Harding - 400
18. Suzy Turner - 286
19. Tasneem Rana - 250
20. Callum Todd - 111

31,000 points from 62 scores, averaging 500.

I'll also add Stephen Harding to the PB list when I update it - probably one big update after MK. It also looks like Carey can't be caught now.

[Gavin Chipper]

There were people at Linford Wood and Jubilee, Bedford for MK. I think at Linford Wood it was me, Mike Springett and Samuel Louis. Jubilee was Dan Byrom, Thomas Carey, Bradley Horrocks and Fiona T. Anyone else?

[Gavin Chipper]

Linford Wood:

3 (1). Gevin Chapwell - 20:01 (71.94%) (750 points)
45 (2). Samuel Louis - 24:59 (51.63%) (500 points)
76 (3). Mike Springett - 26:51 (48.42%) (250 points)

Jubilee, Bedford:

2 (1). Dan Byrom - 19:56 (64.72%) (800 points)
4 (2). Thomas Carey - 21:12 (60.85%) (600 points)
13 (3). Bradley Horrocks - 22:37 (57.04%) (400 points)
85 (4). Fiona Titcombe - 33:20 (55.05%) (200 points)

And the final table:

1. Thomas Carey - 7165
2. Samuel Louis - 5716
3. Dan Byrom - 3435
4. Mike Springett - 3417
5. Fiona Titcombe - 2903
6. Bradley Horrocks - 2373
7. Gevin Chapwell - 2139
8. Oliver Garner - 1250
9. Stephen Read - 1000
10. Dave Robjohns - 833
11. Steve Anderson - 667
12. Adam Dexter - 583
13. Richard Barnett - 571
14. Matthew Tassier - 500
15. Chris Marshall - 472
16. Dave Ryan - 429
17. Stephen Harding - 400
18. Suzy Turner - 286
19. Tasneem Rana - 250
20. Callum Todd - 111

34,500 points from 69 scores, averaging 500.

And so Thomas Carey is the champion for the third consecutive occasion, matching the great Gevin Chapwell! His score of 7165 is slightly short of the 7769 he achieved last year.

[Gavin Chipper]

The hall of fame:

2017 - Gevin Chapwell (405 points)
2018 - Gevin Chapwell (410 points)
2019 - Gevin Chapwell (440.6 points)
2020-2022 - Callum Todd (6027 points)
2023 - Thomas Carey (5375 points)
2024 - Thomas Carey (7769 points)

From 2017 to 2019, the scoring range was between 0 and 100 points per parkrun rather than 0 and 1000.

Edited to add links to the results for each year.

2025 - Thomas Carey (7165 points)

I'll update the PB and age-graded lists in the near future as well.

[Gavin Chipper]

The PB list is now updated. Improvements from Jonathan Rawlinson, Paul Nixon, Thomas Carey, Matthew Tassier, Matt Gould, Adam Curran, Samuel Louis, Dave Robjohns, Jon O'Neill, Melody Coupe, Lauren Hamer, Tom Rowell, Adam Dexter (13). New to the list we have Steve Anderson, George Carey, Sheamol Obeda, James Haughton, Steven Harding (5). So quite a lot to update! I'll do the age-graded list at a later date soon and it should be my year's work done.

Also the median time on the list (43 out of 85) is 22:55, which is much quicker than your average parkrun time. Congratulations to Mr. Brittain...

Right, I'm going to put up a ranking list of Countdown/Apterous parkrunners. I'll check it every so often to see if anyone's beaten their PB, and if anyone is really insistent that they don't want to be on the list, then I can remove their name. And if I've forgotten anyone, let me know and I can add them. This list is unlikely to be anywhere near exhaustive.

1. John Ashcroft - 15:15
2. Oliver Garner - 15:54
3. Max Allison - 17:05
4. Jonathan Rawlinson - 17:08
5. Tim Down - 17:45
6. Matt Bayfield - 17:56
7. Gevin Chapwell - 17:59
8. Paul Nixon 18:08
9. Tim Springett - 18:32
10. James Bradley - 19:04
=. Thomas Carey - 19:04
12. James Laverty - 19:21
13. Dan Spinks - 19:31
14. Giles Hutchings - 19:48
15. Dan Byrom - 19:55
16. Richard Barnett - 19:56
17. Adam Curran - 19:59
18. Samuel Louis - 20:00
19. Andy Noden - 20:06
20. Conrad Teixeira - 20:07
21. Adam Gillard - 20:18
22. Tom Hargreaves - 20:20
23. Dave Nicholson - 20:27
24. Adam Latchford - 20:35
25. Michael Springett - 20:36
26. Ryan Taylor - 20:39
27. Matthew Tassier - 20:43
28. Junaid Mubeen - 20:48
29. Matt Gould - 20:50
30. Steve Anderson - 21:17
31. Phil Hannan - 21:27
32. Jon Elmer - 21:30
33. Dave Robjohns - 21:36
34. Bradley Horrocks - 21:56
35. Kirk Bevins - 21:58
=. Jon Corby - 21:58
37. Ian Volante - 22:01
38. Callum Todd - 22:18
=. Jonathan Wynn - 22:18
40. Tom Chafer-Cook - 22:27
41. David Williams - 22:38
42. Maria Chandler - 22:53
43. Richard Brittain - 22:55
44. David Hilton - 23:07
45. Noel McIlvenny - 23:25
46. James Wilson - 23:38
47. Jon O'Neill - 23:45
48. Stephen Read - 23:47
49. Kai Laddiman - 24:12
50. Joseph Henry - 24:17
=. Melody Coupe - 24:17
52. Dave Ryan - 24:48
53. Zubair Patel - 24:56
54. Elwin Carlos - 25:21
55. Rose Boyle - 25:33
56. Harry Whitehouse - 25:37
57. Steven Harding - 25:42
58. Lauren Hamer - 25:58
59. Dinos Sfyris - 26:12
60. Tom Feilding - 26:16
61. Sheamol Obeda - 27:04
62. Colin Peet - 27:13
63. Fiona T - 27:34
64. Fiona Thorne - 27:52
65. Eeshan Malhotra 28:07
=. George Carey - 28:07
67. Suzy Turner - 28:20
68. Gerry Tynan - 28:43
69. Shirleyann Moran - 29:09
70. David Benson - 29:45
71. Sam Cappleman-Lynes - 29:55
72. Paul Talmey - 30:22
73. Florence Cappleman-Lynes - 30:38
74. Eddy Byrne - 31:04
75. Rachael Montgomery - 31:29
76. Tom Rowell - 31:44
77. Tasneem Rana - 32:06
78. Chris Marshall - 33:15
79. Adam Dexter - 33:55
80. Rachel Perkins - 36:40
81. Jack Worsley - 36:53
82. Adam Beach - 41:47
83. James Haughton - 41:55
84. Noel Pereira - 44:14
85. Steven Grady - 55:07