And the Award Goes to… #211 21st June 2015
Hi All, It was our Birthday parkrun this week at Worcester and loads of runners turned out in fancy dress for a bit of a laugh and to mark the 4th year running here in the Shire. Its been a great year,...
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4 x 100 Milestones #213 4th July 2015
So much to report over the last 2 weeks, we had our record attendance last week with 578 runners completing the course. I'd usually fill this spot with recollections of where we came from but it was...
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Great News!! #215 18th July 2015
There was a buzz around the parkrun this week, and it was all about the news that Paul Sinton-Hewitt was coming to Worcester parkrun next week to complete his 250th parkrun. It’s great to have been...
View ArticlePost Paul parkrun #217 1st August 2015
With so much coverage of Paul Sinton-Hewitts visit a run report for last week a run report seemed a little pointless. There was radio coverage, articles in the paper and the social media posts buzzing...
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Tiarah’s and Tutu’s parkrun 218 8th August 2015
It was a weekend of significant milestones at parkrun this week. I think we may also have some contenders for "The Great British Bake Off" considering the sugary snacks on offer after our parkrun. 2...
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Great Back Up – #220 22nd August 2015
This weeks parkrun was brought to you by a fantastic bunch of volunteers. Holding the reigns of our parkrun was Gerry Rudolf doing his first Run Directing role since joining the core team who support...
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1,2,3 Gone… #221 30th August 2015
Away again this week, doing my Ambassador role to finally launch Wyre Forest parkrun. Its about 20 minutes away by car and well worth a visit. I saw lots of Worcester regulars over there and good to...
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Emma 50 and Michael 150! #222th parkrun 5th September 2015
Folks were up early to parkrun this week for the 222th parkun, as there was a lot of excitement around a couple of runners and a nice visitor coming back to run. David Pound, Gerry, Carol and I had the...
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Berry Berry Good # 225 26th September 2015
Megz Judge was taking the reins for the Run Directing of this week's parkrun for her second time and did a fabulous job. She had great bunch of volunteers to help her. Marshalling, timing, scanning,...
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By George its parkrun Day!! #228 17th October 2015
Just a short report this week as Vonnie and I were away in Nice, France this weekend. They don't sadly didn't have a parkrun nearby. So at 9:00 Saturday Vonnie and I had to create our own little...
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All Hallows Eve 31st October 2015 #230
There was something not quite rights in the woods this week at Worcester parkrun. As slowly and relentlessley vampires, zombies, mummies, witches and wizards gathered at the meeting place for a...
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A Fine Double Century #232 14th November 2015
The forecast of rain did not deter the 441 parkrunners or 39 volunteers at this week’s Worcester parkrun. As it turned out the rain held off and we enjoyed a dry, but muddy in places, parkrun. Carl...
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Fallen Tree’s and Helen’s Century #233 21st November 2015
Someone said to me this week, "you must have seen it all at parkrun by now" and after 233 weeks parkrunning at Worcester you may think the same. However Worcester parkrun is never "normal". There's a...
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Winter time is here #234 28th November 2015
It was all change at Worcester parkrun this week, as the wet winter weather moved us onto the Winter temporary course for our 234th parkrun. For those of you that weren't at the briefing, we needed to...
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Tail Running Fun – #236 12th December 2015
The winter sunlight still had yet to rise for the setter uppers, Gerry, Carole and I as we started our amble around the park. One of our regular helpers Amber (my dog) not stirring as I left home for...
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New Years Day, a milestone avalanche!! #239 1.1.2016
Well what a Christmas and New Year we've had. So much has happened over the past few weeks since our last run report. We've had 3 of our 4 Festive parkruns, 1119 runners taking part and still with the...
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Its a record breaker!! #243 9th January 2016
I was stood helping marshal at the speed bumps, cheering people along their final sprints when Carl our Run Director this week asks me, "what do we do when we give out the last of the 600 tokens". So...
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Relentlessly Positive #243 16th January 2016
Where to start this weeks run report, the 590 runners, our second highest attendance after last weeks 595, or the 98 runners who ran the fastest 5km of their lives! Could it be the 56 people who came...
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Laura’s View #244 22/1/2016
This weeks run report is written by Laura Bessant, Laura has run 142 parkruns and was one of 80 juniors taking part this week. Laura has been part of Worcester parkrun from the early days, event 7, so...
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It’s Getting Better All the Time #245 30th January 2016
We've had a few busy weeks at the parkrun lately with runs of 596, 590, 544 and 560 runners this week. Last year we had 1382 runners over the same period (2290 this year) so we've grown by 908 runs or...
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