Roy’s 500th Parkrun

By Steph Gledhill Reports 28 September 2019

Valley Striders descend upon Woodhouse Moor parkrun to mark Roy’s 500th run

It’s the 17th October 2009, the day Roy’s life changed forever, like many of us who have caught the parkrun bug.

Roll forward 9 years and 11 months, over 50 Valley Striders joined the Woodhouse Moor Parkrun starting line alongside Roy to celebrate his 500th parkrun.

Sam Dooley, parkrun ambassador did a great speech for Roy which included Roy’s average parkrun time of 19:23 and the interesting statistic that if Roy ran all his parkruns in one go he’d just be finishing in a week’s time.

Roy has stood on the Woodhouse Moor parkrun start line 490 times and is a true local runner with all parkruns being in Leeds, the other 10 being Roundhay (4), Temple Newsam (4) and one each for Armley and Potternewton.

As well as it being a beautiful day for running with glorious sunshine Roy treated everyone to sandwiches, cake and drinks (some of us even got some champagne which was a great taster for Reims).

The parkrun was also part of Valley Striders Grand Prix competition, the 3rd Grand Prix Race this week. Results and Grand Prix points are below.

Pos	parkrunner	Time	Age Cat	Age Grade	Gender	Gender Pos	Club	Note	Total Runs	GP Pts
3	Gwilym Thomas	00:17:50	VM40-44	78.90%	M	3	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:16:44	210	100
13	James Tarran	00:19:02	VM50-54	78.70%	M	11	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:17:41	372	99
14	Tim Straughan	00:19:04	VM50-54	79.90%	M	12	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:17:53	350	98
15	Ian Sanderson	00:19:05	VM45-49	76.10%	M	13	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:18:13	409	97
30	Adam Parton	00:19:55	VM45-49	73.50%	M	27	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:18:59	345	96
31	Myra Jones	00:19:58	VW35-39	75.10%	F	4	Valley Striders AC	New PB!	227	95
35	Roy Huggins	00:20:08	VM55-59	77.00%	M	31	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:17:49	500	94
46	John Shanks	00:20:35	VM35-39	64.50%	M	42	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:17:45	113	93
47	Sean Cook	00:20:36	VM35-39	64.40%	M	43	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:19:59	216	92
48	Sarah Graham	00:20:37	SW30-34	72.10%	F	5	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:18:35	105	91
50	Sean Fitzgerald	00:20:40	VM35-39	65.10%	M	45	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:18:53	241	90
59	Kevin Mcmullan	00:21:12	VM50-54	70.10%	M	53	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:18:33	61	89
70	Tony Mills	00:21:41	VM45-49	67.00%	M	63	Valley Striders AC	First Timer!	22	88
73	Sarah Mann	00:21:47	VW35-39	69.50%	F	9	Valley Striders AC	New PB!	222	88
77	Leroy Sutton	00:21:53	VM60-64	74.60%	M	68	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:20:36	51	87
78	Vernon Long	00:21:53	VM50-54	68.50%	M	69	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:20:40	170	86
83	Pip Trevorrow	00:22:04	VW40-44	71.30%	F	11	Valley Striders AC	New PB!	18	85
85	Sue Sunderland	00:22:09	VW55-59	84.00%	F	13	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:21:22	310	84
88	Steph Gledhill	00:22:19	VW40-44	68.90%	F	15	Valley Striders AC	New PB!	274	83
96	Michael Hall	00:22:35	VM35-39	59.10%	M	80	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:19:19	210	82
103	Sam Davison	00:22:44	SM30-34	56.90%	M	86	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:21:28	42	81
109	Holly Button	00:22:50	SW30-34	65.30%	F	19	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:19:19	86	80
114	Ripley Barclay	00:22:57	JM11-14	66.70%	M	93	Valley Striders AC	New PB!	12	79
125	Alex Watson-Usher	00:23:13	VW35-39	64.40%	F	23	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:21:26	254	78
126	Liz Adams	00:23:13	VW45-49	68.40%	F	24	Valley Striders AC	New PB!	133	77
132	Chris Sawyer	00:23:32	VM60-64	68.80%	M	108	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:22:17	381	76
136	Liz Reddington	00:23:34	VW55-59	78.90%	F	26	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:23:03	123	75
144	Richard Adcock	00:23:40	VM50-54	62.30%	M	118	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:20:35	75	74
148	Alfie Tyrrell	00:23:43	JM15-17	57.80%	M	121	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:22:19	134	73
156	Ken Fox	00:23:55	VM60-64	67.70%	M	128	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:19:09	475	72
168	Brian Tyrrell	00:24:15	VM60-64	66.10%	M	135	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:24:12	193	71
171	Ian Rosser	00:24:18	VM50-54	60.70%	M	137	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:17:57	263	70
176	Joel Giddings	00:24:26	VM45-49	59.40%	M	141	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:17:57	468	69
198	Andy Mace	00:24:59	VM45-49	58.60%	M	156	Valley Striders AC	First Timer!	38	68
200	Brigit O'Sullivan	00:25:03	SW20-24	59.10%	F	43	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:25:00	22	67
207	Paul Sanderson	00:25:17	VM50-54	59.30%	M	164	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:22:43	50	66
210	Vicki Johnstone	00:25:22	VW45-49	65.30%	F	45	Valley Striders AC	New PB!	211	65
248	Ewan Reid	00:26:25	JM10	64.40%	M	189	Valley Striders AC	First Timer!	5	64
249	Carol Reid	00:26:26	VW35-39	57.30%	F	60	Valley Striders AC	First Timer!	6	63
252	Bob Jackson	00:26:29	VM65-69	65.10%	M	192	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:20:11	51	63
292	Lisa Jones	00:27:39	VW45-49	58.60%	F	74	Valley Striders AC	New PB!	23	62
301	Zoe Nicholson	00:27:45	VW40-44	55.40%	F	77	Valley Striders AC	First Timer!	12	61
308	Neil Sedgley	00:27:49	VM50-54	54.30%	M	229	Valley Striders AC	New PB!	50	60
309	Robert Hamilton	00:27:50	VM50-54	54.70%	M	230	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:17:28	44	59
325	Leila Kara	00:28:03	VW55-59	63.70%	F	87	Valley Striders AC	New PB!	14	58
330	Sally Merchant-Edge	00:28:11	VW45-49	58.80%	F	91	Valley Striders AC	New PB!	46	57
360	Andrew Wicks	00:28:45	VM50-54	53.00%	M	257	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:19:28	112	56
384	Julie Mcgurk	00:29:27	VW55-59	60.70%	F	115	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:24:58	31	55
385	Hannah Corne	00:29:27	VW35-39	51.40%	F	116	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:18:50	156	54
400	John Wallace	00:29:54	VM50-54	50.60%	M	275	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:18:58	156	53
419	Neil Hall	00:30:17	VM35-39	44.10%	M	285	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:24:34	238	52
454	Caroline Tolan	00:30:58	VW45-49	52.90%	F	154	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:25:21	131	51
574	Rebecca Bibby	00:38:53	VW35-39	38.60%	F	230	Valley Striders AC	PB stays at 00:28:45	40	50

NB website admin humbly apologises for the delay in publishing this post…

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