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