May 2016 Seapark parkrun round-up

7th May.

Carrickfergus on 7th May was attended by Richard Craig, Ryan Weatherhead (with a parkrun PB of 19:25 on his 50th parkrun), Ian Cleland, Clive Weatherhead, Richard Hethering, Brendan Rice, Jonathan Beattie, Jonathan Preuss, Andrew Smyth, Philip Poag, Neill Harper and Beverley Kernoghan.

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Spot the Seaparkers
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Ian Cleland’s race face
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Clive Weatherhead’s race face
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Jonathan Beattie’s race face
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Andrew Smyth’s race face
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Even Oska has a race face

The original plan for the 22 group was to head to Colin Glen (since it’s the year of hills and all) but the thought of that scared some people and they backed out at the last moment (insert your own PG expletive here).  Those that embraced the hill at Colin Glen were Bobbie Irvine (with a course PB of 19:57), Paul Daniels (1st run at Colin Glen), Allan Grant (1st run at Colin Glen), Derek Kane (1st run at Colin Glen), Alan Poag (1st run at Colin Glen) and Susan Kane (1st run at Colin Glen).

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The Colin Glen ‘We Love Hills’ group

While the hill challenged group decided to go to Comber instead.  They consisted off Mark Welsh (1st run at Comber), Alison Welsh (1st run at Comber), Julie Kelly (parkrun PB of 27:51 at her 1st run at Comber) and Michael Kane (1st run at Comber).  They should have just ripped that band aid off as they still need to go to Colin Glen to complete the 22 challenge.

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Mark Welsh at Comber
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Michael Kane at Comber
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The Comber ‘We would rather have food than hills’ group

Rebecca Tester had planned to go to the Falls parkrun on 7th but on route she and Conor Sheridan had a little scare as they got a flat tire.  They were both okay and managed to fix the tire but being hard-core parkrun participants it didn’t deter them from completing a parkrun.  They had worked out the nearest parkrun to them at that time was Ormeau so they headed there, making it just in time (or JIT for the Economists among you) for Rebecca’s 1st run at Ormeau.  Lucky for them the Ormeau briefing ran long.

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The ‘I’m trying to stop you from going to a parkrun’ tire.

Elsewhere there was Karen Waring on her 1st run at Falls, Ann McCracken (with a course PB of 28:19) and Karen McMaster (with a parkrun PB of 29:05) at Queens, Colin McCrum at the Victoria cakerun, Gary Craig and Ross Gillmore at Waterworks, Robert Steel on his 1st run at Kilkenny and Gavin Irvine at Hull.

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Ann McCracken and Karen McMaster at Queens
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Colin McCrum really really likes cake

14th May.

There were a few PBs at Carrickfergus on 14th.  In attendance were Richard Craig, Charlie McCormick (with a course PB of 19:09), William Jenkins, Ryan Weatherhead, Jonathan Beattie, Clive Weatherhead, Jonathon Bell (parkrun PB of 21:47), Richard Hetherington, Philip Poag, Sara Johnston (parkrun PB of 26:34), Jessica Lyness (parkrun PB of 27:33), Catherine Steele (parkrun PB of 27:42), Gemma Lovell, Julie Lyness, Neill Harper and Susan Kane.

Some of the 22 group made it to the Falls parkrun (and would you Adam and Eve it there were not one, but two cakes).  Those that had a slice included Robert Murray (1st run at Falls), Alan Poag (1st run at Falls), Trevor Lamb, Glenda Murray (1st run at Falls) and Rebecca Tester (1st run at Falls).

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The ‘I didn’t know there would be cake here’ group at Falls
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The two cakes

Ronald Simms completed his 1st run at Armagh prior to doing the Lislea 10K (and after doing the Les Jones 10K the night before).  While at Cookstown there was Bobbie Irvine (with a course PB of 19:06) and Nicola Irvine (on her 1st run at Cookstown and with a parkrun PB of 25:09).  Other parkruns attended included Colin McCrum at Portrush, Brendan Rice, Ann McCracken and Karen McMaster at Victoria, Gary Craig (with a parkrun PB of 24:13) at Waterworks and Gavin Irvine at Hull.

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The Cookstown two
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The Victoria gang

21st May.

Charlie McCormick was the first Seaparker to cross the finish line at Carrickfergus on 21st.  He was followed by Paul Daniels, William Jenkins, Richard Hetherington, Andrew Smyth, Philip Poag, Karen Poag, Laura Laverty (with a parkrun PB of 26:10), Jessica Lyness (with another parkrun PB of 27:04), Catherine Steel (with a parkrun PB of 27:35), Karen McMaster, Alison Welsh, Neill Harper and Jonathan Beattie.

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Another fab selfie by Charlie McCormick

Neill turned up late but still managed to finish before Jonathan Beattie.  All that cycling must be slowing Jonathan down.

Neill’s parkrun video.

It appears that no one likes cake as much as they used to as the planned road trip to Cookstown’s 3rd anniversary cakerun on 21/05/16 fell though.  Most people had prior commitments (yea, yea) so instead of traveling to Cookstown on their own Trevor Lamb and Derek Kane (1st run) went to a surprisingly sunny Bangor.  They should have took their sunglasses.

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The ‘Should have brought our sunglasses’ two at Bangor
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Derek Kane at Bangor

While that was going one Rebecca Tester completed Larne for the 2nd time, Brendan Rice returned to Victoria and at Derry we had Ian Cleland (on his 75th parkrun and 1st run at Derry), Robert Murray (1st run at Derry), Sara Johnson (1st run at Derry) and Glenda Murray (1st run at Derry) completing the parkrun prior to the Hell and Back race soon after.

Bobbie Irvine (with a parkrun PB of 19:54) and Nicola Irvine (with another parkrun PB of 26:03) both attended the Portobello parkrun in Edinburgh.

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Nicola and Bobbie Irvine at Portobello parkrun in Edinburgh

28st May.

With the Ballyclare 10K, Liverpool Rock N Roll 5K and the Kent Roadrunner Marathon all on the 28th only thirteen Seaparkers managed to complete a parkrun on 28th May.

Carrickfergus was attended by Jonathan Preuss, Richard Hetherington, Gary Craig (with a course PB of 24:52) and Julie-Ann Mitchell.

Robert Murray and Glenda Murray decided to embrace the hill at Colin Glen for the first time each.

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Family outing at Colin Glen

Bobbie Irvine (with a course PB of 19:24) and Nicola Irvine (1st run at this course) ran at Bangor.

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The Irvine family at Bangor

Derek Kane and Alan Poag went to Craigavon for the first time each.

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Derek Kane and Alan Poag at Citypark

Elsewhere Thomas Dunlop attended Ormeau for the first time (with a parkrun PB of 24:34) and Brendan Rice did his first timed run at Limavady.

And last but not least Karen McMaster dropped out of the Ballyclare 10K to keep her lead in the Race to 100 challenge and attended Whitley Bay for the second time (with a course PB of 28:47 + only 5 secs of her parkrun PB) instead.

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Smug grin from Team Chair who’s in the lead of the Race to 100 challange

Race to 100

The gap is getting a bit wider this month.

Karen McMaster (AKA Team Chair) is at 83 parkruns as off 28/05/16.
Glenda Murray (AKA Team Devious) is at 80 parkruns as off 28/05/16.
Trevor Lamb (AKA Team Wolf) is at 79 parkruns as off 18/05/16.
Allan Grant (AKA Team Barcode) is at 78 parkruns as off 28/05/16.

#Raceto100

Seapark charity 22 parkrun challenge

As of 28/05/16 there are 32 parkruns left to the end of the year (if you count Christmas Day). Plenty of time to do all 22.  The bold ones are new this month.

Derek Kane (17)
Antrim, Bangor, Carrickfergus, Colin Glen, Comber, Craigavon, Ecos, Falls, Larne, Limavady, Ormeau, Queens, Stormont, Valley, Victoria, Wallace & Waterworks.

Glenda Murray (17)
Antrim, Bangor, Carrickfergus, Colin Glen, Comber, Craigavon, Derry, Ecos, Falls, Larne, Ormeau, Queens, Stormont, Valley, Victoria, Wallace & Waterworks.

Bobbie Irvine (16)
Antrim, Bangor, Carrickfergus, Citypark, Colin Glen, Comber, Cookstown, Ecos, Larne, Ormeau, Queens, Stormont, Valley, Victoria, Wallace & Waterworks.

Nicola Irvine (14)
Antrim, Bangor, Carrickfergus, Citypark, Comber, Ecos, Falls, Larne, Ormeau, Queens, Stormont, Valley, Victoria & Wallace.

Trevor Lamb (14)
Antrim, Bangor, Carrickfergus, Comber, Ecos, Falls, Larne, Ormeau, Queens, Stormont, Valley, Victoria, Wallace & Waterworks.

Alan Poag (14)
Antrim, Bangor, Carrickfergus, Colin Glen, Craigavon, Ecos, Falls, Larne, Queens, Stormont, Valley, Victoria, Wallace & Waterworks.

Karen Waring (14)
Antrim, Bangor, Carrickfergus, Colin Glen, Comber, Ecos, Falls, Ormeau, Queens, Stormont, Valley, Victoria, Wallace & Waterworks.

Allan Grant (13)
Antrim, Carrickfergus, Colin Glen, Comber, Cookstown, Larne, Ormeau, Queens, Stormont, Valley, Victoria, Wallace & Waterworks.

Robert Murray (13)
Antrim, Carrickfergus, Colin Glen, Craigavon, Derry, Ecos, Falls, Larne, Queens, Valley, Victoria, Wallace & Waterworks.

Rebecca Tester (10)
Antrim, Armagh, Bangor, Carrickfergus, Colin Glen, Ecos, Falls, Larne, Ormeau & Victoria.

Alison Welsh (10)
Bangor, Carrickfergus, Comber, Ecos, Ormeau, Queens, Stormont, Valley, Victoria & Waterworks.

Julie Kelly (8) 
Bangor, Comber, Ecos, Queens, Stormont, Valley, Victoria & Waterworks.

Michael Kane (6)
Bangor, Carrickfergus, Comber, Ecos, Victoria & Wallace.

Mark Welsh (6)
Bangor, Comber, Ecos, Ormeau, Valley & Victoria.

Geraldine Kane (5)
Ecos, Queens, Valley, Victoria & Wallace.

Colin McCrum (4)
Antrim, Carrickfergus, Portrush & Victoria.

The two charities are Brainwaves NI and Macmillian Cancer Support. Remember that if each of the two charities reaches the £2500 target then Michael Kane and Trevor Lamb will get their legs waxed and then run a 10K with nice waxed legs. You know that the suffering of others will make you feel better so dig deep.

Just Giving

#AllNIparkruns2016.

Andy’s parkrun challenge 2016.

March saw the return of Andy’s parkrun challenge. Between 26/03/16-29/10/16 participants have 32 weeks to complete three different parkruns, plus volunteer at Carrickfergus at least once. The parkruns are Carrickfergus, Larne and the third one will be any of the participants own choosing. Age grade percentage will decide the winner.

Thanks to Nicola Irvine giving Andy Smyth the evil eye until he changed his mind anyone doing any volunteer role at Carrickfergus (while wearing a hi-viz top) will get a credit towards the challenge.  Nicola was doing token support and Trevor Lamb was acting as photographer when they saw that Andy’s guidelines stated that these volunteer roles didn’t count.  He soon learned his mistake and changed his mind.

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Nicola ‘Evil Eye’ Irvine volunteering at Carrickfergus parkrun

#APC2016

Race report for weeks ending 24/04/16 & 01/05/16

On Wed 20/04/16 Ann McCracken ran the 3K Queens Race Round the River in 15:59, while for the 5K Seapark AC was represented by Charlie McCormick 19:02 PB, Richard Hetherington 19:33 PB, Mark Welsh 21:47, Andy Smyth 23:35, Caroline Salters 23:36, Alison Welsh 25:52 PB, Trevor Lamb 26:21 and Alyn McChesney 30:06.

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Charlie McCormick 19:02 PB
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Alison Welsh 25:52 PB

At the Royal Canal Run in Longford on 23/04/16 Gary Connolly ran the half in 1:51 while Gillian Cordner went with the ultra in a time of 4:41 (33 miles and second lady).

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Gillian and Gary at the Royal Canal Run in Longford

Also on 23/04/16 Geraldine Kane 1:05:26 and Michael Kane 1:06:54 participated in the Cormac Run 10K.

On Sun 24/04/16 Ronald Simms 40:21, Phil Magill 50:39 PB, Lynette Magill 52:46 PB and Michelle McKeever 57:15 (first 10K) went to Portadown for the Kernan 10K.

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Ronald Simms 40:21, Phil Magill 50:39 PB, Lynette Magill 52:46 PB
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Ronald Simms action shot

While Jonathan Beattie and Richard Hetherington attended the Kirkistown Duathlon, also on 24/04/16.

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Jonathan Beattie and Richard Hetherington did a bit of running at least

And the London Marathon on 24/04/16 was attended by Bobbie Irvine 3:13:36, Robert Murray 3:21:42, Neil Harper 4:14:01 PB, Gavin Irvine 4:20:07 and Karen Waring 4:48:03.

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The lucky ones that got into London

On Saturday 30/04/16 Seapark AC endurance specialists Gillian Cordner and Gary Connolly travelled to the picturesque Ballyhoura Mountain Trail Marathon, part of the Irish Mountain Trail marathon series.  Both athletes performed well on the tough rugged mountain trails and Gillian finished 3rd in her category.

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Gillian and Gary at the Ballyhoura Mountain Trail Marathon

Not to be outdone with a trip south of the border, Ronald Simms travelled to Drogheda on Sunday 01/04/16 and took part in the 10K event finishing well up the leaderboard.

More Seapark AC athletes stayed local on Sunday 01/04/16 to take part in the ever popular East Antrim Marathon Series participating in the Half and full marathon disciplines.  Following her success in Limerick Gillian Cordner completed another marathon, back to back, and guess what, she did the Belfast marathon on Mayday as well!  Seapark ACs Bobbie Irvine also took part in the marathon, again, just a warm up before he ran the Belfast Marathon.  Seapark athletes who took part in the half marathon distance were Julie Clyde, who finished 3rd in the ladies race and Phil Magill who was first male athlete for the Club.  Other successful Seaparkers were Marie Nicolson and Caroline Mone.

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Gillian at EAMS
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Bobbie at EAMS

Following the East Antrim Marathon on 01/04/16 a group of Seaparkers took part in a virtual 3.2 race which was taking part throughout the UK as part of the Help the Heroes Charity, in memory of Capt David Seath who tragically died 3.2 miles from the finish line of last weeks London Marathon.

April 2016 Seapark parkrun round-up

2 April

Lots of great photos where taken by Neill ‘I’m not doing a parkrun unless there’s a half marathon after it’ Harper at Carrickfergus on 2nd April.  Ian Cleland, Jonathan Preuss (on his 2nd parkrun and with a parkrun PB of 19:24), Charlie McCormick, Robert Steele (parkrun PB of 21:19), Jonathan Beattie, Gary Craig (course PB of 25:43), Derek Kane (50th parkrun), Sara Johnston (parkrun PB of 27:04), Rebecca Tester (parkrun PB of 27:49), Michael ‘Nessie’ Kane, Jennifer Jackson (on her 3rd parkrun and with a parkrun PB of 29:36), Julie-Ann Mitchell & Emma Pearson all ran the event.

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Charlie McCormick at Carrickfergus
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Robert Steele (parkrun PB of 21:19)
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Jonathan Beattie
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Gary Craig at Carrickfergus
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Derek Kane on his 50th parkrun
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Sara Johnston (parkrun PB of 27:04)
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Rebecca Tester (parkrun PB of 27:49)
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Julie-Ann Mitchell
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Michael ‘Nessie’ Kane
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Jennifer Jackson on her 3rd parkrun

And since it was Derek Kane’s 50th parkrun there had to be cake.

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Mmmm, cake

Not only was this event special for being Derek’s 5oth parkrun it was special for being the first time that Michael Kane has been photographed with both feet of the ground.  Ah, you thought I was going to say it was special because Michael Kane actually turned up to a parkrun.  Well, there is that.

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Evidence that Michael Kane can run with both feet of the ground.

For the tourism we had Bobbie Irvine, Nicola Irvine (1st run there and with a parkrun PB of 26:16) and Karen Waring (course PB of 26:18) at Queens.

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Nicola Irvine, Karen Waring and Bobbie Irvine at Queens
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Finish line for Nicola Irvine and Karen Waring at Queens

Iain Hunter ran his 1st parkrun at Stormont.

Valley was attended by Trevor Lamb (75th parkrun), Alan Poag (1st run at Valley), Karen McMaster (course PB 31:00) & Alyn McChesney (3rd parkrun and 1st at Valley).

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Trevor Lamb, Alan Poag, Alyn McChesney and Karen McMaster at Valley

Trevor even ran all the way back to Carrickfergus from Valley (12.4K/7.7 miles) just to get a slice of Derek’s cake.

While at Victoria there was Robert Murray (course PB 20:46) and Glenda Murray.

9th April

On 9th Bobbie Irvine, Charlie McCormick, Richard Hetherington, Nicola Irvine (50th parkrun), Philip Poag, Neill Harper, Julie-Ann Mitchell and Karen Poag attended the home parkrun of Carrickfergus.

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Charlie McCormick
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Neill Harper
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Nicola Irvine’s 50th parkrun
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Mmmm, more cake. FYI Trevor Lamb didn’t get any as he was in Rotterdam that day

There was quite a bit of tourism on the 9th (thanks to the “22 challenge within a challenge” which appears to be to complete the 22 before anyone else).  Separkers attended ten (yes, ten) different NI parkruns, including Carrickfergus (plus one in England) on 9th April.

At Antrim parkrun there was Derek Kane (1st run at Antrim) & Alan Poag (1st run at Antirm).

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Derek Kane action shot at Antrim

While Ecos was attended by Robert Murray (1st run at Ecos with a parkrun PB of 20:36), Karen Waring (1st run at Ecos) and Glenda Murray (1st run at Ecos).

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Robert Murray at Ecos
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Karen Waring at Ecos
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Glenda Murray at Ecos

Ormeau had Seaparkers Mark Welsh (1st run at Ormeau), Alison Welsh (1st run at Ormeau with a parkrun PB of 27:09) & Ann McCracken (PB for Ormeau with 28:06).

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Mark and Alison Welsh at Ormeau
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Alison Welsh action shot (includes sunglasses)

While Gareth Hamil and Colin McCrum attended Victoria.

Five other members held the flag for Seapark (when are we going to get real Seapark flags?) at parkrun events.  Ronald Simms at Citypark, Gary Craig at Queens (1st run at Queens), Allan Grant at Valley, Rebecca Tester at Colin Glen (1st run at Colin Glen) and Marie Nicholson at Waterworks.

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Allan Grant with his nephew at Valley

While over in England Gavin Irvine took part in the Hull parkrun.

16th April.

Jonathan Beattie, Richard Hetherington, Lynda Shannon, Danielle Hamilton (1st ever parkrun), Beverley Kernoghan (parkrun PB of 30:24), Susan Kane (course PB of 30:59) and Brendan Rice all attended Carrickfergus on 16th.

Bobbie Irvine, Neill ‘I’m getting used to the idea of just doing a parkrun without a race after it’ Harper (1st run here) and Nicola Irvine (course PB of 28:34) all went to Comber for a sneaky parkrun prior to Bobbie and Nicola doing the B2R Castle Ward 10K.  Jimmy Olsen didn’t run Castle Ward but took lots of kick ass photos instead.

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Neill Harper, Nicola Irvine and Bobbie Irvine at Comber’s 100th event
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Bobbie Irvine trying to get to Castle Ward
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Neill ‘Battle Cry’ Harper at Comber
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Nicola ‘another course PB’ Irvine at Comber

For those that didn’t attend Castle Ward there was Antrim (Alyn McChesney on his 1st run there), Colin Glen (Karen Waring on her 1st run there), Ormeau (Ann McCracken), Stormont (Iain Hunter with a course PB of 20:21, Alan Poag on his 1st run there, Gary Craig on his 1st run there & Julie Kelly, also on her 1st run there & with a parkrun PB of 27:57), Valley (Robert Murray with course PB of 21:26, Karen McMaster & Glenda Murray), Waterworks (Derek Kane for his 1st time there) and Hull (Gavin Irvine).

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Alan Poag at Stormont
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Karen McMaster, Robert Murray and Glenda Murray at Valley

23th April

It was another good turnout for Carrickfergus parkrun on 23rd April.

Ian Cleland was the first Seaparker home and he was followed by Richard Hetherington, Robert Steel, Gillian Strudwick (with a parkrun PB of 23:26), Andrew Smyth (with a course PB of 24:10), Julie-Ann Mitchell, Jonathan Beattie and Colin McCrum.

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Gillian Strudwick (with a parkrun PB of 23:26)
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Andrew Smyth (with a course PB of 24:10)

Six other NI parkruns where attended by Seapark on 23rd April.  Derek Kane was the first member of the 22 group to go to Falls this year (1st run at Falls), Ann McCracken and Karen McMaster went to Ormeau, Ronald Simms ran at Wallace, Nicola Irvine completed her 1st run at Valley and Waterworks was attended by both Alison Welsh and Alyn McChesney (1st run at Waterworks).

The first members of the 22 group to attempt Larne for Andy’s parkrun challenge where Allan Grant and Trevor Lamb.   Yes, I know Bobbie Irvine, Nicola Irvine, Glenda Murray and Robert Murray did the Larne parkrun course on 19th March, but it was the week before Andy’s parkrun challenge started so they’ll have to do it again for it to be counted for Andy’s challenge.  Phil Mone was the 1st Seaparker at Larne (1st run at Larne and with a parkrun PB of 22:24) and he was followed by Allan ‘Shoelaces’ Grant (with a course PB of 25:58) and Trevor Lamb (also with a course PB of 26:40).  This is the 2nd time Trevor has done Larne.  The 1st time (prior to joining Seapark) he got his slowest time for a parkrun with 31:24, so Seapark training must be working.

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Allan ‘Shoelaces’ Grant, Trevor Lamb and Phil Mone at Larne
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Thee guys are in there somewhere

Three of the five London marathons attended a parkrun in London the day before the marathon.  At Burgess we had Gavin Irvine (1st run at Burgess) and Bobbie Irvine (1st run at Burgess), while Southwark was attended by Robert Murray (1st run at Southwark) plus someone who didn’t want to miss out on a parkrun, Glenda Murray (1st run at Southwark).

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Gavin Irvine and Bobbie Irvine at Burgess
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Robert and Glenda Murray at Southwark

30th April

On the last Saturday of April at Carrickfergus we had the latest Jog graduation.  In attendance where William Jenkins, Jonathan Preuss, Allan Grant, Sara Johnston, Danielle Hamilton, Karen McMaster, Julie-Ann Mitchell, Beverley Kenoghan, Laura Laverty, Toma Gerasimaite and Karen Waring.

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Allan Grant at Carrickfergus
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Sara Johnston
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Karen McMaster
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Karen Waring

Jonathan Beattie, Mark Welsh and Alison Welsh made the short journey to Valley.

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Jonathan Beattie, Mark Welsh and Alison Welsh at Valley

Alan Poag  (1st run at the course), Derek Kane (1st run at the course) and Alyn McChesney (1st run at the course) followed in the footsteps of giants and went to Larne.

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Alan Poag and Derek Kane at Larne

Ann McCracken returned to Ormeau, Robert and Glenda Murray both went to Craigavon (1st time for each of them), while Julie Kelly and Michael Kane travelled to Bangor for their 1st run each at Ward Park.

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Neither Michael Kane or Julie Kelly can believe that Michael’s doing another parkrun

Not one to miss out on a parkrun Trevor Lamb attended Princes parkrun in Liverpool and achieved a time 25:33.  This is Trevor’s 4th fastest 5K time and fastest in the last 7 months.  It is noteworthy that the park was one mile away from where Trevor once lived and yet this was his first time to this park.  Though he could have told you where all the bars where back then.

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Trevor Lamb in Liverpool

Race to 100

It’s getting really really close.

Karen McMaster (AKA Team Chair) is at 79 parkruns as off 30/04/16.
Allan Grant (AKA Team Barcode) is at 77 parkruns as off 30/04/16.
Trevor Lamb (AKA Team Wolf) is at 77 parkruns as off 30/04/16.
Glenda Murray (AKA Team Devious) is at 77 parkruns as off 30/04/16.

#Raceto100

Seapark charity parkrun challenge

We now have 18 confirmed participants for the 22 NI parkrun challenge as Nicola Irvine has joined Seapark AC and the 22 challenge.

As of 30/04/16 there are 36 parkruns left to the end of the year (if you count Christmas Day).  Plenty of time to do all 22.

Derek Kane (14)
Antrim, Carrickfergus, Comber, Ecos, Falls, Larne, Limavady, Ormeau, Queens, Stormont, Valley, Victoria, Wallace & Waterworks.

Glenda Murray (14)
Antrim, Bangor, Carrickfergus, Comber, Craigavon, Ecos, Larne, Ormeau, Queens, Stormont, Valley, Victoria, Wallace & Waterworks.

Bobbie Irvine (13)
Antrim, Carrickfergus, Citypark, Comber, Ecos, Larne, Ormeau, Queens, Stormont, Valley, Victoria, Wallace & Waterworks.

Karen Waring (13)
Antrim, Bangor, Carrickfergus, Colin Glen, Comber, Ecos, Ormeau, Queens, Stormont, Valley, Victoria, Wallace & Waterworks.

Allan Grant (12)
Antrim, Carrickfergus, Comber, Cookstown, Larne, Ormeau, Queens, Stormont, Valley, Victoria, Wallace & Waterworks.

Nicola Irvine (12)
Antrim, Carrickfergus, Citypark, Comber, Ecos, Larne, Ormeau, Queens, Stormont, Valley, Victoria & Wallace.

Trevor Lamb (12)
Antrim, Carrickfergus, Comber, Ecos, Larne, Ormeau, Queens, Stormont, Valley, Victoria, Wallace & Waterworks.

Alan Poag (11)
Antrim, Bangor, Carrickfergus, Ecos, Larne, Queens, Stormont, Valley, Victoria, Wallace & Waterworks.

Robert Murray (10)
Antrim, Carrickfergus, Craigavon, Ecos, Larne, Queens, Valley, Victoria, Wallace & Waterworks.

Alison Welsh (9)
Bangor, Carrickfergus, Ecos, Ormeau, Queens, Stormont, Valley, Victoria & Waterworks.

Julie Kelly (7) 
Bangor, Ecos, Queens, Stormont, Valley, Victoria & Waterworks.

Rebecca Tester (7)
Antrim, Armagh, Bangor, Carrickfergus, Colin Glen, Ecos & Victoria.

Geraldine Kane (5)
Ecos, Queens, Valley, Victoria & Wallace.

Michael Kane (5) 
Bangor, Carrickfergus, Ecos, Victoria & Wallace.

Mark Welsh (5)
Bangor, Ecos, Ormeau, Valley & Victoria.

Colin McCrum (3)
Antrim, Carrickfergus & Victoria.

Megan Kane (0)

Carol Woods (0) 

The two charities are Brainwaves NI and Macmillian Cancer Support. Remember that if each of the two charities reaches the £2500 target then Michael Kane and Trevor Lamb will get their legs waxed and then run a 10K with nice waxed legs. You know that the suffering of others will make you feel better so dig deep.

Just Giving

#AllNIparkruns2016.

Andy’s parkrun challenge 2016.

March saw the return of Andy’s parkrun challenge. Between 26/03/16-29/10/16 participants have 32 weeks to complete three different parkruns, plus volunteer at Carrickfergus at least once. The parkruns are Carrickfergus, Larne and the third one will be any of the participants own choosing. Age grade percentage will decide the winner.

#APC2016