10/11/2025
PEGASUS parkrun EVENT456 REPORT.
Alex Witt celebrated his 50th parkrun by leading the field home (only the 17th time he's claimed 1st position here)
To be fair though he was kept honest by Dillon Bennett smashing out a new PB for his 25th parkrun and by First Time Visitor, Luke Mansell - these guys were our never-a-podium-at-parkrun first three finishers.
Brooke Fortune also celebrated her 50th in similar manner, outpacing the other ladies, including Aliena Gray (who we hope has returned to the fold) and Sophie Batt (making her Pegasus debut after trying 6 other SI events).
The Juniors were led in by Eli Patterson, George Yagmich and Amelia Patterson, well done Young 'Uns.
MILESTONES & STEPPING STONES
Is your First Time Ever at parkrun a Milestone? You bet it is!! Congratulations to Sean Bode, Michelle Power, Toni Talbot, Christine Jackson, Toby James and Keri Lockwood - you've done what many others haven't done yet, you've completed your first parkrun and banked that 5km, well done and welcome.
J10 - Kyrah Beaumont celebrated her Junior10
R25 - Heather Jones ran a PB for her 25th and I've already mentioned Dillon Bennett
R50 - Alex Witt and Brooke Fortune, well done you two. Also Giles Witt and Warwick Cassidy achieved their 50th , excellent stuff guys.
R200 - a Mighty SteppingStone for Debbie Wilson and now the green shirt is in sight for next year.
Actually that green 250 shirt beckons for a good number of our parkrunners in 2026, I'm predicting at least 12!
AGE GRADED RESULTS
We had a strong group in the +70% range - huge 👍 to Caren McKay, Amelia Patterson, Gwenda Johnson, Lynnley Driver, Brooke Fortune, Margy Gilpin, Lynette Elfick, Alex Ellerm, Luke Mansell, Alex Witt, Dillon Bennett, Russell Wordsworth and Eli Patterson.
While it's obvious that quite often our faster placegetters feature in this list, it is based on your percentage of the absolute fastest parkrunner in your personal age group & as was so adroitly pointed out to me if your AGR is somewhere in the 30% region then you are operating at better than 30% of other parkrunners your age. Positives at both ends of this scale.
PB
That bright red lettering was placed alongside these speedier than ever parkthletes:
Dillon (me again) Bennett, Simeon Patten-Wise, Darren (I can scan barcodes now) Watts, Lynette Elfick, Ollie Bond-Young, Akiko (no stopping me) Grounds, Hannah Buzan, Brendon Baddiley, Mark Yagmich, Dana Mulcahy, Olivia H, Emily Matthews, Natalie Howe, Heather Jones, Amanda Beck, Kristen Penney, Eddie Worsnop, Karolyn Forbes, Paul Ready and Carole Houghton- well done to all 20 of you.
FIRST TIME VISITORS
23 FTVs from as near as Hagley to as far as the U.K.
Welcome to Dean Harrison, Carl Edminstin, Kyra and Rebekah-Jae Beaumont (Foster), also to Brent and Margy Gilpin (Hagley), Sophie Batt and Ben Kerr (Blenheim), Jess Power (Dunedin), Luke Mansell (Waitangi), Gabriel Boyd (a Kiwi tourist), Harry Bryant (a tourist from the U.K) and Max Cory (has Max just moved here?)
I am drawing to a close but you all know there are some "special " times I like to include, and they are the
DUBBLYWUBBLY
Harry Bryant 45:45
PALINDROME
Karen Lindsay-Lees 45:54
FLATOUT
Sophie Batt 24:00 and Ann Furlong 34:00.
On parkrunday I thought we had 171 finishers, but we had a couple of double ups in the results so we ended up with 168 Happy Faces 😊
I'll look forward to seeing you all again this coming parkrunday.
There will be a couple of important announcements this week so keep an 👁 out for them.
The PegaScribe
