Week Ending - 2023/02/05

BADGERS SETT FOR A BRIGHT FUTURE

Long-time Badger club members Holly and Andy Smith and regular park runners came to the decision 18 months ago that what their area needed was a junior parkrun event to enable local children to participate in a regular outside activity. Fast forward (or more like slow forward) 18 months and with the help of Badgers past and present as well as many other like-minded people Riversley park junior parkrun Nuneaton was borne. These junior events take place every Sunday morning at 9am and along with junior xc races which take place before the main xc league races are the perfect places for budding junior Badgers to hone their running skills before they make the step up to the main Badger sett.

Badgers parkrun tourism this month saw a plethora of Badgers join over 600 like-minded people at Cannon Hill parkrun to celebrate Ashley 'T Dogg' Taylors' 200th parkrun. Further afield other notable performances included the flying Megan Griffiths who followed up last weeks parkrun pb with another clocking a magnificent 23:06 knocking 5 seconds of last week's time to finish top lady once again. Sharon Jackson (6) and Jill Miller (7) also made the top ten ladies. Pb's were also the order of the day elsewhere with Adam MCelhone 24:20 at Babbs Mill and Anne Devenney 32:12 at Beacon both set course pb's. Mother and daughter Maggie and Anna Savin-Baden managed to finish within two positions of each other and just over a minute apart without so much as a pat on the back or a hello, the fact that they were 100's of miles apart at different parkruns may have had something to do with this.

Away from parkrun continental Badger Justin Haywood tackled the Algarve Extreme trail event. With a distance of 16km and and elevation gain of 3500ft, Justin said it was probably the toughest event he had ever done but I think I know where I'd rather be.