Over 400 Images taken at the finish of the Tamworth 5-mile 8-kilometre running race are available on Facebook here – meanwhile a few previews:
300 runners took part in the 10-mile trail race known as Brooksie’s Bash starting at 10 am on a dull sumer Sunday morning from Foremark in Derbyshire, England. A small number also took part in a 5km MiniBash at the same time. Later, the sun came out. Our main album was taken at the finish line with individual runner portraits for all but 6 of the 292 runners. Some 300 photos of finishers of the 10-mile Bash are posted on the Photochippy.com Facebook page here: Here’s one of them:
Also, photos of the pre-starts and of the two 10-mile starts are here on Facebook The first start was a “Gun-time” start, for the faster runners all to go together; ten minutes later, the main body made individual timed starts using the green Dibbing start sensors and transponders provided. SOme sense of the fun atmosphere may be gleaned from this albym, like this crowd below in their amazing fancy dress!
Just 15 photos of the 5k MiniBash are on a separate Facebook album here:
At the FREE timed weekly 5km event of Saturday 1st July 2023, lots of volunteers enabled 435 people to walk, jog, run or even sprint the 3-plus mile route of the trails of Conkers parkrun. Here are photos of a number of the volunteers – apologies to those I missed!
A small album of images is on Facebook here
On coronation day, 204 people finished the FREE 9am Saturday weekly 5km parkrun and parkwalk at the Leicester England Abbey Park recreation area. Many of the volunteers – who set up, service, marshal all the participants, time them in, issue tokens, process the results and times, and all the other things needed for a successful event – are shown in a short album here on Facebook
Find a full album of 616 images of 1500 runners here on Facebook
As well as Ian the Gorilla, we had some other interesting displays:
This new event venue hosted a near-10k cross-country race with a couple of hundred runners starting at 11 am for the Leicestershire Road Runners League. The Alton Grange venue made for a two-lap route through the nearby QE Diamond Jubilee Wood, DJW, planted by the Woodland Trust in 2012 to celebrate the 60th year of the reign of HM Queen Elizabeth II. Since then the area has matured into a fine woodland leisure facility with a mature lake and birdlife.
The PhotoChippy cameras were at the South end of the route, adjacent to the lakeside. Two different cameras were used, one on each lap. Not all the runners were photographed due to handling issues, but a good selection of 477 portraits are to be found here on Facebook PhotoChippy.com
537 people finished the FREE 562nd weekly timed 5km walk / jog / run / whatever at 9 am at the Conkers Waterside’s parkrun course in Leicestershire, England on Saturday 11th February 2023. This was a special event, with the SDRR – South Derbyshire Road Runners – club members filling the volunteer positions AND providing 15 pacers labelled with times between 18.5 and 45 minutes. The PhotoChippy camera was positioned for most of these images about 50 metres beyond the start line, and from 09:07 over the next Three minutes took these 186 images of the participants now in an album on Facebook @photochippy.com
408 people finished the FREE 523rd weekly timed 5km walk / jog / run / whatever at 9 am at the Conkers Waterside’s parkrun course in Leicestershire, England on Saturday 28th May 2022. This was a special event, for the 4th Saturday “5k My Way” team helping those whose lives are touched by Cancer. Initially taking portraits of the volunteers from 8:30 am, the PhotoChippy camera was then positioned about 50 metres beyond the start line, and from 09:07 over the next Three minutes took these 145 images of the participants now in an album on Facebook @photochippy.com
439 people finished the FREE 517th weekly timed 5km walk / jog / run / whatever starting at 9 am at the Conkers Waterside’s “Ennstone Trail” in Leicestershire, England on Saturday 16th April 2022. This was a special Birthday event, exactly 11 years from the inaugural parkrun on 16th April 2011. The PhotoChippy camera was positioned about 50 metres from the start line, and over the next Three minutes took these 145 images of the participants now in an album on Facebook @photochippy.com
Find a full album of 500 images here on Facebook PhotoChippy.com
Also, a further 56 images are here on Facebook showing the fun at the Normanton Water Station on the Ashby 20 route, where water bottles and toilets were provided for the runners. The station was manned by colleagues from Conkers parkrun
There are now 235 photos of the 106 WInter Bash runners up here on our Photochippy.com Facebook page
Entre nous le deluge.. There was industrial-grade heavy rain, at the set-up of the FREE weekly timed 5km run at Conkers Leicestershire, England, on the last Saturday in October, the darkest morning of the Autumn with clocks due to return to English WInter Time (UTC or GMT) early on Sunday. 35 volunteers, many in fancy dress, made possible the adventures of 265 people who braved the course to run or jog or walk or fly their broomstick or whatever, on the day of the venue’s wettest ever incarnation, the trails nicely laced with lakes and ponds and puddles.
See a full set of 77 images here on Facebook – meanwhile, below is Janet Potter, turning up at 8:45 am undaunted to march out in the rain to marshal the route on her milestone 250th Volunteering session at Conkers. Thank you, Janet, and all our volunteers!
