The PhotoChippy camera was available prior to the parkrun at Conkers on Saturday 28th August 2021 to take 88 portrait images of self-selecting runners and walkers which are on Facebook here
439 people finished the FREE 484th weekly timed 5km walk / jog / run / whatever starting at 9 am at the Conkers Waterside’s “Ennstone Trail” in Leicestershire, England on Saturday 28th August 2021. The PhotoChippy camera was positioned about 50 metres from the start line, and over the next Three and a half minutes took these 157 images of the participants now in an album on Facebook @photochippy.com at https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=PhotoChippy&set=a.4568632376515267
The PhotoChippy camera was at a vantage point by the wall-crossing steps at kilometre 2.5 on the Hob Hurst’s Fell Race 2021, starting at 7pm on the Friday evening. With evening sunshine behind, and the steps restricting bunching of runners, it’s likely that portraits of all the 230 participants are in this album of 458 photos on Facebook PhotoChippy.com – here. This annual 8km fell race is organised by Peak Running, details are at peakrunning.co.uk
The start of this FREE weekly timed 5 km run or walk – or jog or whatever, because parkrun is whatever you want it to be – was captured by the PhotoChippy camera on a mild but hazy morning. Those taking part are nearly all photographed in an album of 187 images on Facebook Photochippy.com, here
Since our last real free weekly timed 5k parkrun on 14th March 2020, the lure of the Conkers trails is still strong – a number of parkrun afficionados, running or walking their own individual routes, are often to be seen on Saturday mornings. Spring is here, although dull and overcast, and the PhotoChippy camera captured a few images of passing runners, walkers and cyclists – 86 of them are shown here on Facebook
40 Saturdays have now passed since our last real free timed 5k parkrun on 14th March 2020, and the lure of the Conkers trails is strong – a number of parkrun afficionados, running or walking their own individual non-parkrun 5k routes, chose to add a fancy-dress seasonal flavour for this last Saturday before the Winter Solstice and before Santa’s night next Thursday. From 9am until 9:45, the photochippy camera was at the canal turn to capture the style observed there. Strong winter low-angle sunshine was present, which proved a little challenging for runners heading South East and for the camera’s auto-exposure calculator.
The 164 best images are in a Facebook album, here:
The Leicester 10k running race took place on a sunny autumn morning at Prestwold in Leicestershire England on Sunday 25th October 2020. About 500 runners took part – Find a full album of nearly all the runners in over 800 photos here on Facebook PhotoChippy.com
At Carsington Reservoir, scene of the Carsington 7+ running race on 20 September 2020, I drove 50 miles and arrived, expecting to soon capture 580 runners in one of the few running events taking place this pandemic Autumn. This little spring would foil my efforts:
Carrying a sturdy monopod and a sturdy tripod, each in their own 90cm shoulder bags, carrying a portable seat and a backpack with some breakfast and fluid, it was important not to carry too much camera equipment. I took one pocket video camera, one DSLR body and only one zoom lens, which contained that tiny spring.
Continue readingAbout one-quarter of about 500 runners taking part in the Carsington Reservoir round-the-lake race in Derbyshire, England, on Sunday 20 September 2020 are shown here approaching mile marker 6 of the seven and-a-half mile course. The images are from a tiny lens in the back of a cell-phone after a total lens failure in the Photochippy normal camera. Hope the smiles on the runners’ faces make up for the poor image quality and for those who were missed ..
Find a full album of 198 images, here on Facebook PhotoChippy.com
Find a full album of 93 images from 2012, here on Facebook PhotoChippy.com
The 66th Conkers parkrun weekly timed run event took place in bright sunshine on Saturday 21st July 2012 at Conkers in Leicestershire, England. 93 People braved the 5 kilometre course in this FREE run or walk. Nearly all are seen here, some in odd behaviours like three-legged-race mode, egg-and-spoon-race, wheel-barrow race, even one runner choosing to SKIP with a skipping rope the whole way. These photos of nearly all the 93 participants are resurrected here in April 2020 on the 9th birthday of the event, which is currently not taking place during the health emergency.
You probably can guess why they cancelled this year’s annual Aldi Ashby 20, the renowned 20-mile Road-Running Race at Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, England. The race comes through Packington village 3 times, and provides a sport-photo opportunity. Here’s the one that PhotoChippy used as a launch event back in 2011, with images never before published..
Find a full album of 698 images from 2011, here on Facebook PhotoChippy.com
Find a full album of 106 images here on Facebook PhotoChippy.com
