MOIRA Celebrates Greenock Parkrun MilestoneGREENOCK parkrun welcomed 103 participants on Saturday morning at the Esplanade.
Among them were nine people completing the Greenock course for the first time. Three parkrun regulars took part in a bit of ‘parkrun tourism’ and made their first visit to Greenock on Saturday. The local team hope that Ian Berry-Bowers (Winchester, 274 runs) Sinclair Hill (Gala, 51 runs) and Nick Clark (Reading, 201 runs) enjoyed their visit to Greenock.
The warm and dry conditions were ideal for fast times with 19 people achieving a personal best (PB). Among them was Stephen Harrison who achieved a five-second improvement to drop his time to 19:36.
Kenny Scott achieved his first personal best since December by knocking four seconds off to reach a time of 23:11. James Sutherland and Douglas McEwen both achieved their 3rd PB in a row. The two runners have made great strides in the last month to improve by around a minute each.
Parkrunners must normally complete 50 runs before they earn a ‘milestone t-shirt’ but junior runners only have to complete 10. Young Lewis Scott has now earned his milestone 10 shirt. Lewis runs parkrun most weeks with his mum, Romina who has completed more than 120 runs.
Moira McLuckie also achieved a milestone run by completing 50 parkruns, all of which she has run at Greenock. She celebrated by running her fastest time this year.
Two of Greenock’s run directors, Stuart Austin and John Stevenson were looking for a stiffer challenge than their normal Saturday morning 5k. Both men completed the Highland Fling 53 mile ultra-marathon on the West Highland Way from Milngavie to Tyndrum. They were cheered across the finish line after many hours of running by their families as well as friends from Greenock parkrun.
Greenock parkrun is a flat five-kilometre time trial which takes place at 9:30 every Saturday morning on the Esplanade. Participants of all standards are welcome to join in for fun and fitness.
