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Goofee
Goofee
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57.5 Degrees of Pain wrote:I have two 5k 'victories' over former world record holder Dave Moorcroft. And if you average the age of his replacement hip with the rest of him we must be about the same age, right?


I have a 5k victory over DM too, at Prospect in a freedom run. He was recovering from surgery, if I recall correctly...
paulcook
paulcook
3 Oct
11:35am, 3 Oct 2024
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I beat Uriah Rennie (plus 3 other football referees) at the Sheffield HM in 2002.
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
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Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
I beat Sophie Rayworth at Bath half, I did wait at the finish to congratulate her ;-)
Ness
Ness
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:)
Dibble
Dibble
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Dibble
I once overtook Kelly Holmes on the bike part of a duathlon. She soon raced past me on the following run though!
Fizz :-)
Fizz :-)
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1:22pm, 3 Oct 2024
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Fizz :-)
I’ve beaten Nigel Mansell at Silverstone.

(10k road race)
Jason1969
Jason1969
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Dave Moorcroft is another splendid fellow. He unveiled my mum's memorial bench at Leamington parkrun.
paulcook
paulcook
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paulcook
That’s a great claim to fame Fizz.

(He’s one of the nicest men I’ve met to boot)
Meep Meep
Meep Meep
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1:42pm, 3 Oct 2024
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Meep Meep
There used to be an Olympian who frequented my parkrun.

He was an utter knob. Shouted at a teenage girl once so much that she cried. Bizarre behaviour. The ED told me he basically had to fill in an incident report every single time he attended.
Windsor Wool
Windsor Wool
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Windsor Wool
One year at VLM Gordon Ramsay cut right across me at a drinks station and bashed in to me. He gave me a polite 'look where you are going you f***kin c**t'. I suppose that's staying in character for you!!

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Maintained by Hendo
A discussion of all things parkrun.

Here's a wiki giving brief reviews of parkruns up and down the land:

fetcheveryone.com/article-view.php?id=545

parkruns with restart permission: google.com

Note: Hendo is a boy.

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