Submitted by Bill Post
Summer is here as high humidity but luckily cloudy skies greeted our 92 participants who ran, jogged and walked the 3.1-mile course along the beautiful shore of Lake Minneola. This week we had 17 first timers and 20 runners recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 8 different clubs took part and as usual, we had a good number of visitors from the U.K. along with runners from St Petersburg, Russia join us this week!
The first male to finish was a first-time visitor, Alex Penfold, representing the Croydon Harriers club with a very impressive time of 17:38. Kevin Grogan one of our regular top runners took second with another great time of 18:01 followed in the third position by Clermont regular, Scott Murphy who set a new PB with a time of 18:13.
On the ladies side, our Clermont Junior runners were well represented as they took the top 3 spots. Alexis Hill was the first female to cross the line with a nice time of 22:14, while Reagan Parks was second at 22:26 and Mackenzie Hill rounded out the top three at 22:56. Great job today by all of our participants!
We received some very nice comments from one of our visitors this past week – “I would just like to say a huge thanks for a great parkrun event last Saturday. Your event really embraces everything parkrun should be and you should be very proud of the event you have.” Don’t miss out on this great free event !
This free run was made possible by our 13 volunteers:
Rissie THIELER • Bill POST • Frances POST • Cathy KYLE • Butch HOLT • Joe BENINGHOF • Mary SURPRENANT • Maureen MANNION • Carolyne TANNER • Emma MATTINGLY • Brenda WASHINGON
The Clermont Waterfront parkrun takes place every Saturday morning at 7:30 A.M. starting at Lake Hiawatha Preserve, 450 12th St, Clermont, FL 34711. Please come out and join us!
The Clermont parkrun is open to all levels of runners and walkers and is free, so if you are just starting out or if you are an accomplished runner there is always room for you. To get started go to our home page!
Please follow the link http://www.parkrun.us/clermontwaterfront/ to register for parkrun and get your personal barcode that you must bring each week and then we will keep track of all your free runs.
Today’s full results and a complete event history can be found on the Clermont Waterfront parkrun Results Page.
The female record is held jointly by Kate BAZELEY who recorded a time of 17:17 on February 20th, 2016 and by Ani VELTCHEVA who recorded a time of 17:17 on March 18th, 2017. The male record is held by Jonathan GLEN who recorded a time of 15:43 on August 6th, 2016.
Clermont Waterfront parkrun started on 27th April 2013. Since then 5,932 participants have completed 18,012 parkruns covering a total distance of 90,060 km, including 2,975 new Personal Bests.
