BUGLE 13-01-2017
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THE King parkrun kicked off in<br />
style this past Saturday with a<br />
few visitors from EL and Stutt<br />
but the big surprize and pleasure<br />
was having two International<br />
visitors from Germany/England<br />
.<br />
Even more amazing was the<br />
amount of parkruns to their<br />
names .<br />
David Venter has done a staggering<br />
314 parkruns in total. He has<br />
attended 85 different parkruns<br />
all over the world over a period<br />
of 8 years.<br />
'He has also volunteered on<br />
numerous occasions and has has<br />
a personal best time of 20.08<br />
minutes,' said King parkrun<br />
director, Mike Webb.<br />
His partner, Ingrid Wagner has<br />
done 316 runs also over 90<br />
parkruns also all over the world!<br />
'She is also a regular volunteer,'<br />
added Mike.<br />
David came in to finish in a time<br />
of 25.53 in 8th position with<br />
Ingrid in 29.34 (2nd lady home)<br />
.<br />
'What was really special was that<br />
after their runs they stayed on<br />
and cheered in our local runners<br />
as well!<br />
'True spirit of parkrun,' said Mike.<br />
Local speedies Sizwe Ngqoba<br />
THE <strong>BUGLE</strong> FRIDAY <strong>13</strong> JANUARY 2<strong>01</strong>7<br />
Parkrun 2<strong>01</strong>7 kicks off with an international flavour<br />
INTERNATIONAL FLAVOUR: King parkrun director Mike Webb (left) with David<br />
Venter and Ingrid Wagner who competed in last Saturdays King parkrun<br />
and Kim Williams proved that<br />
the festive season break did no<br />
harm to them, winning their<br />
categories.<br />
'Overall we had ten personal best<br />
times at our first parkrun for<br />
2<strong>01</strong>7,' said Mike.<br />
Many new and 'long time no see'<br />
runners were out on the course<br />
this Saturday and this bodes well<br />
for the year .<br />
'Well done to all and lets make<br />
parkrun King grow to new<br />
heights this year!<br />
'We would like to extend a big<br />
thanks to all our volunteers for<br />
their assistance over the last 45<br />
runs.<br />
'Special mention needs to be<br />
made of Tony Garde who came<br />
out on Christmas Eve and New<br />
Years Eve and ran the route solo<br />
for the fun of it.... as he said.<br />
'He came in '1st , 2nd and<br />
3rd both times,' joked Mike.<br />
Also a huge thanks to our faithful<br />
Water station lady Jill Jakob who<br />
fell and broke her wrist just after<br />
Christmas and was out there on<br />
Saturday to assist as always<br />
A big thanks must also go to Red<br />
Alert who have agreed to station<br />
a reaction unit at the parkrun<br />
every week free of charge .'See<br />
you all again on Saturday,'<br />
concluded Mike.
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