Run Sandymoor Weekly Report
Week Commencing 27/01/2025
Events this Week:
⭐️ Saturday: parkruns
⭐️ Saturday: Halewood 5K
⭐️ Saturday: Pendle Way in a Day 45 mile ultramaraton
Roll of Honour:
🏃🏻♂️ Dec Murphy: Ran 100.7 miles this week and a back-to-back 100+ mile week!
🏃🏽♀️ Dawn Wortley: Ran 27.5 miles this week
⛰️ Gaz Tootle: King of the Hills with 6,732 feet
⛰️ Arianwen AP-Carreg: Queen of the Hills with 1,269 feet
🏃🏻♂️ Gaz Tootle: Ran the longest distance run of 44.4 miles during his ultramaraton race
👏 Dec Murphy: Completed his January Calendar Run Challenge, completing 496 km (308.2 miles)
👏 Katie Davidson: Became the lastest female to join the sub-21 5K club
Katie Davidson: Best ever ever parkrun time whilst at Birkenhead parkrun (20:55 -51s) Teleri Jones: Best ever ever parkrun time whilst at Phoenix parkrun (26:43 -7:09)
Hannah McCausland: Princes parkrun course best (35:51 -35s) Carl Pratt: equalled Phoenix parkrun course best (20:53)
Steve Thompson: 1st M40 at Halewood 5K John Myers 1st place at Phoenix parkrun
Jack Kenwright 2nd place at Phoenix parkrun
Steve Thompson: 3rd overall at Halewood 5K Katie Davidson: 3rd female at Birkenhead parkrun out of 320 females Teleri Jones 3rd female at Phoenix parkrun
Men’s Distance:
🥇 100.7m Dec Murphy
🥈 56.1m Jack Kenwright
🥉 50.2m Mike Sherwin
48.8m Gaz Tootle
44.8m Steve Thompson
43.6m Matt Haslam
Women’s Distance:
🥇 27.5m Dawn Wortley
🥈 25.5m Katie Hankey
🥉 25.1m Linda Moore 24.6m Karren Bannon
100+ miles in one week:
⭐️ Considering that Dec Murphy has ran a second back-to-back 100 miles in a week (Monday to Sunday), here is the updated club record table:
Distance sequence:
🥇Darran Wilson is the current holder of the club record for the most miles ran in one week. Lorraine Richardson remains the only female to have ran more than 100 miles in one week and she has achieved this twice! Lorraine was also the very first club member to achieve this feet in June 2018. 143.9m Darran Wilson (01/09/2019) 141.9m Gaz Tootle (01/09/2019) 134.4m Gaz Tootle (04/09/2022) 125.4m Darran Wilson (30/05/2021) 116.6m Iain Bethune (25/08/2019) 105.5m Darran Wilson (20/01/2019) 105.3m Iain Bethune (07/07/2019) 102.1m Mike Sherwin (30/01/2022) 101.5m Lorraine Richardson (24/06/2018) 100.7m Dec Murphy (02/02/2025) ⭐️ New entry ⭐️ 100.6m Lorraine Richardson (26/05/2019) 100.1m Daz Sankey (16/02/2020) 100.1m Dec Murphy (25/01/2025) ⭐️ Last week ⭐️ 100.0m Iain Bethune (04/08/2019)
King of the Hills:
🥇 6.732ft Gaz Tootle
🥈 4,376ft Dec Murphy
🥉 2.166ft Steve Thompson 1,800ft Matt McDermott 1,749ft Jack Kenwright
Queen of the Hills:
🥇 1,269ft Arianwen AP-Carreg
🥈 1,163ft Dawn Wortley
🥉 1,059ft Faye Bannon
Distance Runs (15m+):
⭐️ 44.4m Gaz Tootle
⭐️ 15.0m Jack Kenwright
⭐️ 14.0m Linda Moore
parkruns
Key: = Best ever parkrun, = Course PB, 
= Course 1st, 
= milestone = Gender top three places
Birkenhead parkrun:
19:46 Mike Sherwin 20:55 Katie Davidson (3rd female) (Best ever -51s) ⭐️ First ever sub-21 time! ⭐️
Cheadle Hulme parkrun: 48:48 If Onyia
Croxteth Hall parkrun: 30:10 Clive Morrison
Delemere parkrun ("B" course - up to Old Pale and back down TWICE!): 36:18 Paul Quigley
Ormskirk parkrun: 35:45 Jennifer Corkill
Phoenix parkrun: 18:29 John Myers (1st place) 19:08 Jack Kenwright (2nd place) 20:53 Carl Pratt = (equalled course PB) 21:53 Peter Marsland 26:43 Teleri Jones (3rd female) (Course best -7:09) (Best ever -7:09) 30:50 Bob Block 31:47 Christine Loynes 31:56 Ken Smith 32:04 Louise Norcross 32:05 Louise McAdam 32:43 Emma Fraser 33:00 Melvin Dua 34:03 Dave Forshaw 34:33 Olive Hall 38:48 Alison Langton 45:29 Les McAdam
Princes parkrun: 35:51 Hannah McCausland (Course best -35s)
Trentham Gardens parkrun: 25:22 Esme Joynson 29:33 Harrison Wilde 32:31 Kate Joynson 33:43 Joe Wilde
Warrington parkrun: 36:01 Andrea Kelly
Updated 5K Club Records:
⭐️ Considering that Katie Davidson is the latest female club member to run a 5K distance under 21 minutes, here is the updated 5K club record lists:
Women's sub-21 times: 20:36 Chloe Holman 20:39 Chloe Holman 20:43 Chloe Holman 20:55 Katie Davidson ⭐️ New entry ⭐️ 20:57 Hayley Metcalfe 20:58 Emma Fraser 20:58 Louise Norcross 20:59 Chloe Holman 20:59 Emma Fraser
Katie has earned this personal best sub-21 time with her dedicated and focused training plan. So, congratulations to her for achieving this outstanding goal.
Men's sub-17 times: 16:39 Steve Thompson 16:48 Steve Thompson 16:52 John Myers 16:54 Aaron Spenceley 16:55 Steve Thompson 16:55 John Myers 16:56 John Myers 16:57 Aaron Spenceley
Halewood 5K:
Key: = PB, = Age Category top three places 17:10 Steve Thompson (3rd overall) (1st M40) 20:38 Peter Marsland 28:49 Clive Morrison
Pendle Way in a Day 45 mile ultramarathon
10:08:51 Gaz Tootle Gaz ran 5 miles further than the Warrington Way Ultramarathon and his elevation gain was a mindblowing 
6,601 feet! This is definitely one of the more challenging ultramaratons out there!
January Calendar Run Challenge
Dec Murphy For each day in January, Dec ran the same number of kilometers as its day number. So, he began with running just one kilometer on the first day and thirty-one kilometers on the last day. During this epic challenge that got progressively more challenging each day, he ran 496 kilometers (308.2 miles) during the month of January.
Also, on his last full week of this challenge he ran 161 kilometers, which is equivalent to 100 miles in a week. He therefore joined the 100 miles in a week club.
Let's not forget the weather in January either! We had snow and soon after plenty of ice. We even had a couple of storms too! However, Dec remained focused and got the job done.
On Saturday 1st February, Dec rested. However the following day on Sunday 2nd February, he ran another 10 miles or so, which enabled him to complete a back-to-back 100+ mile week and therefore he has now entered the 100 mile in a week club for the second time!
Congratulations Dec!
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Well done to everyone that ran with and/or for the club this week, especially considering the icy conditions we’ve been experincing.