Week Ending - 2025/07/12

COX'S SHINE AT ABBEY PARK

Badgers are always normally hot when it comes to Parkrun, and on Saturday it was the father and daughter duo of Mark & Mia Cox, who made the journey to the East Midlands to take on Abbey  Park Parkrun. The course is renowned for fast times given it's flat profile and ideal terrain, and Cox who has been and still is a major contributer to the men's team in Leicestershire Road Running League, came away with a fabulous new PB of 18:02. To put this into context Cox has clocked up over 100 Parkruns in his career,  and this performance as a VET40 shows that he's breaking more barriers and continuing as strong as ever. There was a double celebration as up-and-coming rising star Mia Cox clocked a  PB at the same course of 21:39, finishing in the top 30 and achieving 2nd overall female on the 

day! The 14-year-old athlete, who predominantly this season has completed on the track for  Nuneaton Harriers, shaved off over a minute from her last Parkrun PB set at Tamworth last  December. A wonderful achievement for the youngster and a sign of much bigger things to come for sure.  

Elsewhere, there was a strong contingent of Badgers heading over to Tamworth Castle Grounds Parkrun, where the ever-reliable Ryan Preece 'Preecey' finished in 2nd Place in 17:43. Just under 30 seconds behind first place, keeping up his strong year. Next back in 6th  place was Adrian Payne, the tenacious talisman who is a vital cog of the Badgers machine across all areas, and ran his fastest at Tamworth with a 19:01 Clocking. Glyn Broadhurst was next to return in 19:29, coming in 9th place. The always reliable Matt Green darted back in 21:30 to finish in the top 30, and Mark Coggan followed in a minute later with 22:23. Megan Griffiths  finished 3rd overall Lady with a time of 23:40,  continuing her fine form, ever popular David  Craig came in at 24:26. Rachael Browne  Continues her fine comeback with a superb  24:49, and she was followed closely by Janey  Barrett in 24:51. Talented youngsters Dan Ash  kept up his streak of parkruns with a 24:52  clocking, and this led home many more Badgers including Jim Cottom in 25:06 and Ashley 'T Dogg' Taylor in 25:35. Sam Starkey came in at  25:42, and he could barely breath before  Thomas Ash crossed the tape in 26:01. Leon  Millership strode round the course in 27:51, Ian  Cooper came in next in 28:38, with Rhys  Hopwood clocking in at 28:54. Judy Parkes &  her partner Adrian Parkes came in 29:24 & 29:25  respectively. The ever supportive halo of Sharon  Jackson was next through in 29:36, and Hyrox enthusiast Sara Wilson came in strong just a click behind in 29:37. Birmingham City fan Paul  Restall also ran 29:37, and David Ash came in to complete the Badger takeover of Tamworth in  41:09.  

The Club also had a strong following at  Kingsbury Parkrun; Michael Garrett was first back in 21:52, a super run coming 4th overall in his age category and a top 20 finish. Next back was Paul Wallace in 25:53, followed a minute later by first lady back for the club in Jill Miller,  the ever popular run leader running 27:00. Suzy  Farrell ran strong and came in at 27:13, and  Erica Bassford was just 5 seconds back in  27:18. Paul Cooper came home in 28:38,  followed by Mark Reynolds in 30:27, Alice  Belcher Continues her solid season with 32:01,  while Vicki Brunsdon secured a superb course  PB of 32:05. Last but not least was Michael Moulton in 42:20.  

Over at Brackenhurst Campus Parkrun in the lovely surroundings of Newark & Sherwood, we had 4 Badgers in action. David Grant came in the top 40 with a time of 24:18; his partner Yvonne also ran and finished in 28:00. She also ran in the Rasselbock Mini Race, tackling the 8.5km course in 51:20, taking in the beautiful surroundings of Sherwood Forest. Michelle  Carter & Mervyn Jones ran 40:04 to finish off some fine performances.  

Meanwhile, it was a Badger First Place at  Solihull, at Babbs Mill, as Chris Horton had a solo run in to win in 18:32.  Over at Princes Park Parkrun in Liverpool, we had the lone ranger in Carl Ford who ran 30:51, and doubled up his success the next day by running in the Runthrough Aintree 10k, in 66:49,  both times setting Course PBs.  Finally, Emma Masser was in action at the  Spartan 5k fun run event, crossing in 56:00.