Portsmouth News

Wallace is first home in Cams Hall 5k run

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The latest Fareham parkrun included 85-year-old Peter Adams on the finishing list.

Adams, based closed to the Cams Hall Estate course, came home in a time of 34:09 and was 153rd of the 206 overall finishers

Heading up what was the fourth successive week of 200 or more finishers at Fareham was Thomas Wallace in a time of 18:00.

Cornwall-based St Austell Running Club's Laura

Anning led the way for the females on what was her first-ever visit to the Fareham event (21:13).

Havant parkrun will bring up a sizeable milestone in just a couple of weeks' time.

The long-standing

Staunton Country Park event, first launched in 2012, has been staged 448 times, with the magical 450 mark now on the horizon.

In the latest running over the bank holiday weekend, a total of 224 finishers made their way around the 5k distance, with Mark Bicknell leading the way in a personal course best time (18:41).

Victory AC runner Hannah Lowry - also managing a course personal best time was 10th overall and the first female home (21:12).

At the Lee-on-the-Solent parkrun, there were more than 400 finishers for the fifth time this year.

Only on two other occasions in 2022 has the seafront course seen higher numbers than the 426 who made it back.

First-time visitor Giles Oldershaw headed up what was a packed promenade of runners (17:54).

Gosport Road Runners' regular Lee course entrant, Nikki Moxham, was the first female (19:32).

Egdon Heath Harriers'

Matt Papa posted a speedy time of 15:59 to make it back first of the identical number of 371 finishers from the previous week at the seafront Southsea parkrun.

Alice Burch (Southampto­n AC) managed a pb time and was first female (19:20).

There were 204 and 102 finishers at the remaining two inter-city parkruns - at Portsmouth Lakeside and Great Salterns respective­ly.

Peter Newman (17:59) was first to finish at the latter event, with City of Portsmouth AC’s Katie Carew-Robinson (18th) first woman in (22:33)

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