With the first of the MTRs taking place this weekend there was little racing taking place to report on today and so its a short report. But it was great to see 34 of our runners out at parkrun and a trio tackle the London Winter 10k.
Parkrun round up
With many of us committed to marshalling duties on Sunday, most runners made a solid effort to combine their weekend training plans, adding parkrun on to their longer training runs.
Dunstable Downs Parkrun
Dunstable Downs appeared to be the place to be this Saturday A fantastic turnout saw 18 out of 76 runners at Dunstable, come from GVH, with at least half of them running 10 to 15 miles just to get there! Well done to everyone involved! And an especially big shout out to Jono Marval celebrating his 100th Parkrun. Well done!!
Lets run all the way to Dunstable
And what an impressive set of results! Despite the muddy , slippery conditions. Tom Evans finished in 5th place, Russ Jones took 6th, Teresa Reason came in 9th (and was the 2nd female finisher), and Andrew Wells finished 10th with a new PB. Following hot on their heals were Simon Morris (12th), Simon Wheeler (14th), Jono (15th) and Nick Jospeh in (19th) – completing a very impressive set of top 2o finishers. Well done too to James Birnie on a new PB at Dunstable. Full details below
Results from Dunstable parkrun
Rickmansworth Parkrun
Those that preferred to stay away from Mud and hills, chose mainly to take on Ricky, where Stuart Gallagher, despite running there,finished in an impressive 7th position.
He was closely followed by Stephen Newing, Andy Cook and Dylan. Amanda Barker was our first lady home followed by Paul Reilly
Elsewhere
The Woollett family went to Houghton Parkrun. Congratulations Guy Woollett on a 5th place finish and a new PB. Martha and Max Woollett ran at Houghton for the first time. Running with them was Vince Ellerby. Well done all
Michael Linden took a great 3rd place finish at Gadebridge parkrun. Running in the mud with him was Anthony Fogden. Kitty had a great run at Cassiobury park, Rachel Haffenden ran at Princes Parkrun in Liverpool for the first time and finally Rob Hawkes ran at Harrow.
London Winter 10k
Deborah celebrating her new PB
We had 3 runners take on the London Winter 10k, in support of Cancer research UK. Its always a beautiful route promising live music performances, larger-than-life winter characters, and world famous landmarks.
Well done to Deborah Fogden who finished in 55:01 ,breaking her 10k PB once again. Congratulations too to Rich Peters for a 1:02:13 and Peter Green 1:03:22, who also grabbed himself a new shinny PB! 
MTR
Finally a huge shout out to Simon Wallis ,who pulled together the first of this years MTRs yesterday. From advertising the event to rounding up club members to Marshall and man water stations, its requires a huge amount of organisation. Thank -you Simon! We had 300 happy runners sign up and some great feedback from them in person and on our social media.