{"id":2416,"date":"2023-07-04T01:01:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T00:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.totleyac.org.uk\/?p=2416"},"modified":"2023-07-04T23:54:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T22:54:54","slug":"totley-parkrun-challenge-monsal-trail-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totleyac.org.uk\/2021_wp\/2023\/07\/04\/totley-parkrun-challenge-monsal-trail-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Totley Parkrun Challenge \u2013 Monsal Trail Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chris Heggs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As Bob Dorough famously once sang, \u201cthree is the magic number\u201d (as an aside the song was first released 50 years ago for those like me celebrating the big 5 \u2013 0 this year, and yes, I know it was later sampled by Del a Soul in 1989).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, where was I?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh yes, the third running of the Totley Parkrun Challenge (still not a cup) saw a magical gathering across the border where many of us completed a bit of parkrun tourism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Final reckoning shows that a record breaking 57 Totley runners donned the green (and in some cases the black) to participate on a sunlit June morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are unfamiliar with the course, it is an out and back from Hassop station, downhill towards Bakewell before you perform a full 180 and return uphill (always seems steeper up than on the way down?) to finish back at Hassop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What the event website doesn\u2019t mention is that under a prolonged period of dry weather, the first half mile becomes a dust bowl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we set off, in scenes reminiscent of a looney tunes cartoon, large plumes of footpath dust permeated the air, making visibility and breathing fresh air almost impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It didn\u2019t prevent the likes of Steve Franklin (unaware of the challenge taking place on the day and being so casual that he didn\u2019t even have a barcode) and Tom Hughes completing an impressive 1 \u2013 2 in the men\u2019s standings. But as always, Totley women showed the men how to do it with a spectacular 1-2-3-4-5-6 (Laura Allen, Jen Applegate, Caz Kay, Jen Featherstone, Sophie Middleton and Ellie Smith).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Age grade rankings saw Totley runners occupy three of the top five (Yvonne Twelvetree, Pat Goodall and Maggie Gorman).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matt Ridge and Scott Blanks continued their tried and tested pre \u2013 run preparations of drinking excessively on a Friday night, with somewhat mixed results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott somehow managed to fall over on an innocuous course and Matt certainly ran out of steam around the 2.5-mile point as yours truly glided majestically past him as intoxicating fumes infused the air no doubt released by Matt\u2019s pores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott redeemed himself somewhat by providing much needed post-race water bottles for runners, I\u2019m sure it was nothing to do with his own alcohol fuelled dehydration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once again, it was fantastic to see so many of us supporting the challenge initiative, finding time to catch up over a cuppa in the caf\u00e9 at the completion of the run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the fourth challenge, we are back running locally at Endcliffe Park (the closest we get to the trails in a Sheffield parkrun) on the 15th <\/sup>of July, where there is the promise of Anne Hegarty making her parkrun challenge debut as part of her birthday weekend celebrations, with the added incentive of a post-race picnic, cake, and perhaps even prosecco?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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