River Valley parkrun

  We are truly blessed with the weather the last few days as it has been both dry and mild. If you wanted to use the weather for an excuse for not getting your 5k in then you are out of luck. We get the impression that a lot of people are simply forgetting to log their runs. Maybe they think it doesn't matter as we can't top the table when up against Tralee and St Annes. However the reality is that we are still challenging on a number of fronts including the "potential performance" and the total number of runs.  Get 'em logged folks and at least put us in with a chance. Do we really want to fall behind Marlay and we can still overtake Erris!  Congrats on the Milestones A few people have passed the 50 mark when it comes to (not) parkruns but one person has hit that 100 runs and that is Stephen Reid. Huge congratulations Stephen! A quick glance and those with over fifty include Una O'RIORDAN Siobhan MCCARTHY Sigita ZONBERGA David Martin KELLY Teresa CARROLL Coli

  In the original competition of North East Fingal (aka Dublin) vs Kerry it is yet another win for Kerry. We had really hoped to wake up the Malahide crew but so far nothing to write home about. To those of you who are logging for Malahide do keep it up but also encourage your fellow Malahidians to start logging as we are fairly certain there are a lot more than 32 out running each week. Where's your f*%king pride So much for inspirational speeches! River Valley increased their total by a massive minus six on the previous week.  We might park the motivational speeches for now because our pride is locked up somewhere around Swords Central along with Pennys. The Country Table LOCATION PARKRUNNERS St Anne’s 204 Tralee 145 Clonbur Woods 129 Erris 94 River Valley 74 Bushy Dublin 40 Buncrana 36 Cabinteely 36 Marlay 35 Limerick 34 Malahide 32 Size isn't everything and we cannot look at St Annes and think they are only top because they are one of the biggest parkruns in the country. Th

  This week we started to hear serious news coming out about possible vaccines. Whatever about transmission rates and ICU bed occupancy the one thing that will see parkrun returning will be vaccines. It may well still be some time before they are certified for general use and even longer for the various manufacturers to actually make enough stock for it to reach us.  We are not saying there is light at the end of the tunnel but they have definitely completed the construction of the tunnel. For now we have to be content with virtual runs and (not) parkruns. The Inter County World Domination (not) parkrun table We can remember a time when the battle at the top of the table was between ourselves and the capital of the Kerry empire. They are just distant memories now. We can now sit back now knowing our race is done. There is no fight left in us and we will humbly retire and daydream of former glories! Like f*$k we will!!! Look at those numbers? 58 for River Valley. Let us have a quick rec

  A Big Park Delivers Big Numbers The record books were thrown out the window this week when St Anne's obliterated the opposition with a total of 205! LOCATION RUNNERS St Anne’s 205 Tralee 180 Clonbur Woods 130 Erris 84 River Valley 80 Marlay 42 Bushy Dublin 41 Buncrana 37 Make no mistake though it was a mighty effort from Tralee too with their highest finish yet. Well done St Anne's and well done to Tralee. However we do like to look at the performance figures and see who the real winners are!! LOCATION PARKRUNNERS (NOT)PARKRUNS Registrations AVG Finishers % of Avg Finishers Erris 84 162 1116 42.6 197.18% Clonbur Woods 130 171 688 95.9 135.56% Tralee 180 349 5813 199.1 90.41% River Valley 80 175 2193 103.3 77.44% Buncrana 37 61 950 56.6 65.37% St Anne’s 205 356 14587 335.8 61.05% Limerick 37 76 5965 106.8 34.64% Longford 27 33 2596 90 30.00% Hartstown 21 32 3373 76 27.63% Sligo 16 17 2945 58.9 27.16% Ardgillan 19 37 3930 76.8 24.74% It is only when you look at the percentage o

  Well St Anne's got well into the spirit this week. River Valley may not be able to compete with St Anne's or Tralee but we we can hold our head high in that it was our initial competition with Tralee that kicked all this off. We are currently in 5th place ahead of, surprisingly, Marlay with Bushy behind them again. We have to remember that parkrun is very much not a race but that in itself is why a little inter county/parkrun rivalry is completely harmless. Anyone can contribute, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are, it doesn't matter if you have never ran, it doesn't even matter if you have never taken part in a parkrun. (not) parkrun is for everyone.   There is no truth whatsoever in the rumour that Erris parkrun are using some extra incentives to get people out! We think we would lose a lot of River Valley people to Errris if this was true! We also noted that Event Director, Pádraig Brogan celebrated a birthday this week so a big happy birthday Pádraig. C