River Valley parkrun

  Pete captured this on Saturday morning in Clontarf No, we are not making up some new weird rhyme along the lines of Hands Knees Bumps-a-daisy. We are in fact referring to washing your Hands (the full happy birthday version), Wearing a mask on your Face not just in-doors but in crowded streets. Maintain your 2m distance even when wearing a mask. We all need to be extra cautious. The government advised that if you are planning on getting together as a family over the Christmas then you need to be extra cautious from last Friday.  If you need any other reason to be careful then you can talk to Brian McWeeney. Brian was diagnosed positive on Wednesday but as he said himself he didn't need a test to know he had it as he was very ill for two days. He has been recovering well since Friday and keeping a close eye on his temperature. Latest update is that Brian's temp has returned to normal for two days in a row now but he has to be have a normal temp 5 days in a row before he is all...

  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 ...

  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...

  #31 Diary of a War Correspondent It feels a bit like we are reporting on a conflict all week with news coming in on all fronts. The WhatsApp has been going bananas not just with our own crew but also with communications coming in from Tralee. Our posts to FAcebook are being shared far and wide and the competition is definitely hotting up! So where do we stand right now? Top number of participants: Tralee with 108 Top number of runs: River Valley with 204 Kerry vs North East Fingal aka Dublin: Dublin with 143. No time for Dublin to gloat. None of the Dublin parkruns are way above average with only being slightly up on previous weeks. Inch Beach on the other hand recorded their first runs since July when (not) parkrun started. We suspect they may get a bit more in the future. Likewise Killarney House are up this week and may build on that. The Dublin team has a weight advantage in the average number of runners but it is not an insurmountable challenge. All of this, of course, is at...