Maribyrnong parkrun

We've got plenty of 'open' roles in our volunteer roster for the next few weeks, including a few for tomorrow's event:
🔹 number checker
🔹 parkwalker
🔹 photographer
🔹 finish tokens (now filled ✅)

If any of these roles - for tomorrow or another week - take your fancy and you're able to help out, please comment, send us a message or email [email protected].

Thanks to everyone who joined us for our 'white' themed 10th anniversary parkrun this morning. We're looking forward to the next 10 years!

We had 439 parkrunners who ran and walked this morning in event #444 on 24/8/24. This included 18 doing their first ever parkrun anywhere and 41 tourists visiting Maribyrnong for the first time - 45 parkrunners recorded new Personal Bests (PBs).

Congratulations to Nino Inthavong (25 runs/walks), Taylor Logan (25 runs/walks), Steph Rizzo (25 runs/walks), Charlotte Veldhoen (25 runs/walks), Fiona Craddock (50 runs/walks), Kiao Inthavong (50 runs/walks), Tom Rizzo (50 runs/walks), Alyssa Stephenson (50 runs/walks) and Sue Hastings (250 runs/walks) for reaching milestones!

Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Maribyrnong parkrun Results Page.

Thank you to our volunteers for making the event possible:
• Stuart Hilton
• Dylan Aldous
• Chloe Cabritit
• Sally Chapman
• Tim Chiu
• Amarnath Ettikala
• Chase Jardine
• Sarah Keating
• Jillian Kelders
• Lucy Kernick
• Janelle Lilley-Gawne
• Claire Macdonald
• Gary Marsden
• Antony Nguyen
• John Papworth
• Alison Slee
• Anne Thomas
• Rob Waters
• Joanne Watkins
• Cameron Wootton
• Chris Wootton

First Timers (first parkrun ever):
• Robbie Austin
• Isaac Bradley
• Georgia Buchan
• Hostin Chan
• Tyler Fitzpatrick
• Michael Griffin
• Yvette Griffin
• Sam Hall
• Emma Hart
• Hamish Hooper
• Elliott Millar
• Joshua Mitchell
• Abbie Storer
• Yayoi Takahashi
• Jarvis Warn
• Jessy Warn
• Aj Yee
• Charlene Yum

First Timers (parkrun tourists visiting Maribyrnong for the first time):
• James Alex
• Nick Arundell
• Christian Barton
• Ted Barton
• Fane Bastin
• Nathan Bourke
• Philip Carr
• Adam Chua
• Daniel Cole
• Jacqui Cole
• Danielle Cosgriff
• Joanne Elliott
• Claire Emmerzael
• Ted Ferreras
• David Fyfe
• David Heazlett
• Fletcher Hutchison
• Matt Lane
• Fiona Limoli
• Fraser Magee
• Adam Matthews
• Harvey Matthews
• May Mitchell
• Phila Mrwebi
• Paul O'Farrell
• Emily Pali
• Linda Phan
• Martyn Pryce
• Jeremy Riordan
• Gert-Jan Roest
• Harry Schneider
• Marlon Schoen
• Dan Sharratt
• Kylie Smith
• India Stewart Evans
• Pippa Trevella
• Carson Tully
• Samuel Van Dort
• Lauren Whiteside
• Andrea Yeoman
• Neil Yeoman

PBs:
• Katharine Biddle - new PB 22:06 (previous PB 22:20)
• Jamie Blackburn - new PB 16:08 (previous PB 22:15)
• Tiago Brito - new PB 28:10 (previous PB 31:24)
• Hugo Brown - new PB 18:38 (previous PB 19:13)
• Raymond Butt - new PB 25:24 (previous PB 25:42)
• Scott Canning - new PB 19:53 (previous PB 20:49)
• Larissa Casey - new PB 32:50 (previous PB 33:21)
• Fiona Craddock - new PB 22:38 (previous PB 22:58)
• Russell Easther - new PB 28:54 (previous PB 30:25)
• Dominic Fedele - new PB 23:34 (previous PB 23:39)
• Michael Gehling - new PB 31:27 (previous PB 32:33)
• Russell George - new PB 20:01 (previous PB 20:29)
• Yinhee Gordon - new PB 23:55 (previous PB 23:56)
• Sam Gowty - new PB 23:59 (previous PB 32:37)
• Robyn Gray - new PB 28:03 (previous PB 28:42)
• Ryan Grech - new PB 24:44 (previous PB 28:01)
• Alec Harris - new PB 23:31 (previous PB 25:38)
• Erica Hooper - new PB 47:56 (previous PB 48:50)
• Gary Johnston - new PB 30:02 (previous PB 32:48)
• Vicki Koumaros - new PB 39:15 (previous PB 39:46)
• Hayden Kruize - new PB 26:19 (previous PB 27:50)
• Geoff Latta - new PB 27:10 (previous PB 27:33)
• Nguyen Le - new PB 26:25 (previous PB 26:36)
• Catherine Luong - new PB 26:59 (previous PB 28:25)
• Bianca McKechnie - new PB 31:54 (previous PB 32:18)
• Jack McSweeney - new PB 30:35 (previous PB 30:56)
• Luca Mortensen - new PB 40:12 (previous PB 50:39)
• Ari Mortillaro - new PB 30:53 (previous PB 31:10)
• Samuel Mulkearns - new PB 22:16 (previous PB 22:19)
• Anna Muscara - new PB 33:46 (previous PB 38:03)
• Lucia Narsilio - new PB 28:30 (previous PB 29:41)
• Vikram Sandhu - new PB 29:04 (previous PB 30:09)
• Bobby Sciacchitano - new PB 29:17 (previous PB 30:02)
• Eric Shek - new PB 21:13 (previous PB 21:18)
• Phuong Thien Tran - new PB 21:07 (previous PB 21:45)
• Joanne Torcasio - new PB 23:03 (previous PB 23:20)
• Clarice Tran - new PB 21:52 (previous PB 22:05)
• Corey Tranter - new PB 21:24 (previous PB 21:33)
• Ava Truong - new PB 27:22 (previous PB 27:36)
• Oliver Truong - new PB 30:33 (previous PB 31:00)
• Victor Vu - new PB 21:56 (previous PB 23:55)
• Grant Williamson - new PB 23:02 (previous PB 23:15)
• Vee Wong - new PB 34:14 (previous PB 34:27)
• Yuanyuan Yang - new PB 31:19 (previous PB 34:59)
• Gianni Zito-Cinti - new PB 23:14 (previous PB 23:24)

Milestones:
• 25 runs/walks - Nino Inthavong
• 25 runs/walks - Taylor Logan
• 25 runs/walks - Steph Rizzo
• 25 runs/walks - Charlotte Veldhoen
• 50 runs/walks - Fiona Craddock
• 50 runs/walks - Kiao Inthavong
• 50 runs/walks - Tom Rizzo
• 50 runs/walks - Alyssa Stephenson
• 250 runs/walks - Sue Hastings

New Age Grade Category Records:
• SM18-19 16:08 - Jamie Blackburn (previous record 16:38)

Congratulations must go to Sue Hastings - one of the original generation of Maribyrnong parkrunners, she returned to Maribyrnong parkrun this morning for our 10th anniversary and in doing so completed her 250th parkrun event!

Sue started parkrunning back in December 2014 - in Maribyrnong parkrun event #18 - and has completed 87 events at Maribyrnong to go with 163 other events from 37 different parkrun locations across Victoria, NSW and the ACT. She's been a great improver over the journey, racking up no fewer than 20 PBs!

Sue's also been a huge contributor to parkrun as a volunteer - she's volunteered a total of 55 times (making her an official member of the parkrun 50 Volunteer Club), tackling the first timers welcome, token sorting, photographer, barcode scanner, finish tokens, finish token support, funnel manager, tail walker and pacer roles.

Some trivia - she now calls Hastings Foreshore parkrun (on the Mornington Peninsula) her home parkrun, and has completed 85 events there, but swears they didn't name the parkrun after her ... 😉

Congratulations Sue - welcome to the parkrun 250 (green t-shirt) Club!

🎉 Maribyrnong parkrun is celebrating its 10th anniversary! 🎉

We want to extend a huge thank you to our amazing Co-Event Directors, Stuart and Chris, for their incredible dedication over the years. Their hard work and passion have made Maribyrnong parkrun the special event it is today.

As we mark this milestone, we’d love for you to share your favourite parkrun stories! Whether it’s a personal achievement, a memorable run, or just the joy of being part of the Maribyrnong parkrun family, please share your experiences with us.

If you’d like to express your thanks to Stuart and Chris, why not consider volunteering? It’s really easy, a lot of fun, and a fantastic way to support our community. Every bit of help makes a big difference.

Here’s to another decade of running, volunteering, and building friendships at Maribyrnong parkrun! 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️

Tomorrow we turn 10 - we'll be celebrating with cake, other treats and, as usual, a free, timed 5km run/walk through beautiful Maribyrnong parkland.

If you'd like to dress up, "white" is the theme (as white is the parkrun colour for 10 milestones), so wear as much or as little white as you like...

See you tomorrow!

We held our very first Maribyrnong parkrun on August 23, 2014 - in the 10 years since then:
🔴 we've held 443 events
🟠 13,628 parkrunners have run or walked (94,857 runs/walks)
🟡 474,285km has been run/walked - more than the distance from the Earth to the Moon!
🔵 15,014 PBs have been recorded
🟣 799 parkrunners have volunteered

To finish off "Stats Week" in the lead-up to our 10th anniversary on Saturday, here's a list of the Maribyrnong parkrun legends who've participated, PB'd and volunteered the most at Maribyrnong across the whole of our first 10 years.

For the stats geeks and anyone curious, here's how Year 10 at Maribyrnong parkrun went, by the numbers...

parkrun events are made possible by a team of volunteers - without volunteers giving up their time, there is no parkrun (we look for approximately 17 volunteers every week to make Maribyrnong parkrun events possible).

Thank you to all of the volunteers who helped make Maribyrnong parkrun possible during our 10th year!

Here is a list of every parkrunner who volunteered at Maribyrnong parkrun 3 times or more during our 10th year - how many of these volunteers do you know?

parkrun is a great place to challenge yourself and for many parkrunners pushing yourself and recording a new PB (Personal Best time) is a great way to start the weekend.

Here's a list of the parkrunners who've racked up the most PBs at Maribyrnong parkrun during our 10th year - congratulations to everyone on this list!

A special mention must go to Bridget O'Neill, who came home with a shiny new PB an amazing 26 times during the year, slicing a total of 11 minutes and 15 seconds off her 5km time!

We held 53 events during our 10th year at Maribyrnong parkrun - the one that just ended last Saturday - and we saw a LOT of regular faces at Maribyrnong every week.

Here's a list of everyone who ran or walked at Maribyrnong in more than half of the events - are you in there?

Congratulations go to John Cooper, who crossed the finish line at a parkrun event for the 250th time this morning!

John's done most of his parkrunning at Maribyrnong (155 events in total) but he's also compiled a very impressive parkrun tourist résumé - 95 events at 65 different locations across all states and territories in Australia plus Canada, the US, France and the UK (including a visit to Bushy parkrun).

John has also been a prolific contributor to parkrun as a volunteer - he's already a member of the parkrun 50 Volunteer Club and has taken on the pre-event setup, post-event close down, barcode scanning, finish tokens, first timers welcome, funnel manager, pacer and parkwalker roles at different times.

Congratulations John! Welcome to the parkrun 250 (green t-shirt) Club!

We had ideal conditions for Maribyrnong parkrun this morning with bright and sunny cool weather for our participants.

361 parkrunners ran and walked in event #442, including 11 doing their first ever parkrun anywhere and 22 tourists visiting Maribyrnong for the first time - 69 parkrunners recorded new Personal Bests (PBs).

Congratulations to Lana Pound (10 runs/walks), Steve Duckworth (50 runs/walks), Stephen Wildsmith (100 runs/walks), Ian Holland (250 runs/walks) and Keith Dekok (50 volunteers) for reaching milestones!

There are lots of photos for today. Thank you very much to Natasha Cnossen and Amarnath Ettikala for getting out on the course and taking these great shots!

Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Maribyrnong parkrun Results Page.

Thank you to our volunteers for making the event possible:
• Stuart Hilton
• Sonia Baldock
• Ann Blackburn
• Peta Brunel
• Natasha Cnossen
• Amanda Cook
• John Cooper
• Zac Cross
• Keith Dekok
• Peter Dunn
• Amarnath Ettikala
• Rhianna Higgins
• Janelle Lilley-Gawne
• Gary Marsden
• Christina Mathioudakis
• Bettina Miller
• Pat O'Shea
• Cora Pennington
• Mark Quinn
• Alex Stephenson
• M Strong

First Timers (first parkrun ever):
• John Abarquez
• Mufadhal Al-Harazi
• Mandy Chau
• Alex Di Medio
• Corey Keyes
• George Lynch
• Diana Ordoñez
• Sumair Saeed
• Marc Taylor
• Abbey Watson
• Vee Wong

First Timers (parkrun tourists visiting Maribyrnong for the first time):
• Dorin Blaga
• Angela Brand
• Amanda Cook
• Rebecca Corva
• Zac Cross
• Johanna Ellis
• Ty Forsyth
• Greg Gorman
• Alex Hamilton
• Ben Leith
• Christina Mathioudakis
• Brent McCaig
• Jessica McClelland
• Jared Mohr
• Dingaani Ncube
• John Paul Christopher Grima
• Lana Pound
• Maureen Pound
• Kirsti Purss
• Stephen Purss
• Eleanor Ragg
• Sheree Smith

PBs:
• Zara Adlington - new PB 30:54 (previous PB 31:20)
• Liam Baker - new PB 20:04 (previous PB 22:04)
• Alex Baldie - new PB 30:37 (previous PB 33:27)
• Jerry Benjamin - new PB 23:26 (previous PB 23:39)
• Jacqui Carr - new PB 36:04 (previous PB 37:55)
• Alex Cassin - new PB 29:08 (previous PB 32:27)
• Alex Chester - new PB 23:11 (previous PB 23:21)
• Felix Clayton - new PB 30:53 (previous PB 31:49)
• Evan Coulson - new PB 24:17 (previous PB 26:33)
• Gabriela Crespi - new PB 30:27 (previous PB 31:30)
• Madison Crook - new PB 29:15 (previous PB 30:59)
• Lucy Danaher - new PB 38:07 (previous PB 40:03)
• Trent Danaher - new PB 22:49 (previous PB 23:45)
• Taz Darwish - new PB 29:03 (previous PB 29:23)
• Robyn Doig - new PB 41:05 (previous PB 41:54)
• Sean Fleming - new PB 19:23 (previous PB 19:29)
• Daniel Fowler - new PB 25:32 (previous PB 27:05)
• Luca Gamble - new PB 23:19 (previous PB 24:53)
• Emily Gardner - new PB 31:05 (previous PB 33:38)
• Hollie Gilmore - new PB 22:39 (previous PB 27:09)
• Michael Gorman - new PB 25:04 (previous PB 25:58)
• Ojaswi Gurung - new PB 43:37 (previous PB 43:43)
• Sanvi Gurung - new PB 43:44 (previous PB 44:18)
• Eric Heemann - new PB 33:58 (previous PB 46:47)
• David Hooper - new PB 26:34 (previous PB 26:55)
• Erica Hooper - new PB 48:50 (previous PB 49:23)
• Rose Houghton - new PB 28:31 (previous PB 40:38)
• Michelle Kawamoto - new PB 23:13 (previous PB 34:22)
• Lauren Kendall - new PB 28:07 (previous PB 28:55)
• Farhad Khan - new PB 21:03 (previous PB 22:52)
• Lauren Killmister - new PB 24:25 (previous PB 24:52)
• Stephanie Kobakian - new PB 32:43 (previous PB 33:02)
• Vicki Koumaros - new PB 39:46 (previous PB 40:28)
• Jenny Lau - new PB 34:33 (previous PB 34:35)
• Nguyen Le - new PB 27:14 (previous PB 27:57)
• Leon Liao - new PB 22:15 (previous PB 22:48)
• Isaac Limoli - new PB 33:15 (previous PB 34:58)
• Ritch Longmire - new PB 20:48 (previous PB 21:33)
• David Loschiavo - new PB 25:55 (previous PB 27:05)
• Gemma Mahoney - new PB 29:22 (previous PB 29:29)
• Stav Mavridis - new PB 38:09 (previous PB 39:22)
• Andie McCowan - new PB 20:55 (previous PB 21:03)
• Narelle McInnes - new PB 22:02 (previous PB 22:56)
• Caitlin McKenzie - new PB 19:28 (previous PB 20:23)
• James Mellos - new PB 20:30 (previous PB 21:28)
• Tara Nosko - new PB 35:49 (previous PB 41:19)
• Giada Ottina - new PB 32:02 (previous PB 32:18)
• Matthew Penza - new PB 31:25 (previous PB 38:03)
• David Pepin - new PB 27:29 (previous PB 27:35)
• Felicity Purbrick - new PB 29:48 (previous PB 29:52)
• James Randall - new PB 23:30 (previous PB 23:34)
• Tadgh Raso - new PB 21:15 (previous PB 21:28)
• Sophie Scarff - new PB 26:00 (previous PB 26:24)
• Alexander Schaper - new PB 30:35 (previous PB 31:11)
• Christine Scheiner - new PB 51:52 (previous PB 55:01)
• Brittnay Sharman - new PB 26:20 (previous PB 26:26)
• Clare Sheppard - new PB 33:34 (previous PB 33:50)
• Belle Smith - new PB 30:19 (previous PB 32:38)
• Tommy Swain - new PB 24:04 (previous PB 30:34)
• Lachlan Tate - new PB 19:22 (previous PB 19:53)
• Dzung Tran - new PB 28:51 (previous PB 30:03)
• Ava Truong - new PB 29:28 (previous PB 34:15)
• Oliver Truong - new PB 31:01 (previous PB 32:47)
• Stephen Wildsmith - new PB 19:08 (previous PB 19:39)
• Chris Williamson - new PB 24:05 (previous PB 24:52)
• Grant Williamson - new PB 23:15 (previous PB 23:31)
• Jessica Winmill - new PB 29:45 (previous PB 31:10)
• Patrick Wissenden - new PB 25:20 (previous PB 27:38)
• Yuanyuan Yang - new PB 34:59 (previous PB 36:11)

Milestones:
• 10 runs/walks - Lana Pound (junior)
• 50 runs/walks - Steve Duckworth
• 100 runs/walks - Stephen Wildsmith
• 250 runs/walks - Ian Holland
• 50 volunteers - Keith Dekok

New Age Grade Category Records:
• VW65-69 23:11 - Christine Woolley (previous record 23:18)

Congratulations go to our newest member of the parkrun 250 Club - Ian Holland - for completing his 250th event, this morning at Maribyrnong.

Ian's completed 207 of his 250 parkrun events at Maribyrnong, plus 43 'on the road' as a parkrun tourist across 18 different locations in Victoria, Canada and Germany. He's also contributed to Maribyrnong parkrun as a barcode scanner and as a tail walker.

Congratulations Ian - welcome to the parkrun 250 (green t-shirt) Club!

Maribyrnong parkrun is turning 10 on August 24!

We'll release more details as we get a little closer to the day, but if you're the type who likes to plan ahead, our theme is "white" (because, for parkrun, the milestone colour for 10 runs/walks/volunteer is white).

This is completely optional - feel free to wear as much or as little white as you like!

If anyone's willing and able to help out at Maribyrnong parkrun this Saturday, we'd love to have your help :)

In particular, we're looking for volunteers to fill the following roles:
▪️ timekeeper (now filled ✅)
▪️ funnel manager (now filled ✅)
▪️ number checker (now filled ✅)
▪️ finish tokens (x 2) (now filled ✅)
▪️ barcode scanner (x 3) (now filled ✅)
▪️ parkwalker (now filled ✅)
▪️ photographer (now filled ✅)
▪️ post-event close down - take the equipment home after the event and prepare it for the next one (now filled ✅)

If you can help out with any of these roles, please let us know by commenting, sending us a Facebook message or emailing [email protected].

Congratulations go to Maribyrnong regular Jacki Holland - in crossing the finish line this morning at Maribyrnong Jacki completed her 250th parkrun!

Jacki's been a regular at Maribyrnong parkrun since 2016, racking up 204 completed events here to go with 46 as a tourist (covering 16 different locations across Victoria plus Nose Hill and Richmond Olympic parkruns in Canada and Hasenheide parkrun in Germany). Jacki's also been a regular volunteer at Maribyrnong, taking on the barcode scanner, finish tokens, funnel manager and tail walker roles.

Congratulations Jacki - welcome to the parkun 250 (green t-shirt) club!

Our volunteer roster for tomorrow's (August 3) event is unfortunately nowhere near complete - can you help?

We're still looking for:
- a timekeeper (now filled 👍)
- a funnel manager (now filled 👍}
- a number checker (now filled👍)
- someone to hand out finish tokens (now filled 👍)
- a couple of volunteers to scan barcodes (now filled 👍)
- a photographer

If you're willing and able to help with any of these roles, please let us know by commenting, sending us a Facebook message or emailing [email protected].

Our volunteer team for this Saturday needs a lot of help!

Specifically, we're looking for parkrunners to fill the following roles:
▪️ timekeeper
▪️ funnel manager
▪️ number checker
▪️ finish tokens
▪️ barcode scanner (x 4)
▪️ parkwalker
▪️ tail walker
▪️ photographer

If you can help out with any of these roles, please let us know by commenting, sending us a Facebook message or emailing [email protected].