SEVERAL milestones were recorded at this week’s Harwich Parkrun.

Together, the participants have covered over 40,000 kilometres in the 95 events in Cliff Park.

The exact total to date is 40,230km.

Two of most prolific competitors are Harwich Runners Jez Downs and Ann Piercy, who ran their 100th Parkrun on Saturday.

Keeping her 100 per cent record of always being the first lady home was Harwich Runner Claudine Tisbury.

Running in the 55 to 59 age group, this is no mean achievement.

Tisbury was head and shoulders above all other runners when taking age into account.

The next lady home was Nicola Ranson, in a time of 22 minutes and 34 seconds.

Only one second outside of her PB was another Harwich club member, Nicola Flatt, who finished third lady on 23m 56s.

It was back to winning ways for Warren Byrd.

He was the first person home in a time of 18m 41s, followed by Paul Davison in 19m 7s.

Ashleigh Ranson ran superbly to finish third in a new personal best (PB) time of 19m 59s.

Of the 124 finishers, 32 were club members and six achieved personal bests.

Clare Fraser-Hopewell has run 73 Parkruns in total and now has a new best of 31m 25s.

Helen Benham's dedication to weekdays training is coming through and she was the eighth lady home in a new PB of 25m 39s.

Club-mate Nicola Reason was close behind, finishing on 26m 3s with a second consecutive PB.

John Tiniakos last set a PB in October 2016.

He is recovering from injuries, which are hopefully now behind him, and set a new best of 22m 36s.

Ed McCreadie and Kim Pretty also gained PBs again this week (25m 41s and 27m 3s).

Last weekend saw over 40,000 people running the London Marathon on a warm day in the capital.

Four Harwich Runners were lucky enough to both get a place and then remain injury free to make it to the start line.

Robin Brookes ran a terrifically well-paced race, posting on or very close to 21 minutes for each of the first seven 5k splits.

Having gone through halfway in 1h 28m, it looked like a sub three-hour marathon was a possibility.

Unfortunately, the later miles proved a little tougher and Brookes finished his second-ever marathon in 3h 1m 53s.

It was still a fantastic achievement and his time was just over six minutes quicker than his first marathon on the same course last year.

There was a debut over this distance for Faye Brown.

Having had to defer last year after picking up an injury, she made the most of this second chance and the many months of hard work paid off as she crossed the finish line on the Mall in a decent 5h 1m 15s.

Francis Mills had trained really well but couldn’t quite secure the much hoped for personal best.

He got within six minutes of his London time from 2015 and still recorded a really strong sub four-hour time of 3h 58m 4s.

Matt Doran was just over the four-hour mark in 4h 3m 13s.

Elsewhere, Will Roxby-Clarke came within ten seconds of a new personal best in the first 5km race of the Maldon series.