Exmouth Harriers enjoyed a relatively quiet week after a busy spell of racing in the recent heatwave.

But Jimmy Joy was in action once again as he travelled along the south coast to compete in the Rye 10k in Kent last Friday.

The event took place within the stunning Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, one of Britain's most important conservation sites, and was a chance to see the rare coastal landscape.

The route was on a traffic-free circuit on the main concrete road through the reserve, covering a mosaic of interlocking shingle ridges, saltmarsh, inter-tidal grazing, reed beds and saline lagoons.

And Jimmy was really pleased to finish in 41st place overall in a time of 49 minutes 12 seconds, which was good enough to see him claim third in the M60 age category.

A total of 33 Harriers took part in parkrun events in the UK and further afield in Australia on Saturday.

And it was Rob Ellis, in action Down Under, who proved the quickest of the lot as he finished in first place at the Airlie Beach parkrun in Queensland in 16.57.

Eight Harriers volunteered at the Exmouth parkrun, taking on duties such as timekeeping, results co-ordinating and course marshalling.

Joshua Benford claimed first place in 16.51 ahead of Alex Peyton-Jones (17.17) and Steven Hill (17.19).

Jo Pavey (17.37) was first home for Harriers, with little distance between David Tomlin (18.06), Chris Dupain (18.08) and James Kelly (18.14).

Hannah Bown (19.48) pipped clubmate Lee Salter (19.52), with Scott Jamieson (20.25), Catherine Newman (20.53), Benjamin White (21.04), Darren Powell (21.35), Adrian Vanstone (21.45), Steve Morgan (21.50), Mike Musgrove (21.50), Andrew Place (21.55) and Oliver White (21.58) inside the top 70.

Paula Hawkins (23.49), Lisa Boyd (26.07), Hayley Johns (27.47), Nigel Dupain (30.01), May Argyle-Lander (30.15), Tom Handley (33.32), Jill Duplain (39.21) and John Goss-Custard (39.59) also ran.

The event is always on the look out for more helpers. See parkrun.org.uk/exmouth for more details.

Another eight Harriers were back out on volunteering duties at the Phear Park junior parkrun on Sunday.

It is a relatively new event which only started on July 3 but is now becoming an established local favourite with an average of 71 youngsters aged four to 14 tackling the 2k course.

Ellis Bown was first past the post at the weekend in 8.20, as Eliza Turner (9.03) ran a personal best for second and Isaac Stock (9.30) completed the top three.

For more details visit parkrun.org.uk/phearpark-juniors.