On the final Saturday in July a total of 29 Exmouth Harriers ran in various Parkruns mainly within the UK.

Rob Ellis was the exception as he travelled 10,651 miles to the Albert Parkrun in Melbourne, Australia. Not deterred by the long flight, Rob did the club proud by finishing in second place out of 371 finishers in a superb time of 16.21.

Like all Parkruns, the Melbourne event is organised by volunteers and this Australian edition of a global running phenomenon has hosted 490 events, with an amazing 29,154 finishers.

The average finish time for the Melbourne run is 28:50, so Rob was well below that figure but a little shy of the male record for this course, an awesome 14.39 set on Christmas Day in 2018, when it was probably very hot down under.

On Wednesday, July 27, four Exmouth Harriers ran in the Postbridge Pootle, which was the seventh race of 10 in the 2022 Dartmoor Fell Race series.

The 10km race started and finished at the clapper bridge in Postbridge taking in forest tracks and broken ground via Braddon Lake to Braddon Tor. The runners then climbed over Lower White Tor and Higher White Tor before tackling the steepest climb of 502m to Longaford Tor. The runners were rewarded with a long run into the finish via the historic Powder Mills Farm and Bellever Woods.

Hugh Marsden was 29th out of the 98 finishers in 55.59 and finished third in the M60 age category. Terry Oldham (11th M60) was 72nd in 72.42, Lorraine Gilson (3rd W60) and Dawn Teed (10th W50) crossed the finish line together in equal 80th place in 76.11.

After the results from the seven races in the series had been collated, Hugh is lying first and Terry is 11th in the M60 category. Dawn is third in the W50 category with Lorraine fourth in the W60 category. A brilliant display so far from the Exmouth Harriers and just three more races to go in the series.