Jamie Darcy, at his 50th parkrun attempt, ran a personal best time of 16 minutes and 29 seconds, crossing the line first in last Saturday’s Lakes Entrance parkrun.
It was Darcy’s 25th run on the course and his sizzling effort eclipsed his initial effort back in 2018, when he completed the course in 16 minutes and 36 seconds.
Darcy still has some work to do to beat the time of Eric Ueda and Xavier Chapman, who have both recorded 16 minute and six seconds for the five kilometre sojourn along the Lakes Entrance foreshore.
Darcy finished well ahead of Ben Osmond (18.02) and Simon Smiley-Andrews (20.23), a solid effort in his first look at the course.
The first female past the post was Fiona Munro (22.39) in 11th place overall.
In another event milestone, young Hunter O’Donnell completed his 25th parkrun, a fantastic effort at such a tender age.
Given the temperature was already hot and sticky at the 8am start, the event again attracted a big starting field of 112 people, who ran, jogged and walked the course.
Pleasingly the field saw 44 first timers hit the pavement with seven people recording new personal bests and 10 clubs represented.
Running groups represented in the event were Lakes and District Runners, Sale and District Runner, Athletics Nunawading, Generation Run, Hobson’s Bay Running Club, Traralgon Harriers, Southern Peninsula Sporting Club, Northwich Running Club, Melton City Runners and Everlasting Fitness Group.
