Conditions & Participants

We had lovely weather for our last parkrun in November. Nine participants came out to join us for this Thanksgiving weekend parkrun. We had one newcomer and tourist - David. He’s from Alabama, but is a self-proclaimed “Vol for Life.” It was great to meet you and we hope we did a proper job of introducing you to parkrun.

Results

This week was marked by our first two parkrunners across the line, Adam and Amanda, both running personal bests in addition to taking home first male and female finishers. Adam ran 43 seconds faster than his last parkrun to finish in 23:44. Amanda took a minute and eighteen seconds off her previous best time. This was also her 23rd parkrun finish (her 25 milestone is around the corner!) and her first time making the first finishers list. Nicely done both!

Complete results from this week’s parkrun can be found here. If you have never been to a parkrun but are considering it, give us a try. All you need to do is register for a personalized barcode and be sure to bring a copy (digital or printed) along with you. And don’t worry, registration is free and always will be!

Volunteer Call & Appreciation

Thanks to all of our volunteers who made this week’s parkrun possible - Meredith Hale, Nancy Henry, Alex Snyder, Diane Taylor, P Mark Taylor, and Sarah Wimmer. Special thanks go to Sarah and P Mark for contributing photos. Also, look out for another 50 volunteer instances milestone soon! Alex has volunteered 47 times at parkrun.

If you’d like to volunteer at a future event, please email thirdcreekgreenway@parkrun.com. We can always use more volunteers and will make sure you find a role that’s fun for you. See our future volunteer roster or our spreadsheet to help us fill in our gaps. Right now we’re looking for volunteers for December 10th.

Looking Ahead

We are back next week at 9am! Don’t forget to register and don’t forget your barcode . . .

Since launching on October 26 2019, Third Creek Greenway parkrun has had 304 individual finishers and 55 individuals volunteering. Note that we’re getting close to a benchmark event - 100 parkruns! Assuming no cancellations due to weather, we’ll celebrate this accomplishment on January 28th.

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Conditions & Participants

While we avoided any major downpours, we had a steady sprinkling of rain this Saturday. Four veterans came out to complete the course. Mark also showered us with chocolate chip cookies - which were amazing! We were also excited to see the third bridge on our course got a little tune up. It now has three new boards in place. Thanks to Parks and Recreation for this improvement!

Results

This week Michael was our first male finisher, with a time of 25:23. He completed his 16th parkrun and finished first for his second time. On the female side, Lindy was our first finisher. This was her first time finishing first! Check out our first finishers list here.

Complete results from this week’s parkrun can be found here. If you have never been to a parkrun but are considering it, give us a try. All you need to do is register for a personalized barcode and be sure to bring a copy (digital or printed) along with you. And don’t worry, registration is free and always will be!

Volunteer Call & Appreciation

Thanks to all of our volunteers who made this week’s parkrun possible - Amanda Burnette, Meredith Hale, Evan Snyder, Lauren Snyder, Alex Snyder, and David Talmy. If you’d like to volunteer at a future event, please email thirdcreekgreenway@parkrun.com. We can always use more volunteers and will make sure you find a role that’s fun for you. See our future volunteer roster or our spreadsheet to help us fill in our gaps.

Future parkruns

We are back next week at 9am! Don’t forget to register and don’t forget your barcode . . .

Note that we won’t be holding a special extra parkrun on Thanksgiving day. We’d encourage local runners to sign up for the Regal Knoxville Turkey Trot.

Since launching on October 26 2019, Third Creek Greenway parkrun has had 303 individual finishers and 55 individuals volunteering.

Facebook: facebook.com/ThirdCreekGreenwayparkrun

Instagram: instagram.com/tcgparkrun

Conditions & Participants

For our first November parkrun of 2022, we had warm conditions, with temperatures in the 60s. We got a few showers early in the morning during course setup, but all was dry by the time we got underway at 9am. Ten parkrunner veterans came out to take on the course this morning.

Results

This week we celebrated two personal bests! Congratulations to Adam and Melissa on running their best times on the Third Creek Greenway course. Adam bettered his previous best by 6 seconds! Despite just joining us for the first time this May, Adam has already managed to rack up 19 parkruns. We’re looking forward to celebrating his 25th run before the year is out.

Melissa took 34 seconds off her previous best time and was our first female finisher. This is Melissa’s second time finishing first and her 13th parkrun. Congrats!

On the men’s side, Martin was our first male finisher across the line. Adam and Martin were close throughout, but Martin went for it in the second half. He finished in 23:59, exactly matching his existing PB on the course.

Complete results from this week’s parkrun can be found here. If you have never been to a parkrun but are considering it, give us a try. All you need to do is register for a personalized barcode and be sure to bring a copy (digital or printed) along with you. And don’t worry, registration is free and always will be!

Volunteer Call & Appreciation

Thanks to all of our volunteers who made this week’s parkrun possible - Meredith Hale, Nancy Henry, Caryn Hughes, Evelyn Talmy, and David Talmy.   Evelyn has joined us for several parkruns in the last two months, but will be heading back to England. Thanks to her for always being willing to tail walk and to help us be successful with the parkwalk campaign by acting as a parkwalker.

If you’d like to volunteer at a future event, please email thirdcreekgreenway@parkrun.com. We can always use more volunteers and will make sure you find a role that’s fun for you. Our required volunteer roles are run director, barcode scanner, timer, tail walker, and event day course check/set up. To time or scan you simply need to download the parkrun Virtual Volunteer app and show up to parkrun early for some brief training. If social media or photography are your thing, there’s also an opportunity to help out using your creative skills. See our future volunteer roster to help us fill in our gaps. We’re also trying out a new spreadsheet that you can enter your name in ahead of time to help us plan for events further in the future.

Future parkruns

We are back next week at 9am! Don’t forget to register and don’t forget your barcode . . .

Note that we won’t be holding a special extra parkrun on Thanksgiving day. We’d encourage local runners to sign up for the Regal Knoxville Turkey Trot.

Since launching on October 26 2019, Third Creek Greenway parkrun has had 303 individual finishers and 54 individuals volunteering.

Facebook: facebook.com/ThirdCreekGreenwayparkrun

Instagram: instagram.com/tcgparkrun/

Conditions & Participants

For our second ever Halloween celebration, we had six parkrunners come in costume. We had a sloth, unicorn, taco, Ghostbuster, skeleton, and Spiderman! Thanks for embracing the fun of costumes. In total we had fourteen parkrunners complete the course.

Results

This week we celebrated four personal bests! Congratulations to Alexander, Mark, Michael S., and Michael K. on running their fastest times ever on the Third Creek Greenway course.

Alexander completed his fourth parkrun with us and took off 49 seconds off his previous best to finish the course in 18:35. He has run a personal best every time he has come out since first joining us in May. This week he was also our first finisher. He has finished first three times, making him tied for 9th on our first finishers list.

Mark also ran a PB this week. He took 23 seconds off by completing the 5k in 23:35. It’s great to see him running well while conservatively working through a hamstring injury.

Michael S. continued his PB streak by shaving off another 21 seconds off his previous best. His time was 25:02 - soon we’ll see him break 25!

Michael K. ran his fastest time by 25 seconds. His finish time was 26:48. He did this with a stroller in tow!

On the female side, kudos are also due to Rebekah Berg for being our first woman finisher. She ran a time of 27:49 while sporting a sloth costume. She definitely isn’t slow!

Congratulations to everyone on these great times and to everyone for coming out and making progress towards their goals. Complete results from this week’s parkrun can be found here. If you have never been to a parkrun but are considering it, give us a try. All you need to do is register for a personalized barcode and be sure to bring a copy (digital or printed) along with you. And don’t worry, registration is free and always will be!

Volunteer Call & Appreciation

Thanks to all of our volunteers who made this week’s parkrun possible - Meredith Hale, Caryn Hughes, Jeanne Stokes, and P Mark Taylor.  If you’d like to volunteer at a future event, please email thirdcreekgreenway@parkrun.com. We can always use more volunteers and will make sure you find a role that’s fun for you. Our required volunteer roles are run director, barcode scanner, timer, tail walker, and event day course check/set up. To time or scan you simply need to download the parkrun Virtual Volunteer app and show up to parkrun early for some brief training. If social media or photography are your thing, there’s also an opportunity to help out using your creative skills. See our future volunteer roster to help us fill in our gaps. We’re also trying out a new spreadsheet that you can enter your name in ahead of time to help us plan for events further in the future.

This week we also want to take a moment to recognize Caryn on reaching her 25 milestone for volunteering! Caryn is the fourth individual at Third Creek Greenway parkrun to reach this milestone. She has served in every volunteer role, from run directing to time keeping. Thank you so much for all that you do for the parkrun community.

Future parkruns

We are back next week at 9am! Don’t forget to register and don’t forget your barcode . . .

Since launching on October 26 2019, Third Creek Greenway parkrun has had 303 individual finishers and 55 individuals volunteering.

Facebook: facebook.com/ThirdCreekGreenwayparkrun

Instagram: instagram.com/tcgparkrun/

Conditions and Participants

Another lovely, sunny fall day for our 86^th event at Third Creek Greenway.  We had 10 finishers, 1 visiting volunteer, and celebrated 2 milestones and 1 PB.  Marcus celebrated his 50^th Parkrun finish - 24 of them here at Third Creek Greenway.

Our second milestone celebration was our tailwalker, Kristie, who was visiting us for the first time from Joe Creason parkrun in Louisville, KY.  It was lovely to meet you, Kristie, and thank you for volunteering with us.  This was Kristie’s 25^th time volunteering at Parkrun and Kristie is also only one more finish away from her 25 finishes milestone (tailwalking is a great way of getting two credits in one – a finish and a volunteer credit).  We look forward to hopefully seeing Kristie again sometime.

Results

Our first finisher, Karen, clocked a personal best time of 24:29 knocking 45 seconds off her previous PB.  Adam was our first male finisher in 24:57.

Volunteer Call & Appreciation

Thanks to all of our volunteers who made this week’s parkrun possible - Alex Snyder, Caryn Hughes, Mark Smith and especially to our visiting volunteer Kristie Miller.

If you’d like to volunteer at a future event, please email thirdcreekgreenway@parkrun.com. We can always use more volunteers and will make sure you find a role that’s fun for you. Our required volunteer roles are run director, barcode scanner, timer, tail walker, and event day course check/set up. To time or scan you simply need to download the parkrun Virtual Volunteer app and show up to parkrun early for some brief training. If social media or photography are your thing, there’s also an opportunity to help out using your creative skills. See our future volunteer roster to help us fill in our gaps. We’re also trying out a new spreadsheet that you can enter your name in ahead of time to help us plan for events further in the future. Let us know what you think.

Next week's parkrun

We are back next week at 9am! Don’t forget to register and don’t forget your barcode . . .

Throughout October we’ll be participating in the global parkwalk campaign. While we strive to always be welcoming to walkers (there is absolutely no such thing as going too slow or holding us up), we’ll be highlighting walking at parkrun during the month of October in a few ways. When possible, we’ll have multiple tail walkers instead of just one. In addition, if you plan to walk at parkrun and want to promote the inclusivity of our event, you can ask to wear a park walker vest. While this campaign lasts only in October, we plan to continue to grow and change to be even more inclusive to walkers.