Conditions & Participants

While snow flurries were gently falling from the sky throughout our event, warm temperatures earlier in the week made it so that our course was not an ice rink. Our third bridge did freeze and was quite slick, so all participants were advised to walk upon crossing. This didn’t make for super fast times, but I think all enjoyed our 97th installment of parkrun. A total of 5 parkrunners came out to complete the course.

Results

This week we celebrated Adam reaching his 25 runs milestone. He first joined us in May of 2022 and has quickly racked up the milestone points. He is currently sixth on our first finishers list and holds a course PB of 23:44. Adam was our first finisher this week for his 25th run. We’re proud of his accomplishment and so happy to have him be part of the parkrun community.

Adam finishes his 25th parkrun

On the women’s side, Amanda was our first female finisher. Both Melissa and Lindy also made strides towards their 25 runs milestones. Melissa has completed 17 parkruns and Lindy has completed 16. As tail walker, Nancy finished her 68th parkrun and her 21st volunteer instance.

Amanda is our first female finisher

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 - David, Karen Meredith, and Nancy. We’re particularly grateful to Karen for trying out volunteering for her first time. She jumped right in with our timekeeper role. 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. Feel free to check out the roster for one week away all the way through April. A core volunteer is expecting her first child in April and could especially use the help of others with taking on course setup. If you’ve never done course setup before and are interested in learning the ropes, email thirdcreekgreenway@parkrun.com and we can arrange training.

Lindy & Nancy

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 310 individual finishers and 57 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 February 4th.

Melissa is cheered to the finish by cowbells

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Conditions & Participants

Third Creek Greenway parkrunners enjoyed another glorious fall morning this Saturday. The Tennessee vs. Alabama game brought out one new participant for his first parkrun ever! We had a total of 6 tourists, coming from Michigan and England. Welcome to Jason, Joanna, Michael, Owen, and Peter. It was great to have you all join us. Seventeen total participants completed the course.

parkrun first timer and tourist - Go Vols!

Results

This week we celebrated one personal best. Congratulations to Gail on taking five minutes and 5 seconds off her previous best time. This was Gail’s second time joining us. Her son, Adam, went back to the course after finishing himself to support her across the line.

Gail runs a PB

At the front of the pack we had a number of great performances. Our first male finisher this week was Owen with a time of 19:07. Owen’s home parkrun is Hampstead Heath in London. Our first female finisher was Karen with a time of 25:54. This was Karen’s 12th parkrun and her tenth time finishing first. She’s currently third on our first finishers list.

Karen finishes first

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, Alex Snyder, Lauren Snyder, Jeanne Stokes, David Talmy, and Evelyn Talmy. We’d also like to give a special shout out to the partner of one of our parkrunners, who was kind enough to take and share her photos. Thank you!

Kudos also go to Lauren, who reached her junior volunteer milestone today by acting as a parkwalker. Lauren got back from fall break vacation early on Saturday morning, but told her mom she fancied a walk at parkrun. She came out, supported us in our parkwalk campaign, and earned her 10 volunteer instances milestone!

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.

Since launching on October 26 2019, Third Creek Greenway parkrun has had 303 individual finishers and 54 individuals volunteering. Congratulations to Michael Backes on being our 300th finisher!

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For our 70th parkrun event, we celebrated Juneteenth with a quote from Angela Davis on the course - “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” We hope this message helps encourage everyone to seek the change they need in the world.

This week we had a total of eleven participants. Of these, two were parkrun first timers. Welcome to Brandon Houston and Samantha Shea!

Welcome Brandon!

Welcome Samantha!

We also had the pleasure of having three parkrun tourists join us. Thanks to Karen and Steve Crane for joining us from Mansfield parkrun in Ohio! We also enjoyed meeting Harry McDonald, who was in town from the UK for a conference.

Harry crossing our third bridge

This week Michael Sugarman continued his streak and ran yet another personal best! He took fifteen seconds off his time from last week. Congratulations!

Michael runs another PB!

Our first finisher this week was Karen! It’s always great to celebrate a female first finisher. In addition, she took the number 4 spot in our age-graded league.

Karen visits from Ohio and finishes first!

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!

Thanks to all of our volunteers who made this week’s parkrun possible - Meredith Hale, Nancy Henry, Adam Siekmann, and Jeanne Stokes. A big shout out goes to Adam for volunteering for his very first time! We were also excited to have a new run director this week for the first time in a very long time. Jeanne did an amazing job of directing on her first go and also helped with the course setup.

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 standard volunteer roles are run director, barcode scanner, timer, and tail walker. To time or scan you simply need to download the parkrun Virtual Volunteer app and show up to parkrun early for some brief training.

Mark runs his 5th parkrun!

We are back next week at 8am! Don’t forget to register and don’t forget your barcode . . .

Since launching on October 26 2019, Third Creek Greenway parkrun has had 226 individual finishers and 53 individuals volunteering.

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Event #67 was at the start of a very warm day in Knoxville - likely one of many to come over the summer.  The heat, however, did not stop 15 parkrunners joining us on the Third Creek Greenway parkrun.

We had three tourists and three first timers this morning.  Our first placed runner, Phillip Malloy joined us from the Durham NC parkrun.  It was an exciting race to the finish between Phillip and parkrun first timer Ben Fitzpatrick.  Phillip just finished first with a great time of 18.02. It is great to see folks pace and challenge each other.

Phillip and Ben both with fast times this morning.

Alexander Brooks returned today and managed to shave a whopping 36 seconds of his time, bringing him into the teens with a time of 19.24.

Kathryn Berry, visited us from England and was the first placed female today.  Impressively, today was her 291st parkrun.

Kathryn finishing fast.

Event #67 was obviously a morning for PBs with both Melissa Reagan and Verena Hadden getting PB's and finishing 5th and 6th respectively.

Lindy Carroll joined us for her 6th parkrun.

Shawn Callen and first timer Simon Callen joined finished next.  Bringing a friend is the best way to introduce people to parkrun.

Another group of runners finished together Anja and Martin Cordell and Caryn Hughes.

Our 'regular visitor' Anita Greyling from South Africa finished with an impressive 38.17 and Diane our volunteer tailwalker closed a fast course today.

Thanks to all of our volunteers who made this week’s parkrun possible - Steve Begin (who drove a long way today thank you!), Alex Snyder, Nancy Henry, and Diane 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 standard volunteer roles are run director, barcode scanner, timer, and tail walker. To time or scan you simply need to download the parkrun Virtual Volunteer app and show up to parkrun early for some brief training. Help is also needed with setting up the course, photographing the event, and posting on social media. It’s neat to see the cogs that make parkrun turn in action. You can read more about the different kinds of volunteer roles here.

No parkrun next week 05/28/2022 due to all members of our core team being on vacation.   Do check out the KTC Expo if you are in town though.  https://ktc.org/events/expo-10k-and-5k/

We are back 06/04/2022 at 8am! Don’t forget to register and don’t forget your barcode . . .

Since launching on October 26 2019, Third Creek Greenway parkrun has had 208 individual finishers and 48 individuals volunteering.

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Knoxville got relatively lucky with the weather this weekend. It was sunny and windy with temperatures in the 40s at the start of parkrun. As the Knoxville Marathon will be taking place this weekend, the mild weather is particularly welcome. This past fall the marathon took place in very wet conditions. Two of our regular parkrunners came out today for a shakeout run before they race tomorrow. Good luck to Savannah and Martin as they complete the 13.1 and 26.2 courses respectively. Martin entertained us with a reverse sprint finish (aka, slo mo) that almost tripped up our timekeeper!

While we had no personal bests or milestones this weekend, all of our runners are putting in the work for these accomplishments in the future. In total we had seven participants. Note that Tricia unfortunately was kept from starting on time due to a train, so four to five minutes can be taken off her finish time. She took it all in stride. We were glad to have her back out for her third parkrun appearance.

David was our first finisher this week. This was his 12th time finishing first, earning him second place in our list of parkrunners with the most first finishes.

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!

Thanks to all of our volunteers who made this week’s parkrun possible - Meredith Hale, Caryn Hughes, Alex Snyder, Evan 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.

Next week’s parkrun . . .

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 177 individual finishers and 43 individuals volunteering.

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It occurred to me this morning setting up the course that the last parkrun in 2020 we had at Third Creek Greenway took place on International Women’s Day. Two years later, it’s good to finally celebrate this day again. Quite a few parkrunners came out in their purple milestone T-shirts to recognize the occasion. Chalk messages supporting women were also shared on the course. In the coming weeks, Third Creek Greenway will experience a new first. Next month will be the first time ever that Knoxville’s parkrun has taken place in April! After this, TCG parkrun will have finally taken place in every month of the year.

For International Women’s Day we had a great group come out, including a few new women runners. A special welcome is due to Lisa Graves, David Green, Molly Green, and Melissa Reagan. The Greens also brought along their three children, who completed the course and cheered on their mom. Thanks to all for joining us and also to those who encouraged these first timers to try us out. In total, 13 individuals completed the course.

Molly Green is cheered on by her children

Lisa joins us with Rebecca

Welcome to Melissa!

This week we had one parkrunner run a personal best. Diane took a minute and 19 seconds off her previous best and broke the 40-minute barrier with a time of 39:30. Lately Diane has taken every opportunity she has when not helping us out by tail walking to chip away at her time. Well done! This was Diane’s 22nd parkrun. Her 25 milestone is getting very close.

Diane runs a PB!

For the third week in a row, Martin Cordell was our first finisher! He’s been training for the Knoxville Marathon, which will be his first marathon. From his parkrun results, it seems his training is right on track. Martin is currently sixth on our list of parkrunners with the most first finishes. Today was his 17th parkrun.

Martin finishes first

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!

Thanks to all of our volunteers who made this week’s parkrun possible - Meredith Hale, Christopher Snyder, Evan Snyder, David Talmy, and Savannah Amdahl. 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.

Savannah and Tula tail walk

Next week’s parkrun . . .

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 177 individual finishers and 43 individuals volunteering.

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As has been standard for the start of 2022, this Saturday temperatures dipped back down to below freezing for parkrun’s 9am start! The cold temperatures seemed to keep all but the most dedicated parkrunners away this morning. We had four parkrunners take on the course - Martin, Nancy, Rebecca H., and Caryn. Martin was first across the line and came within 30 seconds of his PB last weekend despite not having Evan to run with. There were no PBs set today, but each of these parkrunners put in performances that will continue to keep them on track for their goals.

Martin is our first finisher

All of the parkrunners also chipped away at milestones. For those who may not know, one way parkrun encourages consistent exercise is through awarding “milestone” T-shirts after participants complete a certain number of runs or volunteer instances. Currently parkrunners can receive a T-shirt after completing or volunteering at 25, 50, 100, 250, or 500 (!)  parkruns. Junior participants - those under eighteen - are eligible for T-shirts after 10 participation or volunteer instances.

At today’s event, Martin completed his 15th parkrun. Nancy finished her 43rd parkrun and is now just seven parkruns away from her 50th milestone. When she reaches this mark, she’ll be our first homegrown 50 runs milestone recipient. In addition, we were excited to see Rebecca back for her fourth TCG parkrun and her fifth parkrun overall. Finally, Caryn completed her 40th parkrun today and her 11th volunteer instance. She’s just a few parkruns behind Nancy to reach the 50th milestone.

Nancy runs parkrun #43

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!

Thanks to all of our volunteers who made this week’s parkrun possible - Heather England, Meredith Hale, Caryn Hughes, Alex Snyder, and Evan Snyder. Each of you deserves special kudos for your dedication. Readers, 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. Next week we’re particularly in need of a tail walker. This role walks the course and ensures that no one comes last at parkrun. You also get both a volunteer and run credit for a single parkrun.

Rebecca and Caryn

Next week’s parkrun . . .

We are back next week at 9am! Don’t forget to register and don’t forget your barcode . . . Note that we'll be celebrating International Women's day next weekend. Take this as an opportunity to introduce a girl or woman to parkrun.

Since launching on October 26 2019, Third Creek Greenway parkrun has had 174 individual finishers and 43 individuals volunteering.

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