Burgess Park Race Results

Thanks for joining for the first SLOW event in this year’s Park Race Series, on this the hottest day in May on record no less! Hopefully everyone managed to brave the heat and had an enjoyable run through Burgess Park.

Thanks to Feed the Yak for hosting us, and to everyone who helped out.

Results

Planner’s comments

This was actually the first park event I’ve planned despite being Park Race coordinator a few years ago! Burgess Park is a lovely central park and it was great to see so many who still turned up despite the hot weather – I’m seriously impressed.

I wanted the event centre to be near public transport and to be different to the last Park Race we had from Oval, and so I based it from Elephant and Castle. I hope you liked the buzz of the area and my choice of venue. I tried to plan the courses on the shorter side as the event centre was quite some walk away and I wanted people to get back at a reasonable time.

The main worry I had was the funfair. I didn’t have a confirmed area where it was going to be (in the past it’s not been where advertised), so to be safe I avoided the two large flat open areas. I think the courses still presented you with sufficient interest and challenge even without these areas.

As always, many thanks to all the helpers without whom the event couldn’t happen.

Vinh

Photos by Vinh-Phuong Hoang