We’re yet to meet anyone who wasn’t thrilled to lock eyes with the timekeepers in the final stages of a Weipa parkrun. Photo: Facebook (Weipa parkrun).
The scent of the 2025 Weipa Running Festival must be in the air if some of the performances at Saturday’s Weipa parkrun #418 were anything to go by.
Eighty-four participants, including four newbies, tackled the 5-kilometre circuit, including Jonathan Owen, who finished second overall on his first outing in a time of 20 minutes, 1 second.
There were 15 personal bests recorded during the event, with Tynan Cox clearly having somewhere else to be as he blitzed the field in a PB effort of 17:52 to be the first person to say good morning to the timekeepers.
Lizzie Perrin also notched up a PB in being the first woman across the finish line in 22:47.
Harvey Flynn, Clayton Morrison, Jordyn Mulherin, Hailee Ryan, Jane Ostler, Sian Edwards, Isabelle Lucey, Finley Nadredre, Ravi Jyani, Kendall Daly, Colleen Vaccaro, Robin Morove and Georgi Jenkins were the other participants to finish the morning with a new PB under their belt.
Volunteers Amanda Allender, Amanda Haines, Donna Jewell, Emma Eyre and Fiona Dyer ensured participants had a seamless parkrun fix for the week.
Weipa parkrun is held every Saturday at 7am at the shelter opposite the hospital roundabout in Nanum, with participants asked to muster at least 15 minutes before the starter’s pistol sounds.
