Cleeve Hill Golf Club, Cheltenham GL52 3PW

The sun was shining on the purple army, as Almost Athletes ran the Tri-max Forest of Dean 10k, Half and full marathon. Pete Hooper completed the 10k in 55 minutes, Charmaine Brunt 58:18, Kev Balchin 1:06 and Kev Fairs 1:08. Running the half marathon, Paul Warren completed the event in 1:40, Amy Sheers 1:45, Chris White 1:47, Farook Moto 1:51, Nicole Hope and Philip Jeyes 2:18, Oliver Clarkin 2:23 achieving a personal best, Lynne Macedo 2:36, Rachael and Ollie Nolan 2:46. Ingrid Harris ran the marathon, coming first in her age group V50-59 in 3:48, followed by Mark Willicott 3:56, Michelle Balchin 4:02 achieving 3rd in age group, Ian Coggin 4:04, Matt Hurshamn 4:14, and Karen Galpin 4:20.

In  Battersea, London, Helena Youde achieved a new personal best of 38:53, as well as achieving 3rd Lady at the Sri-Chimnoy 10k series.

The Cotswold 24 Hour Race, a 24 hour individual or team relay race held in the Bathurst Estate, just outside of Cirencester, an off-road 9km mixed course was run by Team: Prashanth Sripathi, Piotr Michalski and Robert Dalton-Morris, achieving 3rd place in their age category, completing 31 laps in 24 hours. Visually impaired runner, Rob Rennell ran with Team VI runners Bristol, completing his first 9k in 1:13, and second lap 1:16.

At the Barry Island 10k, David Chittock completed the event in 48:54, followed by Lepha McCartan and Deborah Cartlidge in 56:18.

Parkrun tourists saw, Vasco Barreto attending the Bydgoszc parkrun, Poland, achieving 4th overall, 2nd in age category at 19:56. Iris Mayo at Torbay Velopark parkrun, Janine Bennett Didcot parkrun, Claire Hawes Seaton parkrun, Robert Foord Evesham parkrun. At Cheltenham parkrun: Jo Foster completed her 100th parkrun, followed by Oliver Bell completing his 50th parkrun. Catherine Daly and Jamie Watt achieved new personal bests of 23:18 and 22:50. Maisie Markham and Alice Harman completed their first parkrun, with a total of 44 purple finishers on Saturday.

Almost Athletes took to the track this week at the Prince of Wales Stadium in Cheltenham for the Midsummer Open 5k Classic. In the highly competitive field, all of the Almost Athletes racing secured a new PB on a very sultry evening. Times were Josh Hand 17:38, Martin Foster 18:07, Matt Polson 18:27, Prash Sripathi 18:42, Matt Hickman 19:14, Hattie Jenkins 19:29 and Piotr Michalski 20:28.

Ellie Laney was 1st lady home overall at the Pilot Inn 5k near Gloucester in a time of 19:52.

Prash Sripathi continued his fine form into a new PB at Cheltenham parkrun in a time of 18:49, his first sub 19 minutes. There was also a PB at Cheltenham for Graham Philpott in 25:08.

Also at parkrun Rachael Nolan, Simon Jarvis, Claire Gallagher and James Clay hit the tourist trail to run at the Southwark parkrun in London. The quartet later completed the London 10 Relay. Rich Smith ran Rickmansworth in 25:52. Pete Mitchener & Kate Freeman ran at Tewkesbury for the first time. Lynne Macedo was 2nd in her age category with a new PB at Tunbridge Wells. Also on the tourist trail were Simon Attridge at Richmond, Kev Dendy & Patricia Peever at Ashton Court Bristol, Janine Bennett at Seaton, Mark Stojanov at Canon Hill Birmingham, Hayley Woolnough at Warrington, Neil Tring at Thornbury, Ian Coggin & Norm Lever at Newent, Jason Bliss at Doncaster, Robert Foord at Maidenhead and Claire Hawes at Exmouth.

Ingrid Harris & Allan Green completed the Dorset Invader Marathon in 5:40, the distance turning out to be 28.6 miles.