There was another bumper showing of children at Pitshanger Junior parkrun this week, with the Ealing Half Marathon next week, as well as the Mini Mile for children. There were 131 finishers, which isn't a record for Pitshanger Juniors, but isn't far off.

Sevan had the tough task of tapping the button to record finish times multiple times a second as the children were bunched together and racing each other to the line. Almost all of them completed the course in under 19 minutes and the first finisher, a girl, finishing in 7:20! Around the course, Steph, Kash and Maria were marshalling and taking some hard high fives as parents as well as children were being motivated by our trio.

As well as mashing the button to record finishers, at the same time Sevan was discussing the food history of Marmite and Hershey's chocolate with others in the funnel. He learned that Vegemite came to exist when Marmite supply lines broke down after the First World War in 1923, forcing Australian Marmite lovers to create their own yeasty spread.