There were plenty of milestones - and miles - for Garden City Runners on a busy bank holiday weekend.

Clocking the time and distance was Spencer White who completed the Ironman Copenhagen.

He said: "With only one Sprint distance triathlon to my name I set a dream five years ago to become an ironman at the age of 50.

"Ironman Copenhagen was the most amazing life experience and will go with me to my grave.

"My family were there throughout and to see me over the finish line.

"I would like to thank all those that have supported me through the past five years to achieve my goal, including the club who have helped and inspired me with my running."

He finished in a total of 12 hours 17 minutes with individual splits of 1:18 for the 2.2 mile swim, 6:19 for the 112 mile bike ride, and 4:25 for the marathon.

Michael Germany was also going far, running the Gosfield Backyard Ultra.

He said: "The race involves running a 6.7k loop every hour on the hour until you tap out.

"I ended up managing 15 laps which translates to 100 kilometres or 62 miles.

"The weather certainly wasn't on my side with rain for the first 9 laps at which point it was already getting dark so I needed to run the remainder of my laps with a torch.

The milestones came at parkruns, with some of the 103 GCRs that took part in Hertfordshire and beyond containing significant efforts.

Michael Paine clocked up his 100th parkrun, heading to Krakow in Poland to do so.

He said: "The course was a flat paved route around a green space which seemed popular for runners, rollerbladers and cyclists.

"Even at 9am, it was already very hot."

Asa Grout meanwhile completed her 250th event.

Supported by husband Steve, they were in Cape Town, South Africa, at the Century City Parkrun.

Steve said: "It was a very interesting course despite the miserable weather and heavy rain keeping an average attendance of over 700 down to just 177 runners.

"It was also a notable event as it’s the only parkrun out of the many I’ve done where you run inside a building, twice.

"The one lapper course takes you round a park, along a canal and into a shopping centre."

Johan Preis also joined the 250 club back home at Panshanger where Joe Ansbro took the win, followed by Alex Newman-Smith in fourth and Andrew Knight in fifth.

Barbara Kubis-Labiak was sixth lady.

Among the highest ranked finishers elsewhere was James Huish, who came second at Bognor Regis, a third place for Chris Baylis at St Albans and Alex Faulkner's fourth lady prize at Shepton Mallet.

 A few from the club were at the Bushy Parkrun 999 event to the north of Hampton Court.

Willow Gibson said: "It marked almost 20 years since the very first parkrun took place at Bushy Park back in 2004.

"Despite the pouring rain, we all had a great time running the course where parkrun first began."

Samantha Hastie led them home in 31:40, followed by Charlotte Jones, Tendy St Francis and Willow and Jensen Gibson.