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T-shirt Delivery |
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A new batch of t-shirts has arrived from Parkrun for those who reached their 10, 50 & 100 milestones and responded to the email from Ray at Parkrun up to and including Friday 27th April. Please pick them up either before or after the run on Saturday!
10 Club:
Amy Corcoran, Abi Beswick, Harry Barby-Corner, Millie Cooke, Alex Macfarlane, Jack Hill, Katie Cooper, Finlay Mayoh, James Glazier, Tom Turner, Joe Lucas, Jake Davies, Matthew Houghton
50 Club:
Jo Thomas, Stuart Charlesworth, Peter Wall, Maureen Wilkins, Ling Li, Paul Galoway, Lok Li, Peter Edkins, James Dickinson, Thomas Newsome, Emma Aldred, Sally Briggs, Richard Hall, Paul Proctor, Heather Owen, Carys Bowen
100 Club:
Andy Turner, Aeronwy Preece-Towey, Rachel Penney, Ted Howarth, Mike Clark, Anthony Phillips, Robert Currie
If your name is not on the list and you think it should be, please can you email ray@parkrun.com
Congratulations to you all from the Bramhall Parkrun Team
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Sweatshop Prize: April 2012 |
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The Sweatshop prize winner for April 2012 is ....
CALLUM COULSON!!
Callum has been running at the park since 2010 and is one of our many fast improving junior runners. It's great to see young people taking part and encouraging their friends and family to also get involved. We've had some impressive runs of PB's over the years but Callum has now managed 10 in his last 11 outings as he has improved to a speedy 19.05 and 70% age grading.
The run conditions have been mixed this month but with the ever increasing number of runners there have been more fine performances than ever to consider. Tom Peers, Adrian Jarvis and James Hall have all posted sustained improvements that might have won the prize in other months.
Congratulations to Callum who wins a new pair of running shoes fitted by our friends at Sweatshop. We hope the new shoes will keep him speeding around the park. Our nearest Sweatshop stores are Hyde and Arndale Centre - http://www.sweatshop.co.uk/storefinder.cfm.
Sweatshop are a major sponsor of the parkrun organisation and every month generously provide this prize for a runner of any standard who has performed well in the month and shown overall improvement and commitment to the parkrun. Many thanks to Sweatshop owner Hugh Brasher for his continued support of our work in grassroots athletics.
The Bramhall team select the winner but we're always pleased to have your nominations. Just drop us a line on BramhallOffice@parkrun.com
Your Bramhall parkrun team
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Race Report: 28 April 2012 |
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New Milestones for Bramhall parkrun!
Saturday’s Bramhall parkrun was remarkable for a number of reasons. First, in spite of some regulars taking a breather before the Greater Manchester Marathon (parkrun regular Steve Fairclough was one did both), 35 first-timers helped boost attendance to 437, not far behind the event record of 485, and the 2nd best attendance at all UK parkruns this week. This group of dedicated runners ran in cool but dry weather but on a course that was muddied by the prior week’s downpours. In addition to this, two other milestones were reached this week. We passed the 50,000 mark for the number of runs completed at Bramhall, since its 2008 inception to reach 50,250! The mathematically inclined amongst you will have worked out that this also took Bramhall past the quarter-million mark for kilometers run, which now stands at 251, 250.
It was a week when the top spots, not for the first time, were dominated by Wilmslow RC runners. The event was won for the 56th time by Wilmslow’s Rob Downs, ‘fresh’ from a blistering performance at the London Marathon, in 17.20. Rob also had the top age-graded performance for the day at 83.75%. His fellow ‘old men’ from Wilmslow, Malcolm Fowler (17.42) and Trevor Morris (18.04) were 2nd and 3rd respectively and made sure Rob had to work for his win. Diane McVey of Wilmslow grabbed the top Women’s spot (19.20) and 12th place overall, her first win in only her 3rd appearance. Ellen Downs (20.12) and Juliet Downs (20.37), two of Stockport Harriers most promising juniors, were the second and third Women runners respectively, both winning their age groups as well. There have been a number of great results by both female and male juniors lately, a terrific development.
Other notable performances included those by Nathan Mayoh and Tim Hudspith who tied for 5th at 18.20 following a great sprint duel to the finish to win their respective age groups. Tom Peers won the SM20-24 group at 18.24 for a new PB and 4th place, just behind the WRC veterans. Ben Batho, another Stockport Junior, won the JM14 group, and Tom Sloan won the JM 15-19 group and had a new PB. Paul Adkins won the VM55 group and Les Williams topped the VM60-64 age group. Lynne Densham (22.10) had a new PB to take her to the top of the WV 40-44 group. In a week when there were an amazing 79 PBs, please accept the author’s apologies for not including every terrific result. It should be noted that at least 20 of these PBs were in that band of dedicated runners finishing in 30 minutes or more. This group includes some of Bramhall’s most loyal parkrunners, some of whom have over 50 or even 100 parkruns each to their names. They are the heart and soul of the event and long may that continue.
Steve Shaughnessy
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