The ‘Trent 5’ takes place on 30th May at 7.15pm at Beeston Rylands. It’s a lovely flat race organised by Beeston Athletics Club and it’s dead cheap!
Visit their website and click on ‘Trent 5’ to download an entry form but be quick as postal entries close on Friday 25th May. You can even see a list of who’s entered so far…quite a few parkrunners names down already. Entries are limited to 250.

Talking of local races and Colwick parkrunners… congratulations to Alastair Watson who won, and Catherine Charlton who came second to Juliet Doyle (the twin sister of our current female course record holder, Jane Potter) at the County Championship 10 mile race on Friday 11th May.

Run well; see you at the bell.
After you have run round the lakes, there will be cakes...

We'll stop there.
Your Colwick parkrun team

The ‘Huddersfield Bunny’ joined us today, aka Dave Williamson. For those who aren’t familiar with this parkrun peculiarity ‘the bunny’ is a touring parkrunner, identified by his t-shirt, who turns up at random events around the country with the idea that as many people as possible try and beat him. Today 63 out of 130 runners did so.

Alistair Watson ran like the wind to break the course record today with a time of 15:31. Well done.
We welcomed 25 first timers to the family today and 42 pb’s were set. We had 39 new registrations this week bringing our total count here at Colwick to 1690 registered runners.

Thank you very much to all the volunteers who joined ‘Team Hood’ today. It simply couldn’t happen without you giving up your precious time.

Talking of volunteers…we were inundated with offers this week and actually had to turn a few down (which we hate to do). Please do have a look at the volunteering page on our website as there is a volunteer table at the bottom of the page which shows forthcoming weeks, and spaces available. Please feel free to ‘bagsy’ a spot by emailing us at ColwickHelpers@parkrun.com

We are approaching the end of our first year and this is perhaps an appropriate time to remind you that parkrun asks everyone to volunteer 3 times a year.

Looking forward to next week…there will be cakes! One of our runners and her son are doing some fund-raising for a trip to Africa for a charity school building project. They will be offering cakey delights at the finish-line for a small donation. Also we will have a new run director, Kevin Bowen. Respect to him for stepping up. Please be gentle with him…

Talking of Kevin…you may recall that he ran a sweep stake on his London marathon time and he raised over £2000 for ‘Whizz-kidz’ in the process. The winning time was 3:08:05 and was won by Claire Hill of Sweatshop.

There are some new photos on the photos page.

And here’s the stats…

Colwick parkrun
Event number 47
19th May 2012

Men's placings:
Alastair WATSON (SM30-34) of Hermitage Harriers RC, was first in 15:31 - 5th win in 5th appearance.
Nick HOOKER (SM20-24) of Leeds City AC, was second in 16:26.


Current standing in the Men's annual points competition:
Chris JONES (Redhill Road Runners) 2823 pts.
Peter BONNER (Unattached) 2610 pts.
Michael ROMANIENKO (Notts AC) 2459 pts.

Women's placings:
Catherine CHARLTON (SW30-34) of Redhill Road Runners, was first (9th overall) in 20:01 - second win in 5th appearance.
Bronte HEATH (JW14) (Unattached) was second (29th overall) in 22:41.
Rachel ANGELL (SW30-34) (Unattached) was third (42nd overall) in 24:09.

Current standing in the Women's annual points competition:
Jillian BEASLEY (Unattached) 2995 pts.
Christine BENTLEY (Woodthorpe Huffers and Puffers) 2941 pts.
Karen Jane PARKIN (Woodthorpe Huffers and Puffers) 2902 pts.

The following runners recorded the best Age Grade scores:
Alastair WATSON (SM30-34) was graded 84.53 % for the time 15:31 (first overall).
Nick HOOKER (SM20-24) was graded 78.50 % for the time 16:26 (second overall).

Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Colwick parkrun Results Page.

Run well; see you at the bell
Your Colwick parkrun team

'10' club t-shirts were awarded to Alexandra and Hannah before we ran this morning.

Well done girls, keep on running and wear those t-shirts with pride!

Colwick parkrun
Event number 46
12th May 2012

Men's placings:
Michael ROMANIENKO (SM30-34) of Notts AC, was first in 17:50 - 11th win in 24th appearance.
Nick MARSH (VM40-44) of Louth AC, was second in 19:27.
Lee WILKINSON (SM30-34) (Unattached) was third in 19:27.
 

Current standing in the Men's annual points competition:
Chris JONES (Redhill Road Runners) 2745 pts.
Peter BONNER (Unattached) 2538 pts.
Michael ROMANIENKO (Notts AC) 2459 pts.

Women's placings:
Kelly WEALL (SW30-34) (Unattached) was first (5th overall) in 19:52 - third win in third appearance.
Katherine MALONE (SW30-34) (Unattached) was second (23rd overall) in 22:27 - 7 previous wins.
Anna SMITH (SW25-29) of Formula One Circuit Crew, was third (30th overall) in 23:05.
 

Current standing in the Women's annual points competition:
Jillian BEASLEY (Unattached) 2912 pts.
Christine BENTLEY (Woodthorpe Huffers and Puffers) 2875 pts.
Karen Jane PARKIN (Woodthorpe Huffers and Puffers) 2838 pts.
 

The following runners recorded the best Age Grade scores:
Friedel PLANT (VW65-69) was graded 79.67 % for the time 26:14 (59th overall).
Kelly WEALL (SW30-34) was graded 74.83 % for the time 19:52 (5th overall).
Michael ROMANIENKO (SM30-34) was graded 72.90 % for the time 17:50 (first overall).

This week there were 139 runners, of whom 20 were first timers and 48 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 13 different athletics clubs took part.

Colwick parkrun started on 25th June 2011, and since then 1,179 different runners, including participants from 101 athletics clubs, have completed 4,692 runs covering a total distance of 23,460 km, and there have been 1,420 new Personal Bests.

Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Colwick parkrun Results Page.
 

140 runners turned out this morning for a sunny early morning run around Colwick Park, we had 23 new registrations this week, but no idea how many first timers and pb’s as yet…

The results tallied well (well done timers) but we don’t know who came in at position 137 or which George Gray to pick from a choice of 5…could you both email the office please with your details.

We had two lovely demonstrations of community spirit today as Friedel turned up with jelly babies and wine gums (always welcome) and Gary took our poorly parkrun flag home to try and mend it.

Two people have asked us questions about photos on Flicker recently… Catch Frazer next week or email the office and we’ll explain what we think you need to do. There are a few new photos on today.

A word on barcodes…please remember to bring them, please make sure they scan and please, if possible, get them laminated. We wrote quite a lot down today and it does slow things down at the registration table and for the results administrator uploading the results later on.

Thank you to Chris and his volunteer group today for giving up their time to make event 46 happen.