EAST ANGLIA CROSS COUNTRY LEAGUE RACE – RAF MARHAM EVENT

1. The Station Commander, Group Captain DJE Cooper ADC MA BEng (Hons) RAF, RAF Marham has kindly granted permission for the Stn to host a cross country race fixture on 11 Jan 12. The race will commence at 1430 hrs from Shouldham Warren car park. See attached maps for directions.

2. Course. The course is along woodland paths and is approximately 6 miles for men and 3 miles for women starting and finishing at the car park.

3. Facilities. There are no changing facilities available so please come prepared.

4. Pre-Race Actions. A race briefing at the car park will be held at 1415hrs for all competitors prior to the race commencing.

Starting on Saturday Jan 7th at 2:30 pm is a weekly Adult Running Fitness Group based at Shrublands Centre on Magdalen Way, Gorleston.

The aim is to help beginners to warm-up, stretch, walk, jog and then run in a safe and secure way.

More details from the RunBritain website or by contacting Chris on 01493 669179.

For info, we were interviewed this week about Gorleston parkrun.

For this week only, this can be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00mfvxz

about 38 mins in.

Gorleston Cliffs parkrun No. 140, 24^{th December 2011 - Report}

An amazingly fine December day greeted an amazingly good turnout of 130 people, half of whom were dressed up as Santas, to take part in the Christmas Eve run. Noisy congratulations were offered to event director Chris Harbord for being voted national park run volunteer of the year, a worthy accolade indeed.

In the run itself visiting runner Robert Flyer of Warwick University AC won in a time of 18.12 beating off a stiff challenge from rapidly closing local runners Chris Scott and Carl Prewer of Lowestoft RR who finished in 18.18 and 18.20 respectively.

In the ladies race Cheryl Holder of Purple Patch Runners recorded her 4th win - in 20.56 with Sandra Roberts of Norfolk Gazelles second in 21.30 and Karen Archbold of Lowestoft RR third in 22.05.

Brian Tate excelled again with his 82.4% age related performance of 20.10.

As always at parkrun everyone is regarded as a winner regardless of pace, age or stamina. Just being there at 9am on a Saturday morning and taking part is a great way to gradually become fitter. The volunteers will always stay until the last person is home.

This weeks Santa run and next weeks commemorative event to recognise the special life and fund-raising runs of the late Jimmy Saville are raising money for local charity.

All good wishes to our parkrun participants and volunteers for continued well-Being in 2012.