There were 16 women and 27 men taking part this week, with a total of 12 doing a parkrun for their very first time; we hope to see them return soon.

We had a total of 11 personal bests - which is the same number as last week!

With 11 volunteers - that's more than the number of jackets we have, incidentally - there was plenty of support across the whole course.

Three people received their 10 t-shirt before the run - congratulations to Maisie Moo, Louis and Meg (as well as Izzy who picks her's up when's she next running).

Jamie Pringle was first across the line in 17:26, nearly 90 seconds in front of second place man Matthew Driver.

Across the 32 events, we've had 358 different runners take part, with an average of nearly 35 at each event.

We've also been going a total of over 500 hours of running around Hanley Park - that's a lot of running!

Don't forget...

There's a right royal fancy dress to celebrate the Jubilee on 2 June...

...and there won't be a parkrun on the 16 June because of the Stoke 2012 Live concert taking place in the park.

The Stats

The people
43 runners
12 first time parkrunners
7 athletic clubs were represented
11 new personal bests
Full results available here

Course records
Women's: Emily BROWN - 20:09 - 17 March 2012
Men's: Ben GAMBLE - 16:06 - 07 January 2012
Age Grade: Ben GAMBLE - 80.23% (16:06) - 07 January 2012

After last week's panic, it seemed at the beginning of Saturday morning that there would be similar.

Electical work going on in the park meant a van on the paths - fortunately a kind word meant the engineer used a stretch not used by parkrunners.

That was, however, the only issue of the day - everything else went without a hitch!  A big thank you to our volunteers, who helped everything go smoothly.

The weather seemed to perfect for running, albeit a little chilly, with 11 people achieving personal bests.

The winner, Robert White from Buxton & District AC, has previously run at South Manchester and Bramhall.

His time here, however, was nearly two minutes slower than his fastest parkrun time, showing how difficult the hills of Hanley are.

Dates for your diary

Event Director Tommy will be taking part in his first official parkrun on 26 May. The barcode is printed and ready (the legs maybe not quite so ready!).

A week later on 2 June, we'll be celebrating the Queen's diamond jubilee with a fancy dress parkrun - come along in your best royal costumes!

And on the 16 June, there won't be a parkrun because of the Stoke 2012 Live concert taking place in the park. Time for a trip to a parkrun nearby?

The Stats

The people
42 runners
3 first time parkrunners
7 athletic clubs were represented
11 new personal bests
Full results available here

Course records
Women's: Emily BROWN - 20:09 - 17 March 2012
Men's: Ben GAMBLE - 16:06 - 07 January 2012
Age Grade: Ben GAMBLE - 80.23% (16:06) - 07 January 2012

Congratulations to Liz, who ran in 3 parkruns in April.  She's had 9 PBs since taking part in parkrun, with a total improvement of 3m 47sec.

We'd like to thank Hugh Brasher of Sweatshop for his generosity and to congratulate Liz on her achievement.

Her prize is a new pair of running shoes fitted at a local Sweatshop. Every parkrun event selects a runner every month to win the prize.

The successful candidates are often chosen for their perseverance, commitment to parkrun, number of PBs in one month, total number of runs and improvement overall.

However, we can award the prize for other reasons at our discretion. If you know someone who has overcome adversity, personal illness or is deserving in any other way, please let us know by emailing HanleyOffice@parkrun.com and we promise to consider your nomination.

This Saturday started off as just any other parkrun day - setting up the course, heading off at 9am once the fountains had started and then sorting out the finish line.

All seemed to be going well, until disaster struck with the scanner - meaning that no-one's barcodes had been logged properly.

We only found the issue about half an hour into the run, which meant tokens had already gone back and forth between runners and volunteers and were in a jumbled up mess.

Even worse, some runners had already left the park, so we had no real knowledge of where they'd finished.

Thanks to a runner who's conveniently a teacher, anyone still around arranged themselves in finishing order to allow us to scan them in correctly.

Cue a mini-panic in the cafe (although only after breakfast!), with trying to sort out the full results.

Thank you to everyone who e-mailed details across to us - at the time of writing, we were only missing three names, which seeing we had no-one at one point, is a great achievement!

If you realise you're missing your result - please e-mail HanleyOffice@parkrun.com or get in touch with us on Facebook or Twitter.

Also, big thanks to the volunteers who helped on the day to sort out the problem - it made things much easier!

The Stats

The people
32 runners
3 first time parkrunners
9 athletic clubs were represented
9 new personal bests
Full results available here

Course records
Women's: Emily BROWN - 20:09 - 17 March 2012
Men's: Ben GAMBLE - 16:06 - 07 January 2012
Age Grade: Ben GAMBLE - 80.23% (16:06) - 07 January 2012

If you haven't had an e-mail with your time, please have a look through the results page to see if you're there.

If not - don't panic!  We still have a list of all the times from runners, we just need some names to pair them up to.

So, if you know what position you crossed the line in (you'll see the number on the token you're given), or have an idea of your time, we can use that to add your name to our results.

You can e-mail that across to us at hanleyoffice@parkrun.com or send us a Facebook message or tweet us.

Very sorry for the confusion it's caused, but we're trying our hardest to ensure you get your run counted!