FIRSTLY A MAJOR REMINDER... BARCODES ARE A MUST AS THIS IS EXTREMELY TIME CONSUMING TO DO... WE HAD TO DO 33 NON-BARCODERS THIS WEEK... 1 hour of time that could have been used somewhere else.  NON-BARCODERS will start to notice that their names will not appear on the results page as the start date was 6th March for this and everyone should be printing off their BARCODES.. If you remember the number off it you can use this at the Registration Desk.

We had 163 runners this week... 43 of which were first timers... welcome and hope you enjoyed your first run with us.

Well done to 66 of our runners who recorded their PB's this week.

Congratulations to Paul Freary of Belgrave Harriers for coming 1st for the 6th time and also for gaining a new PB.

Rebecca Flanagan hit a new PB at the same time as gaining her 10 run t-shirt from Parkrun.

Thank you to all our Voluneers this week... We're sure Rick was thankful for all our volunteers this week as Mark and myself were away..

If you would like to volunteer and help out at parkrun please email www.heatonoffice@parkrun.com

Reminders!!!!

Personal Belongings

Please can you remember to put all your Personal Belongings next to Registration Desk at the wall side. This is so that the table and chairs are left for the dog walkers to use.

Change for parking

Please start bringing change for parking if you have not been charged as yet you might do very soon as the weather is getting warmer and the parking attendents are coming out earlier. The Lakeside Carpark is £1.00 (If it's changed and someone knows let us know and we'll amend this amount as soon as).

Now for this weeks stats...

In his 9th appearance, Paul FREARY (VM40-44) of Belgrave Harriers won for the 6th time in a time of 16:17. Tommy HENDERS (SM20-24) representing Leigh Harriers & AC took second by 38 seconds recording 16:55. Paul SIMONS, (VM45-49) of Salford Harriers & AC placed third in a time of 16:58.
 
In her 1st appearance, Anna WEAVER (SW25-29) of Salford Harriers & AC won in a time of 19:38 for the 1st time. Anna WEAVER beat Katie GEELAN (VW35-39) representing Bury AC by 71 seconds recording 20:49 in the process. Rebecca FLANAGAN, (JW14) of Rossendale Harriers & AC placed third in a time of 21:07.
 
In today's Age Graded competition, Paul FREARY recorded a performance of 84.44%
 
In the points competition Graham CHESTERS has a lead of 366 points over second placed Greg BARBER. Andrea SCHOLEY leads Sarah ROBERTS by 293 in the ladies competition.
 
This week there were 43 first timers.
 
66 runners recorded PBs, bringing the total number since the Heaton started to 1096. In this time, 943 runners from 74 different clubs have completed the race 3347 times covering a distance of 16735 kilometers.
 
The male course record is held by Michael MANNINGS who ran 16:12 on 08/08/09, event #8. The female equivalent is held by Samantha BRIGGS who ran 19:06 on 07/11/09, event #21. 

For and on behalf of heaton parkrun committee members
 

Kind Regards

Clare Kelly

Secretary

March 24th 2010 6:30pm
Vera Hirst 5K, Littleborough
http://www.ukresults.net/10mar.html#hirst

This 5K course has a very simlar tough rating as heaton parkrun, so if you can get round our course this one is a great one for you. It is organised by Andy O'Sullivan MBE and the course is used several times throughout the year. Very popular and you can register on the night at the Falcon Pub. (Mark and Clare Kelly will be taking part this year so we hope to see plenty of you)

If you are wanting to volunteer for this week's parkrun but haven't got round to emailing as yet... please email www.heatonoffice@parkrun.com it would be nice to see a few more 's around the course...

As Mark and myself are not there this week please can all the Marshall's bring back the relevant signs around their posts... also please remember the signs around the golf course as  I'm sure next week you would still like to see the 3k sign ... It would also help Rick out in a big way. 

Well have a fantastic time this week... you are all doing fantastic!!!

For and on behalf of all the committee members.

Kind Regards

Clare Kelly

Race Report Manager

Firstly we would like to say a literal warm welcome to our 185 runners... the most we have had so far.  48 of which were first timers.. we hope you enjoyed your first run with us and come back again next week to do it all again!! 

Congratulations to 87 runners for recording their PB's. 

We have had a really exciting run this week where we have had 4 sub 17's. It was a fantastic fight to the finish line between Rob J Hughes and Paul Matthew Savage - both representing Salford Harriers... only 1 second in it... and then closely followed by another one representing Salford Harriers James Kovacs and then not long after Nathan Kilcourse. Well done guys keep it up. 

Thank you to all our volunteers... we had a tremendous turnout this week... your cheering and encouragement as runners passed was fantastic... 

If you would like to be a volunteer please email www.heatonoffice@parkrun.com we always need volunteers and it's nice to see new faces cheering runners on...

A big thank you to Emma from Lucozade Sport for visiting us for the second time... It took the interest of many of our runners to discuss the products and take some samples. 

REMINDERS

BARCODES

This week was our first week for barcodes only... we had 29 runners without barcodes out of 185 runners... for the 29 runners that did not have a barcode this gave an extra 2 hours work to get them on our results page... Yes 2 hours for 29 non-barcode runners.. so please can everyone remember to print out their barcodes and make sure they bring them with them as this will save an awful lot of time and the results will get uploaded alot sooner. 

Also, just to remind you the barcodes also give you 10% off at Sweatshop in the Arndale Centre at Manchester. So if you need a new pair of running shoes and haven't printed your barcode off yet what are you waiting for. 

WEATHER

As the weather is now becoming warmer there will be more dogs out on the course... please be extra careful if you pass them.. for the dogs safety and your own.

Please make sure you hydrate yourself properly for the warmer weather.  We don't want anyone curling over at the last bend now do we... or before for that matter. 

TAGS

When you have completed the run and you go through the funnel you will receive a tag. Please can you make sure you give these in at the Registration Desk. 

Now for this weeks stats...

In his 1st appearance, Rob J HUGHES (SM30-34) of Salford Harriers & AC won for the 1st time in a time of 16:18. Paul Matthew SAVAGE (SM30-34) representing Salford Harriers & AC took second by 1 seconds recording 16:19. James KOVACS, (SM35-39) of Salford Harriers & AC placed third in a time of 16:34.   
 
In her 7th appearance, Isabell Mae LEWIS (JW14) of Rossendale Harriers & AC won in a time of 23:05 for the 1st time. Isabell Mae LEWIS beat Lisa CLARKE (VW40-44) representing Swinton RC by 18 seconds recording 23:23 in the process. Rebecca THOMPSON, (VW40-44) of Glossopdale Harriers placed third in a time of 24:15.  
 
In today's Age Graded competition, David Colin LEWIS recorded a performance of 84.40%
 
In the points competition Graham CHESTERS has a lead of 357 points over second placed Greg BARBER. Andrea SCHOLEY leads Sarah ROBERTS by 225 in the ladies competition. 
 
This week there were 48 first timers. 
 
87 runners recorded PBs, bringing the total number since the Heaton started to 1030. In this time, 900 runners from 73 different clubs have completed the race 3184 times covering a distance of 15920 kilometers.
 
The male course record is held by Michael MANNINGS who ran 16:12 on 08/08/09, event #8. The female equivalent is held by Samantha BRIGGS who ran 19:06 on 07/11/09, event #21. 

For and on behalf of all the committee members

Kind Regards

Clare Kelly

Race Report Manager