Jubileerun - 5th June 2012

We will be having an extra special Jubilee parkrun at 9am, Tuesday 5th June.

The theme will of course be Red, White and Blue!

Please stay behind afterwards for coffee and cake and a good chinwag!

Event 60 - 12th May 2012 - The one organised by a Manchester Marathon Survivor!

Croeso i'r adroddiad rhedeg!!

This week the talented Ally Young was our run director and organised a perfect parkrun.  She had obviously picked up tips from the organisers of Manchester Marathon ;-) (please detect sarcasm there!).

Thank you to all the volunteers who answered the call....we had a lovely full rota this week and so far it’s looking good for next week too.  BUT remember, this a volunteer run show and we need you all to join in the volunteer madness for the show to go ahead!!!  I can safely say that no job is to big or scary......I have finally tackled my fear of the timer and actually, it’s the easiest job going!!  So if I can do any volunteering job, then anyone can!

So....onto the run report

This week’s top males were Speedy Dave Waston...again in 15:53, just one second off his PB, followed by Michael Hyde with an brand spanking new PB in 16:50 and finally the rather handsome James Little also with a PB (and not a hair our of place as he crossed the line!) in 16:56.....well done gentlemen!!

This week’s top ladies were Natalie McGuire in 19:32, very closely followed by Julie Field in 19:35 and third place lady was Sally Caton in 20:57.  Well done ladies, excellent running!

Top junior males were Michael Gladstone, Craig Sheard and Nat Stock...well done lads!  Special mention has also got to go to Joel Stirling one of our younger runners who really pushes himself every week.  He achieved another PB and is now finishing in 22:27....he really is one to watch in the future!  Well done to all our juniors!

Top junior females were Natalie McGuire, Freya Williams and Rebecca Morris with a New PB...Well done ladies!

Now I will pass you onto the lady that you have all been waiting for...It’s SallyAnn Stat Geek!!!

Hello Huddersfield parkrunners,

Sorry for the lateness of the pb stats, it has been a busy mad week.

I did not run this week but was the ‘not so glamorous’ assistant to my son who was scanning, I really wanted to scan but was not allowed!  Anyway it was lovely to put faces to some of the names that I have become so familiar with but hadn’t a clue what you actually looked like! This brings me to my second apology of the Report and this goes to Francis Ktendis, who I referred to in a previous stats as a lady! I can quite clearly see from meeting you that you are a gentleman and obviously the VM after your name and the spelling should have made this clear to me, so I am sorry for my earlier stupidity and will try not to repeat it!

Wow what a week of personal bests! There were 84 people that achieved a new pb, with improvements ranging from a second  (all counts) to someone that knocked over 11 minutes from their time.

So on to the Every Second Counts Award and the worthy winner is Carl Lecomber, who really busted his gut to knock a second off and achieve a new pb of 25 40! Congratulations Carl!

At the other end of the spectrum Our Most Improved Runner is Craig Docherty, who reappeared after a 10 months absence from parkrun to reduce his time by 11 minutes and 18 seconds and record 28 41! Well done Craig! 

The Most Consecutive PBs Award goes to John Kitson, who has notched up an incredible 8 in a row. At his first Huddersfield parkrun in February John recorded a time of 27 05 but has improved on this each and every time that he has run and has a pb this week of 21 58! Absolutely amazing, great running John!  Mark Cope in 20 35 and Judith Harker in 27 35, both gained their 5^th consecutive pb, excellent running!

I am very thrilled to announce that we have some Sub 17, Sub 18 and Sub 20 Milestone Achievers this week. The Sub 17 Club has 2 new members - Michael Hyde from Stadium Runners in 16 50 and James Little from Holmfirth Harriers in 16 56, was there some club rivalry going on there? 

Darren Hanson achieved Sub 18 for the first time in 17 52, John Smith-Calvert ran Sub 19 in 18 45 and Nicholas James Dawson knocked a massive 3 mins and 26 sec off to run Sub 20 for the first time and record a  pb of 19 10. Very impressive times, I’m sure you will all agree.

We had 7 Sub 25 Milestone Achievers, and the Magnificent Seven were Jason Haigh in 23 41, Glenn Lockwood in 24 02, Ama Williams in 24 19, Sam Brown in 24 31, Alfie Jenkinson in 24 48 (knocking 4 min 16 of his time) and Steve Boyer in 24 52. Oh but that is only 6, I hear you cry, Martin Downey, AKA Unknown Runner 116, ran in 24 52 to complete the Magnificent Seven that got a Sub 25 Milestone this week!  Is it time to celebrate? 

Congratulations to Claire Essex who broke Sub 30 with a time of 29 46.

Sub 35 Milestone was achieved in style by Joe Jenkinson, bettering his time by 8 mins 8 sec to achieve a Sub 40 and Sub 35 Milestone in the same week with a fantastic new time of 32 02; Hannah Walker in 33 59 knocked 2 min 48 off her time and Kate Bosley knocked a massive 5 mins 25 to get a new pb of 34 18. Absolutely fabulous!

We have 2 Fine Wine Awards to hand out – Timothy Burrows in category VM60-64 got a pb of 28 31 and also Roy Henstock in the same age category got a pb of 39 10! Still improving gentlemen!

Welcome Back to PB Form on the 2 Lap Route Awards to James Little and Kierandip Singh Sahota, with their first pbs since April 2011; Stephanie Bailey and Craig Docherty, who last got pbs in July; Samuel Bedingfield must bring out the best in Joanne Bedingfield, because they both got their first pb since October but Samuel hasn’t run in between; and lastly getting their first pb since last November were Sally Anne Rutherford (good name), William Schofield, Christopher Madej  and Darren Hanson. Good to see you all back at parkrun or back on pb form!

That’s it apart from to say that a lot of the people I spoke to at the scanning station were not aware they had ever been mentioned in the report, so if you do know any of the people featured please let them know of their moment of glory and 15 minutes of fame! Spread a little happiness!

Cheers!

SallyAnn

SallyAnn...because the report is written in such beautiful purple crayon, you are forgiven for it being handed in late! X

Bunny Time.....So I will pass you onto our adorable, if not slightly strange.....Huddersfield Running Bunny!!

Event 59 - 5th May 2012 - just a normal parkun

Wow....what a lovely change, this week was just a bog standard, does what it says on the tin, but rather wonderful as usual, parkrun!!

The evert was run by me!! And a fine job I did.....I was assisted by the lovely Christopher who was very well behaved all morning...well done!  As usual we had our amazing volunteers who we couldn’t manage without!  As I keep saying volunteering at parkrun is where all the fun happens!!

So this leads me nicely onto......it’s about time some of you volunteered!

It is lovely to see your happy smiling running faces every Saturday morning, but we need even happier smiling volunteer faces too!   Huddersfield parkrun is run totally by volunteers from writing this run report, to answering emails, to setting out cones, to processing results, to tidying away!!  And we NEED everyone to chip in and help out.  So this week we will be there with our diary for the next two months, I am sure all of you will have a Saturday that you can help out in the next two months and lets fill the volunteer positions up!   If we get every single positions filled, then I will have sweets at the finish line for you all next week!!!   

Right....volunteer rant over.....

On to the run report ........

This week The Boy (Matthew Pierson) did good again and came in first in 16.20, followed by Simon Courtney in 17:19 followed by Adam Walker with a new PB in 17.40!  Good times lads!

The tip top ladies were Natalie McGuire in 19.26 with a new PB, followed by Julie Field also with a new PB in 19.30 and third place lady with another PB was Lucy Marland in 20:47.....amazing PB times ladies!! 

Top male juniors were Nat Stock with a PB and breaking 19 for the first time, Cameron Pope also with a new PB and first timer Callum Durrans.....excellent times lads!

Top female juniors were Natalie McGuire, Georgina Gilchrist-Roberts and Jennifer Melia....well done ladies!

A new course age graded record was set again this week by the incredible Lynne Mannion.  She is an amazing lady.....well done Lynne!!!

Time to pass you on to ‘our Annie’ as we have now to call her.....it’s SallyAnn Stat Geek!

Hello Everybody,

No time for coffee and jaffa cakes this week as 97 Huddersfield parkrunners got a pb this week! That is a tremendous effort, obviously the prospect of a bank holiday gave us an extra spring in our step!

The Every Second Counts Award goes to the very lovely Lynne Mannion who knocked off the vital second to record a new pb of 21 16 (and to beat Jeffrey too)! 

There was one Sub 19 Milestone Achiever this week – Nathaniel Stock, who came in at 18 56, incredible for a JM14. Well done Nathaniel, I take it that you are feeling better?

We also have a couple of Sub 20 Milestone Achievers – another Junior Natalie Jo McGuire ran in 19 26, and also James Scholes (a more mature runner) finished his second Huddersfield parkrun in 19 39, well done to both of you.

Our Fine Wine Award winner is Anthony John Weeks, who is in the category VM65-69, and he was also the first of the Sub 25 Milestone Achievers with a new pb of 23 51. Congratulations Anthony, you smashed it!

Other Sub 25 Milestone Achievers were Andrew Merriman in 24 15, Tom Taylor in 24 36, Ian Whalley in 24 41, Oliver Millard in 24 43 Robin Richardson in 24 50 and Nick Thompson in 24 53. Richard Edwards was also a Sub 25 Milestone Achiever and technically Our Most Improved Runner this week, knocking  13 minutes and 48 seconds off his previous time to get a new pb of 24 30. 

Whilst Richard was ‘technically’ Our Most Improved Runner (I think he may have accompanied his son on his first outing), I’m also going to mention George Dixon, who improved by 8 minutes and 2 seconds to get a sub 30 Milestone with a new pb of 26 11. Also Jonathon Gordon who knocked off 3 min and 11 sec to also get Sub 30 and a new pb of 26 56. You were both fabulous!

There were 4 other hard working runners rewarded with a Sub 30 for the first time and they were Julie Gordon in 27 58, Stephen Chapman in 28 28, Nicky Wood in 28 52 and Ian Taylor in 29 57. 

Victoria McKinnell achieved a sub 40 and a sub 35 in the same week, bettering her time by 6 min 54 to run in 33 48, and Victoria was joined in Sub 35 by Helen Bennett in 34 09 and Amanda Holt in 34 59, that is great but you have to aim for Sub 30 next! No pressure.

Roy Henstock joins the Sub 40 Milestone Achiever Club with a time of 39 53, congratulations Roy.

Our Most Consecutive PB Award is very keenly fought ,  Abdul Taj has 5 in a row, Jeremy Hoyle has 6 in a row but the winner is  John Kitson who has 7 in a row and a new pb of 22 57. John has a pb each and every time he has run, very impressive Mr Kitson – Smiley Carrot and Most Consecutive PB’s Award in the same week, you are on a roll, have you tried the lottery?

Welcome Back and Welcome Back to PB Form on the 2 lap route to Tersem Singh Sahota, with a new pb of 22 40, who has notched up 15 runs since his last pb in June 2011; and  Jez Hopwood with his new pb of 24 01, which despite 12 runs in between is his first pb since October. Not quite so frequent runners but also welcome back to Julie Anne Field and Paul Warren, with their first pbs since last July, Matt Poole who recorded his last pb in May 2011 and Tom Howard with his first pb since last October!

The report is already late, so that’s all folks!

SallyAnn

Thanks ‘Our Annie”....great report as always.....Oh and well done on your new PB of 26.02!!

Now on to Bunny News

Dearest Darling Bunny Lovers

It is so good to let you know what I have been doing at the weekend....it’s been a busy one!!!

Huddersfield parkrun

This week the lovely Ryan Nicholson ran with me and managed to achieve a Bunny PB knocking nearly 30 seconds off is time.  We ran in 23.39 and placed 72nd, so only 71 Huddersfield parkrunners beat the bunny!

Pontefract parkrun

Darling Dave Proffesional Tourist Bunny was helping Pontefract parkrun celebrate it’s first birthday....more cake....mmmmm.   He placed 57th so only 56 Pontefract parkrunners beat the bunny!

Bluebell Trail Race

As you will all probably be aware there were lots of bunnies out running the Bluebell Trail Race 10 miler on Sunday....you were probably aware of it due to Kerry predicting her certain death!  You will be glad to know that she didn’t die and all the bunnies managed to get round the course in one piece....including one certain handsome bunny managing to run up Trooper Lane....I wonder who that could be Rich McLeod???  It was an excellent day out, a fantastically well organised race by Stainland Lions, much fun was had by all the bunnies!  Our event director Chris Smith was the last bunny across the line (only because Kerry made him promise he wouldn’t beat her).  He placed 368th, so 367 Bluebell Trail runners beat the bunny (including Kerry)

That’s all for now folks....see you next week where there will be bunnies all over the place!!

Love the BUNNY XXXX

Thank you bunny, a lovely report!

So....Dates for the diary

19th May - Saturday Social (a week early due to 10k being on the 26th)

2nd June - Huddersfield parkrun is cancelled due to an event in the park.  The Bunnies will be on Tour to Burnley’s Inaugural parkrun.  

16th June - We are being joined by Leeds parkrunners on Tour - and it will be the launch of the Bounce for Huddersfield in the park straight after parkrun.

30th June - Saturday Social - we have been challenged to a game of rounders by the WI Tea and Tarts after parkrun...they are also going to join us running parkrun and would like you all to dress as WI ladies (this is one for the lads then!!)  Get the twin set and pearls out boys and girls!!

6th/7th/8th July - camping trip to go Bonkers in Conkers parkrun - check the facebook page over the coming month for more details

Remember you can keep in touch with us at www.facebook.com/huddersfieldparkrun follow us on Twitter @Huddsparkrun or email when you would like to volunteer at huddersfieldoffice@parkrun.com

Finally this report is in PINK to make Nicki smile!!! x

21st April 2012 - Event 57 - Amanda Saves the Day!

Sorry about the lateness of this run report.....but the excitement of the London Marathon (and the 8hrs sleep over three days) has totally thrown me!

Before I start this weeks run report I would like to give a huge, massive, you are all kinds of awesome, shout out to Simon Edwards, Diane Kolat, Chris Howarth, Matthew Rose and of course ‘The Boy’ Matthew Pierson, just some of our parkrunners who achieved amazing things at VLM!  

It was a great weekend from the train journey down, to picking up the numbers (and eating square pie and peas - not beans), to our pasta party cooked in the smallest pans in the world, to staying up until 1.30am on the morning of the marathon (who thought that was a good idea?), to the actual marathon, to spotting you all, to cheering you all, to wearing bunny ears all day and all night, to celebrating afterwards, to eating ice cream at 2.30am, to listening to Sanchia all the way home!!  Truly an amazing weekend with amazing people, achieving amazing things!!   Bring on Saturday when we get to do it all again for our Manchester Marathon runners!!

Also I heard that the party in The Cafe, watching from home was just as Awesome.  Thank you to everyone who turned up for a great day......and thank you to everyone who stopped my children eating sugar!!

So....back to the parkrun stuff

This week the Amazing Amanda Crozier was run directing and managed to rescue all your times from our badly behaved timer and get a complete set of results out for you!  She was ably assisted by Rich McLeod, Nicki Dawson and lots and lots of lovely Volunteers!  You Lads and Lasses are really wonderful....thank you!

Please remember that parkrun is organised by volunteers....so try to give up one out of ten of your runs to help out!   Believe me....volunteering is where all the fun happens at parkrun!

So....on to the run report!

This weeks top gent was again speedy Dave Watson in 16:14, followed by First Timer Tom Kaye in 17:39 and then James Raven, a parkrun tourist in 17:44.  Well done guys!

This weeks top ladies were Claire Leaver in 18:44 with a brand spanking new PB, followed by Julie Field in 20:13 and then First Timer Natalie McGuire in 20:20.  Well done ladies!

Top junior males were Toby Mckenzie-Barnes, Ben Naylor and Phil Derych...some good times lads/

Top junior females were Natalie McGuire, Freya Williams and Eleanor Barrow.....excellent running ladies.

Now time for some Stats from SallyAnn Stat Geek

Good Day parkrunners, 

I hope you are all well and having a fabulous week!

Before I get to the eagerly anticipated PB Awards, I would like to hand out an Honorary PB Award, but before I do that I just want to change the font to Comic Sans, just for Mark Nicholson!

That’s better! Back to the Honorary PB Award, this lady did not get a PB this week, in fact she was 3 minutes and 9 seconds slower than her PB, but that is because she stopped to help and waited with my son until I came into view, yes I’m usually about 5 minutes behind!  Thank you Lynne Mannion, you are a complete gem and I am very grateful.

 Glasses on, coffee (white with no sugar if anyone needs to know) in hand and I can now tell you that there were 69 Huddersfield parkrunners with a personal best this week!

There were no sub 15, (and I’m going to throw out a challenge to David Watson) no sub 15 45, no sub 16, no sub 17, no sub 19 or no sub 20 milestones reached for the first time this week, but sub 18 was reached by Adam Walker in 17 50, well done, and Sub 21 Milestone Achiever Awards go to Jim Porter in 20 34 and Mark Speight in 20 26, great running chaps!

Knocking exactly a minute of his time to break the Sub 25 Milestone was Mark Richardson in 24 22; and also Daniel Wood in 24 51 and Francis Ktendis in 24 57. Congratulations gentlemen!

 Sub 30 Milestone Achievers were Robert Singh in 29 54 (bettering his time by 1 min and 4 sec), Helen Woodhead in 29 42 and Jeremy Hoyle with his 5th consecutive pb running in 29 35. Well earned pat on the back for you guys and gal. 

One lady achieved a Sub 35 Milestone – Caroline Henderson, who improved by a massive 5 mins and 46 secs ,  which means that Caroline is our very worthy winner of the Most Improved Runner this week!

Whilst Jeremy notched up his 5th pb, he was beaten to the Most Consecutive PB Award by John Kitson, who recorded his 6th pb in a row, and has a pb for each and every time he has run! That is just fantastic, and I hope he does not feel any pressure to get a pb next time,   I’ll be checking!

The Fine Wine Award is presented to Brian Crowther, who runs in the VM70-74 category and knocked 3 minutes of his time to get a new pb of 27 45, incredible Mr Crowther!

We didn’t have any Every Second Counts Awards last week, but this week we have 3 (just like buses) – Daniel Caris knocked a second off to record 21 08, John Shaw also knocked a second off to hit 22 46 but the largest and most impressive second of all reduced Joel Stirling’s pb to 22 48, superb!

Welcome Back and Welcome Back to PB Form on the 2 lap route to Sally Caton in 21 03, Patrick Flavin in 23 45, Jonathan Pybus in 23 41 and a very special mention to Daniel Krigers, who has gone 18 runs without a pb (I’m not sure you want me to mention that) but ran in 22 25 to get his first pb since last August! Celebrations were definitely in order in your houses!

Congratulations to everyone with a pb this week at Huddersfield parkrun and that other little marathon race that London was hosting!

See you at 9am on Saturday!

SallyAnn

Thanks SallyAnn!

So on to the chit chat from the bunny!

Dearest Darling Bunny Lovers

I am absolutely shattered.....running a marathon in 2:48:28 is quite tiring....but you will be glad to know that I placed 459th so only 458 London Marathon Runners beat the bunny!!!  Pretty good going, even though I do say myself!! 

Huddersfield parkrun

My running bunny was a bit poorly on Saturday...but we have heard he is feeling a lot better now!  So this week at Huddersfield all of you beat the bunny.  I will be running with Billy Masih again soon when he is bouncing fit and then let’s see how many of you beat the bunny??

Gateshead parkrun

Darling Dave Tourist bunny was up at Gateshead parkrun and had a lovely welcome.  He placed 35th so just 34 parkrunners beat the bunny!

I will be out and about again this weekend at Huddersfield and a few other parkruns and then will be running Manchester Marathon....see if you can spot the bunny T-Shirt!

See you all soon, bunny lovers

Bunny xxxxx

So that is it for this week......bring on Rock Star run and the Saturday Social next week!!!  See you soon for another fantastic Huddersfield parkrun!!