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RUN GEORDIE RUN HELPS NEWCASTLE PARKRUN CELEBRATE TWO YEARS


 

Ultra-marathon runner Mark Allison’s (aka ‘Run Geordie Run’) is helping Newcastle parkrun to celebrate two years in operation, by leading a prize giving ceremony, to award the regular parkrun attendees achievements this Saturday 21st January at the Royal Grammar School, Jesmond starting immediately after the usual parkrun.

As part of the presentation, Mark will deliver a speech about his feats to date as well as his ambitious plans to run across Australia in 2013 – covering 2600 miles in just 70 days (that’s 41 miles per day) – in a bid to raise £50k for his two nominated charities The Children’s Foundation and St. Benedict’s Hospice in Sunderland.

I hope that you will be able to the attend the event and will consider giving generously to Mark's nominated charities. Donations can be made at the prizegiving event.

 

 


Thu 01/19/2012

 
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Newcastle parkrun 2nd Anniversary - more details


 
 

 
We will be starting the 2nd anniversary prizegiving event at the RGS this coming Saturday as soon as everyone has made it across from the Town Moor after the parkrun.

So I expect this to be around 10:00AM. Please make your way over to the RGS at your leisure (but not too slowly) after you have finished with the parkrun. The RGS will be open from 8:30AM if you want to drop off cakes before the parkrun start.

You will see a sign outside the building asking you to remove muddy shoes before going inside. So you might want to bring a change of shoes along. If we leave muddy floors behind I will have to wash them or else pay for RGS to do it and I won't be very happy, especially because I'm running the Brass Monkey half marathon the next day and need to rest on Saturday!

There is a map of how to get to the Lambton Road entrance to RGS at the following link.
http://www.rgs.newcastle.sch.uk/contact/
On leaving Exhibition Park we will approach the school from Brandling Park. Ian.

Tue 01/17/2012

 
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parkrun 2nd Anniversary event - 21st January 2012


 

I'm delighted to be able to confirm the arrangements for the anniversary parkrun at Newcastle an 21st January.

There are no changes to the schedule for the run itself -same place, same time, same parkrun.

Afterwards I hope that will you all join me at the Royal Grammar School for drinks and snacks to celebrate the 2nd  Anniversary event, to congratulate the prize winners in the annual points competition and give a well deserved pat on the back to the top volunteers (actually all the volunteers) from throughout the year.

I'm really pleased that Mark Allison (Run Geordie Run) will be coming along to present the prizes and I hope he will share with us his experiences of running across America last year and tell us a bit about his plans to run across Australia in 2013.

I hope that, in the usual way at our events, you can bring with you some cakes and snacks to share. Hot drinks will be available.

The RGS is about five minutes walk from Exhibition Park and we will be using the Fenwick and Lilburne Rooms. They can be reached through the entrance to the school on Lambton Road which is the first one that you reach after leaving Exhibition Park.

I hope that you can all make it to the event and afterwards at the RGS. It would be great to have yet another record turnout on the Town Moor that day!

Regards

Ian

 


Thu 01/12/2012

 
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Change to date of Anniversary event


 

 

Those of you with eagle eyes might have spotted in the parkrun newsletter this week that the Newcastle parkrun anniversary event is listed for 21st January and not 14th January as on previous newsletters!

I've investigated this with parkrun HQ and discovered  that the anniversary event this year should indeed be on 21st January, not 14th January as we all previously thought.

Exceptionally the current years points competition should run for 53 weeks this year and not 52  because the anniversary event for Newcastle will always be on the third Saturday in January. So it's nothing to do with one event being cancelled in December because of ice;  it's purely to do with the date of the third Saturday in January!

The points competition therefore has a further week to run and the final event of the current competition will be on 14th January and not tomorrow.

In view of this I have discussed the situation with the other race directors and we have decided to put back the anniversary celebrations and prizegiving until 21st January. More details of the anniversary event will be posted on here next week.

Regards

Ian


Fri 01/06/2012

 
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December sweatshop prizewinner


 

Congratulations to Jacquetta Groves who wins the Sweatshop prize for December of a pair of training shoes of her choice from the Sweatshop store in the Metrocentre, Gateshead.

Jacquetta was ever present at parkrun in December and set two PBs out of a total of the six PBs she has recorded since starting parkrun.

 


Fri 01/06/2012

 
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