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Sweatshop monthly prize winners

Here are the winners of the Sweatshop monthly prize

Congratulations to the winners of the monthly Sweatshop prize for Norwich. We'd like to thank Hugh Brasher of Sweatshop http://www.sweatshop.co.uk for his generosity in providing a new pair of running shoes for each month's winner.

Here are our monthly winners for 2012:

March - Anne Varley
February - Jan Kaiser
January - Maria Christou

And these were our lucky winners during 2011:

December - Stephen Thomson
November - Diane Thompson
October - Barry Hipwell
September - Monty Fairfoot
August - Oliver Bumstead
July - Robert Belcher
June - Trevor Potter
May - Peter Beck
April - Luke Alden
March - Suzanne Rodger
February - Philip Nelson
January - Louise Hudson

Fri 03/18/2011

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80th parkrun

Norwich parkrun

Good morning! Lovely morning for a parkrun when the sun finally came out and at least it wasn’t raining!

Thank you to all the volunteers much appreciated. I have now practised with the megaphone and you will be able to hear me in Cromer next time, hold megaphone close to chops and speak up is the advice!!

I would also like to thank those of you who actually listen to what the race briefing is, I do ask that you only cross the line once please, or we will time you twice and this makes life difficult later. It’s not that hard is it? (Thank you to those of you that did it!)

Also if you cross the line please take a token whether you started late, didn’t register or ANYTHING ELSE you can think of, as if you are timed you will need to be counted in the numbers or it means the race director sits and stares at a screen trying to figure out what went wrong. (and that can increase the time spent on results to a disproportionate amount of time!)

It was great to see so many people running and lots of people happy with their times!

See you next time, if you don’t hear me first!

Sue

Sat 03/10/2012

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Race report 78!

Race report for parkrun 78!

Lovely sunny Saturday morning saw lots of people (296) descending on Eaton park for the 78th parkrun!

Lots of people and lots of volunteers! Thank you all of you. You did a fab job which meant that everyone got round everyone got a result and we got uploaded and sorted by 10.11! Which meant I got to go home and take my son swimming rather than turn up just as he is finishing!

If you would like to volunteer we would be very happy to hear from you at the parkrun page, send us an email.

Had a bit of a panic as I got distracted trying to count the runners and thought we had over four hundred! Fortunately I skipped a hundred somewhere!! (would have been break out the new barcodes!)

Was good week to see people I know though work attending, Good one Jo Geere! Very impressed! Now you’ll have to keep it up!

Also my son would like to say “good parkrun Mrs Coy!” to his reception teacher! A great first time effort!

Thank you to all who actually listen to the race briefing, I know you have heard it all before but one day there is going to be something in there that will be important and you will need to hear it. (not crossing the line twice is always in there….and still people do it!)

It was great to see so many people enjoying parkrun and coming back for more!

Sat 03/03/2012

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74th parkrun

Norwich 74 parkrun report

It was a beautiful winter’s morning and clearly lots of people were sticking to their New Year’s resolutions and getting out of bed to come running!

Great to see so many people and great to see so many people who have progressed in their running.

I was very good and yelled at everyone to stand still which I think they did! If we have something important to tell you it will be at the start so you do need to LISTEN to the race directors brief please.

Great bunch of volunteers (thanks Dan and Monty who weren’t even volunteering but helped anyway!) You all took your jobs did them well, I really appreciate that bit! everyone got directed round correctly and despite the great orange one juggling the tokens (please note if you drop the tokens when giving them out leave them on the floor and carry on with the next ones you have, we can sort that out later it’s easy now!) everyone got a token and a time.

There are a lot of people running now which is great but it does mean we are asking that you get in line when you finish so please listen to funnel management when you finish!

Also the answer to the question I was asked “What happens when I have done my ten(junior) runs?”
parkrunHQ automatically email you and you must reply stating your size and the t shirts are sent out to us every two months or so.

Happy Running!

Sue Flute

Sun 01/29/2012

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14 January 2012 - another record attendance today

Hi everyone - another record attendance today, 336 finishers.

Apologies but there may be some dodgy times somewhere between 76th and 100th, please let me know on 07767 205922 if your time is wildly out and I'll do my best to rectify it.

Richard Polley

Norwich parkrun

Sat 01/14/2012

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