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

 

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

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:

• January - coming soon!

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

... and Norwich parkrun 2012 is well and truly underway. We had 318 parkrunners this morning enjoying the windy 3 laps. There were a total of 50 first timers who received a really welcoming round of applause from the parkrunners congregated for the briefing. All the scheduled volunteers turned up which was brilliant as we need additional volunteers whilst we still have a temporary course. If you’ve made a New Year's resolution to volunteer at parkrun please email us at norwichhelpers@parkrun.com

Just a couple of stats for you: we have 3,415 parkrunners registered with Norwich as their home parkrun, 2,504 of whom have completed a parkrun at Norwich. Our largest attendance was 335 on Christmas Eve 2011 compared to our smallest turn out of 54 parkrunners on Christmas Day 2010.

If you haven’t heard of it, the parkrun show can be downloaded for free on itunes and is a lovely round up of the goings on in the world of parkrun. Also, if you’re not a member of the Norwich parkrun Facebook group, why not find us and say hello?

Carla Potter

This week’s Race Director