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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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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:

  • 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


Fri 03/18/2011

 
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Race Report 07.01.12


 

Event 71


 

... 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



Sat 01/07/2012

 
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New Year's Eve Race Report


 

Race 70 New Years Eve


Despite a murky morning there was a good turnout for New Year’s Eve parkrun. There was a change of course to contend with due to the mass of runners encountering tight corners from the previous week. Everyone was briefed on the on the course and then it was off to the new start line. After awaiting a speedy quick change from a certain athlete…. who’s new year’s resolution will of course be to get to parkrun in plenty of time! Then they were off with a great calm time keeper in charge! (Thanks Andrew!) Off they went, both the runners and the marshals, who were running round the course to direct people on the different first lap and then running like mad back to their positions in order to perform the scanning, timing, pointing and handing out numbers jobs they had been assigned! Despite it being the first time volunteering for quite a few people everyone did an excellent job, we tried to give people something they felt they could do, so they could have a go at something else next time, (and to give people the chance to observe a job so they can see what they are letting themselves in for) mind you I didn’t do a lot therefore they all did a fantastic job as a team! Thanks guys! So all of you looking for a New Year’s Resolution volunteering at parkrun would be a good one! (Email us at norwichHelpers@parkrun.com) There were a few good sprint finishes and Carla Potter one of our race directors finally broke the thirty minute barrier! Well done Carla! All the runners back in safely, everything downloaded and sorted quickly, thanks to everyone who volunteered and all of you who ran and only crossed the finish line once and then took a token when you did, much appreciated!


Sun 01/01/2012

 
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