A big thank you to all our volunteers today some of which are taking part in the Manchester Marathon tomorrow!

Angie HART  - Sign Pre-event
Anne-Marie LORD  - Numbers
Brendan HANDRICK - Marshal
Dave PEART - Timer 
Isobel HILL   - Marshal
Malcolm SUGDEN - Registration
Mark Stephen KELLY - Results 
Mike HARPHAM - Timer
Sandra FAIRBROTHER – Run Director
Simon Bruce LAKE  - Signs Post-Event
Stephen KELLY  - Marshal
Tony HART – Signs  Pre-event

A cold and windy start to the day met our runners but as always once you get running the cold relents, however the head-wind was wicked as we went between the lakes!

Good luck to all those taking part in the Manchester Marathon tomorrow, I will be there with my club supporting you at 38KM. Look out for Royton Road Runner resplendent in green (Or rain macs if the predicted rain gets us!)
We will be dishing out water, gels and jelly beans as well as motivation which you will need at that stage of the race (Remember we are seasoned marathon runners so know exactly how you will be feeling at 38K)

Oldham parkrunners I am aware doing the marathon are:
Simon Lake
Dave Peart
Anne-Marie Lord
Paul Craddock
Paul Cachelin-Stephens

Have a great day!

We have set the date for our 2^nd Birthday celebrations as the 21^st July so put that date in the diary please!
Our committee has great plans and treats in planning not least our world famous bacon butties at the end of the run!
If you would like to donate to our funds (As we have none!) then use the link to donate on the weekly parkrun email!

Now for the stats:
Men's placings:
Bill BALMER (VM40-44) of Royton Road Runners, was first in 19:07 - first appearance.
Glyn BILLINGTON (SM35-39) (Unattached) was second in 19:13 - 1 previous win.
Adam ARTHURS (SM20-24) (Unattached) was third in 20:12 - 1 previous win.

Current standing in the Men's annual points competition:
Simon Bruce LAKE (Unattached) 3234 pts.
Brett KING (Unattached) 2978 pts.
Dave PEART (Royton Road Runners) 2844 pts.

Women's placings:
Jubeda BEGUM (SW20-24) (Unattached) was first (16^th overall) in 23:02 - second win in 19^th appearance.
Liz ROBERTS (SW20-24) (Unattached) was second (32^nd overall) in 25:43.
Kim THORPE (SW25-29) (Unattached) was third (33^rd overall) in 25:54.

Current standing in the Women's annual points competition:
Angie HART (Oldham and Royton Harriers AC) 3394 pts.
Anne-Marie LORD (Unattached) 3295 pts.
Myra WELLS (Todmorden Harriers & AC) 2686 pts.

The following runners recorded the best Age Grade scores:
Bill BALMER (VM40-44) was graded 73.58 % for the time 19:07 (first overall).
Glyn BILLINGTON (SM35-39) was graded 69.99 % for the time 19:13 (second overall).
Matthew COX (VM50-54) was graded 67.49 % for the time 22:24 (10^th overall).

This week there were 75 runners, of whom 10 were first timers and 22 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 9 different athletics clubs took part.

Oldham parkrun started on 24th July 2010, and since then 986 different runners, including participants from 63 athletics clubs, have completed 4,518 runs covering a total distance of 22,590 km, and there have been 1,205 new Personal Bests.

The Women's course record is held by Jill PARKER who ran in a time of 19:58 on 5th November 2011 (event number 64).
The Men's course record is held by Matthew PIERSON who ran in a time of 16:27 on 18th February 2012 (event number 77).
The Age Grade course record is held by Paul SIMONS who recorded a 82.48 % run (17:19) on 24th July 2010 (event number 1).

Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Oldham parkrun Results Page.

On belhalf of the Oldham parkrun committee thanks for all your support, have a good week.

Regards

Mark Kelly

After the problems last week, we were taking no chances this week and had a back-up timer on hand. This was only possible because we had a full rota of volunteers! This isn’t always the case and we would like people to sign up to volunteer just 3 times a year. It’s easy – send an email to oldhamhelpers@parkrun.com and we’ll put you on the list. We won’t give you any job that you don’t want but we will encourage you to try some of the different roles. And if you are worried about the points competition – don’t be! Each of your 3 volunteer stints each year will be awarded the full 100 points (and the only other way to guarantee that is to finish first!)

This week’s role of honour:

Race Director: Sandra Fairbrother
Timekeeper: Mike Harpham
Back-up Timer/Number Checker: Jason Chapman
Registration: Alan Arthurs
Registration: Graham Arthurs
Numbers: Rachel Harpham
Marshal: Stephen Kelly
Marshal: Phil Beveridge
Marshal: Jessica Lily Caterer-Dust
Marshal: Andrew Rowles
Signs: Simon Lake

Before we get to the facts and figures, congratulations are in order to Pete Hoyle and Peter James Oliver who both joined the 50 club this week. Peter has run all his parkruns at Oldham, whilst Pete has been ‘on tour’ for 7 of those runs.

Onto the official stats:

Men's placings:
Martin SCHOFIELD (SM30-34) (Unattached) was first in 18:37 - 20^th win in 30^th appearance.
Ian DOUGLAS (SM35-39) of Rochdale Harriers & AC, was second in 19:16.
Dave PEART (VM45-49) (Unattached) was third in 19:23 - 1 previous win.

Current standing in the Men's annual points competition:
Simon Bruce LAKE (Unattached) 3148 pts.
Brett KING (Unattached) 2883 pts.
Dave PEART (Unattached) 2744 pts.

Women's placings:
Anne-Marie LORD (VW45-49) (Unattached) was first (14^th overall) in 21:58 - 35^th win in 43^rd appearance.
Jubeda BEGUM (SW20-24) (Unattached) was second (22^nd overall) in 23:22 - 1 previous win.
Kirsty MOORE (SW25-29) of Oldham and Royton Harriers AC, was third (25^th overall) in 24:35.

Current standing in the Women's annual points competition:
Angie HART (Oldham and Royton Harriers AC) 3297 pts.
Anne-Marie LORD (Unattached) 3195 pts.
Myra WELLS (Todmorden Harriers & AC) 2686 pts.

The following runners recorded the best Age Grade scores:
Dave PEART (VM45-49) was graded 73.17 % for the time 19:23 (third overall).
Anne-Marie LORD (VW45-49) was graded 72.31 % for the time 21:58 (14^th overall).
Ian N TAYLOR (VM55-59) was graded 71.72 % for the time 21:59 (15^th overall).

This week there were 81 runners, of whom 13 were first timers and 22 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 8 different athletics clubs took part.

PBs this week for:

Ian Douglas
Elliot Stone
Paul Stephens
David Freer
Ian N Taylor
Nigel Pengelly
Daniel Arthurs
Andrew Tyas
Kirsty Moore
Neil Brock
Matt Day
Richard Hunsley
Nick Moorhouse
Mark John Heaney
Susan Caroline Heaney
Dee Hargreaves
Denise Buckley
David Prendergast
Ruth Hulton
Julie Frobisher
Penny Meadowcroft
Linda Heywood

Well done all!

Oldham parkrun started on 24th July 2010, and since then 976 different runners, including participants from 63 athletics clubs, have completed 4,443 runs covering a total distance of 22,215 km, and there have been 1,183 new Personal Bests.

The Women's course record is held by Jill PARKER who ran in a time of 19:58 on 5th November 2011 (event number 64).
The Men's course record is held by Matthew PIERSON who ran in a time of 16:27 on 18th February 2012 (event number 77).
The Age Grade course record is held by Paul SIMONS who recorded an 82.48 % run (17:19) on 24th July 2010 (event number 1).

Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Oldham parkrun Results Page.

Upcoming events – make a note in your diary:

Oldham Community Run4Fun – 30^th June 11am (you could do the parkrun and the fun run after!)

Oldham parkrun is 2 years old on 24^th July – date of the anniversary run will be 21^st July. There will be bacon butties and we hope you can stay after the run for the annual awards and some general good banter!

Online entries are now available for local races including the Dovestone Diamond Trail, Millbrook Monster and Tameside 10k. Please see Jason Chapman for more details.

If you would like to let us know of other local races, please speak with the Race Director.

And finally…to all the Oldham parkrunners (including myself) who will be running the Manchester Marathon on Sunday – we’ve done all the hard work and training, so have a brilliant day and try to come back injury free! If anyone is in the vicinity on Sunday (google Manchester Marathon 2012 for the route), give us a wave – we’ll appreciate the support!

 Thank you all for your patience this morning due to a timer error we have had to do less than accurate results this week.

In essence we had no times for the first 20 or so runners, and thank you to Brian from Oldham and Royton Harriers for the loan of his watch so Sandy could shout times out.

Somewhere in the mix the shouted times did not work out quite right and using times from runners I established that around 36 seconds needed to be added to these "Shouted" times.

Thus your email from parkrun may look odd! If you have a time taken by yourself and would like to email me on oldhamoffice@parkrun.com I will do my best to update the results accordingly.

Please note I will do two updates:

Sunday Evening
Wednesday Evening - FINAL Submission

If you email me after Wednesday then you will not get an update!

The run report will be published Monday evening once the Sunday results has hopefully cleared up any major issues.

Once again thanks for your patience and apologies for the inconvenience 

Mark Kelly
Event Director

 After last week’s hot weather, we were treated to very good running weather which assisted some folks to a great PB result ( See below). Jason was back this week as your run director and was proud to announce Simon’s 50^th run (Simon sporting his one off 49 runs shirt) and Jess with her 10 club T. 

So now Ray from Bushy parkrun will email Simon to confirm his home parkrun (So the shirt is sent to the right event director) and his preferred shirt size.

Ray sends shirts once a month so sometimes you may have to wait a bit for it to arrive. The shirts cannot be bought and are a great gift from Adidas, next week Bev hopes to join the 50 club, so will be our first run director to achieve this accolade!

A big thanks to all our volunteers this week! It was one of those Friday night worries when the roster looked a bit empty, but last minute volunteers saved the day.

Angie and Tony HART – putting signs out
Gaynor KEANE  - Marshal on the Fountain corner
Jason CHAPMAN   - Run Director and timer
Mark Stephen KELLY  - Numbers and hooter!
Nigel PENGELLY   - Registration
Simon Bruce LAKE   -  Collection signs
Stephen KELLY   - Marshaling the first corner
Teri-Louise CATERER -  Marshaling the woodland walk

If you ever get the chance to volunteer it is simple, email oldhamhelpers@parkrun.com and we will add you to the roster.

It was great to see Dave Peart cross the line in first this week, after a couple of potential wins in the past, victory at last with Adam Arthurs hot on his heels all the way round. Well done Dave! 

Welcome and well done to our first timers at Oldham parkrun

Adam ARTHURS
Carl W. HOLDAWAY
Alan KEANE
Geoff ROBINSON
Richard WILDE
David BALES
Janet HURST
Elise MELVIN
Kara MELVIN
Carly WILDE
Mia MITCHELL
Gemma MITCHELL

PB’ s this week:

Not including our new runners we had a 35% PB rate! Well done to the following

Shane READING
Samuel LEONARD
Simon Bruce LAKE
Jonathan HEALEY
Phil BEVERIDGE
Jubeda BEGUM
Brendan HANDRICK (Grey hoodie still not handed in)
Russell BARNES
Joseph Oliver TRAVIS
Richard HUNSLEY
Steven HOULGATE
Andy DODD
Laura WILLIAMSON
Mark MILLS
Khadijah NAZIR SALIM
Stuart WILLIAMSON
Raymond MORRIS
Karen STUTTARD
David PRENDERGAST
Karen WOOD
Dawn JONES
Rita WALKER
Andrea KERSHAW
Susan CONSTANTINE 

Men's placings:
Dave PEART (VM45-49) (Unattached) was first in 19:30 - first win in 24^th appearance.
Adam ARTHURS (SM20-24) (Unattached) was second in 19:43.
Dominic KENNERLEY (SM30-34) of Oldham and Royton Harriers AC, was third in 20:15.

Current standing in the Men's annual points competition:
Simon Bruce LAKE (Unattached) 2978 pts.
Brett KING (Unattached) 2606 pts.
Iain ISACSSON (Unattached) 2494 pts.

Women's placings:
Anne-Marie LORD (VW45-49) (Unattached) was first (8^th overall) in 21:55 - 32^nd win in 40^th appearance.
Jubeda BEGUM (SW20-24) (Unattached) was second (13^th overall) in 22:56 - 1 previous win.
Angie HART (VW35-39) of Oldham and Royton Harriers AC, was third (28^th overall) in 26:49 - 8 previous wins.

Current standing in the Women's annual points competition:
Angie HART (Oldham and Royton Harriers AC) 3202 pts.
Anne-Marie LORD (Unattached) 2895 pts.
Myra WELLS (Todmorden Harriers & AC) 2486 pts.

The following runners recorded the best Age Grade scores:
Dave PEART (VM45-49) was graded 72.74 % for the time 19:30 (first overall).
Anne-Marie LORD (VW45-49) was graded 72.47 % for the time 21:55 (8^th overall).
Simon Bruce LAKE (VM50-54) was graded 67.45 % for the time 22:35 (10^th overall).

This week there were 80 runners, of whom 12 were first timers and 24 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 8 different athletics clubs took part.

Oldham parkrun started on 24th July 2010, and since then 931 different runners, including participants from 63 athletics clubs, have completed 4,196 runs covering a total distance of 20,980 km, and there have been 1,120 new Personal Bests.

The Women's course record is held by Jill PARKER who ran in a time of 19:58 on 5th November 2011 (event number 64).
The Men's course record is held by Matthew PIERSON who ran in a time of 16:27 on 18th February 2012 (event number 77).
The Age Grade course record is held by Paul SIMONS who recorded a 82.48 % run (17:19) on 24th July 2010 (event number 1).

Have a great week and see you next Saturday

Mark Kelly 

There’s a strange rumour going around that Oldham is wet or cold or icy – well, we weren’t having any of that today! Factor 15 and sunglasses were the order of the day as British Summertime prepares to make an entrance!

There were 8 new runners among the 76 finishers today, led home by Trevor Davis for the gentlemen and Anne-Marie Lord for the ladies. And not forgetting the juniors, Samuel Leonard ran in a PB to lead the under 20s home.

Speaking of PBs, congratulations to the 15 runners who managed to go faster than they have ever done before:

Dominic Kennerley
Samuel Leonard
Jubeda Begum
Richard Hunsley
Helen Maxted
Julie Wyant
Jane Bowler
Samantha Poole
Angela Laird
Khadijah Nazir Salim
Naomi Preston
Sujit Sonny Mistry
Miranda Meadowcroft
Suzanne Fildes
Haley Briggs

Onto the ‘official’ stats for the day:

 Men's placings:

Trevor DAVIES (VM40-44) of Oldham and Royton Harriers AC, was first in 18:44 - third win in 5th appearance.

John J COOK (VM50-54) of Rochdale Harriers & AC, was second in 19:24 - 3 previous wins.

Dominic KENNERLEY (SM30-34) of Oldham and Royton Harriers AC, was third in 19:37.

Current standing in the Men's annual points competition:

Simon Bruce LAKE (Unattached) 2886 pts.

Brett KING (Unattached) 2512 pts.

Iain ISACSSON (Unattached) 2399 pts.

Women's placings:

Anne-Marie LORD (VW45-49) (Unattached) was first (10th overall) in 21:55 - 31st win in 39th appearance.

Jubeda BEGUM (SW20-24) (Unattached) was second (15th overall) in 23:08 - 1 previous win.

Helen MAXTED (SW30-34) (Unattached) was third (31st overall) in 26:29.

Current standing in the Women's annual points competition:

Angie HART (Oldham and Royton Harriers AC) 3104 pts.

Anne-Marie LORD (Unattached) 2795 pts.

Myra WELLS (Todmorden Harriers & AC) 2486 pts.

The following runners recorded the best Age Grade scores:

John J COOK (VM50-54) was graded 78.52 % for the time 19:24 (second overall).

Trevor DAVIES (VM40-44) was graded 72.86 % for the time 18:44 (first overall).

Anne-Marie LORD (VW45-49) was graded 72.47 % for the time 21:55 (10th overall).

This week there were 76 runners, of whom 8 were first timers and 15 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 11 different athletics clubs took part.

Oldham parkrun started on 24th July 2010, and since then 919 different runners, including participants from 62 athletics clubs, have completed 4,116 runs covering a total distance of 20,580 km, and there have been 1,096 new Personal Bests.

The Women's course record is held by Jill PARKER who ran in a time of 19:58 on 5th November 2011 (event number 64).

The Men's course record is held by Matthew PIERSON who ran in a time of 16:27 on 18th February 2012 (event number 77).

The Age Grade course record is held by Paul SIMONS who recorded a 82.48 % run (17:19) on 24th July 2010 (event number 1).

Saturday's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Oldham parkrun Results Page.

And, finally, a big thank you to the real heroes of the day, the volunteers:

Run Director and Timekeeper, Beverley Anne O’Neill

Rachel Harpham on registration

Graham Hill handing out the finishing tokens

Nigel Pengelly on the first marshal point

Zoe Dancer on the Woodland Walk point

Mark Kelly for making sure all the kit arrived (and got taken home again!) 

If you would like to offer your services as a volunteer, don’t be shy, drop us an email at oldhamHelpers@parkrun.com – and don’t worry, we all had a ‘first time’ volunteering and we all survived! Remember – no volunteers = no parkrun!

One final thing – if you are anywhere near Radclyffe School running track tomorrow around 11 am, pop in and support the people running for Sport Relief. In fact, why not google it and find out if there’s one near you and run/walk or just support.

Hope to see you next week – bring a friend or two as well – they’re always welcome!

Simon Lake