Volunteers are needed to help make this year’s IronmanUK Bolton event a success.

The day didn't start too promising and it was drizzling a bit when we got to the park, not a lot just that fine drizzle that soaks you through! fortunately it only lasted a few minutes and it was soon feeling much nicer so by the time most runners arrived it was dry and we were in for a nice run.

Unfortunately the over night rain did mean that the very bottom 10 yards or so of the grass bank was a bit slippery and we had to revert to the bridle path for the run itself.

But all in all it was a good morning with some very good runs done and some good chat and laughs as well

I'd also like to personally thank those of you that are working on my diet for me and helping by eating all the biscuits before I get back, yes I know I had a bacon sandwich but that doesn't count does it? it's always good to get back to the cabin and see it full of folk

We have lots of things happening around us in the next few weeks and I thought I'd bring some to your attention:

Race for Life - 10^th June.
Bolton Ironman - 22^nd July.
Leigh legacy 10k - 29^th July.

The Race for life is a great cause and if you haven't already done so then why not consider signing up for it at : http://raceforlife.cancerresearchuk.org/choose-your-event/leigh.html?event=173
 

Bolton IronMan will once again start at Pennington Flash with an early morning Swim, still time to sign up for it but if you'd like to help out with marshaling et-cetera please see the notice on our notice board.
 

Leigh legacy 10k, you can sign up for this either online at http://www.legacyevent.org/index.php/events/leigh-sports-village-10k-legacy-event or by taking one of the entry forms from the cabin when you go in for a brew post parkrun, they are also putting on an 8 week preparation program for those that haven't done a 10k before, see the notice on our noticeboard.

The Results.
81 runners completed the course today this included 10 first timers at Pennington Flash parkrun. It is always good to welcome new faces to our parkrun and we hope you enjoyed your run and will be back to see us again soon.

This week we had 19 Personal Best times set which brings our total to 908. A big well done to you all!

Our male winner this week was Stephen Makin of Wigan Phoenix who scored his 6^th win with us, he came in at 18:10. Stephen was followed home by Paul Seddon also of Wigan Phoenix at 19:18 with Craig McCleay coming in in third place with a time of 19:48.

In the Ladies race; Carole Barnes of Astley & Tyldesley RR scored her 1^st win at Pennington Flash parkrun, she came in at 21:56. She was followed in by Rachael Fishwick of St Helens Striders with a time of 22:39 and Amy Moran of Warrington AC who came in with a time of 24:19.

The Top of the Mens points table has Alan Smith again pulling ahead with 1017 points some 54 points in front of Dillon Alcock who is now leading Ryan Dugdale by 72 points.

The Ladies points table sees Liz Hedgecock scoring 942 points and overtaking Rachael Sidebotham who now trails her by 63 points Rachael is followed 1 point back by her sister Lydia Sidebotham who has 878 points, there will be some words to be had there no doubt .

Age Graded Scores
Jeff Whittington still leads in the Age Graded competition with a grading of 85:65%.
This weeks best Age Graded Scores were:
Carol Baines [VW45-49]- 74.62%
Alan Smith [VM50-54]- 72.85%
James McGlynn [VM60-64]- 71.67%

Volunteering.
A really big thank you to all of the volunteers today: Barry, Helen, Lee, Philip, Robert, Terry, Tracey and Tracey.

Volunteers make our parkruns possible and without them no parkrun can take place and we would not want to have to cancel an event due to lack of volunteers, so please get in touch at PenningtonFlashHelpers@parkrun.com and help us make sure we can be here every week.

Refreshments.
We offer refreshments after every run and we welcome everyone, runners and friends, to join us. You will find us in the cabin next to the rangers hut and picnic tables straight after the run.  Please come along and join us, the drinks & biscuits are free (although you can always donate if you wish to).

Thank you to all those of you that contributed to the refreshments this week both with cookies/cakes and in donations.

Donations are used to replenish tea/coffee/sugar and biscuits et-cetera.

Olympic Celebration Week at Leigh Sports Village.
Monday 25th June 7pm at leigh Sports Village.

We are still looking for a few more members of the second team for the relay run, please pop your name on the form in the cabin if you want to join us. For those of you that have already signed up we have sponsorship forms out in the cabin.

There will be a sponsorship form in the cabin after each run until the event itself, if you wish to support the runners and help us raise some funds for our parkrun please jot your names down and let myself or one of the other volunteers have your money.

Thanks for being there and see you next time.

The Pennington Flash parkrun team.

Don't forget you can follow Pennington Flash parkrun in many places:
Here, of course
facebook - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pennington-Flash-parkrun/169627397761
Twitter - follow us https://twitter.com/#!/PenFlashparkrun
 

It was a lovely day at the Flash for todays run, the sun was out but not too strong. we had reached our 60^th parkrun at Pennington Flash and as is custom for us on our '20^th' events we ran the loop section in reverse, last time we did this the grass bank was a little slippy but this time it was almost perfect.

Running it this way is faster which is why we always start around 50 metres further back down the path than normal to try and reduce the PB hit we would get otherwise, we had around half the PB's scored this week than last week so it did some good  

We were expecting to be a little low on runners this week as several of our regulars were involved in supporting the lastest parkrun to pop up, Preston, but that didn't stop well over 100 runners set off unfortunately we did have a few pull out but we still had a new record of 107 completers.

There was a bit of a problem with getting the result emails sent out and results posted on the website, can I appologise for the delay but at the same time I must stress that this was nothing to do with the volunteer team at Pennington Flash, we got the results posted very quickly but the parkun HQ computers were having a bit of a slow day  I know it can be frustrating as you wait to hear, but it's also frustrating for the volunteers as they think that what they did went wrong!

The Results.
107 runners completed the course today, which is a second new course record in two weeks for us this included 19 folks that joined us for the first time at Pennington Flash parkrun. It is always good to welcome new faces to our parkrun and we hope you enjoyed your run and will be back to see us again soon.

This week we had 23 Personal Best times set which brings our total to 889. A big well done to you all!

Our male winner this week was Michael O'Neill of Wigan Phoenix who scored his 2^nd win in his 2^nd outing with us, he came in at 16:45. Michael was followed home by last weeks winner 'unknown athlete' with last weeks third placed Peter Rice of Horwich RMI Harriers coming in in third place with a time of 17:17.

In the Ladies race; Michelle Liddle scored her 4^th win at Pennington Flash parkrun, she came in at 22:44. She was followed in by Danielle Thompson of Wigan & District Harriers & AC with a time of 23:45 and Laura Babynec of Astley & Tyldesley RR who came in with a time of 24:00.

The Top of the Mens points table has Alan Smith again pulling ahead with 921 points some 46 points in front of Dillon Alcock who is now leading Tim Murphy by 30 points.

The Ladies points table sees Rachael Sidebotham leading with 879 points followed 32 points back by Liz Hedgecock with 847 after Liz clawed back some 95 points, Liz has a 59 point lead over 3^rd placed Lydia Sidebotham who has 788 points.

Age Graded Scores
Jeff Whittington still leads in the Age Graded competition with a grading of 85:65%.
This weeks best Age Graded Scores were:
Peter Rice [VM45-49]- 84.67% - second week at the top
Michael O'Neill [SM30-34]- 77.61%
James Hilton [SM25-29]- 73.57%

Jeff has held the record for quite a while now and one of his closest rivals is Roger Alsop who was running at Princes Park parkrun in Liverpool today, Roger scored an age grading of 85.97%, if he can replicate that at Pennington Flash Jeff might have a battle on his hands

Volunteering.
A really big thank you to all of the volunteers today: Alison, Chris, James, Les, Tim, Trena and Vincent.

Volunteers make our parkruns possible and without them no parkrun can take place and we would not want to have to cancel an event due to lack of volunteers, so please get in touch at PenningtonFlashHelpers@parkrun.com and help us make sure we can be here every week.

Refreshments.
We offer refreshments after every run and we welcome everyone, runners and friends, to join us. You will find us in the cabin next to the rangers hut and picnic tables straight after the run.  Please come along and join us, the drinks & biscuits are free (although you can always donate if you wish to).

Thank you to all those of you that contributed to the refreshments this week both with cookies/cakes and in donations.

Donations are used to replenish tea/coffee/sugar and biscuits et-cetera.

Olympic Celebration Week at Leigh Sports Village.
Monday 25th June 7pm at leigh Sports Village.

We are still looking for a few more members of the second team for the relay run, please pop your name on the form in the cabin if you want to join us.

For those of you that have already signed up we have emailed sponsorship forms out to those of you that we have addresses for, for everyone else there are forms in the cabin.

There will be a sponsorship form in the cabin after each run until the event itself, if you wish to support the runners and help us raise some funds for our parkrun please jot your names down and let myself or one of the other volunteers have your money.

Thanks for being there and see you next time.

The Pennington Flash parkrun team.

Don't forget you can follow Pennington Flash parkrun in many places:
Here, of course
facebook - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pennington-Flash-parkrun/169627397761
Twitter - follow us https://twitter.com/#!/PenFlashparkrun
 

Provided by Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust - Active Living www.getactivewiganandleigh.co.uk and Running With Bill.

We had a really nice day at the park today, it was lovely and sunny and the paths were more or less mud free  add to that we had a new course record of runners and all in all it was a good one, however we did have a couple of issues:

1 runner fell over but is fine apart from a couple of grazes and bruised ego, she was more concerned about the fact that she had taken another runner down with her and wanted to apologize to the other runner for this.

We had a technical issue with the timer, it didn't start when I said GO! fortunately my watch did start on time so I was aware that we would have to do some correcting after the event. We got the timer going some 15 seconds later.

When I was processing the results I knew we had to adjust the times by the 15 seconds it had taken to get the timer going, so I dropped the timing data into a spreadsheet to make it easier unfortunately I goofed ! now here is the rub; I'm a Microsoft Specialist Master Instructor and can make spreadsheets jump through hoops, however my maths skills are very low level  (spreadsheets are basically programming not arithmetic) so when I have to adjust the times by 15 seconds I put in a formula to do it. I needed to add 15 seconds to all the times and managed to subtract 15 seconds instead! which is why the initial results were out by 30 seconds.

Many thanks to EVERYONE that got in touch to point this out

Running Backwards

Next week is run 60 so we will be running the pool backwards .

The Results.
105 runners completed the course today, which is a new course record for us this included 23 folks that joined us for the first time at Pennington Flash parkrun. It is always good to welcome new faces to our parkrun and we hope you enjoyed your run and will be back to see us again soon.

This week we had 44 Personal Best times set which brings our total to 866. A big well done to you all!

Our Male winner this week was an unknown runner, I'm sure someone knows him but he didn't have a barcode . He was followed home by Liam Thompson of Leigh Harriers & AC who came in at 16:39, Liam was followed in by Peter Rice of Horwich RMI Harriers with a time of 17:28.

In the Ladies race; Suzanne Gregory of Astley & Tyldesley RR scored her 1st win at Pennington Flash parkrun, she came in at 22:45. She was followed in by Amy Moran of Warrington AC with a time of 23:40 and Linda Whittaker who came in with a time of 23:44.

The Top of the Mens points table has Alan Smith again pulling ahead with 829 points some 37 points in front of Dillon Alcock who is now leading Robert Wilson by 32 points.

The Ladies points table sees Rachael Sidebotham leading with 879 points followed 127 points back by Liz Hedgecock with 752 points, Liz has a 55 point lead over 3^rd placed Lydia Sidebotham who has 697 points.

Age Graded Scores
Jeff Whittington still leads in the Age Graded competition with a grading of 85:65%.
This weeks best Age Graded Scores were:
Peter Rice [VM45-49]- 83.78%
Liam Thompson [SM30-34]- 78.78%
Andy Eccles [VM50-54]- 77.57%

Volunteering.
A really big thank you to all of the volunteers today: Alan, Janet, Shaun and Rachael.

We are desperately short of volunteers over the next month or so, please get in touch to volunteer if you can help out.

Volunteers make our parkruns possible and without them no parkrun can take place and we would not want to have to cancel an event due to lack of volunteers, so please get in touch at PenningtonFlashHelpers@parkrun.com and help us make sure we can be here every week.

Refreshments.
We offer refreshments after every run and we welcome everyone, runners and friends, to join us. You will find us in the port-a-cabin next to the rangers hut and picnic tables straight after the run.  Please come along and join us, the drinks & biscuits are free (although you can always donate if you wish to).

Thank you to all those of you that contributed to the refreshments this week both with cookies/cakes and in donations.

Donations are used to replenish tea/coffee/sugar and biscuits et-cetera.

Olympic Celebration Week at Leigh Sports Village.
Monday 25th June 7pm at leigh Sports Village.

We are still looking for a few more members of the second team for the relay run, please pop your name on the form in the port-a-cabin if you want to join us.

For those of you that have already signed up we will be emailing sponsorship forms out to those of you that we have addresses for, for everyone else there will be forms in the port-a-cabin starting from next Saturday.

There will be a sponsorship form in the port-a-cabin after each run until the event itself, if you wish to support the runners and help us raise some funds for our parkrun please jot your names down and let myself or one of the other volunteers have your money.

Thanks for being there and see you next time.

The Pennington Flash parkrun team.

Don't forget you can follow Pennington Flash parkrun in many places:
Here, of course
facebook - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pennington-Flash-parkrun/169627397761
Twitter - follow us https://twitter.com/#!/PenFlashparkrun