Dear Runnners,

Our parkrunner of the month for the month of April is Derek Howarth.

Derek will recieve a free pair of running shoes courtesty of our sponsor Sweatshop.

Congratuations Derek!

Regards
The South Manchester parkrun Team 

Dear runners,

Dear runners,

The following T-shirts have arrived:

50-Club:
John Riley
Tim Blackwell
Sarah Callan
Mike Gilbert
Lee Dennett
Jason Brogan
Ben Harris

10-Club:
Vincent Allott
Anya Custis

We will award these in the pre-run talk this week.

Thanks
Rob

Dear runners,

As many of you may be aware there was a serious assault in the park early this week and there are ongoing police investigations in the park. Tim had a look in the park last night and spoke to the on duty police officer and I have just spoken to the park staff, the situation is as follows:

The park is open as usual, however, there is no access between the show field side of the park and the lake side of the park as the brook that passes between both underground culverts is completely cordoned off, dividing the park into two distinct area's.

We have made the decision that in order to deliver our event, we will be running an alternative 3 lap course utilising the lake side of the park. We will meet at the usual location, outside of the boathouse near the lake. You must access the park from this side (either via Wilmslow Road or the usual carpark entrance) else you wont be able to get through to the lake side of the park (i.e. dont enter from Moss lane etc). 

If the park opens up fully by the morning, we will use the standard route, if things remain as they are we will run the 3 lap route.

I would advise all runners to check our official website and our Facebook/twitter pages for any last minute developments later this evening.

See you in the morning!

Regards
Rob

 Dear runners,

Please do take this request seriously, this is not our usual volunteer request!

We hope you have all had a relaxing holiday period and are ready for a new year of parkrun!

In order to meet parkrun’s aim to provide a free 5km run every Saturday of the year South Manchester parkrun require a SEVERAL additional regular volunteers who can carry out tasks other than marshalling roles to join our core volunteering team.

We are asking the South Manchester parkrun community to step up to this task and help us to maintain this weekly event by offering to take on roles such as runner registration, timing, handing out position tokens, volunteer co-ordination and handling email enquiries etc. We are not asking you to give up all of your spare time, but to take on a little bit more responsibility for YOUR run by committing to volunteering at least once per month.

None of these roles are particularly complicated or daunting and training and support will be provided.

If you would like to help us or require more information please contact us at: southmanchesterhelpers@parkrun.com (or reply to this email).

Best Regards

Rob

Event Director - South Manchester parkrun