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Event 41 19 May 2012 |
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Event 41, 19th May 2012
A slightly cool and drizzly May morning saw 86 runners complete the 41st Wythenshawe parkrun. Nearly a quarter of the field ran at Wythenshawe for the first time. We hope that you all enjoyed it and will visit us again many times in the future. I t was especially good to welcome 11 runners (Susan Mathews, Claire Sandercock, Kirsten Cassidy, Ana de Juambelz, Andy Holloway, Ellie Holloway, Tom Chadwick, Michael Mullen, Piers Beardall, Garett Boyd and Andy Oates) to their first ever parkrun event. Hopefully you enjoyed the challenge of a timed 5k race and will return many times in the future (you can now aim for a personal best time (PB) next time you join us. Parkrun is such a wonderful concept, it doesn’t matter how fast or how slow you are, everyone is welcomed and encouraged to do their best and I have always found that everybody taking part and/or marshalling is so very friendly. Such a great way to start the weekend!
Conditions underfoot must have been good today as an amazing 24 runners recorded new PBs. Far too many for me to mention you all by name but WELL DONE to all of you! Funny isn’t it how much it matters to us all when we get that PB, even if we have only shaved one or two seconds off). There were a few runners, however, that merit a special mention: One of our younger athletes, Qes Hussain, got his 3rd PB in six runs (running 20:34 today compared to his first run of 22:33); Lorraine Dunbar knocked an impressive 1:39 off her time and in so doing was 3rd lady; Not to be outdone, Brian Dunbar knocked an even more impressive 2:37 off his time; Another of our younger runners, Iain Donaldson, knocked 1:54 off his previous best time; Diana Evans in her 15th appearance got another PB and was 3:41 faster than her first run here back in December; Julie Jones in her 7th appearance got another PB and is now 3:50 faster than her first run in March; Emma Wright got an amazing PB today, knocking 3:58 off her previous best time; Jeanette Coakley has run the last 3 weeks at Wythenshawe and her times are 33:22, 32:13 and now 30:42, what will it be next week: David Donaldson knocked an impressive 4:03 off his previous best time; another of our younger runners, Imaan Hussain, knocked an impressive 1:10 of her previous best time. CONGRATULATIONS to everyone who got a PB today.
It is always fantastic to see a good number of younger runners (Daniel Pullen, William Lord, James Pullen, Iain Donaldson, Qes Hussain, Anthony Lee, Emily Hughes, Ellie Holloway and Imaan Hussain) taking part and today was no exception. Well done to all of you.
There was a close and fast race to the finish for the first two men this week. Both John Raho and Andy Oates, in their first ever parkrun event, came in with times under 19 minutes.
It is really important that you print off and bring your bar codes every time you run at a parkrun event, otherwise you will only appear as an “unknown” athlete in the results and that run will not be credited to you. Parkrun head office is insisting that at all events, world-wide, the policy of NO BAR-CODE = NO RESULT must be enforced. When juniors have completed 10 runs and anyone has completed 50, 100 or 250 runs, parkrun presents you with a rather lovely technical T-shirt (and a running jacket for 100 and 250 runs), another good reason for always remembering that bar code.
Many thanks to all who volunteered today (Alan Lamb, Alison Chappell, Anne Strain, Dominick McGoldrick, Graham Tunstall, Jeanette Barber, Pamela Robinson and Paul Muldoon). Wythenshawe parkrun is completely run by volunteers and without them it would not take place. PLEASE, PLEASE do offer to volunteer from time to time. There are a group of people who volunteer week after week, but the majority are also runners and want to have the opportunity to run too. Obviously, if we have more volunteers coming forward everybody will have more opportunities to run. It is great fun being a volunteer, it’s really enjoyable cheering and encouraging others, so if you have enjoyed running at parkrun events, please email WythenshaweHelpers@parkrun.com and offer to help. The first three times that you volunteer you will be awarded 100 points. Just think, it could help you catch up the leaders in the annual points competition! (Perhaps you could ask your non-running family and friends to volunteer as they cheer you on). I will not be around for the next 3 weeks and, therefore, we also need a volunteer to write the race report – 100 points and you can still run!
This week’s stats are as follows:
Men's placings:
John RAHO (SM30-34) (Unattached) was first in 18:35 - first appearance.
Andy OATES (SM35-39) (Unattached) was second in 18:48.
An unknown runner was third.
Current standing in the Men's annual points competition:
Don GEORGE (Sale Harriers Manchester) 2791 pts.
Paul BARBER (Unattached) 2547 pts.
Alan LAMB (Unattached) 2122 pts.
Women's placings:
Claire KIRKHAM (SW30-34) (Unattached) was first (20th overall) in 22:22 - first appearance.
Emily HUGHES (JW14) of Stockport Harriers & AC, was second (23rd overall) in 22:51.
Lorraine DUNBAR (VW50-54) of Dundee Road Runners AC, was third (32nd overall) in 24:01.
Current standing in the Women's annual points competition:
Caroline BABA (Manchester Harriers & AC) 3440 pts.
Jenny MCCLELLAND (Lymm Runners) 2598 pts.
Jeanette BARBER (Unattached) 2465 pts.
The following runners recorded the best Age Grade scores:
Peter MILLIGAN (VM55-59) was graded 79.48 % for the time 19:20 (5th overall).
Ken BURGESS (VM65-69) was graded 79.30 % for the time 21:59 (19th overall).
John RILEY (VM70-74) was graded 73.91 % for the time 24:28 (37th overall).
Wythenshawe parkrun started on 6th August 2011, and since then 733 different runners, including participants from 71 athletics clubs, have completed 2,263 runs covering a total distance of 11,315 km, and there have been 637 new Personal Bests.
The Women's course record is held by Eleanor TWITE who ran in a time of 20:27 on 28th April 2012 (event number 38).
The Men's course record is held by James BAILEY who ran in a time of 16:35 on 17th September 2011 (event number 7).
The Age Grade course record is held by Stuart David PARROTT who recorded a 85.64 % run (16:57) on 25th February 2012 (event number 29).
Good luck to any parkrunners taking part in the Manchester 10k on Sunday.
Enjoy your running and I will see you all in 4 weeks (hopefully I may even have recovered enough to run myself by then. Thanks very much to everyone for all my get well wishes after my accident).
Jeanette
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Event 40 12 May 2012 |
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Event 40, 12 May 2012
A lovely sunny day saw 100 runners complete the 40th Wythenshawe parkrun. Conditions underfoot were good, not too muddy and judging by all the smiling (but sweaty and tired) faces everyone seemed to have enjoyed themselves and 22 runners recorded new personal bests. Too many for me to mention you all by name but you know who you are and WELL DONE!
We welcomed 16 runners to Wythenshawe parkrun for the first time, including 11 (Martin Jackson, Chris Marritt, Rosemarie Marsiglio, Callum Goodfellow, Matt Taylor, Jonathan Clark, Chris Kolbeck, Nicola Jepson , David Brown, Chris Willmott and Sophie Johnson) who took part in their very first parkrun event. We do hope that you all enjoyed our event and will return many times in the future.
It was good to see, yet again, a good number of younger athletes running today. Particular congratulations to Louise Vallely who got another PB today (Louise has got PBs 3 out of the 5 times she has run here).
We had a great battle this week between the first three men who all came in under 20 minutes, Peter Milligan and Frank Cordingly both ran really well and both achieved new PBs in their efforts to keep novice parkrunner, Martin Jackson, in third place.
The first three ladies were not quite so close together but Rosemarie Marsiglio ran brilliantly to win in her first ever parkrun event, Huma Rahman was in second and Louise Jackson in third place.
Huge congratulations to Julie Hodgkinson, who was selected as parkrunner of the month for April. We are all expecting to see PBs over the next few weeks running in your new running shoes.
It is really important that you print off and bring your bar codes every time you run at a parkrun event, otherwise you will only appear as an “unknown” athlete in the results and that run will not be credited to you. Initially our Race Director was very lenient and would record names and finishing positions if you had forgotten your bar code but this cannot continue now that we have approximately 100 runners each week and parkrun head office is insisting that at all events, world-wide, the policy of NO BAR-CODE = NO RESULT must be enforced.
When juniors have completed 10 runs and anyone has completed 50, 100 or 250 runs, parkrun presents you with a rather lovely technical T-shirt (and a running jacket for 100 and 250 runs), another good reason for always remembering that bar code.
Now for this week’s statistics:
Men's placings:
Peter MILLIGAN (VM55-59) (Unattached) was first in 19:35 - first win in third appearance.
Frank CORDINGLEY (VM50-54) of Sale Harriers Manchester, was second in 19:39.
Martin JACKSON (VM40-44) (Unattached) was third in 19:56.
Current standing in the Men's annual points competition:
Don GEORGE (Sale Harriers Manchester) 2738 pts.
Paul BARBER (Unattached) 2464 pts.
Alan LAMB (Unattached) 2122 pts.
Women's placings:
Rosemarie MARSIGLIO (SW25-29) (Unattached) was first (17th overall) in 22:47 - first appearance.
Huma RAHMAN (VW40-44) of Wilmslow RC, was second (26th overall) in 24:32.
Louise JACKSON (VW45-49) (Unattached) was third (31st overall) in 25:26.
Current standing in the Women's annual points competition:
Caroline BABA (Manchester Harriers & AC) 3349 pts.
Jenny MCCLELLAND (Lymm Runners) 2502 pts.
Jeanette BARBER (Unattached) 2465 pts.
The following runners recorded the best Age Grade scores:
Peter MILLIGAN (VM55-59) was graded 78.47 % for the time 19:35 (first overall).
Frank CORDINGLEY (VM50-54) was graded 75.66 % for the time 19:39 (second overall).
John ARCHER (VM60-64) was graded 74.98 % for the time 21:23 (11th overall).
Wythenshawe parkrun started on 6th August 2011, and since then 712 different runners, including participants from 69 athletics clubs, have completed 2,177 runs covering a total distance of 10,885 km, and there have been 613 new Personal Bests.
The Women's course record is held by Eleanor TWITE who ran in a time of 20:27 on 28th April 2012 (event number 38). The Men's course record is held by James BAILEY who ran in a time of 16:35 on 17th September 2011 (event number 7). The Age Grade course record is held by Stuart David PARROTT who recorded a 85.64 % run (16:57) on 25th February 2012 (event number 29).
Many thanks to all who volunteered today (Don George, Dorothy Muldoon, Ishani Moore, Jeanette Barber, Jenny McClelland, Michael Moore, Michelle Fallon, Nayana Moore, Oliver Cromwell, Paul Muldoon and Suzanne Earl. Wythenshawe parkrun is completely run by volunteers and without them it would not take place. PLEASE, PLEASE do offer to volunteer from time to time. There are a group of people who volunteer week after week, but the majority are also runners and want to have the opportunity to run too. Obviously, if we have more volunteers coming forward everybody will have more opportunities to run. It is great fun being a volunteer, it’s really enjoyable cheering and encouraging others, so if you have enjoyed running at parkrun events, please email WythenshaweHelpers@parkrun.com and offer to help. The first three times that you volunteer you will be awarded 100 points. Just think, it could help you catch up the leaders in the annual points competition! (NB. Perhaps you could ask your non-running family and friends to volunteer as they cheer you on).
Enjoy your running and see you all next week.
Jeanette
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Event 39 |
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Event no 39- Saturday 5th May
It was a nice dry day for event number 39 in Wythenshawe park. The course
was still slightly muddy underfoot for the 93 runners.
This week we had 17 first timers, Nidhi Grogan, Santosh Trehan, Zoe Barr,
Deanne Lamb, Jeanette Coakley, Mark Hewill, Helen Jepson, Sarah Faulkner,
Tim Grogan, John Finnigan, Lisa Frost, Katharine Lay, Michelle Wall, Becky
Thurtell, Andrew Harrison and Lizo Ngqobongwan.
I love a bit of long distance parkrun tourism so a special mention to Mark
Hewitt who it appears normally runs at - Bushy and Becky Thurtell who has
ran at Bushy, Kingston, Abingdon, Crystal Palace, Guildford, Ally Pally,
Gunpowder Highbury and Nonsuch. I hope that you enjoyed our course and will
come back next time your in the north west.
The more local parkrun tourists across the north west I hope you enjoyed
the course and that we will see you again next week.
We had 36 new personal bests - well done to Jamie Cook, Richard Wilson, Qes
Hussain, Malcolm Twite, Lee McCourt, James Vallely, Martin Banfield, Paul
Grifiths, Darren Goodson, Stephen Buckley, Michael Moore, Stephen Carroll,
Matt Hanson, Ian Branthwaite, Anthony Thomas Lee, Neil Tivey, Reece Bell,
Samuel Chadwick, John McCourt, Alan Lamb, Paul Warale, Gareth Norbury
Norbury, Sudipta Moore, Sally Rustige, Dawn Fenton, Helen Bacon, Lisa
Webster, Helen Claire Mackay, Liz Fox, Dorothy Muldoon, Andrew Stein, Julia
Glancy, Jordan GI, Michelle Fallon, Imaan Hussain, Annette Fairclough
If you just missed out on a PB this week Im sure you will get one over the
next few weeks as the weather gets better and the course dries out further
A special mention to Greg Barber who gets married today (im sure lots of
jokes could be made about running and getting married) but from everyone at
Wythenshawe parkrun we all hope that you have a great day
Full results are set out below.
Men
Jamie COOK was first in 19:09 - first win.
Tim STEPHENS was second in 19:54.
Richard WILSONwas third in 20:12.
Women
Laura Elizabeth BARBER was first (21st overall) in 22:27.
Huma RAHMAN was second (32nd overall) in 24:20.
Becky THURTELL was third (36th overall) in 24:38.
The points competition:
Caroline BABA 3252 pts.
Jenny MCCLELLAND 2502 pts.
Jeanette BARBER 2465 pts.
Don GEORGE 2691 pts.
Paul BARBER 2377 pts.
Alan LAMB 2057 pts.
As most of you are aware Wythenshawe parkrun would not exist without
volunteers. If you have completed more than 10 parkruns and haven’t yet
volunteered can I suggest that you do over the next couple of months as it
keeps falling to the same small bunch of individuals. If you are bringing
friends and family to support you why don’t you encourage them to
volunteer, after all a marshal is just an individual cheering on the
runners but placed in a strategic position.
Wythenshawe parkrun started on 6th August 2011, and since then 696
different runners have completed 2,077 runs covering a total distance of
10,385 km, and there have been 591 new Personal Bests.
Hope everyone enjoys the bank holiday weekend
Jenn
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Event 38 |
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Event no 38- Saturday 28th April
Sorry for the delay in the report coming out this week and hopefully it
will be up to the usual standard!
It was another fine day for event number 38 in Wythenshawe park. After
recent weeks of firmer and drier ground it was rather muddy and wet
underfoot although cold at least it was not raining on the 100 parkrunners
who set off and completed the 5k course.
This week we had 27 first timers Mike Ashby, Eleanor Twite, Peter
Donaldson, Daniel Pullen, Hayley Cavill, Mark Wall, Chris Robson, Robbie
Greenslade, Kevin Baskerville, Ian Branthwaite, Stephen Carroll, James
Pullen, Gareth Scott, Michelle Wall, Michelle Digna, Robert McCurrie,
Gareth Norbury Norbury, David Ernest Greenwood, Thomas Owens, Ian
Donaldson, Bridie Pullen, Anna Thorman, Lilian Saunders, Andrew Donaldson,
David Donaldson, Annette Fairclough.
I love a bit of long distance parkrun tourism so a special mention to Kevin
Baskerville who it appears normally runs at - leamington and Peter
Donaldson, Iain Donaldson and David Donaldson who it looks like you
normally run at Whitstable I really hope you enjoyed our course and will
come back next time you are in the north west.
The more local parkrun tourism I hope you enjoyed the course and that we
will see you again next week.
We had 14 new personal bests - well done to Neil Jones, Malcolm Twite, Tim
Hargreaves, Stephen Bucley, Darren Goodson, Ashu Gandhi, Barbara Elizabeth
Dunn, Lisa Jackson, James John Stewart Chadwick, Dawn Fenton, Julie Jones,
Liz Fox, Carole Milligan and Valerie Janet Moulden
In particular a very well done to Eleanor Twite who in her first appearance
had an amazing run and smashed the course record.
Full results are set out below.
Men
Mike ASHBY (SM30-34) of Sale Harriers Manchester, was first in 19:16 -
first appearance.
Peter DONALDSON (VM50-54) (Unattached) was second (third overall) in 20:42.
Neil JONES (SM30-34) (Unattached) was third (4th overall) in 20:44.
Women
Eleanor TWITE (JW14) of Sale Harriers Manchester, was first (second
overall) in 20:27 - first appearance.
Hayley CAVILL (SW30-34) of Sale Harriers Manchester, was second (6th overall)
in 20:50.
Jackie CORDINGLEY (VW50-54) of Sale Harriers Manchester, was third
(26th overall)
in 23:25 - 7 previous wins.
The points competition:
Caroline BABA 3169 pts //Don GEORGE 2691 pts
Jeanette BARBER 2465 pts //Paul BARBER 2288 pts.
Jenny MCCLELLAND 2405 pts// Alan LAMB 1989 pts.
As most of you are aware Wythenshawe parkrun would not exist without
volunteers. If you have completed more than 10 parkruns and haven’t yet
volunteered can I suggest that you do over the next couple of months as it
keeps falling to the same small bunch of individuals. If you are bringing
friends and family to support you why don’t you encourage them to
volunteer, after all a marshal is just an individual cheering on the
runners but placed in a strategic position.
Finally Wythenshawe parkrun started on 6th August 2011, and since then 679
different runners have completed the course, 1,984 runs have been
completed covering a total distance of 9,920 km, and there have been 555
new Personal Bests which is just fantastic.
Well done to everyone who ran the manchester marathon yesterday in terrible
conditions and a thank you to everyone who came out to cheer was very nice
to see some friendly faces through the rain and wind along the way.
Jenn
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