Please don`t despair,it isn`t all bad news

If you go for a run to New Brighton,there are fantastic views

I am fully stocked with baked beans and the odd Jaffa cake

So being socially distant I don`t have to fake

We will run,jog or walk together again soon

Probably without the famously moustachioed David Boon

Be patient,wash your hands,wear your masks and look after yourselves

It`ll be Christmas soon,I need to find some elves

We could put them by the funnel

We`d need an Olympian in charge of them?

Seb Coe? Geoff Capes? Oh no! Definitely Sally Gunnell.

This week`s historical run report is the last one from August 2015.It was a roasting hot morning in Birkenhead and we had 214 of you lovely people taking part.

Oh.while I remember. Apparently some parkruns are taking this #notparkrun thing very seriously and there is a league table of participants. I just wanted to stress that 1,we are not taking it seriously at all and 2, Although our position is around mid table league 1 we are not in danger of relegation.Or for none football fans,we`ve got 14 points after 12 rounds of Eurovision song contest voting with 7 countries below us. Or for non Eurovision fans....you get the message.

Our first finisher (male) this week was Alex McBain of Wirral AC, a first timer who ran 16:24! Next was the first appearance of our most achieved first place person,Phil Langan of Wirral AC who ran 16:42 and to complete a first timer first three,Connor McArdle of West End Runners, ran 16:45! Wonder if he works in a pet shop?

Our first finisher (female) was Emily Kearney,another first timer,again from Wirral AC (There`s a pattern developing here) in 18:08(6th)! Followed by Sarah Kearney of Wirral AC and a first timer in 18:23(7th) and Hannah Durrant of Wirral AC and yes, a first timer who ran 20:46(30th). A first timer sweep of both top 3`s!

Today`s historical time and date is 16:24/1624 or time to go home as I like to say Monday to Friday.The 1st submarine was publicly tested on the Thames in London for King James 1, there was lots of seizing and conquering of places going on around the world but on a more conciliatory note, King Bethlen Gabor and Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand 2 signed the treaty of Vienna,then went out for a curry,a few pints and an anim

A big woohoo and lots of congratulations to all our first timers on the day,we hope you enjoyed your Birkenhead parkrun experience,whether it was your first parkrun evs or you were visiting us to find out what all the fuss was about our wonderful park.We hope you`ve been back loads since,

Our first timers on this day were Alex McBain,Phil Langan,Connor McArdle,Emily Kearney,Sarah Kearney,Peter Bird,Matthew Green,Daniel Nuttall,Nick Holt,Gary Wilton, Roger Montgomery,Ronan Kearney,Wayne Lowe,Hannah Durrant,Philip Bird,Alan M Smith,Derek McArdle,Luke Hampshire,Rachel Rongong,Wayne Palethorpe,Gina Nuttall,Salehuddin Allen,Karen Hulme,Michael Simon,Paul Mannion,Paul West,Andy Liggett,Alex Hogg,Pete Jones,Peter Irwin,Mark Gibbons,Leanne McKinlay,James Kent, Chris Redmond,Stephen Llewellyn,Lucy Beth Horler,Ceit Bannon,Uyai Ikpatt,Debbie Aardvark Smith,Ian Croker,Matthew Gibbons,Willem Taylor,Ian Davidson,Charlotte Horler,Ann Kent,Andy Cockram,Phil Mason,Anne Hurrell,Richard Kirby,Lauren Old, Colin Attwood,Peter Hampshire,Annabel Collins,William Hampshire,Joy Irvine,James Dillon,Paula Redmond,Pasha Hudson,Luke Wilmhurst,David Gibbons,Peter Igoe,Elise Watson,Jack Liggett,Hannah Irvine,Lynne Potts,Laura Gill,Jem Rongong,Theo Rongong,Jane Roberts,Anna Jewell,Alison Gibbons,Adam Hulme,Eleanor Stirrett.

PB awesomeness from Al Robertson 16:57,Oliver McNee 18:44,Nicholas Stone 18:51, William Ferguson 18:51,Andy Smith 19:36,Kenneth Day 19:42,Kevin Jones 19:53,Kevin Gorry 19:55,Richard Vasey 20:03,Alan Mellor 20:35,John Jones 21:00,Malcolm Irvine 21:02,Matt Kerrigan 21:03,Matt Teale 21:10,Mark Franey 21:21,Mark Wilmshurst 21:43, Brian McGregor 21:44,Jim Melling 21:47,Andy Jones 22:03,Liz Danson 22:08,Steve Cowen 22:37,Phil Stanley 22:41,Malcolm Davies 23:27,John Cannon 23:28,Neall MacLeod 23:45,Jon Hogg 23:49,Ali Heath 24:06,David Gawne 24:34,Chris Morris 24:37,Dave Jones 24:40,Anton Stirrett 25:05,Michael Webster 25:11,David Hebden 26:06,Peter Kerrigan 26:42,Paula Hartharn-Evans 26:48,David Evans 27:05,Louise Marsden 27:09,David Edwards 28:09,Gemma Cloney 27:10,Sally Brunt 27:20,Rose Osler 27:26,Jan McArd 27:27,Francis Hesketh 27:50,Pradip Bardolia 27:55,Marie Brunt 28:02,Susan Frowe 28:12,Liz Sampson 28:16,Neil Harvey 28:20,David Byrne 28:38, Debbie Lloyd 29:11,Rachel Doyle 29:31,Tanya Leary 29:48,Yaqub Allen 30:09,Koby Abbott 30:33,Jason Abbott 30:34,Lucy Holgate 30:51,Margaret Ray 30:56,Therese Hynes 31:13,Sheila McCann 31:15,Liane Lloyd 32:25,Harry Branch 32:33,Sue Sturgeon 32:36,Richard Quayle 33:01,Roger Quayle 33:02,Val Parkinson 33:27,Jan Taylor 33:40,Carol Bannon 34:21,Jessica Salisbury 39:21,Kelsey Salisbury 42:54, Mary Rees 43:05

Congratulations if you had a milestone today!

Historical Shentons for Mark Franey 21:21,Les Kennedy 22:22,David Taylor 25:25,Jan McArd 27:27

Our masters of volunteering hi vis wearing volunteers were Michele Alty,Cathy Armstrong,John "The Folk Doctor(Not No `A`)" Armstrong,Michael "Baywatch" Armstrong,Rachel Armstrong,Elizabeth Cronin,Ian Ellis,Linda Haynes,James "T`Pau" Hurley,Ian Jones,Dave "Tokens" McAlister,Kareen "Numbers" Porschke,Mark Redman, Mary Rees,Stuart "Stubooooooooo!" Rickers,Jon "Derby 0" Rumley,Rolf "Wolfie" Westrum.

We are on the facebook,the instagram and the flickr "Birkenhead parkrun" and the twitter "@bheadparkrun"

Stay tuned for developments on when we`ll be back. Please keep an eye on our social media and parkrun`s as well.

Look after yourselves and thanks for reading!

Jon

Another lovely day in the Birkenhead tropics

On this August day

The squirrels were still wondering just who we were

But were fairly happy and out to play

Just over 200 of you on our 5th parkrun

Stu`s shorts legend was in its infancy

(Cue 10 minutes gap while I think of a rhyme for infancy)

.........................................................................

Stu`s shorts legend had just taken its first step

And there was no sign in the finish funnel

Of Johnny Depp.

Hello and welcome to the latest historical run report ,this week number 5,our fifth ever parkrun from August 15th 2018.It was August,it was a lovely day and 203 of you took part.

Our first finisher(male) was Joe Boden of Wallasey AC with a new pb of 16:59,just ahead of Mark Hulmston,also with a pb of 17:07 and Richard Davies of Wirral AC,again with a pb, this one was 17:14! Congratulations from the future to all of them!

Our first finisher(female) was Sarah Roberts of Ellesmere Port RC, a first timer with us who ran 18:12 (8th). Then it was Krystina Martindale of Wirral AC,also a first timer. Krystina ran 20:01 (19th) and Katie Bagley in 21:10 (34th)

Today`s historical time and date was 18:12,or just coming up to a quarter past 6. The 1812 overture wasn`t written in 1812.It was written in 1880 and Tchaikovsky didn`t like it. The first Spanish constitution was enacted and Canadian war heroine Laura Secord walked 32km to warn British troops of a surprise American attack at the Battle of Beaver Dams. There is no record of her Garmin time or if she put it on Strava (other watch options probably weren`t available at the time)

Congratulations to all the first timers on the day ,we hope you enjoyed your first parkrun with us,whether you were a first time parkrunner or were visiting us on the day. We hope you enjoyed your Birkenhead parkrun experience and have been back regularly or visited us since.

Our amazing first timers were Matt Guilder,Scott Briggs,Sarah Roberts,Benjamin Lamprey,Mark Kingsbury,Owen Jones,David Millington,Krystina Martindale,Dave Sculthorpe,Kevin Jones,Thomas Richards,Gareth Langford,Malcolm Irvine,Mark Leach, Roger Graham,Chris Tucker,Trevor Weston,Stephen Saunders,Max Meadows,Carl Yeates,Isabel Tilston,Matthew Seal,James Mangan,Patrick Lawler,Debbie Rothwell, Lou Sculthorpe,Tessa Lupton,Ellie Tilston,Tallulah Brady-Jones,Keira Brady-Jones, Chris Britton,Olivia Briggs,Niall Keating,Helen Stafford,Andrew Beaumont,Rob Hodson, Ben Taylor,Louisa Kingsbury,Jonathan Perera,Jana Bickova,Steve Mack,Debbie Keating,Rose Osler,Andrew Barnes,Marie Brunt,Rachel Sanders,James Campbell, Rachel Trett,Lily Clark,Sally Brunt,Emily Leach,Lindsey Camborne-Paynter,Isabelle Mangan,Thomas Mangan,Sarah Jane Tucker,Kevin Gorry,Joanne Whelan,Therese Hynes,Margaret Ray,Benjamin Willis,Gemma Greene,Joe Lawler,Eve Lawler,Anne Cannell,Roslyn Barrie,Emma Howard,Val Parkinson,Ben Johnson,Louise Johnson,Jan Taylor,Debby Lunt,Cerys Mack,Ann Mack,Helen Bush,Mary Evans-Ward,Dermot Ferguson,Mary Rees.

PB perfection from Joe Boden 16:59,Mark Hulmston 17:07,Richard Davies 17:14,Rob Pearse 17:34,Sean Britton 18:45,Nicholas Stone 19:06,Mark Newns 19:07,Richard Bargh 19:13,Jason Kingsbury 19:21,Kevin Hall 20:42,Caroline Hall 21:14,Alan Mellor 21:30,Roy Morris 21:36,Mark Franey 21:40,Robert Aldcroft 21:46,Mike Griffiths 22:05, Andy Jones 22:17,Liz Danson 22:30,David Limbrick 22:41,Andrew Carragher 22:42, Paul Holmes 23:05,Steve Cowen 23:14,Alan Whitehead 23:40,Clare Wright 24:07,Ali Heath 24:19,Andy Stewart 24:31,Dan Lodge 25:08,Alice Wilson 25:36,Andy Bush 25:46,Vanessa Rimmer 26:05,Ian Chalmers 26:10,Chris Green 26:17,Stephen Forster 26:26,Alex Cowen 27:10,Gemma Cloney 27:17,Peter Kerrigan 27:25,Sara Morris 27:55,Darren Tam 28:02,Robin Kingsbury 28:14,Fred Howard 28:25,Jan McArd 28:26,Jane Hickey 28:32,Amanda Green 28:37,Robyn Wright 28:39,Neil Harvey 28:40, Lesley-Anne Cucksey 28:46,David Byrne 28:56,Kayleigh Salem 29:34,Olivia Denman 29:45,Ana Roslan 29:55,Teoman Forshaw 30:01,Suzi Keating 30:09,Helen Measures 30:10,Yaqub Allen 30:31,Lorna Quigley 30:38,Jo-Anne Harrison 30:53,Nicola Morris 30:57,Heather Jones 31:23,Emily Edwards 31:44,Pat Salisbury 31:50,Bendan Thomas 31:56,Rachel Langley 32:20,Emma Britton 33:30,Antonia Kelly 35:02,Carol Bannon 35:05,Paula Cowen 36:34,Jessikha Ellison 37:02,Ruth Byers 39:47

Congratulations if you had a milestone today!

Historical Shentons for Neil Rees 22:22,Stephen Forster 26:26,Debra Gallivan 30:30, Joanne Whelan 31:31

Our startlingly amazing volunteers were Michele Alty,Tom Forshaw,Mike "One scoop" Green,Sarah "Not off Blue Peter" Green,Mark "Son of Coneman" Humphreys,Peter "The Coneman" Humphreys,James "T`Pau" Hurley,Ian Jones,Ultan "No A" Mulhern, Mary Rees,Stuart "The Shorts" Rickers,Jon "Derby 0" Rumley,Steve "G`day" Smith, Helen Stansfield,Rolf "Wolfie" Westrum,Deb Williams.

We are still on the facebook,the instagram and the flickr "Birkenhead parkrun" and the twitter "@bheadparkrun"

We will hopefully see you soon. You may have seen the announcement this week about a possible return to parkrun at the end of October but please keep an eye out across our social media for any updates as obviously the current situation is changeable.

Look after yourselves and thanks for reading!

Jon

It was the very early days of Birkenhead parkrun

When T`pau were still only 1980`s powerpopsters

And not James Hurley`s middle name

Oh that nickname will always remain

No pink wellies had been worn on our grass finish funnel

And I`d not even thought to mention Sally Gunnell

Stu`s shorts were still just an item of functional summer sportswear

It was a Shenton of a date,the 8th of the 8th,back in 2015

It seems so long ago but it wasn`t a dream.

Hello and welcome to the second series(!) of historical run reports.

Previously on historical run reports - Er,there were historical run reports covering parkrun 48-67.Anyway this time,its parkrun numbers 4,5,7,13,14,45 and 46! I know, calm yourselves with a biscuit.

After the last report was in freezing November,we were warm as a central heating convention on this August day,176 of you joined us and the narrow grass finish funnel was in place.

Our first finisher (male) was Andrew Gawne in a time of 17:04,followed by first timers Ashley Crawford in 17:13 and David Brockway of Wirral AC in 17:32.

Current Leicester City and England footballer James Maddison was in 4th.Or it was James from Victoria Park Harriers and Tower Hamlets AC,one of them.

Our first finisher (female) was first timer Maggie Cooper of Wirral AC in 20:02 (16th),then Katie Bagley with a pb of 20:53 (27th) and Caroline Hall of Wirral AC in 21:35 (38th).

Today`s random historical date was 20:02,or slightly after 8. The world cup was held in South Korea and Japan,Mount Nyiragongo Volcano erupted in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Switzerland joined the United Nations for an undisclosed fee.

Congratulations to all our first timers,indeed everyone who was there that day as everyone was still very new to it all. We hope you enjoyed your very first parkrun with us,whether it was your first ever parkrun or you were visiting us for the first time.

Our amazing first timers were James Da Costa,Helen Sweeney,Paul Howarth,Dan Lodge,Andy Bush,Alex Cowen,Beth Hallsworth,Matthew Cowen,Charlie Cockram, Christopher Green,Rachel Doyle,Catherine McNee,Jennifer Davies,Debra Gallivan, Teoman Forshaw,Sarah Briscoe,Andy Stewart,Duncan Redpath,Claire Marsden, Samuel Forshaw,Rukiye Forshaw,Richard Bargh,Roy Morris,Helen Simpson,Amy Chalmers,Freya Brabrook,Paul Cunningham,Sara Morris,Steve Cowen,James Maddison,Sue Rimmer,Rachel Salem,Emily Jacques,Paula Cowen,Michele Alty, Carol Bannon,Michael Stone,Keith Brand,Ethan Brady-Jones,Raul Mur,Sean Dyer,Caitlin Chapman,Jo-Anne Harrison,Kayleigh Salem,Paul Collins,Lornsa Quigley,Louise Marsden,James Chapman,Joseph Chalmers,Maggie Cooper,Russell Jacques,Keith Wood,David Nalder,Claire M Williams,Ian Reid,Kevin Charleston,Michael Brockway, Andrea Brabrook,Daniel Kelly,David Brockway,Robin Kingsbury,Paul Chapman,Ashley Crawford.

PB awesomeness from Matthew Gawne 18:39,Les Kennedy 18:41,Andrew Soutar 18:57,David Taylor 20:14,Philip Williams 20:28,Mark Redman 20:36,Jack Poland 20:48,Katie Bagley 20:53,Matt Routledge 20:55,Stephen Bromley 20:58,Chris Murphy 21:07,Stephen Cole 21:11,Alan Mellor 21:31,Matt Kerrigan 21:32,Jim Fedigan 21:43, Ian Stevens 21:47,Andy Jones 22:32,Liz Danson 22:36,Malcolm Davies 23:50,Conor Grealis 24:00,Ashley Newnham 24:16,Martin Donaldson 24:26,Stephen Roberts 24:38,Kerrie Moore 24:41,Keith Marsden 24:46,Gareth James 25:26,Matthew Dingle 25:38,Mike Kemp 25:41,Richie Smith 25:45,Katharine Robertson 26:25,Marie Grealis 26:28,Ian Jones 26:34,Melanie Dirom 26:41,Diane Grimmer 27:18,M Kennedy 27:48, Vicki Costain 28:25,Pamela Topham 28:37,Jan McArd 28:39,Susan Frowe 28:39, Patricia Wright 29:07,Amanda Green 29:12,Peter Edwards 29:16,Nick Flynn 29:19,Ann Holmes 29:39,Darren Tam 29:42,Mia Ellis 29:46,Ian Ellis 29:47,David Byrne 29:56, Olivia Denman 30:04,Suzi Keating 30:40,Alison Jackson 30:48,Sam Newns 30:58,Mark Newns 30:58,Benjamin Lindfield 31;15,Liz Donaldson 32;06,Heather Jones 32;27, Rachel Langley 32:50,Dawn Crawford 33:48,Sharon Candeland 34:17,Gareth Davies 36:55.

Congratulations if you had a milestone today!

Historical Shenton for Andrea Brabrook 32:32.

Our marvellous volunteers on this day were Steven Armstrong,Joseph Boden,Matthew Green,Mike "One Scoop" Green,Mike Griffiths,James "China in his hands" Hurley, Sharon Lamont,David McAlister,Colin Palmer,Rob Pearse,Kareen "Numbers" Porschke, Mary Rees,Stuart "Shorts" Rickers,Steve "Captain" Smith,Phil "Number 1 Welsh volunteer" Stanley,Helen Stansfield,Rolf "Wolfie" Westrum.

We are on the facebook,the instagram and the flickr "Birkenhead parkrun" and the twitter "@bheadparkrun"

Look after yourselves and thanks for reading!

Jon

I`ve never been a lyrical gangster

And my flow has never been busted

However I do like the odd egg custard

Hang on,that`s off to a bad start

You can if you want call it a custard tart

Oh this isn`t the cake report,this is in the wrong place

Time for a u turn to save face

Parkrun,sorry parkrun 68,the weather was getting colder

But we had 223 runners,none from Colorado,specifically Boulder.

We only had 16 volunteers though,a very low total

That`s a statistical fact,not anecdotal

When we are back,we`ll need a lot lot more

Have a think about that,the chance to don the hi vis

Its easy,we`re very friendly

And you might get to meet Stephen Hendry*

*Can`t be guaranteed but seriously we will need more volunteers in the Sally Gunnell finish funnel especially.As for the the availability of Scottish snooker players,we`ll try.

Hello and welcome to this week`s run report from the past. Next week we`ll be going even farther back into the past but for now or even then this report covers Saturday November 12th 2016.A cold frosty morning with everyone layered up.

Our first finisher (male) was again Andy McQue of Stoke AC who was 13 seconds quicker than last week, running a time of 16:48. Then it was Andrew Patterson in 17:12 and Richard Webster of Wallasey AC in 18:30.

Our first finisher (female) was Hanna Tarver of Wirral AC ,a first timer,in 18:58 (6th), then Emily Gray of Liverpool Harriers in 19:09(8th) and Zoe Pearse of Wallasey AC with a new pb of 20:28! (24th)

Today`s random historical date was 17:12,or just coming up to quarter past 5.It was all going off in Sweden on Feb 29th when they decided to have a Feb 30th in a move to abolish the Swedish calendar for a return to the old style....No,me neither. Also,in May Maximilian Emanuel of Bavaria successfully applied for and was honoured as the "Sovereign of Netherlands".

Don`t get that type of knowledge at Bushy.

Congratulations to all our first timers who joined us on this day in history. We hope you enjoyed your first ever parkrun or your first ever visit to our lovely parkrun and have been back many times since,

Our fantastic first timers were Hanna Tarver,Rachel Corless,Edward Reid,Ben Edwards,Ryan Davies,Tarla Schiller,Amne Tyson,Millie Elliott-Brown,Sarah Brunsdon, Ben Harper,Nikki Hodge,Paul Gray,Alan Todd,Byron Parish,Miriam Collister,Colette O`Halloren,Warren McNally,Louis Atkinson,Joanne Edwards,Paul Musgrove,Charles Tatham,Nicola Cracknell,Wendy Spice.

PB shout outs to Tom Gillbanks 19:34,James Guthrie 19:51,Antony Smith 19:58,Zoe Pearse 20:28,Howard Garde 21:43,Clare Procter 21:45,Matt Cronshaw 21:53,Mark Gibbons 22:31,Ryan Lester 22:39,Paul Rawlinson 23:36,Nicola Byrne 23:51,Michael Rimmer 24:11,Henry Graham 24:14,Matt Graham 24:14,Simon Tate 25:32,David Wood 25:51,Andrew Owens 25:55,Ged Shannon 26:28,Laura Reese 26:37,Lucy Shayle 27:32,Jake McGinty 27:37,Ian Stott 28:30,Ben Green 31:56,Connel Murphy 32:15, Nadine Murphy 32:22,Rachel Hoey 33:31,Carmel Edwards 34:36,Vicky Dilsworth 34;36, Graham Tate 34:57,H Jones 35:22,Leah Clarke 35:23,Peter Humphreys 40:59,Valerie Clark 50:16

Congratulations if you had a milestone today!

Historical Shentons for Stephen Norton 20:20 and Miriam Collister 24:24

Our volunteers,the best on Merseyside,if not the world were Cathy "Folk Doctor fan" Armstrong,Michael "Baywatch" Armstrong,Paul "Pinky" Bradley,Gemma "Pinky welly lady" Cloney,Ann "Van" Currie,Liz Danson,Jem "Lord" Flashman,Mike "Jolene" Green, Harley Henshaw,James "T`Pau" Hurley,Richard "David" Jacobs,Rob Pearse,Zara Prescott,Stuart "Theo Robinson" Rickers,Brian "El Presidente" Shenton,Patricia Wright.

We are on the facebook,the instagram (just the once this week) and the flickr "Birkenhead parkrun" and the twitter "@bheadparkrun"

Stay safe,enjoy your running and thanks for reading this.

Jon

Do you want the good or the bad news first?

And its not from David Hirst.

I found some more of our parkruns without run reports

Thoughts?

After this week and next week I have 8(EIGHT!) more

Stop banging your head against the nearest wall

We`ll have a ball.

Numbers 4,5,7,13,14,45,46 and 47 will get their first timer mentions

And their historical Shentons and personal best times

And no mention of Busta or LeAnn Rhymes/Rimes.

Hello and welcome to this week`s historical run report. Back in time to the 5th November 2016. A big day for fireworks everywhere. For weather fans it was cold.

Our first finisher (male) this week was Andy McQue of Stoke AC in 17:01 then a big welcome back to Felix Unknown of the famous Unknown family,Nick Brownbill who ran 18:17 and Jay Walker who finished in 18:21.

Our first finisher (female) was Emily Gray of Liverpool Harriers in 19:07 (11th), a new pb! Next was Chris Simmonds, a first time Shentoner in 20:20 (26th) and Jennie Langston of Village Road Runners AC in 21:57.

Today`s random historical date was oh,2020. Leave that for this week. We`ll do 1821 instead. Spain granted Mexico independence as a constitutional monarchy with the treaty of Cordoba being signed on August 23rd.In the UK,John Constable painted the Hay Wain and Richard "Not the actor" Burton, an explorer was born.

Congratulations to all our first timers who joined us on this day in history. We hope you enjoyed your first ever parkrun or your first ever visit to our lovely parkrun and have been back many times since.

Our lovely first timers were Chris Simmonds,Joseph Walker,Frances Murphy,Jonathan Walker,Benjamin Walker,Kelsey-Lili Ogedengbe,David Green,Tomas Michalek,Michael McGuigan,Karen Green,Claudia Pagoula,Jenny Watts,Louise Hutchinson,Jo Armstrong Davis,Colin Davis,Paul Flynn,Andrew Owens,Carmel Edwards,Catherine Hunter, Amanda Foy,James Boumphrey,Martin Venning,Steve Upham,Helen McNeill,Paul Blackburn,Tom Woodworth,Libby Albery,Peter Jordan,Susan Goodare,Jenny Jordan, Adrian Cooper.

Pb tremendousness from Ray Clark 18:54,Emily Gray 19:07,Chris Brampton 19:19,Tom Gillbanks 19:39,Stephen Bird 20:06,Chris Lowe 21:20,Howard Garde 24:27,Lee Halley 24:36,Henry Graham 24:37,Paul Harrington 25:20,Dave Parry 25:29,Anna Patterson 27:09,Joanne Cook 27:10,Emily Edwards 28:38,Kirsty Britton 29:12,Anna Costello 29:36,Annelize Hadland 31:05,Sam Endeacott 32:16,Malene Wurtz 35:06,H Jones 35:30,Elizabeth Butler 49:39

Congratulations if you had a milestone today!

Historical Shentons for Chris Brampton 19:19,Chris Simmonds 20:20,Keith Brand 21:21,Caroline Hall 22:22,Ged Shannon 27:27,Kanella-Eleni Karamani 32:32,Michael Hawkyard 34:34,Susie Everett 46:46

Our vibrant,very nice and much valued volunteers were Michele Alty,John "The Folk Doctor Armstrong,Michael "Baywatch" Armstrong,Gemma "The Pink welly pioneer lady",Emma Cooper,Ann "Van" Currie,Jem "Lord" Flashman,James "T`Pau" Hurley, David "Tokens" McAlister,Kareen "Numbers" Porschke,Stuart "The Earle" Rickers, Carola Robinson,Annabelle Robinson,Jon "Shorn" Rumley,Brian "El Presidente" Shenton,Steve "Basil" Smith,Sue "Cowbell queen" Sturgeon,Rolf "Wolfie" Westrum,Margaret "Terry and June" Whitfield.

We are on the facebook,the instagram,the instagram "Birkenhead parkrun" and the twitter "@bheadparkrun"

We don`t know when we`ll be back but we will be back. Please keep an eye on the social media and when that day comes,be assured,we`ll let you know. Until then,be good,keep safe and go run if you want.

Thanks for reading

Jon

We`re almost in November in our time travelling run report tour

More warmer coats,scarfs and thermal baselayers to the fore

But for one volunteer legend the time to cover his legs will never arrive

I know that,I don`t need to surmise

His legs have been noted in space by Nasa

But not on the TV cricket by Nasser.

Which is a surprise when there`s a lack of wickets

As my phone autocorrect changes his name to tickets.

With hundreds of parkrunners and some mad volunteers he can cope

But he`d love to see,in the finish funnel, the one and only Pope*

He`s never been mentioned in song by Bono,the Edge and the others from U2

He`s our very own #shortsforstu

*The Port Vale one,not the fella who lives in the Vatican city.

Hello and welcome to this week`s historical run report. We`ve reached Saturday 29th October 2016 when it was more than likely a bit cold.

Our first finisher(male) this week was Louis Gorman of West Cheshire AC in 18:23 ,then Richard Webster of Wallasey AC in 18:49 and Thomas Carroll who ran a pb of 19:03!

Our first finisher (female) was Emily Gray of Liverpool Harriers & AC, a first timer who ran 19:38(4th),then Helen Newman who ran a pb of 20:57 (19th) and first timers Lauren Watchorn in 20:58(20th) and Carys Watchorn in 20:59(21st).

Today`s top 3 finisher time/date from history is Thomas Carroll`s 19:03 (or three minutes past 7). The FA Cup final this year was Bury 6 Derby 0. VAR has gone back in time and disallowed all 6 of Bury`s goals and given Derby 1 so Bury 0 Derby 1. Apologies to Brian Shenton for that.

Congratulations to all our first timers who joined us on this day! Whether you were doing your first ever parkrun or were visiting us for the first time,we hope you had a great time and have been back many times since.

Our fabulous first timers were Jacek Zytkiewicz,Jaroslaw Cieciel,Irek Sidorowicz,Sinead Benson,Olivia Gillbanks,Alan Kirk,Tricia Gillbanks,Ramy Elnoumeir,Michaela Buchanan,Neil Littler,Graham Hetherington,Emily Gray,Leah Clarke,Joanne Robertson, Lauren Watchorn,Carys Watchorn,Nedjma Kamel,Lloyd Fisher,Lee Halley,Ben Cronshaw,Neil Jones,Kanella-Eleni Karamani,Matt Cronshaw,Thomas Jenner,Liam Johnson,Nicola Sharratt,Ann Fidge,John Fidge,Martin Johnson,Amanda Robison,Paul Jenner,Barbara Dunn,Paul Robison

PB magnificence from Thomas Carroll 19:03,Wayne Lindsay 19:48,Tom Gillbanks 19:49,Scott Eves 19:51,Matt Gillbanks 20:23,Gregorz Adamczewski 20:34,Helen Newman 20:57,Jennifer Ryan 21:09,Edward Kenny 21:12,Joseph Ryan 21:12,Diane Ennis 21:13,David Gain 21:17,Ian Rowlands 21:21,Richard Costain 21:22,Paul Bradley 21:32,Ian Reid 21:44,Carola Robinson 21:49,John Cannon 21:59,Paul Webster 22:53, Kate Edwards 22:57,Liam Dodd 23:52,Louise Waywell 23:53,Danny McCrorie 23:55, Luke McCullough 24:04,Conrad Haynes 24:48,Melanie Bartley 25:19,Mary Stevenson 25:37,Paul White 25:43,Kirsty Buckley 26:03,Dave Parry 26:06,Colin Tyrer 26:21,Sarah Wadham 26:22,Frank Griffiths 26:38,Mike Parsons 26:49,Stewart Foster 26:56,Tracy Sherlock 27:59,Dijon Gledhill 28:09,Abigail Cragg-James 28:45,Ann Holmes 28:50, Mary Magee 29:33,Sophie Allan 29:39,Tom Potter 29:47,Euan Bradford 29:50,Sharon Ainscough 32:02,Ruth Pritchard 32:05,Claire Hazlehurst 32:28,Graham Turner 32:45, Michael Hawkyard 32:58,Adam Potts 33:15,Richard Potts 33:17,Michelle Hawthorne 33:20,Sam Endeacott 33:55,Lizzie Cole 34:01,Alison Gibbons 34:11,H Jones 36:12, Warren Morris 37:51,Campbell 40:27,Ian Cochran 41:19,Elizabeth Butler 51:30

Congratulations if you had a milestone today!

Historical Shentons for Ian Rowlands 21:21,Paula Ojok 30:30.

Our lovely,loud and lively volunteers were Michele Alty,John "The Folk doctor" Armstrong,Michael "Baywatch" Armstrong,Joseph Chalmers, Rob Chalmers, Gemma "Pink wellies" Cloney,Jill Edwards,Tom Forshaw,Mike "Jolene" Green",Alex "Te Wierik" Holland,Peter "The Coneman" Humphreys,David "Tokens? What tokens?" McAlister, Ultan "No A" Mulhern,Kareen "Numbers" Porschke,Stuart "Van der Laan" Rickers, Jon "Vinyl" Rumley,Brian "AFC Bury" Shenton,Phil "Number 1 Welsh volunteer" Stanley, Helen Stansfield.

We are on the facebok,the flickr,the tik tok and the instagram "Birkenhead parkrun" and the twitter "@bheadparkrun"

Hope you are well,we miss you loads and see you soon!

No we aren`t on the tiktok,I was messing.

Thanks for reading

Jon.

Before we get started this week I very rarely get requests but I was having a run down the park this morning with the pink welly lady aka Gemma C and we saw lots of parkrunners including our event director Steve who asked to be included in the run report.Seeing as he`s the boss,I am happy to oblige.Mollie the dog was soooooo ashamed.

So here`s a pre poem poem.

It was very hot down the park this morning

And whilst waiting for the on time challenged Gemma to arrive I wish there`d been a nearby awning

We saw lots of familiar faces including Steve,Jess and the legend that is Mollie

Also,2 running and 2 cycling from the Chalmers family.

We saw Jay and Hayley and lots from the run in Wirral group

We had a chat by the finish funnel and discussed a framework

But didn`t see Michael Buerk.

Enough of that malarkey.

The historical run reports haven`t got many to go

We`re now well into October,nearly 4 years ago

We had nearly 300 runners on that cold,freezing morn

But none possessed a French horn

There was no sign of Wogan,McColgan or even Hulk Hogan

Nor even Jamie Carragher aka Carra

Although could the unknown 2nd placed runner be Mo Farah?

No.

Hello! Hope you are well! Good to see so many familiar faces in the park this morning. Loads of space to run and the car free roads are very nice indeed.Today`s historical run report is from Saturday 22nd October 2016. There`ll be three more of these,possibly 4 as my first one showed all the sophistication and quality of an England middle order batsman ,then a best of the run report feature,then a week later who knows? I might just put some repeats on, let me know if you`ve got any ideas.

Our first finisher (male) this week was Andrew Gawne in a time of 16:53,next was Mr Unknown then Jay "New job" Walker of Wallasey Ac in 17:53 and Bryan Stevenson of Wallasey AC in 18:04. Mike "Jolene" Green of volunteer fame was next in 18:20

Our first finisher (female) was Bryony Seed in 21:57(37th) then Elaine Opara of Wallasey AC in 22:01 (39th) and Eve Duret of West Cheshire AC in 22:17 (42nd)

Today`s top 3 finisher time/date from history feature is Eve Duret`s 22:17. Hmm, according to this,Tranmere Rovers win the Premier League,Port Vale the Europa League and Derby County the Champions League whilst Liverpool and Everton languish in League 2. Time travel eh?

Congratulations to all the first timers who joined us on this day! Whether it was your first time evs or you were visiting us for the first time, we hoped you had a great time and you`ve been to loads of parkruns since.Shout out to Merseyside`s number 1 bus driver,Dave Moore!

Our absolutely wonderful first timers on the day were Richard Lyons,Jack Harvey,Ryan Bennett,Harry Harvey,Catherine Dutton,Ruth Simpson,Rachael Dodson,Amelia Cushing,Trudy Bedford,Joanne Green,Nikki Matthews,John Cronin,Peter Hart,Jonny Smith,Emily Williams,Kirsty Buckley,John-Lloyd Quayle,Anna Simpson,Toby Chanin, Elizabeth Butler,Maria Stephenson,Eve Duret,Sarah Cronin,Denis Duret,Mary Ritchie, Claire Hopkins,David Roper,Charlene Bimpson,Paul Morton,Trish Monks,Dave Parry, Tracy Sherlock,David Gain,Michael Rimmer,Ian Cochran,Antony Smith,David Moore, Wendy Jones,Matt Gillbanks,Tom Gillbanks,Vicky Osayande,Laura Boyes

PB superbness from Michael G Waring 18:40,Matthew Dowsett 18:41,Steve Jolly 19:27,Laurie Hill 19:35,Benjamin Newman 21:05,Phil Matthews 21:06,David Berry 21:27,Edward Kenny 21:54,John Walsh 21:58,Graham Elliott 22:33,Charlie Anderson 22:46,Michelle Bennett 23:32,Paul Rawlinson 23:40,Richard Jacobs 23:56,Luke McCullough 24:14,Dermot Ferguson 24:15,Anne Fleming 24:31,Kate Edwards 24:35, Sam Treanor 24:42,Brunhild Wilson 25:11,Danny McCrorie 25:33,Melanie Bartley 26:04,Paul White 26:18,Chris Seaton 26:22,Anne Kirby 26:26,Mike Smith 26:26, Kate Render 26:47,Norman Seddon 26:51,Paula Walker 26:52,Grace Harvey 27:15,Victoria Roberts 27:29,Roy Wood 27:39,Jason Scott 27:43,Stewart Foster 27:48,David Byrne 27:56,Rhona Walklett 28:14,Helen Measures 28:25,Dijon Gledhill 29:06,Emily Burdett 29:22,Jake McGinity 29:24,Naomi Gallichan 29:29,Mary Magee 29:38,Joanne Roberts 29:46,Joyce Roberts 30:17,Tom Potter 30:38,Emily Stevenson 31:03,Heather Reid 31:19,Amy MacDonald 31:47,Helen Allan 32:19,Kevin Harvey 32:41,Hannah Cragg- James 33:12,Sam Endeacott 35:18,Sarah Parry 35:19,H Jones 36:48,Cecilia Lewis 36:54,Abigail Cragg-James 37:00,Sue Gardner 37:05,Marion Barker 37:42,Michael Barker 37:53,Georgina Cragg-James 38:20,Martha Newns 39:07,Zara Ogedengbe 39:47

Congratulations if you had a milestone today!

Historical Shentons for Anne Kirby 26:26,Mike Smith 26:26,Naomi Gallichan 29:29, Amelia Cushing 36:36,Shainaz Campbell 42:42,Liz Leay 52:52

Our worthy of much appreciation volunteers were Jason Abbott,John "The Folk Doctor "The beard" Armstrong,Gemma "Innovator,She was right and she will mention it repeatedly" Cloney,Mike "Jolene" Green,James "T`Pau" Hurley,Liz "Shenton" Leay, Ultan "The Caravan man" Mulhern,Kareen "Numbers" Porschke, Louise Powney,Stuart "Surf dude" Rickers, Jon "Lovely" Rumley,Brian "Shenton" Shenton,Steve "Bright shoes" Smith,Kay "I`m still" Standing,Helen Stansfield,Sue "Cowbell queen" Sturgeon.

We are on the facebook,the flickr and the instagram "Birkenhead parkrun" and the twitter "@bheadparkrun"

Hope you are all keeping well and if you`re reading this in the summer of 2217,you`ll be thinking,he was right with those predictions!

Stay safe and thanks for reading,I do like doing this.

Jon

`Twas parkrun number 64

Better than any that had gone before

It had time travel,aliens and ghosts that went "BOO!"

Oh no,my mistake, that was an episode I saw of Doctor Who.

Who? Doctor Who. Who? Who? Doctor Who,oh I give up!

Thankfully(depending on your opinion,you may think otherwise) not

Although we had a no show from NFL wide receiver Cooper Kupp

We had 268 of you through the funnel,not one was Terry Wogan

And no sign of either McColgan.

Hello! Good morning,afternoon or evening! Hope you are well! 140 days since our last parkrun but I`m not counting. Keep the faith! We`ll be back and hopefully the mandatory bringing of cakes for the volunteers will be something we can all get behind! No fruit ones though. And I`m not even kidding. Today`s parkrun is from Saturday 15th October 2016. It was cold with a slight rain, a fine rain which etc etc.

Our first finisher (male) was Phil Langan of Wirral AC in 16:27,then Peter Bird of Wallasey AC in 17:28 and Mike Green,Mike Green,Mike Green,Mike Greeeeeeeen of Wallasey AC and slightly more importantly,our core team joint,assistant,deputy,wotsit event director person thing.He ran a time of 18:08.

Our first finisher (female) was Amelia Ratcliff with a new pb of 19:56! (15th) Followed by Helen Stansfield of Wallasey AC with a Shenton of 21:21 (27th) and Vicky Kehoe of Wallasey AC in 22:14 (39th)

Today`s top 3 finisher time/date from history feature (which got rave reviews last week....well one clever person liked it) is Mike Green`s 18:08.What happened in 1808 or nearly 10 past 6? There was a Rum rebellion ("albeit short lived"),the only successful armed takeover of the government in Australia! On a lighter note,the 1st practical typewriter was finished by the an Italian,Pellegrini Turri. So the next few words typed are dedicated to him.

He also invented carbon paper as well.Respect.

That`s enough knowledge for now.Onto the amazing first timers from this day. Congratulations to all of you who came and did their first parkrun with us,whether it was your first parkrun evs or if you were visiting us for the first time.We hope you`ve had a great time at parkrun ever since!

Our first timers on this day were Josh Riser,Carys Barber,Falk Zimmermann,Alamor Zimmermann,Carmon Orosco,Rory O`Gorman,John Davies,Michael Barker,Kevin Harvey,Kate Edwards,Grace Harvey,Andrew Jex,Mel Schless,Danny McCrorie,David Wood,Roisin Foran,Sue Gardner,Karen Faloon,Claire Hazlehurst,Matthew Forshaw, Marion Barker,Neil Oakes,Mike Grundy,Carla Smith,Sarah Wood,Andrew Thomas, James Thomas,Robert Greenhalgh.

PB marvelousness on this day from Simon Fox 18:10,Adrian Thuraisingham 19:13, Chris Brampton 19:27,Philip Bird 19:39,Amelia Ratcliff 19:56,Philip Leighton 20:20, Chris Murphy 20:59,Paul Holmes 21:02,Ian Jones 21:16,Benjamin Newman 21:20, David Hodgson 21:59,Vicky Kehoe 22:14,Jac Chapman 22:42,Charlie Anderson 23:01, Richard Mathias 23:05,Paul Webster 23:15,Michelle Bennett 23:43,Mike Biddulph 24:04,Michele Alty 24:30,Paul Rawlinson 24:33,Adam Marsh 24:45,Elaine Jones 24:57,Conrad Haynes 25:05,Reece Dent 25:29,Henry Graham 25:36,Paul Harrington 25:45,Dickon White 25:48,Ian Chalmers 25:50,Melanie George 26:41,Kate Render 27:06,Paul White 27:16,M Kennedy 27:30,Paul Lester 27:30,Chris Byrne 27:33, Lucy Shayle 27:33,Mark Lightfoot 28:08,Ian Stott 28:31,Andrew Nolan 28:32,Carolyn Gillmore 28:56,Jean Jameson 29:08,Helen Measures 29:08,Naomi Gallichan 29:51, Ronnie Ashworth 30:09,Paula Ojok 30:17,Matthew Green 31:01,Heather Reid 31:57,Werner Zimmermann 32:20,Ben Green 32:36,Helen Allan 32:44,Connel Murphy 34:01,Nadine Murphy 34:01,Yasmin Ojok 34:30,Sarah Medeiros 34:50,Leon Walklett 35:14,Sarah Louise Parry 36:55,H Jones 37:08,Abigail Cragg-James 37:27,Cecilia Lewis 37:29,Georgina Cragg-James 38:31,Valerie Clark 50:19.

Congratulations if you had a milestone today!

Historical Shentons for Philip Leighton 20:20,Helen Stansfield 21:21,Zara White 22:22, Tom Potter 34:34.

Our upbeat,hilarious and downright jaunty volunteers on this day were Cathy Armstrong, John "The Folk Doctor" Armstrong,Julie Brownbill, Gemma "Gembo!" Cloney,Jem " Lord" Flashman,Mike "Jolene" Green,Sarah "Jolene Jolene" Green, Harry Greenhalgh,Isabella Greenhalgh,James "T`Pau" Hurley,Annette Jones,Liz Leay,Ultan "No A" Mulhern,Stuart "Stubo" Rickers,Jon "Apples" Rumley,Brian "Shenton" Shenton, Greg Smith,Phil "Number 1 Welsh volunteer" Stanley,Rolf "Wolfie" Westrum,Margaret "June" Whitfield.

We are on the facebook,the flickr and the instagram "Birkenhead parkrun" and the twitter "@bheadparkrun"

Hope you are all keeping well and tell your friends about Pellegrini Turri.

Thanks for reading!

Jon