I love the sound of a violin

Or the opening of a baked beans tin

I love to go down our park on a Saturday morning

And tap my phone repeatedly under a tree awning

I dream of parkrun often,not always good

No watches,no scanners,no results and no cake at home for my pud*

Keep the faith,stay safe,we`ll be back soon

Not sure though if we can book David Boon

But I know reality will strike and one day we`ll be back in the finish funnel

And on barcode scanning there will be Sally Gunnell!

*This did happen.It was called "Innovation day" Not the cake part, that was poor planning from me.

Hello!!!!! Good morning/afternoon/evening/night! Today`s historical run report is from September 17th 2016 when it was windy and wet (I don`t know,I`m making that up) and we had 266 of you lovely people taking part and 18 fantastic volunteers.

Our first finisher (male) was Phil Langan of Wirral AC in a time of 16:15,followed by Leicester City attacking midfielder James Maddison in a time of 16:19, a new pb for him! Oh hang on....no it was James Maddison of Victoria Park Harriers and Tower Hamlets AC who was visiting us. Joe Boden of Wallasey AC was next ,in a time of 16:49.A special mention for our event director Steve "Sandpaper" Smith who finished 10th in a time of 19:17 which is also the title of the only film I`ve seen at the cinema this year.

Our first finisher (female) was Jennifer Ryan with a new pb of 21:33 (35th) then it was Lynn Lewington,a first timer with us in 22:05(43rd) and Zara White of Wirral AC in 22:28 (48th)

Congratulations to everyone who was a first timer with us on this day. We hope you had a wonderful time,whether it was your first parkrun evs or you were visiting us for the first time.

Our first timers on this day were Paul Nixon,David Talbot,Jagdeep Lynch,Olivia Nixon, Kayleigh Parker,Sophie Thuraisingam,Rhiannon Barnard,Claire Barnard,Rachel Taylor, Alison Taylor,Evelina Autio,Shelley Kerr,Corinne Jones,Mark Holmes,Kris George, Adrian Thuraisingam,Maria Medeiros,Rory Williams,Rachel Leeman,Jack Talbot,Hanna Cragg-James,Abigail Cragg-James,Mary Stevenson,Hannah Sweeney,Julie Smylie, James Cassidy,Sian Hawcutt,Emily Stevenson,Henry Graham,Lynn Lewington, Georgina Cragg-James,Laura Reese,Nathaniel Hopkins,Billy Douthwaite

PB amazingness from James Maddison 16:19,Alan Kennedy (Not the ex Liverpool full back) 17:23,Daniel Nettleton 19:11,John Evans 19:32,Chris Gibbs 19:57,Stephen Worsley 20:02,Michael Carroll 20:57,David Longford 20:59,Jennifer Ryan 21:33, Jonathan Worsley 21:40,John Walsh 23:29,Rob Hodson 24:15,Liam Dodd 24:18,Mark Humphreys 24:39,Benjamin Newman 24:48,Sam Bailey 25:04,Simon Lecozannet 25:19,Anthony Bailey 25:28,Andrew Fong 25:58,Brunhild Wilson 26:05,Rachel Keenan 26:07,Phil Lewis 26:28,Alison Engle 26:35,Andy McCullough 26:36,John Gately 26:40, Colin Tyrer 26:53,Tony Tarpey 27:03,Sybil Leeman 28:43,Carl Ellison 29:26,Paul White 29:49,Paula Hayes 30:02,Juliette Ward 30:11,Ronnie Ashworth 30:51,Paula Ojok 31:23,Tessa Munt 31:28,Lizzie Cole 34:10,Gail Longman 34:32,Eleanor Cornett 35:26, Carole Patricia 35:43,Chloe Gad 36:25,Sam Endeacott 37:11,Cecilia Lewis 37:40, Catherie Jones 38:12,Nithin Karyampudi 39:17

Congratulations if you had a milestone today!

Historical Shentons for Ciaran Lynch 21:21,Paul Holmes 22:22,Christine Roberts 30:30, Phil Malone 30:30,Jake McGinty 32:32

Our wonderful volunteers for this particular parkrun were John "The Folk Doctors" Armstrong,John Cannon,Martin "Wallasey" Connell,Sarah Corran,Kelvin Dickinson, Mike "Jolene" Green,Caroline Hall,Liz Leay,Anthony McDevitt,Ultan "No A" Mulhern, Rob Pearse,Louise Powney,Stuart "Stubo!" Rickers, Jon "48" Rumley,Brian "Mr President" Shenton,Steve "Sandpaper" Smith,Helen Stansfield,Rolf "Wolfie" Westrum.

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

There is an option to read this report with or without crowd noise.

Have a good week,miss you all,thanks for reading.

Jon

2 weeks into September now,the weather was getting wetter

However there was no sign of David Guetta

219 runners,joggers and walkers with 20 others clad in hi vis

Cheering and clapping all of you around the course

Thanks to all of you for turning up then

And we will,one day be together again

For now,carry on and read the rest of this report

And if you`re going to play cricket,don`t get caught

Hello and welcome to this week`s run report from the past. This one is for Saturday 10th September 2016 when it was probably wet and windy,but I`m sure we had a good laugh anyway.

Our first finisher (male) had a name this week,it was Graham Jones of Marshall Milton Keynes AC in 16:31.Graham was a first timer with us. Next was Ethan Ackroyd of West Cheshire AC in 17:05 and Matthew Gawne of Altrincham and District AC who ran 17:59.

Our first finisher (female) was Caroline Hall of Wirral AC in 21:50 (24th),then Elaine Opara of Wallasey AC with a pb of 22:16 (32nd) and Jessica Lovell of Wallasey AC in 22:56 (44th)

Congratulations to everyone who was a first timer with us on this day,either a first time ever at parkrun or a first time with us at Birkenhead. We hope you had a good time and have been back loads since.

Our first timers were Jack Haworth,Allan Cooper,John Munt,Ava Plimley,Daniel Nettleton,Karl Murphy,Kevin Doogan,John Gately,Joanne Johnston,Lisa Rice,James Milligan,Tessa Munt,Isla Barnes,Pui Kee,Joyce Roberts,Joanne Roberts,Cecilia Lewis, Anna O`Connor,Ella Wootton,Lyndsay Plimley,Catherine Peers,Helen Newman,Lucy Smout,Christopher Smalley,Chris Munt,Benjamin Newman,Catherine Jones,James Barnes,Christopher Barnes,Sam Endeacott,Graham Jones,Carl Mountain,Malene Wurtz,Sally Bell,Andy McCullough,Catrin Owen

PB pride for Thomas Carroll 19:33,Steve Jolly 19:35,Jeremy Richards 19:59,Chris Gibbs 20:01,Stephen Gauller 20:54,Steven Jackson 21:24,Daniel Johnston 21:42, Richard Costain 21:58,Kobus Donnelly 22:08,Elaine Opara 22:16,Martin Donnelly 22:38,Michael Pink 22:43,Henry George 22:49,Sue Green 23:08,Paul Bradley 23:10, Howard George 23:14,Ian Ackroyd 23:38,John Walsh 23:51,Ann Kent 24:12,Martin Jones 24:19,Sam Bailey 25:10,Adam Marsh 25:19,Anthony Bailey 25:49,Mark Colling 26:15,Andrew Fong 26:32,Sarah Bibby 26:49,Phil Lewis 27:07,Caroline Noonan 27:17, Neil Le Feuvre 27:32,Debbie Lloyd 28:02,Lucy Shayle 28:24,Amanda Willis 28:30,Kate Baker 28:42,Sybil Leeman 28:44,Kirsty Britton 29:32,Reece Dent 29:46,Charlotte Everitt 29:47,Adam Potts 33:27,Richard Potts 33:27,Mal Spicer 33:50,Michelle Hawthorne 33:54,Graham Turner 34:03,Christopher Harrison 34:14,Rachel Hoey 34:52, Sarah Medeiros 36:43,Andrew Burrows 37:39,Ronald Spicer 39:37,Peter Humphreys 43:46

Congratulations of you had a milestone today!

Historical Shentons for Dave Bibby 22:22 and Allan Cooper 27:27

Thanks very much to all our volunteers on the day - Cathy Armstrong, John "The beard" Armstrong,David Berry,John Cannon,Kathryn Clarke,Gemma "Pink welly lady" Cloney, Sarah Corran,Jem Flashman,Mike "Jolene" Green,Mark "Jet`s dad" Humphreys,James "T`pau" Hurley,Annette Jones,Kareen "Numbers" Porschke,Stuart "Tickets" Rickers,Ian Rowlands,Jon "Apples" Rumley,Brian "Shenton" Shenton,Steve "G`day" Smith,Helen Stansfield,Rolf "Wolfie" Westrum.

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

Have a good week and thanks for reading.

Jon

There are many confusing things in life at the moment

For example,thhe parkrun website being updated or not being able to find the river Derwent

Football crowds cheering goals when they aren't in the ground

Derby ones especially,but that`s sound.

All of this is nothing to do with parkrun 59 which gets a run report today

Was it the first one in September 2016 I hear you say?

It was and it was really very super duper

But no sighting of Bradley Cooper

Or Sally Gunnell....in the funnel.

Hello and welcome to this week`s run report from the past. Firstly thanks to everyone who read this for not mentioning I put "parkrum" instead of " parkrun" in the title last week.I assure this wasn`t some kind of strange ego trip or a plot to take over parkrun. It was just a typo which my supposedly top quality proof reading team failed to spot.The run report proof reading team on their lunch break.

Anyway,this report is for Saturday September 3rd 2016. 286 lovely people came along and we had 18 fantastic volunteers in hi vis.

Our first finisher (male) was Unknown. This is a popular surname at parkrun and they never seem to have a first name. Our proper first finisher (still male) was Phil Langan of Wirral AC who ran 16:25. He was followed by Connor McArdle of West End Runners who ran 16:47 and Nick Brownbill who finished in 17:47.

Our first finisher (female) had a name. She was Jessica McKinlay of Wallasey AC in 21:17 (37th). Then it was Caroline Hall of Wirral AC in 21:40 (42nd) and Lynda Bayley of Pensby Runners who finished in 22:46 (57th).

Congratulations to everyone who was a first timer today,either first time ever ever ever at parkrun or visiting us for the first time. We hope you had a good time and have been back loads since.

Our first timers were Ian Cuthbert,Nirmal Eswar,Lucy Le Feuvre,Ben Edwards,Bavna Sreeram,Matthew Pennington,Marie Pennington,Radhika Manohar,Yvie Alston,Chris Lowe,Rob Waterman,Alex Kaye,Christopher Alston,Leila Alston,Finley Alston,Stephanie Taylor,Grace Kedzior-Macdonough,Derek Owen,John Green,Charlotte Everitt,Mark Colling,Lewis Lecozannet,Graham Pomphrey,Chris Gibbs,Paul Martin,Polly O`Gorman, Graeme Hayes,Chris Morgan,Reece Dent,Tom O`Gorman,John Walsh,Jenny Wood, Becca Shute,Michelle Hawthorne,Zak Hayes,Adam Marsh,Tim Callaghan,Matt Graham, Lynn Cox,Iain Findlay,Nigel Hoult

PB perfection this week from Ray Clark 19:01,Darren Dowdall 19:02,Corin Willis 19:19, Peter Clarke 19:28,Stephen Bromley 19:34,Daniel Hayes 19:43,Andie Gow 20:26,Dillon Dowdall 20:47,Gary Lamb 20:53,Anthony McDevitt 20:59,Michael Carroll 21:04,Chris Williams 21:07,David Longford 21:10,Andrew Waring 21:15,Stephen Worsley 21:42, John Clegg 21:44,Tom Forshaw 22:22,Abs Ali 22:40,Lynda Bayley 22:46,Martin Donnelly 22:55,Sue Green 23:09,Ann Kent 24:19,Anthony Brockway 24:26,David Wynne 24:36,Daniel Peers 24:54,Nicholas Lewis 25:16,Ian Davidson 25:25,Nick Lown 25:29,Mark Collings 25:53,Alison Jones 25:53,Paul Butler 25:54,Mary Sinnott 26:35, Jane Cavanagh 27:14,William Gaullier 27:32,Paul Lester 27:51,Neil Le Feuvre 28:19, Christopher Byrne 28:22,Gill Potter 28:25,Sarah Daly 28:40,Clare Gauller 28:59,Tom James 29:25,Bill Preston 29:37,Kate Baker 29:49,Paul White 29:50,Christine Roberts 30:07, Paula Hayes 30:11,Harriet Spicer 30:31,Juliette Ward 30:37,Jan Davies 30:38, Simon Ward 30:38,Anna Costello 30:42,Sue Wigfield 30:53,Erin Wilkinson 31:16, Ronnie Ashworth 31:48,Jane Roberts 32:20,Hazel Chapman 32:26,Jessica Walklett 32:52,Julia Jensen 34:13,Clare Peers 35:27,Mal Spicer 36:56,Paul Geoghegan 36:57, Ronald Spicer 40:02,Sarah Medeiros 40:16,Georgina Jones 40:48

Congratulations if you had a milestone today!

Historical Shentons for Corin Willis 19:19,Tom Forshaw 22:22,Graham Pomphrey 24:24,Ian Davidson 25:25,Patrick James 29:29,Christopher Harrison 36:36,Patricia Wright 48:48

Thanks very much to all our volunteers on the day - John "The beard" Armstrong, Keith "The Eagle" Blackwell,Gemma "The Innovator" Cloney,Martin "Wallasey" Connell,Mike "Jolene" Green,Sallie Holt,Mark "Jet`s dad" Humphreys",Peter "Jet`s Grandad" Humphreys,James "No relation to Jet" Hurley,Liz Leay,Sam Newns,Zara Prescott,Julian Priest,Jon "Apples" Rumley,Steve "G`day" Smith",Rolf "Wolfie" Westrum,Margaret Whitfield,Patricia Wright.

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

Stay safe,we miss you loads and thanks for reading.

Jon

It was bright and fresh at the park this week

Lots of squirrels and a loud bird with a large beak

We had a visit from 2 ex Olympians

Really? I hear you ask , I don`t remember that

Well,we definitely didn`t have a cat

Anyway,they were Mary Slaney and Zola Budd

But fortunately this time there wasn`t an unfortunate thud*

Enough of this historical reconstruction which has been difficult to sort

It must be time for the run report.

*No there wasn't, In all honesty they weren`t even there but there was an incident in the Olympics in Los Angeles in 1984, Youngsters amongst you,google it.

Hello and welcome to this week`s run report from the past. This one is from Saturday August 27th 2016 which I`m sure was a glorious,sunny morning.We had our joint second highest turnout of 304.

Our first finisher (male) was Phil Robertson of Sale Harriers Manchester in a time of 16:13,then Phil Langan of Wirral AC in 16:25 and after the unknown runner,it was Harley Henshaw of Wirral AC with a new pb of 16:43.

Our first finisher (female) was Juliet Hodder of Wirral AC in 18:59 (16th), a new pb! Next was Anest Muller of West Cheshire AC in 19:40,also with a pb! (24th) and Jessica Lovell of Wallasey AC,with a pb of 22:25 ! (58th).

Congratulations to all our first timers today,either taking part in parkrun for the first time or were visiting us for the first time. We hope you had a lovely morning with us,

Our first timers were Fred Newton,Liam Budd,Nathan Barr,Audrey Maillot,Clare Cormack,Lesley Brown,Jane Ithell,Alex Tingle,Robin Hynes,Alyssa Addison,Michelle Freeman,Ben Tilt Tooher,David Burke,Robbie Howell,Mark McMillen,Ben Costello,Ian Sneddon,David Wynne,Philip Aldag,George Manning,Eleanor Cornett,Simon Witcher, Ron Cooper,Fiona Cox,Chris Harrison,Ashlyn Smith,Kirsty Britton,Daniel Peers,Elyssa Smith,Neil Le Feuvre,Ronnie Ashworth,Helen Davies,Andy Salmon,William Gauller, Millie Mercer,Clare Peers,Paul White,Ralph Tilt,Sarah Medeiros,Martha Newns,Richard Perkins,Selina Howell,Steven Bullock,Elaine Cuthbert,David White,Eleanor Hynes,Sam Palombella,Julie Parsons,Mike Parsons,Nix Lochrie,Jasmine Green,Dan Murphy,Peter Foale,Sheila Harrison,Andrew Glen,Chris Boothman,John Greenwood,Clare Greenwood.

PB magnificence from Harley Henshaw 16:43,Juliet Hodder 18:59,Robert Wood 19:23, Anest Muller 19:40,Steve Jolly 19:42,Thomas Carroll 19:45,Kristian Sharples 20:26,Phil Naylor 20:56,Anthony McDevitt 21:08,Stephen McConville 21:11,Phil Leighton 21:19, Michael Carroll 21:21,Rob Jenn 21:37,Edward Kenny 21:58,Tom Partridge 22:01, Jessica Lovell 22:25,Des McDonald 22:43,Martin Donnelly 23:17,Sue Green 23:42, Michelle Bennett 23:44,Janette Carroll 24:00.Ann Kent 24:35,Michael Wills 24:39,Liam Dodd 24:50,Nicola Byrne 24:53,Wendy Morton 25:08,Lisa Dawn Todd 25:15,Pam Hogan 25:19,Orla Jupp 25:21,Neil Harvey 25:26,Luke Crocker 25:58,Meike Donnelly 26:24,Mandy Mundy 26:49,Anthony Bailey 26:58,George Cornet 27:04,Joy Bamford 27:17,Simon Bamford 27:22,Colin Tyrer,27:25,Paul Lester 28:03,David Byrne 28:04, Paula Walker 28:04,Justyn Clark 28:12,Mark Lightfoord 28:14,Andrea Sneddon 28:40, Gill Potter 29:20,Phoebe Gibson 29:26,Lindsay Rodgers 29:41,Joe Cormack 30:49, Becky Doherty 31:07,Erika Brennan 31:26,Hazel Chapman 33:25,Sue Holmes 34:08, Julia Jensen 34:25,Doerte Prescott 34:33,Adam Potts 34:33,Richard Potts 34:34, Lauren Upton 35:46,Patrick Clarke 36:05,Sarah Louise Parry 37:53,Georginna Jones 42:50

Congratulations if you had a milestone today!

Historical Shentons for Michael Carroll 21:21,Carolyn Gillmore 31:31,Richard Potts 34:34

Thanks very much Ndidi to our volunteers on the day! - John "Before the beard" Armstrong,Martin "Wallasey" Connell,Roger Graham,Amy Rose Graham Beckham, Mike "Jolene" Green,John Harrison,James "T`pau" Hurley,Annette Jones,Liz Leay, Elaine Opara,Rob Pearse,Kareen "Numbers" Porschke,Stuart "Feed the Pope,not that one,the Vale one" Rickers,Jon "Apples" Rumley,Steve "Sandpaper" Smith,Phil "Number 1 Welsh volunteer" Stanley,Sue "Cowbell queen" Sturgeon,Rolf "Wolfie" Westrum, Patricia Wright.

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

Stay safe,enjoy your running and we`ll see you soon.

Thanks for reading

Jon

The park was in all its August glory

And the not then but now run report writer was the tail walker (then runner)

231 of you did three laps,yes three! Those were the days

No baseball players though from the Toronto Blue Jays

After last week`s shocking athletic substitution in the funnel

I can admit this week there wasn't a sign of Tessa Sanderson.

Hello and welcome to this week`s run report from the past. This one is from Saturday 20th August 2016.

Our first finisher (male) was Richard Evans of Liverpool Harriers AC, a first timer who ran 16:56. Then Greg Jones of Wallasey AC in 17:07 and Harley Henshaw of Wirral AC in 17:14

Our first finisher (female) was Sarah Kearney of Wirral AC in 19:35 (19th),then Ellen-Mary Kearney of Wirral AC in 21:08 (34th) and Zoe Brunton of Mersey Tri in 22:19 (48th)

Congratulations to all our first timers today,either taking part in parkrun for the first time or visiting us for the first time. We hope you remember the day fondly and have been back loads since!

Our first timers were Richard Evans,Elizabeth Partridge,Sonya Hartley,Rachael Nulty, Catherine Lancaster,Sheilagh Pierre-Louis,Heather Hastewell,Ben Bragg,Pam Hogan, Donna Redgrave,Sam Riley,Lynda Bayley,Gary Hastewell,Sue Holmes,Tom James,Joe Cormack,Simon Lecozannet,Juliette Ward,Dave Peers,Owen Peers,Rich Strutt,Simon Ward,Andrea Peers,Janet Quirk,Leanne Storey,Luke Crocker,Holly Peers,Rick Forster, Steven Jackson,Tom Partridge,Mike Taylor,Michael Wills,Margaret Hockney,Iain Wakefield,Julie Fairclough,Steve Fairclough

PB magnificence from Paul Bradford 17:47,Daniel Nuttall 18:01,Ray Clark 19:16,Corin Willis 19:36,Jack Birss 20:04,Mark Maguire 20:26,Clive Beasor 20:58,Phil Leighton 21:36,Dave Jones 21:50,Dan White 21:55,Edward Kenny 22:16,Jessica Lovell 22:35, Rob McDougall 23:12,Leanne McKinley 23:13,Bradley Plimley 23:28,Trudi Mercer 23:36,Debbie Keating 24:17,Greg Smith 24:51,Mark Humphreys 25:12,Nicola Byrne 25:20,John Wright 26:12,Sarah Drummond 26:23,Nick Lown 26:29,Chloe Muirhead 26:38,Guy Hope 26:47,Mary Sinnott 26:55,Linda Duffy 27:11,Jane Cavanagh 27:30, Lisa Todd 27:45,Tony Tarpey 27:49,Joy Bamford 28:11,Simon Bamford 28:12,Sharon Remmington 28:19,Jessikha Ellison 28:31,Chris Byrne 28:44,Amanda Willis 29:23, Isabel Remmington 30:07,Hannah Leeman 30:46,Erika Brennan 31:27,Helen Allan 32:45,Kay Standing 34:10,Hazel Chapman 34:23,Becky Doherty 34:41,Kelly Troake 35:12,Clare Smith 35:37,Adam Potts 36:35,Richard Potts 36:35,Erin Wilkinson 38:39, Sarah Parry 39:18

Congratulations if you had a milestone today!!

Historical Shentons for Jonathan Carter 18:18,Hideo Takano 21:21,Keith Wood 24:24, Joy Irvine 27:27

Thanks very much indeed to all our volunteers on this day! - John "Before the beard" Armstrong,Mike "Before the scoop" Green,James "Before the T`Pau" Hurley,Sharon Lamont,Colin "Circuits" Lamprey,Liz Leay,Louise "Ultan`s boss" Mulhern,Ultan " No A" Mulhern,David Nalder,Colin Palmer,Stuart "A brief history of shorts" Rickers,Jon "Gunnell" Rumley,Rachel Saunders,Steve "Sandpaper" Smith,Helen "Sweep`s mum" Stansfield,Sue "Cowbell queen" Sturgeon and Rolf "Wolfy" Westrum.

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

Stay safe and well,we`ll see you soon.

Thanks for reading.

Jon

The park was all its glorious sunny glory

The trees,the squirrels but no fellow called Pavin,think his first name is Corey

We had 237 of you fine people traversing the course

But as per usual,no sign of a giraffe,an elephant or indeed a horse

But I`m sure a few of you who came from Liverpool through the tunnel

Alas,no Liz McColgan

Hello and welcome to this week`s run report from the past.This one is from Saturday 13th August 2016.

Our first finisher (male) was Phil Langan of Wirral AC in a time of 16:29. Then it was Harley Henshaw of Wirral AC in 16:59 and Nick Brownbill in a pre Shenton Shenton of 17:17.

Our first finisher (female) was Bethan Dowsett, a first timer with us from Deeside AAC in a time of 19:23 (7th) then Zoe Pearse of Wallasey AC with a new pb of 20:36 (21st) and Louise Flynn of Invicta East Kent AC with a new pb of 21:07 (28th)

Congratulations to all our first timers today,either taking part in parkrun for the first time or visiting us for the first time,we hope you had an enjoyable time and have been back loads since!

Our first timers were Bethan Dowsett,Brian Kee,Emma Page,Arianna Hoey,Max Prescott,Chris Wilkinson,Doerte Prescott,Linda Duffy,Lesley McGarrity,Lisa Todd, Julia Jensen,Rachel Hoey,Simba Ojok,Charles Ojok,Sarah Parry,Rob McDougall,Meike Donnelly,Laura Edwards,Graeme Davies,Lindsey Moore,Clare Gauller,Ian Atkinson, Alfie Turner,Stephen Gauller,Sam Turner,Jack Heap,Dan White,Ella Heap,Thomas Carroll,Colin Tyrer,Bruce Pain,Andy Heycocks,Amanda Pain,Grace Turner,Jennifer Guilder,David Roberts,Edward Kenny

PB fantasticness from Gary Ratcliff 19:14,Daniel Green 19:26,James Gibson 19:29, David Nalder 19:54,Keith Brand 20:12,Andrew Roughley 20:20,Corin Willis 20:33,Zoe Pearse 20:36,Ciaran Lynch 20:41,Louise Flynn 21:07,Michael Carroll 21:34,Rob Jenn 21:42,Phil Leighton 21:45,Ben Jones 21:56,Steven Allen 22:01,Keira Brady-Jones 22:35,Cefn Willis 23:12,Martin Donnelly 23:40,Charlie Anderson 23:41,Howard George 23:49,Edward George 23:50,Michael Flynn 24:11,Miles Morton 24:22,Jack Breheny 24:27,Greg Smith 25:12,Orla Jupp 25:45,Melanie Bartley 26:22,Marriot Kee 26:40, Rachel Hale 26:55,Sidney Molyneux 27:28,Mary Sinnott 27:36,Rhiannon Horan 28:11, Tony Tarpey 28:17,Natalie Henshaw 28:37,Cornelia Lane 28:43,Sue Rimmer 29:01, Mary Magee 29:52,Ailis Murphy 30:11,Joseph Chalmers 30:50,Rachel Wood 31:01, Paula Ojok 31:52,Jane McGee 31:54,Erika Brennan 32:21,Helen Allan 32:46,Michael Hayward 33:28,Emily McArdle 33:32,Patrick Burrows 34:17,Ozkan Tuncer 34:33, Marion Turner 34:37,Felipa Kingsbury 36:07,Jan Tuncer 36:33,Andrew Burrows 39:23, Colette Burrows 45:27

Congratulations if you had a milestone today!

Shentons from the past - Nick Brownbill 17:17 (which for Shenton stats fans,is our fastest Shenton!),Andrew Roughley 20:20,Matt Teale 21:21,Craig O`Brien 21:21, Frank Morris 33:33

Thanks to all our volunteers on this day! - Steven Armstrong,Amy Chalmers,Gemma "Simba and Hattie" Cloney,Sandra Freeman,Mike "No scoop" Green,Mark "Where`s Jet?" Humphreys,James "Burley" Hurley,Chris Laughton,Kate Leah,Liz Leay,Dave McAlister,Colin Palmer,Rob Pearse,Kareen "Numbers" Porschke,Stuart "Dortmund" Rickers,Brian "Shenton" Shenton,Phil "Number 1 Welsh volunteer" Stanley

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

Thanks for reading,miss you all, stay safe and take care.

Jon

This week`s featured parkrun,it was the first one that year in August

It was run number 55 with 223 taking part

So it was almost a triple Shenton (Brian was there as well) but no horse or cart

The volunteer line up was strong that day

The pink welly lady,Jet`s dad,Stubo and G`day Steve were all there

As was NFL quarterback Robert Griffin

But no Annabel Tiffin

See,I knew I could get through this without mentioning Sally Gunnell

Oops.....I miss that funnel.

Hello and welcome to this week`s run report from the past. This one is from

Saturday 6th August 2016

Our first finisher (male) was Matt Atkins, a first timer with us from Kingston AC and Polytechnic Harriers who ran 15:58,then Andy McQue of Stoke AC with a new pb of 16:32 and Joe Boden of Wallasey AC who ran 16:46.

Our first finisher (female) was Helen Stansfield of Wallasey AC with a new pb of 20:01 (17th) then Pheobe Moriarty-Palios of Southampton AC in 20:14(20th) and Debbie Taylor of Reading AC with a new pb of 20:35 (25th)

Congratulations to all our first timers today,either taking part in parkrun for the first time or visiting us for the first time.We hope you enjoyed it and have been back loads since!

Our first timers were Lewis Crawford,Billy Jardine,Faye Britton,Michael Saunders,Doug Jardine,Georgia Howard,Hannah Jardine,Tracy Walls,Lucy Howard,Joel Philip,Yvonne O`Brien,Stephanie Fox,Amelia Ratcliff,Sophie Wootton,Rebecca Wootton,Des McDonald,Jack Breheny,Lucie Wright,Chris Proudlove,Jack Birss,Trudi Mercer,Kate Baker,George Birss,Yasmin Ojok,Samuel Willis,Kerstin Healy,Claire Lally,Peter Humphreys,Corin Willis,Adam Potts,Matt Atkins,Richard Potts

PB awesomeness from Andy McQue 16:32,Nick Brownbill 17:09,Toby Hone 18:16, Daniel Green 19:49,Helen Stansfield 20:01,Debbie Taylor 20:35,Roger Graham 21:11, Rob Jenn 21:45,Ben Jones 22:17,Phil Leighton 22:41,Leanne McKinley 23:34,Sue Green 24:27,Alexander MacDonald 24:56,Katie Bellew 25:06,Jane Hodgkiss 28:31, Koby Abbott 28:58,Cornelia Lane 29:20,Gill Potter 29:32,Lorna Quigley 29:56,Mary Magee 29:59,Sybil Leeman 30:00,Jan Davies 30:51,Sophie Allan 31:15,Paula Ojok 32:39,Amy MacDonald 33:50,Andy Chase 33:55,Catherine Page 34:08,Emily McArdle 34:23,Victoria Hart 35:02,Graham Tate 37:31,Ronald Spicer 41:05,Shainaz Campbell 41:27,Georgina Jones 42:56

Congratulations if you had a milestone today!

Shentons from the past - Katherine Andrews 26:26,Ben Chase 37:37

Thanks to all our volunteers on this day! - Gemma "Chesney Hawkes" Cloney,Robert "The third" Griffin,Harley Henshaw,Mark "Jet`s dad" Humphreys,Peter "Jet`s granddad" Humphreys,Kate Leah,Liz Leay,Dave McAlister,Jan McArd,Elaine Opara,Rob Pearse, Zoe Pearse,Stuart "BVB" Rickers,Brian "Adamski" Seal,Steve "G`day" Smith,Phil "Number 1 Welsh volunteer" Stanley,Rolf "Ralfy" Westrum

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

Thanks for reading,take care of yourselves!

Jon

Our latest run was the last one in July

And I don`t remember a visit from footballer Eric Lichaj (prounced Leehy)*

We had 255 of you fabulous people participating around the course

But not a single lovely horse

On the tv show I`m watching at the moment,someone is building a tunnel

And this was a time before I mentioned a hoped for visit from Sally Gunnell

I`m sure it was hot,it "always" is around our park

OMG OMP and OMD,I`m back in the present, I can hear Marvin bark.

*In advance of an investigation from the parkrun run report poem authority, It does rhyme,google it,

Hello and welcome to this week`s run report from the past. This one is from

Saturday July 30th,2016

Our first finisher (male) was Andrew Gawne in a time of 16:30, then Harley Henshaw of Wirral AC with a new pb of 16:55 and Andy McQue of Stoke AC in 16:59

Our first finisher (female) was Sarah Kavanagh of Ryde Harriers in a time of 20:53 (33rd) then Jessica McKinlay of Wallasey AC in 21:13 (39th) and Jennie Langston of Village Road Runners AC in 21:36 (47th)

Congratulations to all our first timers today,either taking part in parkrun for the first time evs or visiting us for the first time. We hope you enjoyed it and have been back loads since.Here are all your names!

Sean Donnelly,Luke Brennan,Emily Welch,Autumn Lee,Zak Roberts,Barbara Kelly, Colette Burrows,Joseph Burrows,Patrick Burrows,Paul Geoghegan,Andrew Burrows, Kathryn Gibbons,George O`Brien,James Carroll,Miles Morton,Gail Longman,Claire Smith,Charlotte Carroll,Amar Vaela,Ozkan Tuncer,Janette Carroll,Paula Ojok,Jan Tuncer,Sam Bailey,Rob Jenn,Sue Green,Joshua Ramsden,Anthony Bailey,Jason Lockley,Ray Clark,Michael Carroll,Susan Routledge,Sybil Leeman,Abigail Routledge, Ian Jones,Joe Alkins,Clair Ramsden,Calvin Routledge,Amanda Schofield,John Halson, Louis Suggett,John Dobie,Robert Wood,

PB amazingness from Harley Henshaw 16:55,Jonathan Carter 17:58,Peter Hampshire 18:27,Colin Palmer 18:52,Mark Woodworth 19:47,Andrew Roughley 20:39,Andie Gow 20:52,Anthony McDevitt 21:09,Andy Jones 21:27,Ian Davies 21:45,John Cowen 21:56, Laura Davies 22:34,Roy Fisher 22:54,Craig Impett 23:12,Tim Roberts 23:14,Daniel Nevin 23:38,Phil Leighton 23:45,Clare Wright 23:49,Vicky Jones 23:51,Phil Allison 23:56,Richard Mathias 24:04,Michelle Bennett 24:05,Trevor Chapman 25:07,Iain Gopsill 25:32,Richard Crocker 25:47,Kenny Moon 26:34,Melanie Bartley 26:35,Tracii O`Brien 27:04,Neil Emslie 27:47,Heather Grainger 28:22,Sidney Molyneux 28,29,Dave McCabe 28:34,Tony Tarpey 28:45,Koby Abbott 29:03,Cornelia Lane 29:27,Marriott Kee 29:36,Joy Bamford 29:42,Barbara Kelly 29:49,Ailis Murphy 30:40 (Break point),Rachel Wood 31:37,Jan Davies 31:40,Frank Morris 32:25,Toby Hampshire 32:37,Matthew Green 32:54,Amy MacDonald 34:45,H Jones 38:11,Ronald Spicer 42:04,Shainaz Campbell 42:04

Congratulations if you had a milestone today!

Shentons from the past for Ray Clark 19:19,Amanda Schofield 2

Thanks to all our volunteers on the day! They were Cathy "Folk Doctors" Armstrong, John "Folk Doctors" Armstrong,Gemma "No pink welly wearing tail walker" Cloney,Ann "Number 1 Scottish volunteer" Currie,Mike "Jolene" Green" ,Sarah "Not Jolene" Green,Natacha Holt,Nick Holt,James "T5PAU" Hurley,Annette Jones,Kate Leah,Liz Leay,Phil Naylor, Kareen "Numbers" Porschke,Stuart "Forget the Pope,its Haaland for me now" Rickers, Steve "Didn`t score many at Trent Bridge in 15" Smith,Helen Stansfield,Sue "Cowbell queen" Sturgeon,Rolf "R5OLF" Westrum and Pat Wright.

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

Thanks for reading and look after yourselves!

Jon

Our first run of our second year took place today

Or nearly four years ago if you like to be up to date

And similar to last week,love having cake on your plate

I`m sure it was sunny,it always is on a Saturday morning in the park

The smiles,the support,the meeting of friends and the odd bark

Parkrun isn`t just then,now but always in the future

I`m sure all golfers agree especially Matt Kuchar (I know that`s one awful but heyho)

I hope you are enjoying your running

And perhaps even my punning.

That`s enough schmaltz

Here are the results.

Saturday July 23rd 2016

Our first finisher (male) was Martin Swensson of Penny Lane Striders running 14th fastest time in his first visit to us,15:57 then Phil Langan of Wirral AC in 16:31 and Nick Brownbill who ran 17:39

Our first finisher (female) was Helen Stansfield of Wallasey AC in 20:13 (25th) then Ellen-Mary Kearney of Wirral AC in 21:13 (33rd) and Jessica McKinlay of Wallasey AC in 21:14 (34th)

In 28th place was me and I remember from seeing that,it was a hot morning.

Congratulations to everyone who was a first timers at parkrun on this day,whether you were a first timer evs at parkrun or were visiting us for the first time. We are very much looking forward to seeing you again!

Our first timers today were Kal Herbert,Rob Morgan,Dylan Taylor,Jack McCabe, Stephen Williams,Chris Muirhead,James McCabe,Edward Bryan,Amy Wall,Hannah McDonnell,Jenny Kenwright,Jenny Heath,William Barber,Helen Barber,Kristian Sharples,Steve Barber,Dave McCabe,Erin Wilkinson,Chris Cooper,Kobus Donnelly, Phil Leighton,Edward George,Malcolm Benzie,Ronald Spicer,Martin Donnelly,Patrick Clarke,Chris Murphy,Laura Williams,Mel McArdle,Sidney Molyneux,Lucy McArdle,Emily McArdle,Richard Crocker,Joseph McArdle,Kate Cooke,Chris Byrne,Martin Swensson, Peter Henry,Joy Bamford,Richard Costain,Colin Fry,Helen Henry

Pb perfection this week from Alan Kennedy 18:01,Les Kennedy 18:28,Neil Burdett 19:10,Mally Birch 19:15,Brian Beecroft 19:15,Andy Pritchard 19:51,Daniel Green 19:56, John Evans 19:57,Sam Allan 20:12,Stu Pringle 21:06,Anthony McDevitt 21:10,John Peerless 22:46,Katrin Ryan 23:09,Howard George 23:50,Lee Trett 24:04,Steven Lane 24:42,Evie Smith 25:50,Rachel Trett 25:58,Angela Peerless 26:04,Ian Chalmers 26:06, Sarah Wadham 27:04,Jane Berry 27:23,Rachel Greaves 27:41,John Skyner 28:06, Steve Hawley 28:25,Amanda Green 28:26,Anne Kirby 28:32,Marcus Brady 28:36,Cara Loughran 28:38,Rhiannon Horan 28:46,Carolyn Gillmore 29:06,Beth Gillen 29:27, Cornelia Lane 30:00,Simon Bamford 30:25,Sara Abbott 31:00.Jan Davies 32:00,Rachel Wood 32:43,Rebecca Towey 32:47,Frank Morris 33:34,Becky Doherty 34:55,Victoria Hart 35:38

A big shout out to all the milestones on the day!

Shenton`s past for Alison Leach 28:28,Ellenor Morris 33:33,Sara Morris 33:33,Mel McArdle 37:37,Keith Blackwell 43:43

Thanks to all our wonderful volunteers on the day! They were Kelvin Dickinson,Mike "Jolene" Green,Sarah "Not Jolene" Green,Paula "I remembered" Hartharn-Evans, Harley Henshaw,Mark "Son of the Cone man" Humphreys,James "Liz" Hurley,Richard Jacobs,Liz Leay,Rob Pearse,Lorna Quigley,Mary Rees,Stuart "Stubo" Rickers,Me,Kay "I`m still" Standing,Sue "Cowbell queen" Sturgeon and Rolf "Raphie" Westrum.

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

Thanks for reading and stay safe!

Jon

I thought of a great rhyme for this at 3 this morning

Unfortunately I didn`t write it down

Now my face has a frown

What a clown!

This run report covers our first day of birth

With no appearance from Colin Firth

And Sally Gunnell sightings,of that there was a dearth.

As I remember there was loads and loads and loads of cake

Yum.

Saturday July 16th 2016

Hello and welcome to this week`s journey back into our parkrun history and the opportunity to give a run reportless parkrun a run report.It was our birthday and before I get distracted again by cake memories,I do remember we had a fantastic morning,with a record 380 of you joining us!

The results

Our first finisher (male) was Phil Langan of Wirral AC in 16:12,then first timer Gareth Williams in 16:30 and Andy McQue of Stoke AC with a new pb of 16:53.

Our first finisher (female) was Helen Stansfield of Wallasey AC in 20:37 (49th) then Zoe Pearse of Wallasey AC with a new pb of 20:43 (51st) and Jessica McKinlay of Wallasey AC in 21:34 (66th)

Congratulations to everyone who was a first timer at parkrun on this day,whether you were a first timer ever ever evs at parkrun or you were visiting us for the first time. You`ll remember it,as well as cake,we had balloons!

Our first timers today were David Kilfoyle,Kyla Tallon,Simon Dilworth,Helen Cross,Neil O`Hagan,Michael Nolan,Stephen Whitley,Freya Mumford,Tammy Hitchmough,Jane Cottrell,Cecilia Cloete,Penny McKay,Denise North,Elliot Boddison,Lee Boddison,Kirsty Allen,Sophie Dilworth,Clemmie Dilworth,Nikita McKenna,Joanne Ellis,Matthew Keenan, Michael Potter,Adam Miller,Michelle Morgan,Rebecca Towey,Clare Jones,William Reynolds,Andy Pritchard,Chris Green,Lisa Hellon,Tim Roberts,Sophie Keenan,Roy Fisher,Andrew Keenan,Percy Hogg,Philip Cuthbert,Hannah O`Farrell,Susan Welbourn, Colin Palmer,Georgina Jones,Cara Loughran,Louise Fury,Matthew Green,Sophie West, Paul Gillen,Kirsty Anderson,Rachel Keenan,Jan Davies,Kay Standing,Gareth Williams, Craig Anderson,Jane Cavanagh,Carl Roberts,Andy Nugent,Claire West,Ross Mealor, Neil Salt,Marc Goudie,Dave Barr,Michael Charman,Paul Barry,Stephanie Charman

Birthday pb brilliance from Andy McQue 16:53,Will Patterson 17:28,Andrew Ward 18:08,Darren Dowdall 19:11,John Harrison 19:35,Peter Clarke 19:49,Luke Hampshire 19:54,Alex Tarpey 20:01,John Evans 20:01,Daniel Green 20:14,Joseph Whitley 20:30, Zoe Pearse 20:43,Andrew Roughly 20:46,Dave Reeves 20:54,Michael Green (Not one scoop) 21:04,Ciaran Lynch 21:05,Stephen McConville 21:17,David Pink 21:20,Ian Rowlands 21:24,Rob Chalmers 21:49,Anthony McDevitt 21:53,Carola Robinson 22:03, Tom Gawne 22:05,Dave Jones 22:13,Patrick Kavanagh 22:17,Elaine Opara 22:18, Matthew Van Miert 22:29,Jonathan Worsley 22:49,Mark Langley 24:01,William Hampshire 24:11,Sean O`Brien 24:18,Alen Hurley 24:21,Ian Ackroyd 24:22,Bert Bayliss 24:25,Vicky Jones 24:52,Sam Allan 24:57,Paula Hartharn-Evans 25:08,David Meeten 25:14,Anne Fleming 25:18,Kate Allen 25:28,Iain Copsill 25:38,Neil Harvey 25:41, Richard Mathias 25:43,Dickon White 25:52,Andrea Woodside 26:05,William Allan 26:40.Sarah Wadham 27:06,Kenny Moon 27:08,Martin Allan 27:14,Jason Scott 28:05, Paul Lester 28:27,Sam Birch 28:40,Rhona Walklett 28:41,Neil Emslie 28:48,Kevin Carberry 29:07,Simon Carter 29:15,Wendy Scarbrough 29:16,Tony Tarpey 29:18, Carolyn Gillmore 29:28,Kirsty Johnson 30:00,Christine Roberts 30:44,Rebecca Davies 31:02,Louise Whitley 31:21,Sophie Allan 31:22,Christine Kirwan 31:30,Fergus Brady 31:36,Lynn Tarpey 31:42,Anita Gillen 32:15,Kim Bennett 32:17,Ella Nash 32:48,Helen Allan 32:51,Toby Hampshire 32:56,Noah Gibb 32:58,Jane McGee 33:05,Lesley Lines 33:19,Natacha Holt 34:28,George Everett 34:34,Alison Brady 36:05,Sarah Cross 36:05, Susie Everett 38:48,Shainaz Campbell 43:11

A triple Hampshire pb day !!!

Milestones - Congratulations!

Shenton`s past for Andy Pritchard 20:20,Gary Johnstone 22:22,Michael Nolan 29:29, Mary Sinnott 30:30,George Everett 34:34,Clemmie Dilworth 38:38,Joseph Chalmers 39:39

Thanks to all our amazing volunteers on the day! They were Katherine Andrews,Cathy Armstrong,Michael "Baywatch" Armstrong,Mike "Jolene" Green,Sarah "Not Jolene" Green, Gemma "Not pink welly attired tail walker" Cloney,Mark "Jet`s dad" Humphreys, Peter "Mark`s dad" Humphreys,James "Not Peter`s dad,still before T`Pau" Hurley,Suzi Keating,Liz Leay,Trish Monks,Helena "First female Birkenhead run director" Mulhern, Ultan "He`s got a proper job now" Mulhern,Kareen "Numbers" Porschke,Mary Rees, Stuart "The shorts,the legend" Rickers,Me,Ian Skill,Steve "Was he there? Really?" Smith,Pat Wright,Rolf "Wolfie" Westrum.

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

We are not on zoom and the only Houseparty I know about is Noel`s.

Happy birthday to us

Happy birthday to us

Happy birthday dear us

Happy birthday to us!

Where`s that cake?

Thanks for reading and stay safe!

Jon