It was a bit blustery and wet overnight and earlier today

But would we cancel? No way! Way! No way!

Wayne and Garth would've been down the park in their own little world

But not Northampton boss Keith Curle,he would have h....not been well

The weather in the end was good although a bit parky in the funnel

Rolf`s ok though,he`s warmed up now

Still no 2020 appearance from Sally Gunnell.

Photo from Michelle O`Reilly

Hello and welcome to this week`s run report.542 of you despite hearing that overnight wind and rain correctly predicted that the sun would come out and it would be excellent conditions for parkrunning. Thanks all for coming along to take part,watch or volunteer!

Results

Our first finisher (male) was Tom Gillbanks of Wallasey AC in a new pb of 16:42,next was Rob Pearse of Wallasey AC in 16:44 and Jamie Mackie of Wirral AC with a new pb of 16;59!

Our first finisher (female) was Charlotte Towers in 18:19(16th),then Jayne Price of Pensby Runners in 20:15(33rd) and Helen Stansfield of Wallasey AC in 22:17(71st)

Congratulations to all our first timers today,whether you were experiencing parkrun for the first time or were visiting us.We hope you enjoyed your Birkenhead parkrun experience and we look forward to seeing you next week or the next time you`re in the area.

Our first timers this week were Joe Rees,Robert Wood,Craig Welch,Soshi Plaistow, Stephane Margat-Cresson,David McAllister,Jamie Plant,Craig Pickthall,Corey Allen, Stewart Plaistow,Jessica Fisher,Jeff Ainslie,Lucca Moran,Sherry Carter,Emma Malam, Kate Douglas-Dala,Elitsa Kamenova,Paula Cotgrave,Lois Murray,Nicola Borrows,Layla Allen,Caiomhe O`Neill,Edward Sutcliffe,Wayne Allen,Faye Lightfoot,James Sutcliffe,Neil Davies,Luke Elston,Claire Piercy,John Bailey,Flynn Bellinger,Hazel Lloyd-Williams,Josh Lyon,Jayne McIvor,Tiernan Moore,Victoria Williams,Eli Saetnan,Steven Taylor,Richard Curren,Hannah Mathews,Jonathan Cole,Nick Bellinger,Steve Logan,Steven Clark,Trish Prady

PB marvelousness from Tom Gillbanks 16:42,Jamie Mackie 16:59,Ian Wallace 17:00, Ethan Brady-Jones 17:05,Daniel Hayes 17:08,Matthew Hughes 17:18,Tom Sirett 17:38,Chris Towers 18:10,Matthew Nicholson 18:15,John Harrison 19:09,Robert Hough 20:00,Nathan Roche 21:21,Nick Byrne 21:42,Otto Glover 21:52,Oliver MacDonald 22:19,Simon Locke 22:23,Paddy Flashman 22:50,Peter Gallienne 22:55,Emma Theobald 23:21,Andrew Noon 23:28,Mark Richmond 23:37,Simon Cheung 23:43, Chris Thomson 23:48,Carl Jones 23:49,David McElroy 23:55,Jack Routledge 24:12,Adam Curran 24:42,Jennifer Barker 25:07,Daniel Smernicki 25:27,Emma Weyman 25:54, Neil Wyn Jones 25:59,Kelly Atkinson 26:08,Rachel Rick 26:13,Milo Hughes 26:23,Zach Craze 26:43,Marie Motley 27:09,Kirsty Walsh 27:45,Charlie Scudder 27:46,Lily Scudder 27:51,Craig Hebden 27:55,Jeffrey Daniels 28:28,Andrew Davies 28:34,Jenna McElhoney 28:41,Colette McGrath 28:57,Quinn McCaul 29:05,Tony Sullivan 29:07, Catherine Smith 29:15,Gareth Wyn Jones 29:17,John Ryan 29:30,Jennifer McGrath 29:40,Thomas Kerrigan 30:14,Jane Callaghan 30:15,John Traynor 30;43,Anna Pluck 31:04,Natlie Baker 31;08,Mike Yassin 31:21,Miya Plaistow 31:22,Masako Plaistow 31:42,Rebecca Bradford 31:54,Anthony Reardon 32:08,Kelly Ogley 32:18,Nicola Beamish 32:45,Sue Hillan 32:46,Lisa Roberts 33:53,Rebecca Breen 33:53,Paul Stuart 34:47,Emily Willett 35:12,Stephanie Warrell 36:09,Liam Walsh 38:00,Joe Carlsen 39:12,John Hall 39:15,Chalene Robinson 40:27,Samantha Bill 40:31,Grace Vesey 42:07,Mia Parkins 46:17,Rebecca Cain 46:46,Gemma Cain 52:55,Peter Jacques 62:21, Maureen Jacques 62:21

Magnificent milestones this week !

Andrew Hughes volunteered for the 150th time

Daniel Hayes ran his 50th parkrun

Kelly Chesters ran her 50th parkrun

Lucy Wood ran her 50th parkrun

Ruaraidh Gillies ran his 100th parkrun

Congratulations to Andrew,Daniel,Kelly,Lucy and Ruaraidh!

Shenton`s 20:20

Nathan Roche 21:21,Chris Allen 26:26,Jeffrey Daniels 28:28,Beckie Waterton 29:29, Gaynor Simpson 30:30,Liz Simpson 31:31,Euan Bradford 32;32,Helen Keay 33:33, Charlotte Bradford 36:36,Margaret Whitfield 37:37,Rebecca Cain 46:46

Our windywindsweptwinderfultastic volunteers were led by run director John "The Beard" Armstrong,timekeepers were Jon "Cold spray" Rumley and Rolf "Cold hands" Westrum, Our barcode scanning was done by Ultan "Sold out" Mulhern,James "T`Pau" Hurley,Kareen "Numbers" Porschke and Phil "Number 1 Welsh volunteer" Stanley. Finish tokens were dished out by Mike "Jolene" Green with help from Peter "Palm out" Humphreys and Kevin "SWA" Gorry. Ruth "We`ll tweet when the photos of today are ready on the flickr" Pritchard was our tail walker. Our funnel managers were Gemma "Glove lady" Cloney,Stuart "The Vale not the veil" Rickers,Andrew "150" Hughes, Francesca Taylor,Dave "Double Dave" Bibby and Paul "Can`t park there Paul" Bradley. Our marshals were Benjamin Willis,Heidi Rogers,Ana Roslan,Greg Smith,Brian Shenton,Christine Sutcliffe,Keith Blackwell,Nick Flynn,Kate Carter. Ken Noble paced for us.The Folk Doctors processed the results ahead of their big gig tonight.

If you would like to them (the volunteers,not the FD) in the hi vis,please take a look at the roster on our website and email us at birkenheadhelpers@parkrun.com

We are on the flickr,the facebook,the instagram "Birkenhead parkrun " and the almost 1400 followers twitter "@bheadparkrun"

Thanks for reading and see you next week!

Jon

Unlike his cousin Elizabeth,James knows how to use safety pins wisely

And as far as I know,he`s never been to Guiseley.

He`s volunteered 200 times at the world famous Birkenhead parkrun

One of the first to arrive each week and one of the last to leave

He was deserving of the applause and he took a bow

But the numbers today unfortunately didn`t include any members of T`Pau

The threat of Storm Dennis was in the air

But we are hardy souls at Birkenhead,we didn`t care.

Next Saturday is allegedly a storm free week*

Oh a windless parkrun,that we do seek.

*Still wet and windy but who cares!

One note before I start.We are always on,unless we`re off. Obviously if the course was blocked or under water or was iced over then yes,we`d be off.We keep our eye on the weather forecasts and members of the core team did check the course out during the week.We will let you know as soon as we can if we have to cancel,just keep your eyes on our social media.We are very fortunate that the park is well maintained and looked after.We`ve only had to cancel for the lake by the benches (which has never flooded since) and the ice on the roads a year ago. Fingers crossed we never have to again.

Photo from Ruth Pritchard

Hello and welcome to the run report. Thankfully Windy Uncle Dennis didn`t get an earlier train and missed out on the activities at the park this morning, There was a mild breeze and a little shower but we`ve had worse. Thanks to all 563 of you for coming along and taking part,you are all legends for today!

Results

Our first finisher was Ethan Brady-Jones of Wirral AC in a new pb of 16:36,then William Strickley,also of Wirral AC,in 17:21 and then Keira Brady-Jones,again of Wirral AC,our first lady home ,in a new pb of 17:24! Congratulations all three!

Our next three finishers (male) were Steven Leslie of Village Road Runners in 17:41, Jay "Olaf" Walker of Wallasey AC in 17:59 and Jamie Dumbarton of Wirral AC with a new pb of 18:05.

Our next three finishers (female) were Meg Hoshiko who ran 19:52(21st),then Alison Cole of Ellesmere Port RC with a new pb of 20:43(26th) and Jodi Bemand of West Cheshire AC in 20:49(29th).

An even bigger congratulations to all our first timers today who saw the weather forecast and decided that it was,in the words of Adam Ant "Nothing to be scared of". Kudos to you all.We hope you all enjoyed your first Birkenhead parkrun experience whether you were parkrunning for the first time or visiting us from afar. I know from facebook we had several tourists this week.We look forward to seeing you next week or the next time you`re in the area.

Our amazingly awesome first timers this week were Sam Crowe,Josh Quigley,Nicola Seller,Craig Hebden,Harry Warrell,Zach Craze,Colette McGrath,Claire Baccino,Martin Barker,Sean Grey,Jenny Paton,Grace Paton,Steven Webb,Robin Wingate,Beth McLean,Holly Wright,Judith Mitchell,Stephanie Warrell,Innes Robertson,Joe Carlsen,Eve Bentley,Coral Hobbs,Jane Davies,Kathryn Graham,Erin Gelling,Niall Hayes,Jayne Rogers,Nathan Palmer,Phil Hayden,Sarah Schofield,Sharon Scanlon, Jonathan Spain,Charmian Abbott,Neil Schofield,Shaun McDonnell,Wendy McDonnell, Alan Wilcox

Pb klaxon sounding fantasticness from Ethan Brady-Jones 16:36,Keira Brady-Jones 17:24 (only 12 seconds off our ladies course record),Jamie Dumbarton 18:05,Henry Timewell 19:20,Alison Cole 20:43,Toby Lemon 21;11,Todd Humphreys 21:24,Fred Lucas 21:40,Debra Bemand 21:52,Zac Lincoln 22:32,Keith Lincoln 23:29,Lloyd Fisher 23:36,Benji Hatch 23:42,Rachel Nolan 23:52,Sammy Harwood 23:53,Steve White 23:55,Michael Pickstock 23:57,Andrew Noon 23:57,Amy Heron 24:17,Haley Barnett 24:37,Jade Edmonds 25:12,William Thompson 25:39,Emma Smith 25:42,Paul Davies 26:21,Daniel Smernicki 26:23,Gemma Carolan 26:56,Anna Holsgrove 26:56,Helen Beddow 27:04,Eryn Murphy 27:32,Emma Weyman 27:36,Daniel Batchelor 27:37, Kathy McDonald 27:48,David Forrester 27:50,Phil Chan 27:52,Jennie Grocutt 27:53,Craig Luukas 27:53,Aiko Hoshiko 28:49,Suzie Murray 28:49,Emma Harrison 29:02,Kirsty Walsh 29:18,Caroline Feeney 29:22,Tony Sullivan 29:23,Catherine Court 29:30, Pete Marland 29:31,Helena Grimwood 29:34,Rose Hindley 29:40,Elizabeth Madden 30:11, Lucy Barrett 30:13,Jack White 30:16,Thomas Kerrigan 30:24,Jane Callaghan 30:34, Joanne Pugh 30:34,Harry Grey 30:35,Gill Lightfoot 30:46,Rebecca Hughes 31:03, Alexandra Williams 31:21,Isobel Hughes 31:31,Margaret Davenport 31:51,Amy Green 32:07,Lucy Ball 32:07,Joshua Green 32:07,Catherine Thursby 32:08,Andrew Green 32:09,Kelly Ogley 32:35,Mike Yassin 32:42,Lisa Cooke 33:00,Sue Bearman 33:09,Nick Wilde 33:14,Kate Grey 33:19,Ashley Lee 33:26,Nicola Thomas 33:38,Ammi Lee 33:41, Amy Pemberton 34:03,Victoria Savage 34:42,Emily Willett 35:24,Claire Stranger-Ford 36:05,Nicola Mays 36:08,Patricia Breen 36:45,Donna Downey 36:52,Paul Suckley 38:21,Leigh Weaver 40:22,Libby Hall 42:02,Grace Vesey 42:51,Claire Hamilton 42:58, Abi Trott 43:01,Andrea Borrer 44;33,Jess Weaver 59:35.

Marvellous milestones this week!

Joe Johnson ran his 50th parkrun

Sharon Scanlan ran her 50th parkrun

Paul Cowdray ran his 50th parkrun

Brian Lawless ran his 50th parkrun

John Harrison ran his 100th parkrun

Warren McNally ran his 100th parkrun

Paul Franklin ran his 100th parkrun

Congratulations to Joe,Sharon,Paul,Brian,John,Warren and Paul on their fantastic achievements!

Shenton`s 20:20

Patrick Hadfield 25:25,Josh Quigley 27:27,Emily Daly 29:29,Kay Standing 30:30,Clare Pennington 31:31,Isobel Hughes 31:31,Mike Holbrook 32:32,Louise Shields 33:33, James Roberts 34:34,Graham 35;35,Gemma Cain 59:59

Photo from Ann Currie

Our pinkslightlysoddenbutstilloudinsomecasesveryloudtastic volunteers were led by run director James "200" Hurley,Timekeepers were Stuart "The Shoes" Rickers and Gemma "Have you finished Jon?" Cloney.Barcode scanning was done by Mike "Jolene" Green,Peter "Palms out" Humphreys,Andrew "Punnyman" Hughes and Dave "Double Dave" Bibby funnel managed (I presume when the scanner wouldn`t work).Finish tokens were dished out by Kareen "Numbers" Porschke with help from Lorna "OMP" Hughes and Graham "& Lyle" Tate.Tail Walker was Lisa "On course puddle inspector" Ost.The first timers briefing was done by Rolf "Wolfie" Westrum who also funnel managed along wth Ruth "PC" Byers,Amanda "The Voice" Curtis-Wilson,Robert "Tokens" Perry,John "The beard" Armstrong and Kevin "Give this man a goal Tranmere!" Gorry.Our marvellous marshals were Ben Willis,Kerry Ashcroft,Kirsty Greenwood,Mark Hyland,Jane Good,Don Scotton,Alison Sait,Malcolm Davies,Derek Holcroft,Helen Keay,Robert Deller,Francesca Taylor,Judith Barnes,Mylo Williams and Rennel Smith.Chloe Byers was our photographer and Alex "Koeman" Holland and David Lilley paced for us.

Thanks to them for their efforts today.If you would like to join them in looking good in pink hi vis,please take a look at the roster on our website and email us at birkenheadhelpers@parkrun.com if you can help.

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

Thanks for reading and see you next week!

Jon

Nearly got replaced

By neither Hale nor pace

This run report writing business is tough

Just ask former Scotland keeper Alan Rough

Another beautiful morning in Birkenhead park

Another 700+ providing a spark

Don`t get blown away the rest of today

Chill,relax,have some dinner,perhaps some ice cream near the Wirral way

Our tail walker was not George Burley

It was the one and only James Hurley!

Photo from Chris Jack

Hello and welcome to this week`s run report. Another glorious morning in the park. Bit windy but hey ho,it wasn`t snowing so swings and roundabouts. Thanks for turning up in such great numbers again!

The results

Our first finisher (male) was Rob Pearse of Wallasey AC in 17:06,followed by Steven Leslie of Village Road Runners AC in 17:29 and Matthew Goodwin of UTS run club in 18:12.

Our first finisher (female) was Jayne Price of Pensby Runners in 19:58(17th) then Maggie Cooper of Wirral AC in 21:58(40th) and Traci Shipley of Chester Triathlon Club in 22:11(47th),a new pb!

Photo from Mel Heale

Congratulations to all our first timers today,whether you were taking part in parkrun for the first time ever or if you were visiting us for the first time. We hope you enjoyed your Birkenhead parkrun experience and we look forward to seeing you next week or the next time you`re in the area.

Our first timers this week were Bastien Weinberger,Liam Kearns,Jan Moffett,Finley Borrer,Simon Cheung,Paul Davies,Philip Ainslie,Matt Williams,Silinganiso Mbanini, Katie Halton,Erin Huxley,Spencer Reynolds,Clive Pleasance,Emma Weyman,Tom Kelly,Rebecca Hughes,Pete Marland,Clare Wright,Adam Katzer,Thomas Kerrigan, Florence Evennett,Rachel Halloran,Steve Dawson,Jonathan Scott,Mark Dawson,Sarah McLaren,Rachel Patten,Lhana Orr,Emily Butterworth,Laura Whiteley,Lucy Ball,Joshua Green,Isla Jacques,Amy Green,Andrew Green,Henry Slack,Lorraine Nelson,Holly Donnelly,Mike Parkins,Andrea Borrer,Mia Parkins,Peter Jacques,Maureen Jacques, Brian Pennington,Eleanor Love,Mark Jarvis,Yao Lin,Patrick Pogue,Caroline Feeney, Donna Downey,Valerie Oen,Kate Walton,Tim Smith,Chris Cotton,Rebecca Bancroft, Stephen Maddock,Sam Grace,David Dockerty,Nicola Maddock,Richard Coulby,Paula Jones,John Clark,Peter Morris,James Dean,Tim Grace,Felicity Towns.

So many pb`s,far too many to mention so I won`t bother this week.

Just kidding! Here they are - Matthew Gibbs 18:27,Henry Timewell 19:24,Nick Smyth 21:15,Daniel Curry 21:57,Traci Shipley 22:11,Rachael Patterson 22:44,Jack Berry 22:45,Jonathan Smout 23:40,Jessica Kennedy 23:44,Ian Huntley 23:55,Ellie Fraser 24:10,Andrew Dowdeswell 24:13,Paul Duckers 24:27,Elaine Coulter 24:35,Alice O`Connell 24:37,Danny Jones 24:51,Sammy Harwood 24:58,Erin Courtney 25:38, Alexandra Jones 25:48,Adam Howarth 26:00,Alan Houghton 26:06,Patrick Mulvey-Fanneran 26:09,Annemarie Cotton 26:13,Neil Harvey 26:23,Michael Dunleavy 26:24,Lucy Smout 26:33,David Temple 26:39,Joanna Evans 26:52,Emily Kealey 27:00, Tanya Leary 27:16,Emma Smith 27:16,Claire Bear 27:22,Finley Dean 27:25,Vickey Walberg 27;26,Gillian Brown 27:29,Tommy Harper 28:07,Alan Craze 28:30,Emily O`Connell 28:32,Grainne Garvey 28:35,Ben Yang 28:37,Rory Stuart 28:39,Nigel Hobson 28:53,Stuart McConville 29:03,Lorna "OMP! PB!"Hughes 29:04,Jack Sibeon 29:08,Nancy Evans 29:18,Greg Murphy 29:22,Charlie Scudder 29:29,Sarah Austin 29:37,Joel Cross 29:48,Melanie Gelling 29:50,Jenna McElhoney 29:56,Ray Carr 29:58,Ian Anderson 30:02,Bev Highton 30:03,Jane Kelly 30:09,Anthoney Mulvey- Fanneran 30:25,Michael Batchelor 30:56,Natalia Wqtrobska 31:00,Elizabeth Madden 31:06,Jack White 31:07,Sam Kerrigan 31:10,Corina Rennie 31:12,Ann Lincoln 31:22, Natalie Baker 31:25,Lesley Woods 31:58,Lynsey Phillips 32:14,Jillian Dawson 32:24, Rachael Cottington 33:02,James Warren 33:07,Jack Anderson 33:30,Luke Jones 33:30,Kelly Ogley 33:32,Emmajane Webster 33:35,Victoria Hollywood 33:36,Diane Birss 33:42,Andy Chase 33:46,Anthony Reardon 34:18,Josie Hartharn 34:22,Muireann Settle 34:23,Callum Kilbride 34:24,Miya Plaistow 34:43,Amy Barr 34:44,Siona Awsare 34:45,Amy Pemberton 34:56,Alexandra Williams 35:03,Kate Grey 35:41,Lucy Williams 35:58,Kathy Hogg 36:07,Barry Nelson 37:22,Amelia Nelson 37:24,Oliver Nelson 37:25, Maria Medeiros 40:35,Ninaad Awsare 41:00,Anoushka Awsare 41:00,Tallulah Murphy 42:06,Rosie Harland-Smy 42:09,Oliver Parkins 44:44,Gemma Bulmer 46:40,Lisa Lewis 53:17,Patricia Owen 53;23,Gemma Cain 55:08

Photo from Lorna Hughes

Matthew Acheson ran his 50th parkrun

Lisa Jones ran her 50th parkrun

Paul Whyatt ran his 50th parkrun

Valerie Nagle ran her 50th parkrun

Richard Shayle ran his 100th parkrun

Congratulations to Matthew,Lisa,Paul,Valerie and Richard on your fantastic achievements!!

Shenton`s this week,including two family Shenton`s on the same time! Breaking all kinds of Shenton records this week.No other parkrun can Shenton like we can.

Edward Kenny 21:21,Sean Dyer 22:22,Mike Moss 25:25,Charlie Scudder 29:29,Mark Scudder 29:29,Jasmine Rogan,33:33,Paul Rogan 33:33.

Our haircutadjustedbythewindstillsmilingtastic volunteers were led by run director Ultan "Folverbrief" Mulhern. Our timekeepers were Rolf "Wolfie" Westrum and Mike "Jolene" Green.Barcode scanners were Jan Taylor,Peter "Carlo" Barham,Phil "Number 1 Welsh volunteer" Stanley,Kay "I`m still" Standing.Finish tokens were dished out by Kareen "Numbers" Porschke,John "The Beard" Armstrong with help from Paula "Don`t need even need a reminder to remember now" Hartharn-Evans.Tail walker was James "T`Pau" Hurley who also took the marshals for a walk, Mike Green also did the first timers briefing.Our funnel managing was done by Margaret Ray,Andrew "Hughesssssy" Hughes,Amanda "Tin can lady" Curtis-Wilson and Peter "That area needs coning off mate,I`ve got a cone if you need one" Humphreys.Our marshals were Tim Plested,Mylo Williams,Charlotte Jones,Isabella Cuthbert,Malcolm Davies,Christine Sutcliffe,Sarah Shaw,Derek Jones.The results were processed by the Folk "Got a big gig this month,check out the website" Doctors.We had loads of pacers this week,can`t think of a group name for them,any ideas let me know. They were Matt "Overtook me in a marathon" Routledge,Alex "Van der Sar" Holland,Neil "Buzz was overated" Armstrong,Mark "On your marks" Hyland,Ken "Barnes &" Noble and Mark "Coolsun Warmair" Pritchard. Ruth "PC" Byers sorted out all the tokens last week. Think that`s everyone,let me know if I`ve missed you off.

Thanks to all of them for their efforts this week.We are very fortunate to have the best volunteers around.If you would like to join them please have a look at the roster and email us at birkenheadhelpers@parkrun.com. All training is provided and you get to wear a hi vis which gives you special powers (not really,have to say that for legal reasons)

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

Those for reading and see you next week!

Jon

Another 760 of you were in the park today

Making sure that around the lake area you went the right way

There was a lot more space in the finish funnel

But that wasn`t enough for an appearance from Sally Gunnell.

The quietest member of our core team volunteered for the 150th time

And that`s surely worthy of a good rhyme

Alas its me writing so this non theatrical Broadwaylike malarkey won`t get a Tony

Instead I`ll say congratulations Gemma Cloney!

Photos from Gemma Cloney

Hello and welcome to this week`s run report. We had a week off from record breaking this week but our third attendance of over 700 saw 760 (plus dogs) of you traverse the new lake area and of course the rest of the course.

The results

Our first finisher (male) was James Morrison of West Cheshire AC,a first timer with us in a time of 15:28 which was our fourth fastest time ever. Congratulations to James! Next was Rob Pearse of Wallasey AC who ran 17:09 and Steven Leslie of Village Road Runners AC who equalled his pb of 17:19.

Our first finisher (female) was Sally Clarke with a new pb of 18:49(13th) then Jayne Price of Pensby Runners in 19:58(32nd) and Katie Samuelson of Todmorden Harriers & Ac,a first timer with us (but with over 400 parkruns to her credit) who ran 21:43(65th)

Congratulations to all our first timers today,both if you were taking part in your first parkrun ever or if you were visiting us for the first time.We hope you enjoyed your Birkenhead parkrun experience.We`re very proud of our parkrun and we look forward to seeing you next week or the next time you`re in the area.

Our first timers today were Daniel Curry,Connor Mumford,David Gallagher,Carmel Jones,Ian Huntley,Paul Hiton,Ian Truman,Tom Philpotts,William Irvine,Mia Browne, Kieran Rieley,James McManus,Alan Houghton,Kelly Descombes,Adam Curran,April Jones,David LLoyd,Anthony Mulvey-Fanneran,Serena Cubbin,Rachel Hughes,Michelle Mulvey,Corinne Roberts,Ann Lincoln,Jane Kelly,Keziah Knight,Maggie Gaskell,Lesley Woods,Lesley Woods,Linda Curran,Jeni Bluett,Jackie Walker,Nicola Webb,Finlay Neal, Ben Phillips,Roy Carr,Callum Kilbride,Muireann Settle,Alexandra McKevitt,Kate Grey, Claire Stranger-Ford,Nicola Mays,Michael Ball,Sarah Brown,Siona Awsare,Joy Osborne,Hannah Hazlehurst,Luke Jones,Barry Nelson,Oliver Nelson,Amelia Nelson, Tanya Dewey,Jessica Razbully,Jenny Hewitt-Baker,Jade Shepherd,Ninaad Awsare, Anoushka Awsare,Oliver Parkins,Vanessa Crompton,Patricia Owen,Jess Weaver, Emma Weaver,Ben Yang,Archana Awsare,Adam Lawson,Fraser Rieley,Fiona Hutchinson,Paul Rogan,Jasmine Rogan,Alex Murray,Jennifer Barker,Naomi Rieley, Tracey Jackson,Daniel Worthington,Karen Truman,Patrick Roberts,Matthew Grant, Ben Waring,Maria Belen Morata Ordonez,Aaron Padgham,Joseph Morrison,Kelly Ogley, Rebecca Breen,Patricia Breen,Giuseppe Serra,Paul Morrison,Suzanne Hawkins, Zlatomina Rutter,Viv Samuelson,Darren Gillman,Katie Samuelson

A monster monster week for pb`s. The pb getters today were Sam Hyde 18:27,Matthew Gibbs 18:29,Joe McDevitt 18:35,Sally Clarke 18:49,Luca Noorpuri 18:54,James Dunleavy 19:37,James Barnes 19:53,Dermot Gough 20:10,Nick Wynne 20:42,Alan Heath 21:02,Mark Sait 21:43,Michael Wright 21:48,Otto Glover 22:03,Norman Eves 22:16,Ciaran Mullin 22:30,Michael Carew 22:37,Simon Locke 22:38,Zac Lincoln 22:44,Barry Gavin 22:48,Jack Berry 23:12,Paul Browne 23:13,Samantha Owen 23:29,Mark Richmond 23:43,Paddy Flashman 23:54,Lucy Pennington 24:11,Paul Duckers 24:44,Alison Engle 24:54,Jon Payne 24:54,Abbie Richmond 24:59,Lee Elwell 25:01,Linda Richmond 25:04,Chris Jack 25:10,Natalie Stavrou 25:25,Ricardo Hoshiko 25:33,Danny Jones 25:37,Nina Karayampudi 25:39,Natalie Briggs 25:52,Andrew Atkinson 26:07,Kate Smith 26:15,Emily Edwards 26:22,Jane Woodhead 26:24,Becky Naylor 26:37,Sam Linge 26:37,William Thompson 26:43,Peter Banks 26:47,Leila Howard 26:48,Kelly Atkinson 26:57,Jack Routledge 27:12,Faye Higgitt 27:31,Alec Bailey 27:32,Lindsey Moore 27:35,Gillian Brown 27:39,Andy Kenny 27:40,Michelle Stanton 27:49,Mike Jeffs 28:03,Rachael Denmade 28:05,Jack Hall 28:09,Alan Craze 28:45,Emily O`Connell 28:48,Hazel Shingler 29:04,Nigel Hobson 29:15,Aiko Hoshiko 29:19,Antonia Gibb 29:27,Johnathan Fountain 29:31,Sarah Moss 29:41,Joel Cross 29:59,Catherine Smith 30:02,Robert Richardson 30:03.Linda Gomersall 30:05,John Ryan 30:27,Harry Christey 30:34,Ian Anderson 30:38,Colin Hale 30:45,Roisin Bailey 30:46,Stuart McConville 30:51,Tom Christey 30:51,Michael Batchelor 31:10,Elizabeth Madden 31:12,Megan Rowlinson 31:35,Sam Reardon 31:39,Maisie Rogers 31:44, Natalie Baker 31:46,David Clark 31:52,Alan Moore 31:55,Dave Lewis 32:05,Megan Richardson 32:12,Margaret Davenport 32:14,Joanne Roberts 32:49,Lynsey Phillips 32:56,Iwan Davies 33:08,Tim Davies 33:08,Sue Hillan 33:09,Nicola Beamish 33:22, Masako Plaistow 33:27,Jack Anderson 33:39,Marion Barker 33:53,Gill Dumbarton 34:06,Bethany Reardon 34:15,Stacey Jones 34:25,Anthony Reardon 34:37,Michelle Heighton 34:49,Matthew Howse 35:23,Lisa Smith 35:46,Caroline Coles 35:50,Debbie Kippen 36:14,John Hall 40:27,Kerry Belger 40:42,Leigh Weaver 41:51,Paul Suckley 42:47,Ashleigh Carruthers 44:15,Clare Pratten 45:11,Lisa Lewis 57:39

Adam Leary ran his 50th parkrun

Joseph McArdle ran his 50th parkrun

Keith Byrne ran his 50th parkrun

Suzi Keating ran her 50th parkrun

Ann Currie ran her 70th parkrun

Barry Farley ran his 70th parkrun

Rachel Leah ran her 70th parkrun

Victoria Gibson ran her 70th parkrun

Lorraine Holland ran her 70th parkrun

(I picked an extra number this week,70 isn't an official milestone but I think its impressive)

Lesley-Anne Cucksey ran her 100th parkrun.

Congratulations to Lesley-Anne,Adam,Joseph,Keith,Suzi,Ann,Barry,Rachel,Victoria and Lorraine! (I`ll pick another extra number next week)

Photo from Ann Currie.

Shenton`s 2020 - Brian Beecroft 21:21,Neall MacLeod 24:24,Natalie Stavrou 25:25, Adrian Blackie 28:28,Viv Samuelson 29:29,Jan Foley 31:31,Carmel Wright 32:32,Emma Phillips 34:34,Gill Lightfoot 34:34

Our tiptoptippitytoppitytastic volunteers were led by run director Mike "Jolene" Green, timekeepers were Ultan "The Special One" Mulhern and Gemma "150!? No she`s 27" Cloney,barcode scanners were Andrew "Punning man" Hughes,Peter "The Cone of Truth" Humphreys and Kareen "Numbers" Porschke. Our three strong finish token team were James "Jazz hands" Hurley, John "The Beard" Armstrong and Lorna "OMP" Hughes.Tail walkers were Amy "Debutant tail walker" Barr (and her son). Ultan "No A" Mulhern gave the first timers briefing and John "No second nickname" Armstrong made sure the marshals were in the right places. Between rehearsing more tunes, the Folk Doctors also processed the results. Bet Elton John`s never done that at Bushy! Our funnel managers were Stuart "The Pope" Rickers,Steve "The Bishop" Smith",Graham "The Archdeacon" Tate,Chloe "Reverend" Byers,Sue "The Cowbell lady" Sturgeon and Ruth "PC" Byers". Our marvellous marshals were Benjamin Willis, Elizabeth Ambler,Connor Bethel,Mylo Williams,Malcolm Davies,Colin "Circuits" Lamprey,John Tierney,Helen Stansfield.Jane Everett,Robin Kingsbury,Felipa Kingsbury,Margaret Whitfield,Cameron Farroll. Ken "Not Mark" Noble was a pacer for us.

Photo from Amy Barr

Thank you for your continuing support, Each week we fill the roster but we never take that for granted and we appreciate your response to our appeals.If you would like to join the hi vis ranks, please take a look at the roster on our website and email us at birkenheadhelpers@parkrun.com if you can help.

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

Thanks for reading,not all of it makes sense but I like doing it

See you next week.

Jon

Run report 230 today

The favourite number of every dentist

And a percussion based instrumentalist

I don`t know that for sure,just made that up for a rhyme

It was about time.

Almost 800 of you joined us today as well as a near 40 strong volunteer team

And it wasn`t a dream.

Thank you all for joining us,either on the course or in and around the funnel

You missed a good one,Sally Gunnell.

Hello and welcome to (INSERT HERE - record breaking) Birkenhead parkrun. Number 230 saw us reach 793! The funnel double tape thing made its debut and we had 4 scanners. Thanks for your help in the funnel and although there is no core team pub based review planned of today,we think it went well.It was a wonderful sight watching the start from the finish funnel and seeing you all come down the road and then wind (rhyme with mind not er,wind) your way around the park.

The results

Our first finisher (male) was Ian Wallace of Wirral AC in 17:15,then Steven Leslie of Village Road Runners AC with a new pb of 17:19 and Robert Logan,also getting a pb, this one 17:55!

Our first finisher (female) was Charlotte Towers in a time of 18:19(4th) then Jayne Price of Pensby Runners in a new pb of 19:45 (20th) and Alison Cole, a first timer with us who ran 20:46(39th)!

Welcome to all our first timers and tourists today! Congratulations on joining us for the first time of it was your first ever foray into the parkrun world and thanks very much indeed for choosing us if you were doing some touristing. We hope you very much enjoyed your Birkenhead parkrun experience and we look forward to seeing you next week or the next time you`re in the area.

Our first timers today were Harry King,Mark Critchley,Steve White,Sean McElhoney, Jack Whitfield,Joanne Fitzgerald,Sophie Siner,Alexandra Duncan,Sam Linge,William Thompson,Gemma Carolan,Charlie Bragg,Philip Stevenson,Jake Clague,Craig Luukas, Emma Williamson,Alfie Harland-Smy,Denise Renner,Finn MacDonald,Harry Christey, Tom Christey,Ben Kibble-Smith,Jack White,Ian Richards,Victoria Hollywood,Diane Birss,Zoe Wainwright,Catherine Jackson,Rachael Cottington,Lynsey Phillips,Wendy Alderton,Freya Eves,Will Taylor,Laurie Taylor,Louise Bishop,Adam Bulmer,Stacey Lamb,Paul Suckley,Anna Fox,Caroline Coles,Lisa Smith,Kerry Belger,Natalie Power, Braya Saunders,Erin Dyas,Blake Fletcher,Carl Fletcher,Ashleigh Carruthers,Kate Lewis,Isaac Power,Esmai Carruthers,Amelia Lewis,Lisa Lewis,Jonathan Shaw, Martin Shaw,Melanie Gelling,Julie Cotterell,Justin Stewart,Emily Philpotts,Victoria Booth, Mark Chapman,Katy Tilston,Hannah Williams,Max Hobbs,Sarah Burke,Alison Ellis,Mark Whalley,Daniel Morgan,Vikki Casey,Jan Whalley,Nicola Rudd,Keith Shuker,Julia Shuker

A veritable abundance of personal best perfection today from Steven Leslie 17:19, Robert Logan 17:55,James Nuthall 18:48,Ben Evans 19:08,Jayne Price 19:45, Chris Boardman 19:49,James Morris 20:06,James Dunleavy 20:27,Nick Wynne 20:43, Dermot Gough 20:46,Todd Humphreys 21:31,Lee Osborne 22:09,George Wilson 22:18, Hyacinthe Caldwell 22:23,Patrick Hadfield 22:29,Simon Locke 22:40,Zac Lincoln 23:05, Heidi Rogers 23:10,Helen Symonds 23:21,David McConechy 23:27,Si Cole 23:29,Tino Mbanini 23:32,Karl Ellis 24:10,Paul Caley 24:16,Samantha Owen 24:21,Oscar Boardman 24:28,Paddy Flashman 24:35,Kimberly Morris 24:46,Paul Duckers 24:53, Karl Horgan 24:55,Abbie Richmond 25:05,Logan Wade 25:07,Harry Ellis 25:09,David Barden 25:35,Natalie Stavrou 25:55,Richard Thomas 25:58,Linda Richmond 26:02, May Leeson 26:03,Callum Logan 26:09,Yvonne McDonough 26:19,Chris Jack 26:20, Julie Pinnington 26:21,Steffan Smith 26:28,Sian Berkson 26:33,Sarah Lees 26:55, Jennifer Warburton 26:57,Leila Howard 26:58,Stephen Leadbetter 27:12,Sarah Shaw 27:18,Lee Fulton 27:22,Claire Bear 27:26,Jemima Riley 27:42,Huw Garrod 27:58,Emily Kealey 28:05,Steve Rutter 28:43,Mark Titley 28:48,Alan Craze 28:52,Steve Haydn 28:54,Joseph McLachlan 28:58,Hazel Shingler 29:09,Rachael Denmade 29:14,Jisun Lee 29:20,Patrick Sanderson 29:29,Caroline Chandler 29:30,Quinn McCaul 29:34, Hannah Simpson 29:36,Emily O`Connell 29:48,Rory Stuart 29:53,Emma Gunatilleke 29:58,Rita Mistry 30:03,Catherine Court 30:07,Mark Fraser 30:21,Linda Gomersall 30:22,Emma Harrison 30:24,Catherine Smith 30:34,Isaac Turner 30:47,Daniel Turner 30:48,Ian Anderson 31:07,John Ryan 31:10,Michael Batchelor 31:35,Robert Richardson 31:44,Hettie Miles 31:57,Sam Reardon 31:58,Carmel Wright 32:02, Amanda Fisher 32:05,Megan Rowlinson 32:47,David Clark 32:50,Bethany Richards 32:56,Megan Richardson 33:04,Margaret Davenport 33:16,Alexander Reardon 33:36, Bethany Heath 33:37,Claire Mounsey 33:38,Laura Corris 33:41,Jack Anderson 33:42, Jane Sheehy 33:45,Catherine Thursby 34:10,Thomas Brown 34:12,Jessica Billing 34:39,Susie Everett 34:40,Andrew Gifford 34:46,Daisy McNally 34:55,Bethany Reardon 35:04,Michelle Heighton 35:12,Kirsty Jarvis 35:14,Miya Plaistow 35:47,Maureen Fountain 35:47,Emily Willett 36:06,Joanne Roberts 36:20,Rita Cassidy 36:22,Hayley Lightfoot 36:46,Anthony Reardon 36:51,Nicola Strickley 38:02,Caillen Berry 38:39, David Berry 38:41,Jacquie Steele 39:08,Hilary Gould 42:08,Tallulah Murphy 42:38, Rosie Harland-Smy 42:38,John Hall 46:04,Libby Hall 46:05,Michelle Oates 47:12, Emily Wood 50:44,Gemma Bulmer 52:26,Heather Lafferty 53:46,Rebecca Cain 54:54,Gemma Cain 55:15

Rachel Philpotts ran her 50th parkrun

Martin Gray did his 50th parkrun

Grzegorz Adamczewski did his 50th parkrun

Sandra Hamel ran her 50th parkrun

Matt Graham ran his 100th parkrun

Congratulations to Matt,Sandra,Grzegorz,Martin and Rachel on their fantastic achievements!!

Shenton`s 20:20 Reality - Jessica Relf 23:23,Laura Reese 26:26,Richard Shayle 27:27, Patrick Sanderson 29:29,Nigel Hobson 30:30,Wendy Newton 31:31,Joseph Chalmers 37:37,Rebecca Cain 54:54

Our blooming marvellous volunteer team was led by run director Rolf "How`s the blood pressure?" Westrum.Our timekeeping team was comprised of Mike "There`s only one Jon Rumley" Green and Stuart "Thank the Lord for that" Rickers.Our barcode scanning quartet was Phil "Number 1 Welsh volunteer" Stanley,Margaret Ray,Ruth "Lick and stick" Byers and Gemma "Grumpy Colin" Cloney.Our finish token team was Andrew "The strip" Hughes,John "The Beard" Armstrong and Lorna "OMP" Hughes.Francesca Taylor was our tail walker and James "T`Pau" Hurley gave the first timers briefing and then funnel managed along with Jon "Random words" Rumley,Peter "The Lord of the Cone" Humphreys,Pete "Gatechecker" Gateley,Kay "I`m still" Standing,Ann "Number 1 Scottish volunteer" Currie,Ultan "Co number 1 Irish volunteer" Mulhern,Andrew "Marvin`s dad" Everett,Kareen "Numbers" Porschke,Dave "Double funnel Dave" Bibby" (Jaffa cake break).Our magnificent marshals were Ian Chalmers,Lisa "Puddle monitor" Ost,Sybil Leeman,Kerry Ashcroft,Benjamin Willis,Shelagh "Russell" Hearty, Amanda "Tin can maestro" Curtis-Wilson,John "Keith" Henderson,Sue "Cowbell maestro" Sturgeon,Dermot "Father" Ferguson,Liz Jones,Charlotte Jones,Sophie Marsden,Stewart Foster,Evan Thomas,Cameron Farroll,Matthew Thomas.Rolf processed the results and Ken Noble was a pacer.

Thanks to all of them for being fabulous today. As you will have noticed we are needing more volunteers with the increased numbers so if you would like to volunteer please email us at brkenheadhelpers@parkrun.com

If you haven`t volunteered before its an excellent way to see parkrun from another angle and appreciate the amount of hard work that goes into putting this free event on. And you get to wear hi vis,and I always have fruit pastilles.

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

Thanks for reading and see you next week!

Jon.

It was the return of the Mark

The return of the Mark

The return of the Mark,but alas no Jet in the park.

The wind was on overtime today

It blew you this way and that way.

That`s fact and not hearsay

The marshals around the course were on top form

But that really is the norm.

Another record today without a single Gurkha

Is that record breakers book still written by a McWhirter?*

(*Yes,I am aware how old that last line makes me sound)

Hello and welcome to this week`s run report! We thought 648 was amazing,we almost had a little accident when it got to 654 and now its rocketed up to 738!!!! Seven hundred and thirty eight!!!! Thank you for all your patience at the finish,obviously numbers like this take a bit of getting used to,not just for you but for us and we`ll work hard to adapt to them. I ran today and it was fantastic to see so many of you around the park. All the marshals and volunteers were excellent and it was to great to see parkrun from that perspective.

The results

Our first finisher (male) was Robbert Deller of Wirral AC in a time of 17:34,then Steven Leslie of Village Road Runners AC in 17:56 and David Dunning in 18:46.Mike Evennett of Pensby Runners ran 19:07.

Our first finisher (female) was Meg Hoshiko in 19:48(10th),then Jayne Price of Pensby Runners in 20:09(17th),Stephanie Kirby of Southampton Triathlon club with a new pb of 23:35(87th) and Tommi Hoshiko with a new pb of 23:41.

It was an honour to do the first timers briefing this week and welcome more of you to the parkrun world. Welcome to all of you and to all our tourists today! We hope you enjoyed your Birkenhead parkrun experience and we look forward to seeing you next week or the next time you`re in the area.

Our first timers were Mark Sait,Phil Murray,Ben Scott,Joe Danson,Ashley Power,Huw Jones,Jennifer Perry,Tommy Harper,Jack Sibeon,Alan Craze,Adam Beattie,Lily Scudder,Edward Garner,Steve Haydn,Megan Rowlinson,Bethany Richards,Elle Harker, Robert Richardson,Laura Corris,Claire Mounsey,Daniel Turner,Isaac Turner,Jack Anderson,Megan Richardson,Matthew Howse,Amy Pemberton,Catherine Thursby, Emma Baldwin-Quirk,Wendi Baldwin-Quirk,Lucy Williams,Grace Cuthill,David Cuthill, Steven Gould,Donna Parkhill,Masako Plaistow,Miya Plaistow,Fiona Manley,Freya Crowder,Stephen George,Misty Grey,Libby Hall,John Hall,Francis Fish,Michelle Oates, Rebecca Cain,Gemma Cain,Christine Oates,Emily Wood,Gemma Bulmer,Heather Lafferty,Kate Roughley,Huw Garrod,Peter Banks,William Turner,Brett Abram,Charlie Scudder,Deborah Turner,Christine Darwen,Ella Merrie Lloyd Jones,Stacey Martin, Lacey Howard,Grace Lloyd Jones,James Young,Thomas Brown,Sarah Daly,Jordan Howard,James Forbes,Meagan Lau,Ewan MacNab,Ruth Appleton,Rebecca Carpenter, Raymond Murray,Andrew Swaffer,Fred Aird,Marie Motley,Samantha Bentall,Nigel Howard,Peter Darwen,Jamie Sircom

Pb`s next.Fantastic pb`s from James Fowler 19:56,Adam Caldwell 20:02,James Dunleavy 20:37,Nick Wynne 20:46,David O`Neil 20:57,Richard Latten 22:35, Jonathan Lear 22:47,Stephanie Kirby 23:35,Lee Osborne 23:41,Tommi Hoshiko 23:41,Zac Lincoln 23:42,Jack Berry 23:46,Lorna Siddons 24:11,Heidi Rogers 24:15,Sammy Harwood 25:04,Colin Bansor 25:13,Lewis Morris 25:14,Lucy Pennington 25:17, Paddy Flashman 25:33,Ricardo Hoshiko 25:41,Aidan Fothergill 26:29,Callum Maxwell 26:41, Joanne Whitfield 26:45,Danny Jones 26:48,Richard Thomas 27:07,Natalie Stavrou 27:21,Sarah Lees 27:27,Sarah Shaw 27:41,Rob Machen 29:35,Andrew Moran 29:40, Stuart Coleman 29:43,Pierre Wysocki 29:45,Dan Murphy 29:56,Sam Bradley 30:13, Fiona Fleming 30:25,Rory Stuart 30:26,Simon O`Connell 30:31,Emily O`Connell 30:40, Luke McGowan 31:02,Catherine Smith 31:04,Emma Harrison 31:09,Catherine Court 31:21,Ian Anderson 31:45,Roisin Bailey 31:57,Esme Cotton 32:17,Annemarie Cotton 32:17,Rachel Batchelor 32:55,Kay Jones 33:05,Rebecca Martin 33:07,Carmel Wright 33:23,John Ryan 33:26,David Clark 33:51,Lucy Taylor 34:10,Sam Reardon 34:12, Joanne Hartley 36:35,Clare Jones 36:38,Alexander Reardon 38:18,Hayley Lightfoot 38:40,Jenny Parkins 40:54,Robert Wilson 44:31

Rachel Rick ran her 200th parkrun

Brian Beecroft ran his 150th parkrun

Helen Titu ran her 100th parkrun

Geoffrey Lamb ran his 50th parkrun

Congratulations to Rachel,Brian,Helen and Geoffrey!

Shenton`s 20:20 Reality for Alex Holland 22:22,Jack Turner 23:23,Sallie Holt 24:24, Nick Holt 24:24,Rennell Smith 25:25,Phil Allison 26:26,Sarah Lees 27:27,Rachel Rick 38:38

Our heroic volunteer team were led by run director Gemma "The only GC" Cloney, timekeepers were John "The Beard" Armstrong and Stuart "Feed the Pope" Rickers. Barcode scanning was done by Mike "Jolene" Green,Andrew "Punnyman" Hughes and Colin "Circuits" Lamprey. Finish tokens were handed out by Peter "Palms out" Humphreys and Rolf "Hands up" Westrum with support from Ana Roslan. Ruth "The Socks" Pritchard was our tail walker,Jon "Sandwich" Rumley did the first timers briefing. Our funnel managers were Steve "Specs" Smith,Mark "Jet" Humphreys and James "T`Pau" Hurley.Our fantastic marshals were Ian Chalmers,Lyn Ebbrell,Bill Preston,John Cannon,Sophie Marsden,Richard Williams, Christine Sutcliffe,Debbie Keating,Helen Symonds,Mylo Williams,Connor Bethel and Cameron Farroll. John and Gemma processed the results and we had two pacers, David Lilley and Ken Noble.

Thanks to all of them for being amazing! If you would like to join them please take a look at the roster on our website and email birkenheadhelpers@parkrun.com if you can help.

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

Thanks for reading and see you next week!

Jon.

Like the 0713 bus to Bromborough you wait ages for one to come along

But then amazingly two appear in the space of a week

That`s our attendance record,not the number 42 bus....that I still seek

6 up from last Saturday which made it a very busy funnel

Yes its the first run report appearance of 2020 for Sally Gunnell.

We managed to get you timed,tokened and scanned

Except for any cats,they are still banned.(Sorry cats fans)

Our pacers were again a big success,we thank them and the rest of the volunteers for their hard work

There was no need for Michael Buerk.

Hello and welcome to the run report for the 228th parkrun at Birkenhead park (I know,I`ve made changes to the rr,new year and all that) I have lots of new words to use.Where to start? Another new record,654 of you! Thanks for all your help in listening to the funnel managers,keeping moving as you finished. Can I ask a couple of favours? Please don`t stand in front of the timekeepers as we need to keep a track of everyone crossing the line. I can`t remember the other one...Never mind. We had lots of visitors, I heard South Africa mentioned by James in the briefing.And a big welcome to the first timers today,hope you had a great time as you began your parkrun journey and also if you were visiting us from afar.

The results

Our first finisher (male) was David Lilley in a time of 17:44,then Oliver George in 18:42 and David Dunning in 18:44

Our first finisher (female) was Flo Parsonson,a first timer with us, in a time of 21:47(37th),then Sarah Schneider,another first timer,who ran 22:36(54th) and Helen Alexander of Mersey Tri who ran 23:04(67th)

A loud and lovely welcome to all our first timers this week,in fact all of you who were doing their first (Saturday) parkrun of 2020! For the first timers with us who were actually first timers and who are reading this for the first time,welcome! We hope you enjoyed your Birkenhead parkrun experience.We look forward to seeing you next week or the next time you`re in the area.Here are all our first timers who joined us this morning (Regular readers,the pb`s are coming soon,this is called freshening things up or as I like to call it,the same stuff,just in a different order)

Our first timers were Sarah Schneider,Todd Humphreys,Scarlett Quinn,Hannah Wilson, Laura Wilson,Tino Mbanini,Joseph Carew,Lee Osborne,Andy Murphy,David Holmes, Thomas Winterburn,Phil Haughton,Emily Green,Sophie Wilson,Caroline Chandler,Alice Williams,Ian Anderson,Hettie Miles,Rory Stuart,John Ryan,Caroline Hanson-Gardner, Colin Hornibrook,Helen Anderson,Sue Hillan,Sam Reardon,David Clark,Carmel Wright, Kirsty Jarvis,Rachel Batchelor,Kathy Hogg,Anna MacDonald,Emma Harrison,James Harrison,Rita Cassidy,Alexander Reardon,Connor McCormick,Bethany Reardon, Anthony Reardon,Lyndsey Berry,Irene Harwood,Louise Battison,Hayley Lightfoot, Tallulah Murphy,Rosie Harland-Smy,Leigh Weaver,Hayley Harper,Matthew Harper, Caillen Berry,Isla Berry,David Berry,Marcella Malpas,Shirley Cotton,Claire Douglas, Emily O`Connell,Fred Lucas,Joanne Roberts,Michael Rees,Stuart Coleman,Jack Telford,Bradley Jacques,Scott Linfoot,Vicky Linfoot,Mandy Albertyn,Tom Linfoot,Sam Linfoot,Nathaniel Glazier,Chris Prince,Anthony Dix,Christopher Willis,Elodie Glazier, Merryn Glazier,Simon Glazier,Alexander Spencer,Emily White,Vicki Glazier,Brad Hughes,Flo Parsonson,Matthew Chester,Chris Nicholson,Richard Sample,Lynne Webster.

Pb`s next! Before I list all you wonderful people, a big round of applause for all the pacers who took part in our pacers morning today. Giving up their time to do something which I know some were very nervous about is a brilliant thing to do.Anyway,here are today`s examples of personal best perfection.

Alan M Smith 19:12,Jamie Davies 20:06,Mike Goan 21:20,Paul Modern 22:33,George Birss 22:46,Simon Locke 22:57,Jonathan Lear 23:01,George Wilson 23:08,Steve Singleton 23:32,Paul Browne 23:36,David Morris 23:39,Michael Carew 23:42,Andrew Budd 23:48,Lorna Siddons 24:37,Benji Hatch 24:41,Alice O`Connell 25:18,Jake McCarthy 25:28,Darron Callaghan 25:30,Paul Ezard 25:30,Adam Graney 25:31, Emma Longford 25:39,Colin Wilson 25:57,Abbie Richmond 25:58,David Barden 26:06,Oscar Boardman 26:24,Jenny Danher 26:49,Sian Berkson 26:52,Alexandra Jones 26:54, Alisha Twist 27:07.Chrusty Tayllor 27:16,Colin Bansor 27:24,Kerry Dunning 27:27, Jennifer Warburton 27:45,Janette Halton 27:46,Caragh Bardolia 27:52,Andrew Cairns 28:01,Stephen Leadbetter 28:03,Olivia Graham 28:42,Joanne Whitfield 28:56,Eloisa Lippi 29:25,Kirsty Greenwood 29:46,Nancy Evans 29:50,Sam Bradley 30:52,Ava Houlihan 31:00,Rachel Rogers 31:07,Ann Hatton 31:09,Jane Callaghan 31:21,Joanne Pugh 31:27,Rosa Walklett 32:14,Louise Hanson-Gardner 32:35,Esme Cotton 32:43, Annemarie Cotton 32:47,Alan Moore 33:16,Margaret Davenport 33:17,Nicola Beamish 33:24,Jenny Carter 33:50,Catherine Wall 33:54,Bethany Gould 34:01,Jackie Harwood 34:26,David Ashworth 35:20,Sonny Boardman 35:46,Meryl Rushworth 37:53,Benjamin Barr 38:52,Jacquie Steele 40:29,Charlie Jarvis 41:11,Hilary Gould 42:44,Robert Wilson 44:41,Cath Turpin 46:20

Ian Fewtrell ran his 50th parkrun.

Richard Jacobs ran his 200th parkrun.

Congratulations to Ian and Richard!

The first Shenton`s Reality of 2020 - Richard Sample 22:22,Adam Leary 23:23,Matthew Billinge 23:23,Peter Galliene 25:25,David Limbrick 25:25,David Kimpton 26:26,Kerry Dunning 27:27,Joshua Britten 28:28,Irene Ward 33:33,Jack Kiley 36:36

Our coldbrightsomemoretannedthanothersimeanyouStevetastic volunteers were led by run director James "T`pau" Hurley,timekeepers were Gemma "Nicola Adams" Cloney and Jon "I have no feeling in my left hand" Rumley.Barcode scanning was done by Rolf "Rolfie,Ralphie,Wolfie" Westrum,Ruth "PC" Byers and Peter "Man with a marathon plan" Gateley. Andrew "Punster" Hughes,Ann "Number 1 Scottish finish tokens support person" Currie, Richard "The Cakes" Jacobs was our tail walker,Ruth also gave the first timers briefing and Rolf took the marshals out on to the course. Our funnel managers were Stuart "Hope City declare at 21" Rickers,Paul "#pinkieparkrunner" Bradley,Steve "G`day" Smith and Paula "I remembered" Hartharn-Evans were al excellent funnel managers but funnel manager of the day was Ava-Rae "Good morning parkrunners!" Cloney who also started the run.Our marshals were Ian Chalmers,Richard Shayle,Michele Alty,Jane Good,Laura Cross,Edward Barr,Keith Blackwell,Helen Symonds,Connor Bethel,Rob Chalmers,Benjamin Chalmers,Christine Sutcliffe,Francesca Taylor,Paul Thelwell. Chloe "Coolair junior" Byers took lots of photos. The pacer crew today were Ruth "Warmsun" Pritchard,Mark "Numbers" Pritchard,Matt "On the money" Routledge,Alex "Cocu" Holland,Karl "With a K" Hamel,Neil "Not from Ohio" Armstrong,Ken "Mr 30" Noble and Brian "Adamski" Seal.

Thanks to all of them for today. If you would like to volunteer with us,take a look at the roster on our website and please email us at birkenheadhelpers@parkrun.com if you can help.

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

This one has been a bit "Scorsese`s The Irishman" in its length so if you need to have an extra biscuit,go for it.Not far off a 1000 words today.

Thanks for reading and see you next week!

Jon