Wow! Fame at last, after a brief conversation with Manx Radio, my soft Southern tones were heard over the airwaves on Mandate last Friday!
For those without a 'translate' button on their radio, it was a good bit of advertising for our little community event.....

https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/local-park-run-celebrates-2nd-birthday/

We also welcomed a few first timers this week.
We saw the introduction of our new 'finish tokens'.....hoorah, after losing some of our essential kit to finish token magpies we decided to replace them all....including the necessary sought after token #1 - brilliantly modelled below by Mr Brian Butler (is this the only chance he will get to hold the famed #1???) and won this week by a brilliant finish by Jon Mc Gowan

We also met this little lovely first timer....Georgina Edwin-Reed, ably supported by Mum, Vickie

128 people ran this week, where last year we had 46 intrepid participants - show how far we have come in 2yrs

A timely reminder that its birthday week next week.
So please come along and see if we can break through the 140 barrier or beyond.
Please arrive by 8:45 as we plan to do our awards presentation before the start - so please get your votes in by PM to our Facebook page.
There will be cake......and please do dress up if the 'fancy dress' takes you lol

And don't forget your barcode

Ian

This week 128 people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 19 were first timers and 31 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 10 different clubs took part.
The event was made possible by 20 volunteers:

Sue ACKROYD • Ian BATES • Terry BATES • Ali KIRBY • Ray SHOOTER • Charlie ELLIOTT • Kerry THOMPSON • Lynda QUAYLE • Elly DUCHARS • Gemma CAMPBELL • Paul COLLINS • Brian BUTLER • Lisa WHORRALL • Anne ROGERS • Arnold John JACOBS • Helen BEDFORD • Julie RONAN • Colin KELLY • Christine KELLY • Caroline CROSSLEY
Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Nobles parkrun Results Page.
The male record is held by Adam SCIACCA who recorded a time of 16:28 on 7th July 2018 (event number 31), and by Kevin LOUNDES who also recorded a time of 16:28 on 20th October 2018 (event number 46).
The female record is held by Anna MACKENZIE who recorded a time of 19:13 on 20th April 2019 (event number 72).
The Age Grade course record is held by Angela COPSON who recorded 97.12% (23:42) on 20th July 2019 (event number 85).
Nobles parkrun started on 21st October 2017. Since then 1,987 participants have completed 7,632 parkruns covering a total distance of 38,160 km, including 1,666 new Personal Bests. A total of 234 individuals have volunteered 1,752 times.

Before each Nobles parkrun sets off, we always show our appreciation for the volunteers who marshall and organise our weekly run around the park. A special thank you goes out to those helpers who came forward at the 11th hour this week. Without those good people giving up their time, Nobles parkrun cannot take place. Why not give it a try one week? No qualifications necessary, and it is guaranteed to give you a good feeling to start your weekend!

You may have noticed that there was a bit of rain on the IOM earlier in the week! The prospect of a slightly damp course didn't stop over 100 happy smiley runners turning up again this week. A good number of visitors and a few first timers too. Great feedback as always for our event - tell your friends and family, all ages and abilities are always welcome!

Special mention goes out to former IOM resident Shylet Sitima. Now a fully fledged Australian, Shylet always tries to take part in a parkrun wherever she travels. When organising a trip back to Europe, including to the IOM to see a friend, one of the first things she checked was if she could run Nobles parkrun. Oh, and I forgot to mention that she also ran the Berlin marathon last week! Well done Shylet, see you back at Nobles next time you are on the IOM!

A reminder that on Saturday 19th October we celebrate our 2nd Birthday! Put the date in your diaries, and please try to get along early that week as there will be a few prizes presented before we start the run. Did I mention that there will be cakes??

See you next week!

This week 121 people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 21 were first timers and 22 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 13 different clubs took part.
The event was made possible by 18 volunteers:

Terry BATES • Len CARMODY • Ali KIRBY • Charlie ELLIOTT • Kerry THOMPSON • Lynda QUAYLE • Sue WEBSTER • Paul COLLINS • Dave LAWRIE • Anne ROGERS • Arnold John JACOBS • Helen BEDFORD • Viv BRIDSON • Colin KELLY • Mary-Louise HARPER • Caroline CROSSLEY • Lynsey ELLIOTT • Elizabeth STODDART
Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Nobles parkrun Results Page.
The male record is held by Adam SCIACCA who recorded a time of 16:28 on 7th July 2018 (event number 31), and by Kevin LOUNDES who also recorded a time of 16:28 on 20th October 2018 (event number 46).
The female record is held by Anna MACKENZIE who recorded a time of 19:13 on 20th April 2019 (event number 72).
The Age Grade course record is held by Angela COPSON who recorded 97.12% (23:42) on 20th July 2019 (event number 85).
Nobles parkrun started on 21st October 2017. Since then 1,968 participants have completed 7,504 parkruns covering a total distance of 37,520 km, including 1,635 new Personal Bests. A total of 233 individuals have volunteered 1,732 times.

This week 119 people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 40 were first timers and 15 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 15 different clubs took part.
The event was made possible by 20 volunteers:

Well- this week was Lets Run isle of mans second takeover! Liz Partridge headed up the squad with many helpers from the Lets Run gang helping out!

Let’s Run Isle of Man is a local running community- not club! Just some like minded people of all running abilities coming together to enjoy (!?!) Running ! They were are our first set up meeting and we grown integral to each other’s communities! It’s fun, it’s free and it’s super inclusive! Find them on Facebook for more info- it will be one of the best decisions you make if you want to get out there for yourself!

The morning had perfect weather conditions with the sun showing itself and the rain staying away! The park has seen some rain recently so there were lots of muddy runners but what’s not to like about that!

As always, everyone brought their smiles and great energy to our lovely parkrun!

Another not so gentle reminder that we are '2' on 19th October, just over two weeks time, so please make sure you join us.
And keep your nominations coming in for Volunteer of the Year and Parkrunner of the Year......you also have just enough time to become the fastest male or female resident, the benchmark set very high at 16:28 and 19:13.

See you Saturday

Liz

The event was made possible by 20 volunteers:

Terry BATES • Julie SNAPE • Elizabeth PARTRIDGE • Paul JENNINGS • Eileen CLARKE • Gary KEWLEY • Geoff QUAYLE • Lynda QUAYLE • Paul COLLINS • Brian BUTLER • Sarah CORKILL • David MCCALLUM • Anne ROGERS • Jo HAMILTON • Arnold John JACOBS • Amanda ANSERMOZ • Rob CLYNES • Becca QUAYLE • Helen BEDFORD • Christine KELLY
Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Nobles parkrun Results Page.
The male record is held by Adam SCIACCA who recorded a time of 16:28 on 7th July 2018 (event number 31), and by Kevin LOUNDES who also recorded a time of 16:28 on 20th October 2018 (event number 46).
The female record is held by Anna MACKENZIE who recorded a time of 19:13 on 20th April 2019 (event number 72).
The Age Grade course record is held by Angela COPSON who recorded 97.12% (23:42) on 20th July 2019 (event number 85).
Nobles parkrun started on 21st October 2017. Since then 1,947 participants have completed 7,383 parkruns covering a total distance of 36,915 km, including 1,613 new Personal Bests. A total of 229 individuals have volunteered 1,714 times.

Unsure if the abacus has stuck - 132 this week, 123 the week before, 132 the week before that, hey whose complaining eh, we've now had triple figures all but two weeks over the last few months - a massive thankyou to you all.

The table below is available on the web-page - https://www.parkrun.org.uk/nobles/results/eventhistory/
and shows how we have grown over the, almost, last two years.
What it also shows is the potential winners of this years fastest male and female (resident)

A gentle reminder of our birthday awards - we need your votes, along with those 'speed freaks' we are looking for 'most improved', volunteer of the year and parkrunner of the year. The latter two awards being voted by you!

A couple more stats that put a smile our faces this week;
We hit and went through the 1500 likes on Facebook - woohoo
We almost forgot that we saw our 7000th parkrunner a couple of weeks ago - well done Caroline Cain.
We had Vickie Edwin-Reed - shes trying '40 New Things B4 40', our very own parkrun being one of those forty things, others include suba diving, cake icing etc

And not forgetting, yep, another '50' milestone - well done Mr Paul Jennings.....ps he's not asleep standing up, really lol

OMG! How could we not thank our generous parkrunner - Jo Hamilton, who organised this little baby - worn of late by Peter Duchars and Paul above. A few more in recent weeks will wearing this beauty.....including Jo herself (thankyou)

Next week we see a parkrun 'takeover' event, as 'Lets Run Isle of Man' take on the role of organisers. 'Lets Run' is one of the biggest social groups on the island, well known as friendly and welcoming to all abilities. 'Lets Run' commander in chief, Liz Partridge, will take charge on Saturday as Run Director - other members of this group will also be around so please have a chat if a running club is of interest to you - socially or to assist in achieving your next target

Any assistance you can offer is welcome as always.

Right Im off to scoff cake.....its in practice for our birthday, so its allowed lol

See you Saturday

This week 132 people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 32 were first timers and 18 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 17 different clubs took part.
The event was made possible by 18 volunteers:

Sue ACKROYD • Ian BATES • Ali KIRBY • Moira CRUICKSHANK • Charlie ELLIOTT • Lynda QUAYLE • Laura CARSON • Paul COLLINS • Paul PERKINS • Anne ROGERS • Arnold John JACOBS • Becca QUAYLE • Vickie EDWIN-REED • Julie RONAN • Christine KELLY • Mike DEVEREAU • Caroline WALTER • Sarah HOGAN
Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Nobles parkrun Results Page.
The male record is held by Adam SCIACCA who recorded a time of 16:28 on 7th July 2018 (event number 31), and by Kevin LOUNDES who also recorded a time of 16:28 on 20th October 2018 (event number 46).
The female record is held by Anna MACKENZIE who recorded a time of 19:13 on 20th April 2019 (event number 72).
The Age Grade course record is held by Angela COPSON who recorded 97.12% (23:42) on 20th July 2019 (event number 85).
Nobles parkrun started on 21st October 2017. Since then 1,907 participants have completed 7,264 parkruns covering a total distance of 36,320 km, including 1,598 new Personal Bests. A total of 227 individuals have volunteered 1,694 times.

Back from a two week sabbatical, and boy we had missed it - honestly.

But the weekend started with a bombshell - our 'driving force' wasn't in the best of health when she woke, so we lost our VC for the day, and my 'set-up' buddy - Ali.
Thanku Kerry for stepping in to allocate our hi-vis heroes

The next hiccup came when we discovered late Friday that the central footpath was being dug-up! So Saturday morning found us with an impromptu 'slight' route alteration.
Thanku Arnie and Len for early doors assistance. We hope the works will be complete by our next event - fingers crossed.

The final surprise - I got to run!!!!!!
With the assistance of Liz taking on RD and the rest of the volunteering roles filled, I got my chance to do my first parkrun for what seems like forever, and completed, after a struggle, my 97th parkrun - that 100 milestone is within touching distance lol...….and my knee remained in one piece.

We continue to see regular milestones, and this week proved no different with our very own Peter Duchars hitting his '50' milestone, along with visitor Joanna Zub. Well done both
Peter is pictured here with our new 'Milestone HiVis'

A couple of reminders / updates

On 19th October we celebrate our 2nd birthday, so our annual celebration changes our format slightly. We are looking to repeat our mini awards ceremony at 08:45, so this will push our first timers brief earlier to 08:35, and ask all volunteers to be prompt for 08:30.
As ever we ask for your input for a couple of the awards.
Fastest male and female resident will be awarded from our statistics, as will most improved parkrunner. But, we need you to vote for 'Volunteer of the Year' and 'Parkrunner of the Year' - please PM or email your votes, before Wednesday 16th October.
Donations of cakes etc welcome, and fancy dress will be applauded.

University duties also call so we are looking at willing volunteers to cover our event on Saturday 28th, we have a takeover weekend that week and popular local running group ' Lets Run Isle of Man' will be in charge, with Liz Partridge taking on the Run Director role. Lets Run members will be helping too and available to speak to if you want more information in regard to this extremely friendly group.

Look forward to seeing you on parkrunday - with my side kick fit and healthy

Don't forget your barcodes

This week 123 people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 22 were first timers and 25 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 14 different clubs took part.
The event was made possible by 20 volunteers:

Ian BATES • Len CARMODY • Ali KIRBY • Fiona BULLOUGH • Ray SHOOTER • Elizabeth PARTRIDGE • Charlie ELLIOTT • Kerry THOMPSON • Lynda QUAYLE • Denise BRIDSON • Dave LAWRIE • Sarah CORKILL • Jane WILTON • Anne ROGERS • Jo HAMILTON • Arnold John JACOBS • Karen FORSTER • Viv BRIDSON • Colin KELLY • Alison KYLE
Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Nobles parkrun Results Page.
The male record is held by Adam SCIACCA who recorded a time of 16:28 on 7th July 2018 (event number 31), and by Kevin LOUNDES who also recorded a time of 16:28 on 20th October 2018 (event number 46).
The female record is held by Anna MACKENZIE who recorded a time of 19:13 on 20th April 2019 (event number 72).
The Age Grade course record is held by Angela COPSON who recorded 97.12% (23:42) on 20th July 2019 (event number 85).
Nobles parkrun started on 21st October 2017. Since then 1,875 participants have completed 7,132 parkruns covering a total distance of 35,660 km, including 1,580 new Personal Bests. A total of 225 individuals have volunteered 1,676 times.