Halloween Freedom Run at Pennington Flash

Thursday 31st October 2013 starting at 20:00.

We are having a Halloween themed parkrun Freedom Run this coming Thursday. The event will start at 20:00 from the normal starting place and we will be running the full parkrun course.

This event will be held as a group Freedom Run; Freedom Runs allow you to run a parkrun course and register it online on the parkrun website. They do not count towards points or t-shirts as they are self-certified, but they do attached to your parkrun profile.

How it works: to register a freedom run you need access to any email or newsletter from parkrun, each of these contain a link to your profile and if you click on this link it takes you to your online profile.

There you will find a link called ‘Freedom’ and by clicking on this you can enter the details of your Freedom Run.

On Thursday we will start the run and time you using a sports watch, you will be given a finishing token and once everyone has finished the run we will be giving you your actual time so that you can then register it afterwards. We cannot register freedom runs for you!

Following the run we are planning on having a car-boot picnic in the main car-park. Please feel free to bring snacks and drinks with you for yourself and if possible to share. We will not have access to the cabin for this event. Please note that there will be no charge for the car-park after dusk :- )

As always fancy dress is encouraged for this special event.

The 3rd Legacy event of the year will take place on 7th July at Pennington Flash.

This 10k race will take you around the paths of this beautiful country park and follow the Leeds/Liverpool Canal for a short distance.

You can enter online at http://www.legacyevent.org/index.php/events/leigh-10k-legacy-event/ now.

We have a selection of volunteer opportunities available on the day and if you want to help us as a marshal or other role please get in touch at bill.bradley@legacyevent.org

Runners; if you want to take advantage of a half price offer then all you need to do is provide a volunteer for the event and we will give you a half price entry. Contact bill.bradley@legacyevent.org with your name and the name and contact details of your volunteer and we will provide you with a discount code to use when you register.

This offer is limited to the first 30 respondents so get in there quick.

Bill Bradley on behalf of Legacy Events Limited

This event will be taking place on the above date starting from Leigh Sports Village.

The main 10k event will be starting at 09:45 and the Ladies 5k event will start at 10:30.

They are looking for volunteers to act as marshals for the event and have asked us, and others, if we can ask if anyone is available to help them.

All Volunteers will receive a goody bag which includes a T-Shirt and a lunch pack. You will need to be available for a briefing at LSV at 08:00 and you should expect to finish around 12:00.

On top of this they are also offering reduced entry rates for any of our runners:

£13.00 for 10k - save £5.00

£5.00 for womens 5k - save £1.00

All 10k finishers receive a goody bag and the 5k finishers will get a medal.

Pleas note that the 10k is open to all whilst the 5k is strictly women only!

If you wish to volunteer or take them up on their generous offer of reduced entry rates please contact Graham on Graham@sportstoursinternational.co.uk making sure you let them know you are from Pennington Flash parkrun.

The organisers have kindly offered members of the Pennington Flash parkrun community the chance to win 1 of 10 free entries into either the 10k or 5k race (20 entries in total)

If you wish to try and win one of these places then please email me at pennington-flashoffice@parkrun.com I will contact the winners of the places by email on Friday 3rd August 2012.

further information on both races can be found :

10k - http://www.sportstoursinternational.co.uk/running/run-the-flash-10k

5k - http://www.sportstoursinternational.co.uk/running/run-the-flash-5k

please note that the start times on the internet pages is incorrect and the correct times are as stated above.

Bill.