2nd August
Halewood 5k

16 Lawrence Eccles 18:28
20 John Connolly 18:43
21 Chris Lee 18:50
30 Andy Leslie 19:37
36 Steven Maguire 19:55
41 Robert Bruchez-Corbett 20:03
42 John Jensen 20:11
44 Marty Hirrell 20:20
63 Greg Hocking 21:42
68 Michael O'Rourke 21:53
71 Mark Wiglesworth 22:00
86 Billy Sergeson 24:09
87 Michelle Kelly 24:16
88 John Kelly 24:17
91 Sam Darby 24:35

It was a wet morning, but the rain was not too bad for the duration of the race. The turn around point was very slippery. There were free bottles of water at the end of the race for competitors, which is good given that the race is free to enter. I did see the current Team PLS captain, Dale Higham, running; he finished with Chris Lee.

PB for me thanks to the skipper!

3rd August
North Wales Half-Marathon, 428 finishers

Forename Surname Category Cat Pos Chip Time Position Gun Time Position
TERRY LONG M60-64 4 02:14:29 307 02:15:12 310
Rachel Rick F55-59 3 02:21:09 337 02:21:41 340

Sat 2nd August.

Tegg's Nose fell race. Macclesfield.

7.3miles. 1722ft

77th Gill Darby 1hr 29m 56s

(97 ran)

Cuerden Valley Badger 10k Trail 7th August

Steve Pemberton 00:45:24
Mal Balmer 00:47:32
Michelle Cobourn 00:48:22
Michael Devereux 00:48:36
Tony Man 00.48.50
Gill Darby 00:52:07
Keith Boyle 00:54:24
Sam Darby 00:56:46
Eunice Nopondo 01:00:43

Badger 10k trail race (Results as above)

Mike Devereux 1st M60

And the ladies got third place in the team standings! Great effort.

Princes parkrun 9th August

Martin Swensson 16:45
Nigel Grant 18:42
John Jensen 20:18
Marc Goudie 21:10
Steve Maguire 21:16
David Quinn 21:20
Michael O'Rourke 22:03
David Griffiths 22:09
Greg Hocking 22:13
Trish Dudley 22:39
Joe McGlynn 23:03
Mark Thomas 23:31
Esther van Ginneken 24:30
Cath Nevin 24:37
Stephen Watkin 25:17
Anna Watkin 25:25
Mike Welsby 25:41
Anthony Woods 27:50
Graham Hussey 29:01
Rebecca Price 29:16
Colin Moneypenny 29:33
Phillip Murray 30:26
Jo Sutherland 31:21
Debi McMillan 38:43

Wed 6 Aug
Ponderosa fell race
Category BS 6.4km/289 metres, 4 miles/950 feet

5th Lawrence Eccles 28.17
59th Cristina Puccini 39.14
71st Francis Martin 40.37

This is described as a "A good introductory race for first-time fell runners". I would tend to agree since I never fell over (almost a given whenever I try one of these things) and only swore 2 or 3 times. The race also finishes uphill which is great because you get to catch lots of the blighters that fly past you on the way down. An interesting twist this year is that we had to be detoured around some beehives and a couple of the people at the very back got stung. A good incentive to leg it up the first hill as well if you ask me.

Lawrence won a bottle of wine, I got a chocolate orange and Frank the pleasure of my witty repartee there and back. It was a lovely sunny evening and the bees are now reported to have calmed down some.

Missed off the Princes parkrun results! Came in at 45:52. I was the nominated last runner though! Really good experience if anyone wants to try it any time and does mean the marshals know they can stand down without wondering whether there's anyone still out.

9/8/14

St Helens Parkrun
Andy Leslie - 19:59

Tough little course, with 3 larger laps and a final small lap. The hill is hard work the 3rd time up it.

Karen was entertained by the ducks in the pond and we had toast in the little cafe in the Mansion House.

Delamere parkrun #72

Saturday 9th August

122nd Gill Darby 26.53
123rd Tony Man 26.57
124th Mike Devereux 26.-- No barcode

213 Ran

A steady run follow by a long run together along the Sandstone Trail to round off to 2 hours run in total.
Nice, warm and sunny
We had hot chocolate, coffee and cakes afterwards in the cafe

Were do these runs start from tony-is it the visitor centre at 9.00 ?

26.7.14 - Workington Parkrun

15. David Cain 20:45
57. Susan Cain 36:16 (back runner)

57 runners

2.8.14 - Workington Parkrun

14. David Cain 20:40
26. Susan Cain 22:47

59 runners

6.8.14 - Ellenborough 10K Maryport

47. David Cain 43:08
78. Susan Cain 46:50 1st V50

192 runner - hot - very hilly. Good buffet afterwards.

Results from last night

12-Aug-14 5k
Mystery (4/5)
Martin Swensson 00:16:09
Lawrence Eccles 00:17:56
Jay Clarke 00:17:58
Nigel Grant 00:17:59
Mitch Hawkins 00:18:54
Steve Maguire 00:19:13
Simon Birtles 00:19:24
Andrew Leslie 00:19:26
John Jensen 00:19:40
Tom Kennedy 00:19:56
Stephen Watkin 00:20:05
Andrew Biddle 00:20:18
Richard Thorpe 00:20:19
Steve Pemberton 00:20:22
Kevin Keane 00:20:39
Kate McGing 00:20:40
Michael O'Rourke 00:20:57
Julien Tour 00:21:06
Gregory Hocking 00:21:07
Mark Wiglesworth 00:21:10
Tony Man 00:21:25
Mal Balmer 00:21:27
Cristina Puccini 00:21:37
Mike Devereux 00:21:50
David Griffiths 00:21:50
George Aylward 00:21:51
Marty Hirrell 00:21:51
Trish Dudley 00:22:02
Louise Warn 00:22:20
Jonathan Toft 00:22:41
Amanda Treanor 00:22:46
Mark Thomas 00:23:03
Jane Eardley 00:23:23
Bill Sergeson 00:23:30
Keith Boyle 00:23:41
Gill Darby 00:23:52
Esther Van Ginneken 00:24:10
Robert Astley 00:24:11
Sam Darby 00:24:24
Cath Nevin 00:24:30
Rachel Rick 00:24:39
Anna Watkin 00:24:43
Michelle Kelly 00:24:47
John Kelly 00:25:23
Mike Welsby 00:25:43
Eunice Nopondo 00:27:11
Ellie Darby 00:27:29
Rebecca Price 00:27:47
Eamonn Brady 00:27:48
Joe McGlynn 00:28:51
Amy Waugh 00:29:05
Jo Sutherland 00:30:45

Oh, et tu, Stato. I was looking forward to reporting on the Mystery results, especially since we appeared to have acquired a Greg KOCKING - surely a name fitting for an episode of Qi. I have so few pleasures left in my life. Also there was no buffet and a dog nearly peed on my bag.

Birchwood 10k

Not the quickest day at Birchwood, blustery conditions and a new first 3k of the course, which was on pretty narrow paths. A rather fetching pink bath towel added to the collection and flowers for the ladies (I'm not sure why they don't bother giving any to the men as I'd have definitely earned brownie points if I'd have taken flowers home). Well done all (I'm not aware of any PBs but great effort if there were!)

Andrew Leslie 0:41:14
Carl Balshaw 0:42:02
Richard Thorpe 0:43:25
Shane Knott 0:47:39
Billy Sergeson 0:48:07
Mark Thomas 0:49:02
Gill Darby 0:49:21
Colin O'Brien 0:51:09
Sam Darby 0:51:52
Carolyn Knott 0:52:54
Philip Murray 1:03:02
Ron Bowcock 1:11:40

16th August
Race the Train

MTCT - Rotary Challenge 14 miles
28 Lawrence Eccles 1:33:57
The Train 1:48:18
354 Cristina Puccini 2:00:42
461 Tony Man 2:10:13
601 Michelle Kelly 2:23:13
646 Terry Long 2:28:40

Quarry Challenge 10k
95 00:53:41 Tommy Burke 1st V65 and beat the train

It was dry conditions underfoot and it was surprisingly warm given the colour of the clouds. They had a lot of water stations on the route, which is an improvement from previous years. The bog section was still wet.

Birchwood 10k
Also David Lynan, 44:35. He clearly forgot what club he runs for!

Park run round up 16/8/14

Valentines parkrun

Catherine Elizabeth NEVIN 00:24:59


Princes parkrun, Liverpool

Jonathan HAZELL 00:17:58
Jonathan TOFT 00:19:41
John JENSEN 00:20:40
Mike ROXBURGH 00:21:39
Trevor ASTELL 00:21:46
David LYNAN 00:21:54
David GRIFFITHS 00:22:11
Frank MARTIN 00:22:36
Kevin KEANE 00:22:59
Joe MCGLYNN 00:23:11
Trish DUDLEY 00:23:28
Amanda TREANOR 00:24:05
Anna WATKIN 00:24:17
Keith BOYLE 00:24:20
Mike WELSBY 00:24:35
Stephen WATKIN 00:24:41
Mark THOMAS 00:25:35
Melanie HOLDEN 00:25:52
Bill SERGESON 00:26:08
Andrew KEELEY 00:28:05
Rebecca PRICE 00:28:31
Colin MONEYPENNY 00:28:53
Joanne SUTHERLAND 00:29:30
Jo GIBSON 00:29:48
Craig HAWLEY 00:32:53
Debi MCMILLAN 00:44:31

Marlay parkrun

Jen WALSH 00:22:57

Workington parkrun

Susan CAIN 00:35:17


Lanhydrock parkrun

Christopher LEE 00:21:04

Urenco Ellesmere Port RC 5k Road Race

Dale Higham 16:51
John Connolly 16:57
Jay Clarke 17:52
Nigel Grant 18:02
Jerome Doyle 19:47
Andrew Biddle 19:45
Kate Mcging 19:55
Julian Tour 20:41
Michelle Cobourn 21:02
Michelle Kelly 24:18

Not sure how many are PB's - results are from here:

http://eprc.niftyentries.com/Results/UrencoEPRC5k2014

Says provisional so hopefully they'll add a few seconds to Dale's and take some off mine.

Bit of wind on the way out but perfect conditions in the main, race won by Jonny Mellor in 13:54!

PB'S for Dale Higham, Jay Clarke, Jerome Doyle, Andy Biddle, Kate Mcging

my time is 16:56 - thought I was second quicker

all the other times are the same, confirmed now:

http://eprc.niftyentries.com/Results/UrencoEPRC5k2014

well done all

My time has changed from 17.52 to 17:47 so an extra 5 seconds off and a new PB

Robbie Webster Wobbler
Wed 20 August

4 Lawrence Eccles 39.45
16 Neil Kelly 43.49
29 Richard Thorpe 47.31
35 Andrew Keeley 48.42
51 Cristina Puccini 51.34 1st L40

This is a memorial race for a chap called Robbie Webster who used to run for Helsby. To confuse matters another bloke with the same name from another club turned up to run last Wednesday. The race is all up and around Frodsham hill and is a reasonably tough exercise but technically very easy so next year put this one in your diary.

The price includes sandwiches and very nice home made cakes back at the Helsby club house (just think Helsby Half start/finish car park). Prize giving was a rather chaotic affair, during which I was 2nd woman for a good five minutes or so, or at least until the rightful owner of 2nd place and the first vet trophy was identified. I actually finished 4th but I got first L40 so thankfully I didn't have to give back the wine

Princes parkrun 23-Aug

Jonathan HAZELL 17:56
Marc LITTLEFIELD 19:33
Andrew BIDDLE 20:21
John JENSEN 20:22
David QUINN 21:22
Michael O'ROURKE 21:51
Trevor ASTELL 21:55
Kevin KEANE 22:09
Joe MCGLYNN 22:15
Trish DUDLEY 23:17
Stephen GORMAN 23:44
Anna WATKIN 24:28
Stephen WATKIN 24:29
Esther VAN GINNEKEN 25:19
Ronald BOWCOCK 28:20
Colin MONEYPENNY 29:04
Someone pretending to be Eamonn BRADY 29:54
Debi MCMILLAN 33:17

Special mention to Debi who knocked almost 4 minutes off her parkrun PB. Nice work!

23/8/14 parkrun round up (excluding Princes)

Norwich parkrun

Oonagh JAQUEST 00:23:26


Marlay parkrun

Jen WALSH 00:23:20

MTCT Moel Famau

Cilcain Show Mountain Race. Mon 25th August
4.6miles/1286ft

42. Cristina Puccini 47.36
125. Gill Darby 53.30
141. Jane Eardley 58.15

Only 156 finishers this yr as it was raining & visibilty was poor. Obviously the reason for no Penny Lane men turning up! (Apart from Tony Man who got most of the way there but had to turn back because of heavy traffic to make sure he got to work on time)
Only realised I was approaching the summit when I saw silhouettes of runners in front of me heading off down the hill to my right. The previous day you could see the fort on the top quite clearly from Camphill!

27th and 28th August
TDS (a trail race in France)
119km 7250m ascent

35th Lawrence Eccles 18:47:41

It was dry although there was heavy rain the day before. I did average 3km an hour at one point. I was slower than last year, which I don't like

Try harder next time Lawrence then!



Ciao
Simo

parkrun Round-Up for 30/8/14

St Helens parkrun

Andrew LESLIE 00:20:05

Princes parkrun, Liverpool

Marc LITTLEFIELD 00:19:44
John JENSEN 00:20:21
Andrew BIDDLE 00:20:46
Martin KELLY 00:20:51
Daniel COONAN 00:21:25
Trevor ASTELL 00:21:37
David GRIFFITHS 00:22:11
Frank MARTIN 00:23:11
Trish DUDLEY 00:23:17
Joe MCGLYNN 00:23:35
Stephen GORMAN 00:23:36
Oonagh JAQUEST 00:23:39
Mark THOMAS 00:23:59
Esther VAN GINNEKEN 00:25:14
Kate MACFARLANE 00:25:22
Catherine Elizabeth NEVIN 00:25:37
Tim JONES 00:26:00
Anthony WOODS 00:26:45
Mike WELSBY 00:26:51
Tommy GATES 00:27:23
Rebecca PRICE 00:28:27
Jo GIBSON 00:28:44
Joanne SUTHERLAND 00:29:45
Colin MONEYPENNY 00:29:54
Liz SIMPSON 00:30:05
Andrew KEELEY 00:31:05
Philip MURRAY 00:31:28
Debi MCMILLAN 00:33:20
Rachel RICK 00:45:54


Delamere parkrun

Tony MAN 00:26:48
Helen OSBORNE 00:28:34

Blackpool Half Marathon
31/08/14

47th David Cain 1:35:29

73rd Mark Wiglesworth 1:39:30

312 Finishers.

Changed course from last year, one lap 2 mile then 6 mile then 5.1 mile.
Ran opposite way from last year and into the wind along the lower prom.
No chip timing. Effectively 4 water stations. No Cows or other farm animals.
Illuminations same as last year.

Harrock Hill Race 4 - Wed 27 August

89 Steve Pemberton 00:45:09
109 Francis Martin 00:46:52
114 Mathew Hirrell 00:47:44
119 Cristina Puccini00:47:54
156 Myka Heard 00:51:36


We don't know who Mathew is, possibly one of the false names. This time none of us won any vegetables, mostly due to the hordes of proper runners who turned up, ran faster than us and took all the prizes. 223 ran.

This is now 2-2 in the Martin-Puccini Summer Smackdown. I may well retire from this competition while the going is good.

Results from last nights Mystery

04-Sep-14 5k
Mystery (5/5)
Dale Higham 00:16:55
Jay Clarke 00:17:40
Andy Keeley 00:18:57
Mitch Hawkins 00:18:59
Marc Littlefield 00:19:03
Christopher Lee 00:19:06
Jonathan Toft 00:19:21
Ste McNicholas 00:19:28
Andrew Leslie 00:19:36
Stephen Watkin 00:19:51
Carl Balshaw 00:19:52
Thomas Rimmer 00:19:53
Marty Hirrell 00:19:58
Kate McGing 00:19:58
Michelle King 00:20:18
Julien Tour 00:20:32
Mark Wiglesworth 00:20:55
Michael O'Rourke 00:21:29
Trish Dudley 00:21:30
Mike Devereux 00:21:42
Trevor Astell 00:22:32
Paul Doyle 00:22:32
John Guy 00:22:47
Mark Thomas 00:22:58
Jane Eardley 00:23:26
Stephen Gorman 00:23:39
Anna Watkin 00:23:45
Matthew Tollitt 00:24:05
Michelle Kelly 00:24:27
Cath Nevin 00:24:29
Keith Boyle 00:24:38
Kate MacFarlane 00:25:19
Mike Welsby 00:25:20
Jane Nicholson 00:25:26
Tommy Gates 00:25:36
Carolyn Holt 00:25:42
James Sanchez 00:25:53
Carolyn Knott 00:26:16
Anthony Woods 00:26:31
Eunice Nopondo 00:26:48
Rebecca Price 00:27:13
Ruth Fisher 00:27:20
Vicki Lewis 00:29:03
Jo Sutherland 00:29:16

A warm night with a light breeze. 44 of 117 from Penny Lane Striders.

you missed Bob Barrows, a welcome return in 17:45

I've worked out I finished 5th male (3rd SM) in the Harrock Hill race series. I may be completely wrong however!!

rtgyh

thought I got beat by a girl last night (nightmares )
but the results show I was in front of mcging

Either way it's still a fab result - well done Neil and in as my old mum always said "The world belongs to those that turn up"