Cleveland parkrun #66 – August 9, 2014
Run Brief
What a turn out for another awesome Cleveland parkrun!! 218 smiling faces came along today! We welcomed 42 first timers to our family, we hope you enjoyed your first run with us and will be back for plenty more to come. We'd love to hear about it, so write a comment below and let us know how you went... which also goes for anyone else, we love hearing about your run!
We had another finish token go missing today, if you finished position 111 and accidentally took the token home, can you please return it next week or get in touch so we can arrange collection. It's vitally important we get these back each week!! We did have one from a previous week returned this morning, so thanks to that person!
First male home was James Copperthwaite 17:29 and first female was Jamie Hiscock 18:54.
Congratulations to James Heathcote, who received his Junior Club 10 Certificate. We also had another junior enter the club today, Abigail Rhodes ran her 10th parkrun today, congrats Abbey!!
parkrunners Choice Award recipients were announced. Congrats to Larry Ayliffe, Sally Bower, Maggie Sillett and Amy Strong (who was away this week). Make sure you send in your votes asap, you have until Thursday to vote then the person with the most votes will be announced next Saturday. The lucky winner will receive a lime & myrtle massage voucher. Email your vote to clevelandoffice@parkrun.com
Thanks again to Cafe Infusion who provided us with delicious beverages this morning.
We will be letting Kirsty loose as Run Director next week, so make sure you go easy on her
Have a great week everyone, more photo's will be uploaded shortly.
Cheers from today's RD's
Olivia & Kirsty
New Female Course Record!
We have a NEW FEMALE COURSE RECORD!!
The previous time of 19:25 min was set by Wynnum parkrunner Trish Russell in July 2013. Today, that record was broken by TWO young ladies! Both Jamie Hiscock 18:54min and Nicole Vermaas 19:14 broke the previous record. Congratulations girls, you are both super speedy runners!
Congratulations Jamie, you now hold the current Female Course Record, well done!
Thanks to This Week’s Heroes
Donna MCLACHLAN • Jamie COTTER • Kelly CALLANAN • Kirsty MOORE • Nicholas HAY • Nicole EMERY • Olivia COOP • Olivia MCLEAN • Robyn HODGES • Sammie ROOTS • Vicki LE PLASTRIER
parkrun doesn't happen without volunteers so if you haven't experienced 'the other side' to parkrun, then please give it a go. All our roles are super easy but vitally important.
Run Report:
Men's placings:
James COPPERTHWAITE (JM15-17) of Sharks Triathlon, was first over the line in 17:29 - 6th time in 7 appearances.
Dermot HEGERTY (JM15-17) (Unattached) was second over the line in 17:55.
Daniel CAMPBELL (JM15-17) (Unattached) was third over the line in 18:00.
Current standing in the Men's annual points competition:
Larry AYLIFFE (Unattached) 1450 pts.
Michael NAUMANN (Unattached) 1357 pts.
Stuart WILLIAMSON (Unattached) 1185 pts.
Women's placings:
Jamie HISCOCK (JW11-14) of QE2 Track Club, was first (10th overall) over the line in 18:54 - first appearance.
Nicole VERMAAS (JW15-17) of QE2 Track Club, was second (12th overall) over the line in 19:14.
Emily WITT (JW11-14) (Unattached) was third (20th overall) over the line in 20:25.
Current standing in the Women's annual points competition:
Sandra NAUMANN (Unattached) 1488 pts.
Denise MARCHANT (Unattached) 1284 pts.
Linda MEREDITH (Sharks Triathlon) 1210 pts.
The following runners recorded the best Age Grade scores:
Max HOOPER (JM10) was graded 85.60% for the time 19:06 (11th overall).
Jamie HISCOCK (JW11-14) was graded 84.48% for the time 18:54 (10th overall).
Emily WITT (JW11-14) was graded 81.47% for the time 20:25 (20th overall).
This week there were 218 runners, of whom 42 were first timers and 46 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 12 different athletics clubs took part.
Cleveland parkrun started on 4th May 2013, and since then 1,792 different runners, including participants from 48 athletics clubs, have completed 9,466 runs covering a total distance of 47,330 km, and there have been 2,478 new Personal Bests.
The women's record is held by Jamie HISCOCK who ran in a time of 00:18:54 on 2014-08-09 (event number 66).
The men's record is held by Patrick HAGAN who ran in a time of 00:15:59 on 2014-07-26 (event number 64).
The Age Grade course record is held by Max HOOPER who recorded a 85.98% run (19:01) on 14th June 2014 (event number 58).
