Monday 28 February 2011

Entries equal 453

All my spare time for the past few days has been taken up with the Manx Harriers open on the manxathletics.com site so I've not checked the entries for a while. So its good to add another 18 names:


Alan Butler - NEW
Paula Butler - ID no =1216;  Debut - 2002
Sandra Castellano - ID no =1455;  Debut - 2009
Eileen Clarke - NEW
Robert Faragher - ID no =2785;  Debut - 1994
Clare Glynn-Riley - NEW
Elizabeth Helmer - NEW
Neil Helmer - ID no =3487;  Debut - 2008
Christina Johnston - ID no =3859;  Debut - 2006
Maureen Kelly - ID no =4058;  Debut - 1995
Christa McKay - NEW
Lisa Morris - ID no =5191;  Debut - 2000
Greg Nation - ID no = 240; 3  finishes and best time of 22:37:25 in 2008
Tony Parr - ID no =7972;  Debut - 2010
Teresa Stimpson - NEW
Katy Stopford - ID no =6482;  Debut - 2009
Rebecca Thomas - NEW
Imre Vigh - NEW
Posted by at No comments:

Friday 25 February 2011

Extra thanks for Graham


I've reported on the www.manxathletics.com site how former Parish Walk record holder Graham Young retires today after 48 years as a postal worker.

I can't say that I have agreed with Graham over every matter we have discussed (who can?) and in my younger days I was particularly stubborn and wasn't going to be told by anyone what I should do. Despite Graham's own under age entry in the Parish Walk he thought that I was ill advised to be walking such long distances so young.

But once I had made up my mind he always helped me -if you call it helping to cut open the blisters on my heels with a pair of scissors at Bride! That was in 1976 when I finished the course for the first time aged 19. I think I have always given him credit for that.

It was only when searching through my old photos last night that I reflected upon how helpful he had been two years later when I won the event (I didn't enter in 1977). The photo above is of Graham and myself (double click it to enlarge) on the Oatlands Road and we chatted away to Peel where I think he was persuaded to go a bit further so long as my dad supplied a pint of shandy.

Without his steadying influence, the following year I wrecked my race by going much too fast from the Sloc onwards and it was only really last night the thought crossed my mind that maybe I would have made that mistake a year earlier without Graham. The only part of the race I walked badly was an hour or two after Graham stopped and I caught John Cannell by upping the pace too much.

The caption for the photo was never complete and now it is out of date. My father wrote on the cover of the original slide "Murray and postman".
Posted by at No comments:

There are two entries for Gareth Jones

Antony Boyd - ID no =1105;  Debut - 2007
Sarah Callin - ID no =1309;  Debut - 2005
Paul Callow - ID no =1362;  Debut - 1994
Steven Canavan - NEW
Michael Chatel - ID no =7487;  Debut - 2010
Colette Meenan - ID no =7908;  Debut - 2010
Sam Pretty - NEW
Katherine Ruddick - NEW
Gareth Jones - ID no = 216; 1 finish in time of 21:54:01 in 2007

I have been confused because when I ran the normal comparison of full entries against  recent list it only produced 8 exceptions when there should have been 9. I discovered that there have been two entries by Gareth Jones and I am unsure at this stage which (if either) is the one my database picks up (my old teacher, sports council colleague and brilliant footballer).
Posted by at No comments:

Thursday 24 February 2011

Good day for entries (426 now)

Dudley Butt - ID no = 187; 5  finishes and best time of 20:19:28 in 2006
Melanie Degerholm - NEW
Rose Dugdale - ID no =2629;  Debut - 2009
Phil Hancock - ID no = 515; 1 finish in time of 21:57:11 in 2009
Charlotte Howard - NEW
Judith Schofield - NEW
Sean Taylor - NEW
Posted by at No comments:

Wednesday 23 February 2011

4more

Dino Mazzone - ID no =4819;  Debut - 2009
Kevin Perks - ID no =5568;  Debut - 2009
Fiona Roome - NEW
Stephanie Timmons - NEW
Posted by at No comments:

There are now 415 entries

David Brew - ID no = 138; 1 finish in time of 19:55:00 in 1962
Brian Byers - ID no =8331;  Debut - 2008
Colin Faragher - NEW
Geoff Gelling - ID no =3043;  Debut - 1980
Jane Howland - ID no =7746;  Debut - 2010
Eleanor Humphreys - ID no =3721;  Debut - 2008
Lesley Joyce - ID no =3917;  Debut - 2005
James Tummon - NEW
Posted by at No comments:

Monday 21 February 2011

Four more (407)

Justine Callow - ID no =1357;  Debut - 2009
Stuart Callow - ID no =1368;  Debut - 2009
Haydn Kenna - ID no = 246; 1 finish in time of 22:49:12 in 2000
Margaret Sinclair - ID no =6254;  Debut - 2007
Posted by at No comments:

May as well tell you here as well

I've told the story at www.manxathletics.com

I've told the story at www.parishwalk.com

I've tweeted.

I've Facebooked (if that is a word yet).

So I may as well blog it as well.

Roger Black is talking on 7 April; Roger Black is walking on 25 June.

http://www.parishwalk.co.uk/walktalk.html
Posted by at No comments:

Sunday 20 February 2011

Latest entries (403)

Ann Anderson - ID no =712;  Debut - 2004
Garth Anderson - ID no =718;  Debut - 2005
Joanna Battery - NEW
John Batty - NEW
Martin Kennaugh - ID no = 427; 1 finish in time of 21:46:23 in 2009
Chris Kennish - NEW
Shaun Lewis - ID no =4501;  Debut - 2003
Clive Martin - ID no =7876;  Debut - 2010
Heather Mattocks - ID no =4801;  Debut - 2009
Rachel Quirk - NEW
Terri Salmon - ID no = 615; 4  finishes and best time of 19:29:39 in 2007
Posted by at No comments:

Thursday 17 February 2011

I'm on strike

Only two entries since the last analysis yesterday lunchtime so I'm not wasting time here.

Have been busy with one of my other favourite events, the London Marathon, on the other channel.

If you know anyone running in London who is not on my list at www.manxathletics.com please let me know.
Posted by at 1 comment:

Wednesday 16 February 2011

Thanks for feedback

Michael George tipped me off that Vincent Lynch who entered this week is of course the man we know as Vinny and finished second last year.

Mark Denton contacted me a few weeks ago to let me know that  Georgina Bell-Scott had previously walked under her maiden name of Georgina Kelly.

All help gratefully received. Unless the names match exactly to the previously used names I won't automatically know that they are the same person (even when they do there will be times when more than one person has the same name).

I'll incorporate the above into later versions of my lists.
 
Posted by at No comments:

10 entries lifts total to 392

Karen Bland - NEW
Caroline Callow - NEW
Jane Gayle - NEW
Robbie Graham - NEW
Ann Henrard - ID no =3505;  Debut - 1996
Anthony Oneil - ID no =5426;  Debut - 2009
Alastair Owen - ID no = 7965; 1 finish in time of 23:45:16 in 2010
Lindsay J Quayle - NEW
Loraine Simpson - NEW
Kelly Uren - NEW
Posted by at No comments:

Monday 14 February 2011

Where did that weekend go to?

No time to even think about the Parish Walk website although there was plenty going on at www.manxathletics.com

In the meantime there are 14 more entries taking the total to 382:

 Samuel Cannell - NEW
 Steve Claringbold - NEW
 Nigel Gutteridge - NEW
 John Kewley - ID no =4169;  Debut - 1996
 Olly Kewley - NEW Vincent Lynch - NEW
 David Millward - NEW
 Noel Ronald - NEW
 Christian Salway - NEW
 Jacqui Simpson - ID no =6243;  Debut - 2006
 Carole Staples - ID no = 84; 1 finish in time of 22:35:22 in 2009
 Chris Staples - NEW
 Lloyd Van Vuuren - NEW
 Tracy Whitehouse - ID no =7123;  Debut - 2002
Posted by at No comments:

Friday 11 February 2011

Exactly 2 a piece

66 previous finishers have 132 finishes. Here they are:


Entries to date
ID
Number of finishes
PB
Year
Jock Waddington
307
6
15:18:06
2010
John Cannell
315
8
15:59:33
1982
Richard Spenceley
540
4
16:51:34
2010
Tony Okell
631
3
16:53:50
2010
Andy Green
35
3
17:05:58
2009
Chris Cale
100
8
17:38:46
2009
Maureen Moffatt
440
5
17:43:52
2009
Dave Mackey
131
1
18:03:17
2008
Michael Bonney
442
3
18:04:36
2009
Simon Starkey
579
3
18:29:46
2010
Marie Gilbertson
407
6
18:43:45
1997
Samantha Draper
562
2
18:43:45
1997
John C Ryder
313
4
18:48:06
2008
David Walker
2115
1
18:54:29
2010
Gillian Cunningham
228
2
19:26:11
2009
Perry Downward
501
2
19:46:24
2009
Oliver Browne
480
2
19:49:23
2009
Jared Smith
288
2
19:54:10
2010
Selwyn Facey
7629
1
20:00:49
2010
Carl Senogles
82
1
20:16:30
2009
John Watterson
335
3
20:18:50
2009
Colin Moore
118
1
20:21:42
2006
Peter Beighton
503
1
20:22:20
2004
Robbie Breadner
543
2
20:26:45
2009
Tony Dugdale
625
2
20:26:45
2009
Ali Mazzone
7886
1
20:32:00
2010
Bob Corrin
69
2
20:34:44
2007
Angela Martin
39
2
20:38:35
2010
Paul Morgans
495
2
20:50:49
2007
Jane Foster
7647
1
20:51:50
2010
Ned Bowers
1101
1
21:13:10
2010
Billy McCoubrey
66
5
21:16:25
2007
Robert Currey
550
1
21:32:28
2009
Jeff Black
293
3
21:36:03
2008
Karen Lawrie
355
1
21:41:47
2008
Cliodhna Swales
6535
1
21:44:10
2010
Keith Green
3205
1
21:50:35
2010
Gary Deuchar
218
3
21:53:49
2008
Gareth Jones
216
1
21:54:01
2007
Philip Knop
522
1
21:54:55
2009
Fred Baker
214
1
21:56:04
2002
Chris Moore
104
2
21:57:00
2010
Gustav Rober
5959
1
21:57:00
2010
Janette Morgan
7933
1
21:57:23
2010
June Melvin
5022
1
21:58:17
2010
Nigel Maddocks
474
1
22:16:56
2009
Sue Furner
605
2
22:24:48
2002
Kuba Szymanski
381
1
22:33:39
2009
David Whorrall
163
6
22:46:47
2004
Ed Walter
6931
1
22:51:58
2010
Jane Wolstencroft
285
1
22:53:45
2006
Robbie Stockton
546
2
22:54:52
2009
Carol Mccoubrey
83
2
22:55:31
2009
Lynn Mccoubrey
400
1
22:55:31
2009
Geraldine Cannon
1407
1
22:56:10
2010
Richard Hird
539
1
22:57:23
2004
Anne Dooley
2559
1
23:00:25
2010
Nicholas Bradley
1130
1
23:02:43
2010
Ed Burn
191
1
23:10:32
2009
Paul Wheeldon
498
2
23:15:55
2010
Amanda Dougherty
26
2
23:23:47
2010
James Betteridge
274
1
23:27:30
2009
Charlie Turner
96
1
23:28:45
2007
Andy Walton
6938
1
23:44:41
2010
Simon Jones
576
2
23:49:26
2006
Jim Caley
300
1
23:51:23
2009
Posted by at No comments:
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)