This week, 180 parkrunners braved freezing temperatures at the 35th Pocket parkrun. The official advice from Run Director Antony Moore was to take it easy as the gound was very hard and slippy in places. Despite this, 34 people still managed to set new PBs and the only incident was when the Start/Finish pop up sign slightly exploded in Antony’s face during set up! We also had 33 people joining us for the first time and 10 running their inaugural parkrun. Thank you to everyone who used the school playground or the Conygear carpark to park this morning, it worked really well and hopefully we’ll be able to do the same for the next few weeks. First finisher this week was 
Lloyd Cross in atime of 18:16 and female first finisher was Natalie Jane Morgan in a time of 22:13. The person with the highest age grade was 
Ann Storey with 78.96% and a time of 29:09.
New Club Members
Archie HENDERSON joined the junior 10 club with a time of 28:58
As always, a massive thank you to all our volunteers who helped out this week: Alison Ainsworth, Barry Robinson, Becki Barnett, Charlotte Simpson, Christopher Skepper, Claire Reece, Daniel Connolly, Elizabeth Connolly, Elizabeth Cowell, Jane Jarvis, Jen Edson, Jennie Moore, Joanne Carrington, Joanne Kirkham, Julia Page, Katherine Hesketh, Kenny Leckie, Lara Smith, Louis Phillips, Mark Crane, Mark Emery, Norma Leckie, Oliver Hesketh, Samuel Kirkham, Sarah Tully, Stephen Ferguson, Steve Moore, William Kirkham and this week’s run director Antony Moore.
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The forecast for next weekend is quite a bit warmer: 8°C! So it should be less slippy underfoot - fingers crossed. Thanks to everyone who ran, jogged walked, cheered or volunteered at this weekend’s parkrun. If you’d like to join the roster for next Satudray (or any Saturday) you can go to www.parkrun.org.uk/pocket/volunteer/ to find out more. You can also go to the future roster to see what positions are available or email pockethelpers@parkrun.com to see what you can do.
Untill next week,
DFYBC (8 of you did this week)
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