Run Sandymoor Weekly Report
Week Commencing 30/06/2025
Run Sandymoor Awards Night:
⭐️ If you possibly can make it to the very first Run Sandymoor's Awards Night on Saturday 12th July 2025 from 6:30pm through to 22:30, then we'd love to see you! Your support would be much appreciated. So, bring along your own drinks and snacks, then let's have a bit of club fun, whilst celebrating those that win one of our awards.
Link: Run Sandymoor Summer Social | Facebook
Events this Week:
⭐️ Wednesday: Birchwood Park Women's Forest 5K
⭐️ Thursday: Tour of Merseyside Otterspool Promenade 5 miler
⭐️ Thursday: Sale Sizzler 5K (Race 2 of 4)
⭐️ Saturday: Phoenix parkrun Takeover
⭐️ Saturday: Other parkruns
⭐️ Saturday: Halewood 5K
⭐️ Saturday: Run Sandymoor's Summer Fair Stall
⭐️ Saturday: Cross Cymru (East to West) - Personal Challenge
⭐️ Sunday: Race for Life Pretty Muddy 5K
Roll of Honour:
🏃🏻♂️Dec Murphy: Ran 57 miles this week
🏃🏽♀️Katie Hankey: Ran 30.5 miles this week
⛰️ Gaz Tootle: King of the Hills with 4,921 feet
⛰️ Katie Davidson: Queen of the Hills with 1,713 feet
🏃🏻♂️Dec Murphy: Ran the longest run of 47.8 miles
Peter Marsland: Sale Sizzler 5K 
(18:30 Best ever PB -9s) Steve Thompson: Phoenix parkrun (17:25 Course PB -18s) Peter Marsland: Phoenix parkrun (18:45 Course PB -51s) Jake Newall: Phoenix parkrun (23:28 Course PB -1:30)
Steve Thompson: Phoenix parkrun (1st out 120 and 74 males) with 17:25
Peter Marsland: Phoenix parkrun (2nd out of 120 and 74 males) with 18:45
Katie Davidson: Birchwood Park Forest Women's 5K (3rd F35 out of 16) with 21:58
Les McAdam: Phoenix parkrun (300th parkrun) Roy Hankey: Phoenix parkrun (200th parkrun)
⭐️ parkrun Takeover Volunteers: Thank you to all those members that volunteered at Phoenix parkrun!
⭐️ Karren Bannon: For running the Summer Fair stall
⭐️ Mel Dua: For running the Summer Fair stall
⭐️ Rio Monks: For running the Summer Fair stall
⭐️ Dec Murphy: For running the width of Wales
Men's Distance:
🥇 57.0m Dec Murphy
🥈 48.5m Peter Marsland
🥉 43.4m Steve Thompson
Women's Distance:
🥇30.5m Katie Hankey
🥈30.2m Louisa Mogg
🥉27.3m Nicola Ormsby
King of the Hills:
🥇 4,921ft Gaz Tootle
🥈 2,251ft Steve Thompson
🥉 1,995ft Jack Kenwright
Queen of the Hills:
🥇1,713ft Katie Davidson
🥈1,608ft Sarah Ryder
🥉1,388ft Louisa Mogg
Distance Runs (15m+):
⭐️ 47.8m Dec Murphy
⭐️ 20.0m Gaz Tootle
⭐️ 16.0m Peter Marsland
Birchwood Park Women's Forest 5K:
= PB, = Gender top three places
21:58 Katie Davidson (3rd F35 out of 16) 23:56 Esme Joynson 27:53 Louise Norcross 28:10 Hannah Garcia 28:11 Faye Bannon 28:11 Karen Bannon 29:18 Louise McAdam 29:29 Gaynor Twite 31:35 Olive Hall 32:17 Izzy Twite 32:42 Alison Langton 33:47 Kate Shannon 36:49 Kate Joynson
Tour of Merseyside Otterspool Promenade 5 miler:
= PB 36:48 Carl Pratt
⭐️ This race distance was in fact more in the region of 5.5 miles, which was very disappointing to Carl in terms as his 5 mile time, as it would have otherwise been an official personal best!
Sale Sizzler 5K:
= PB 18:30 Peter Marsland (Best ever PB -9s) 22:53 Rio Monks
Phoenix parkrun Takeover
Key: = Best ever parkrun, = Course PB, 
= Course 1st, = milestone = Gender top three places
Phoenix parkrun: 17:25 Steve Thompson (1st out of 120 and 74 males) (Course PB -18s) 18:45 Peter Marsland (2nd out of 120 and 74 males) (Course PB -51s) 20:22 Mike Sherwin 22:19 Gaz Tootle 22:50 Clive Conway 23:28 Jake Newall (Course PB -1:30) 26:44 Mark Lightfoot 27:43 Colin Whelan 27:47 Robert Taylor 27:54 Roy Hankey (200th parkrun) 29:10 Kate Joynson 30:43 Katie Hankey 31:05 Olive Hall 31:17 Yvonne Graham 31:17 Allan Graham 32:30 Emma Brundrett 56:03 Bob Block 60:18 Louise Norcross 60:19 Les McAdam (300th parkrun) 60:21 Joe Wilde 60:42 Helen Dunbebin
Phoenix parkrun Takeover Volunteers:
⭐️ Faye Bannon (Pre-event setup)
⭐️ Karen Bannon (Pre-event setup)
⭐️ Clive Conway (Pre-event setup)
⭐️ Katie Davidson (Number checker)
⭐️ Helen Dubebin (Tail walker)
⭐️ Jannette Evans (Run Director; Event day course check)
⭐️ Laura Finnigan (Marshal - turn down to canal)
⭐️ Dave Forshaw (Marshal - Canal entrance)
⭐️ Helen Gutteridge (Bottom of hill)
⭐️ Alison Langton (Timekeeper)
⭐️ Christine Loynes (Marshal - Canal middle)
⭐️ Les McAdam (Parkwalker)
⭐️ Louise McAdam (Volunteer Co-ordinator; Pre-event setup)
⭐️ Rio Monks (Event day course check)
⭐️ Linda Moore (Marshal - Canal exit)
⭐️ Clive Morrison (Finish Tokens)
⭐️ Louise Norcross (Pre-event setup)
⭐️ If Onyia (Marshal - Top of hill)
⭐️ Lain Riley (Barcode scanning)
⭐️ Michael Scowcroft (Barcode scanning)
⭐️ Daniel Shannon (Pre-event setup)
⭐️ Mike Sherwin (First Timers Welcome)
⭐️ Carl Stewart (Funnel Manager)
⭐️ Joe Wilde (Parkwalker)
⭐️ Viv Wilson (Marshal - Lake turn)
Other parkruns:
Key: = Best ever parkrun, = Course PB, = Course 1st, = milestone = Gender top three places
Nova Prestatyn parkrun: 31:10 Paul Quigley
South Bank parkrun (Australia): 29:02 Sue May Liow
Warrington parkrun: 40:19 Andrea Kelly
Halewood 5K:
= Course PB 19:24 Peter Marsland
⭐️ Three 5K events by Peter Marsland during the period of Friday evening and Saturday morning, all of which were solid sub-20 times (where two were in fact sub-19 times), where one of them was a new personal best 5K time.
Run Sandymoor Summer Fair:
⭐️ Thank you to Karren Bannon, Mel Dua and Rio Monks for their efforts running the stall on Saturday and for promoting our wonderful running club. Also a shout out to all those that supported the stall throughout the afternoon. Teamwork!
Race for Life Pretty Muddy 5K:
⭐️ Kate Shannon
Cross Cymru (East to West):
⭐️ Dec Murphy (48 miles / 77km in about 13 hours)
⭐️ Dec Murphy performed yet another one of his personal challenges, which was to run the width of Wales from the Eastern border. Dec had a few challenges on the way with regards to the route, but he finally completed his 48 mile challenge in about 13 hours.
⭐️ However, the not so good part was the £120 taxi fare back to Dec's parked car! Then it got even worse when having driven for two hours, the police accidentally used a stinger on Dec's car whilst on the M56, resulting in four flat tyres! Dec finally got home sometime after 2am! We certainly can call that an eventful day.
Club Records:
For the 5K, 10K and half marathon club records, please click here.
Strava Leaderboard
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Well done to everyone that ran with and/or for the club this week.