Stretford parkrun

Well done to the 762 of you who took part this morning, and a massive thanks to the 46 volunteers who made it possible! If you'd like to be one of our pink hi-vis heroes next week please email us at [email protected].

We hope you have a great weekend and see you next Saturday! 🌳

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Slight delay with getting the results done today, we'll be on it as soon as we can! Thanks for your patience and hope you enjoyed this morning 😊

Info for this weekend ladies and gents. We maybe busy as Alex park, South Manchester and Urmston are all cancelled. That said, it's due to rain so we may be dead as a doornail. Who knows....?

The one thing we can say for certain - we don't have enough parking if you all drive. The car park can hold a maximum of 100 cars normally, and there is now a works compound, so 90 max. Please make an effort to cycle or jog. There's tram stops at Stretford, Chorlton, Firswood and Old Trafford - all a 10 min warm up to the start line.

If you have to drive and the car parks full, it's important you don't park over residents driveways or the corners of roads blocking other drivers views. Our neighbours kindly accommodate us every Saturday - please don't frustrate them with poor parking. If needed, there is another car park at the bottom of Turn Moss Lane, the other side of the main road, and is a 7 min walk to the start. Or park at Stretford mall which is around 12 mins warm up to the start.

The trackside cafe is open as usual, and Blanchflower cafe in the park itself will also be open.

Alan is your Run Director on Saturday - please ensure you're on the start line by 8:55am to hear the safety briefing. See you all in the morning.

Love welcoming you to Stretford parkrun. See you Saturday 😍

🌳Good evening Stretfans! With multiple nearby cancellations this Saturday we are expecting BIG numbers here. Now we love seeing so many people enjoying our quite frankly amazing course BUT we need several more volunteers to make sure we can go ahead safely. If you can help us out please let us know at [email protected]. We need:
📋 A number checker
🦺 A few more marshals out on the course
🚧 A couple more funnel managers
🎟️ Finish token support to help Mary hand out a loooooot of tokens
Esther is waiting for your emails! Please include your barcode number and what you'd like to do. You don't need to have done it before, we'll take you through it on the morning. See you then!

NEXT SATURDAY.
Next weekend, Alexandra, South Manchester AND Urmston are all cancelled. It's likely therefore we'll have big numbers again, especially being the end of the school holidays.

First and foremost, it's really important everyone listens to the RD briefing before the start. That goes for every week, especially now the works are starting in Longford park.

Second, everyone respects every other persons run and walk. Please be aware of who's around you and think about what they might do, especially if they don't know you're coming up behind them. If you need to slow down, do so - important at any event, and all the more so when we've 900 participants.

Because we know of the cancellations, we need extra volunteers to go ahead. On top of our normal volunteer numbers, we need 2 extra marshalls, 2 extra funnel managers and 2 extra barcode scanners. Our priority is always putting on a safe event, and knowing we'll be busy, we need to have the right numbers. If you've only ever run and not volunteered before, next week would be a great week to do volunteer stint No1.

Esther is our volunteer coordinator this week. Either drop a note below, or email at [email protected]. We need your parkrun ID, and the role you'd like to do.

Thank you.

Still a few roles to fill please for Saturday.
We need someone at 8am to help set up the course. You'll be finished by 8:45, so time for your warm up. You'll be with an experienced person.

A number checker
Someone to help hand out tokens
2 x funnel managers
People to help sort the tokens in order after your runs - you'll be finished by 10:15am.

Brens waiting patiently to hear from you, get in touch at [email protected] with your parkrun id so we get the rota filled.

Thanks all.

Loads of roles to fill this week ladies and gents including :

Course set up - you start at 8am so can still run.
Timekeeper
Tail walker
1st timers briefing
Finish tokens people x 2
3 funnel managers
Barcode scanner
People to resort the tokens after your runs.

We've not been this light mid week for a long time - if you've not volunteered before but done loads of runs now, please consider stepping forward so we're good to go this weekend.

Bren is looking forward to hearing from you at [email protected]. Add your parkrun id and the role you'd like to do in your email.

Many thanks