the parishwalk.com 2009 blog: February 2009

Thursday 26 February 2009

86 people a day visting parishwalk.com

I used to be flattered when a couple of hundred people would visit the site on the day of event but now there are frequently more than a hundred on a Monday in the middle of winter.

Here are the number of unque visitors every day this year:

Thursday 26th February 2009 90
Wednesday 25th February 2009 80
Tuesday 24th February 2009 111
Monday 23rd February 2009 119
Sunday 22nd February 2009 99
Saturday 21st February 2009 63
Friday 20th February 2009 94
Thursday 19th February 2009 80
Wednesday 18th February 2009 105
Tuesday 17th February 2009 109
Monday 16th February 2009 93
Sunday 15th February 2009 74
Saturday 14th February 2009 72
Friday 13th February 2009 91
Thursday 12th February 2009 80
Wednesday 11th February 2009 94
Tuesday 10th February 2009 90
Monday 9th February 2009 93
Sunday 8th February 2009 80
Saturday 7th February 2009 63
Friday 6th February 2009 113
Thursday 5th February 2009 79
Wednesday 4th February 2009 80
Tuesday 3rd February 2009 72
Monday 2nd February 2009 81
Sunday 1st February 2009 70
Saturday 31st January 2009 46
Friday 30th January 2009 79
Thursday 29th January 2009 82
Wednesday 28th January 2009 77
Tuesday 27th January 2009 80
Monday 26th January 2009 89
Sunday 25th January 2009 82
Saturday 24th January 2009 68
Friday 23rd January 2009 87
Thursday 22nd January 2009 75
Wednesday 21st January 2009 90
Tuesday 20th January 2009 75
Monday 19th January 2009 85
Sunday 18th January 2009 80
Saturday 17th January 2009 62
Friday 16th January 2009 96
Thursday 15th January 2009 83
Wednesday 14th January 2009 101
Tuesday 13th January 2009 104
Monday 12th January 2009 118
Sunday 11th January 2009 85
Saturday 10th January 2009 55
Friday 9th January 2009 78
Thursday 8th January 2009 102
Wednesday 7th January 2009 124
Tuesday 6th January 2009 117
Monday 5th January 2009 114
Sunday 4th January 2009 50
Saturday 3rd January 2009 51
Friday 2nd January 2009 91
Thursday 1st January 2009 83

3 of the organising committee

Left to right: Allan Callow, Winston Liu and Martin Lambden. They were pictured at the sponsors lunch hosted by Clerical Medical last Friday.

Women have almost caught the men

Of the 282 entries to date, 138 are from women, only 4 less than the male entries.

Its been a while since.....

...I picked out the new entries. So here goes, all 22 of them since the last update:

Alison Gray
Andrea Curran
Ann Murphy
Antony Quayle
Bernadette Devlin
Brian Connolly
Clive Alford
Creena Mason
Damien Devlin
Ian Davies
Johnathan Crute
Katie Cowin
Kayleigh Shuman
Keith Button
Lorna Brown
Michelle Dentith
Natalie Robertson
Sarah Jo Callow
Sharon Hoganboyle
Sheron Quayle
Sian Cowper
Suzann Dentith

Monday 23 February 2009

Sponsors lunch

I've just realised that, although I published a link to the following video on the manxathletics.com site on Friday evening, I did not add it here.

The lunch is hosted by Clerical Medical each year for the co-sponsors who have a chance to meet with the organising committee and it helps everyone understand each others requirements that much better for the benefit of those taking part.

The media were also in attendance.

Friday 20 February 2009

Entries reach 260

The following entered yesterday:

Elizabeth Ledingham
Raymond Ledingham

Thursday 19 February 2009

Judging in Parish Walk

Race Director Raymond Cox asked me to post the judging rules on the website.

The wording that he supplied on 05/02/09 has replaced the original wording at:

http://www.parishwalk.co.uk/Information.htm#Race

Wednesday 18 February 2009

5 entries since lunchtime

Amanda Kennett
Clare Lewis
David Anderson
Diane Mitchell
Tony Mitchell

Entries pass 250

253 in total with the addition of the following 6:

Ian Strodder
Jamie Sutton
John C Ryder
Liz Chandler
Margaret Willard
Philip Smart

Tuesday 17 February 2009

Three entries since last update

Peter Caine
Suzanne Caine
Brian Christian

Monday 16 February 2009

4 more entries

Alice Hogarth
Ann Henrard
Edward Howland
Mark Teare

Parishwalk.co.uk

The Parishwalk.com domain is an "alias" and for the past three years has been directed to a company called Warewelchwebhosting.com who I would highly recommend.

I registered the parishwalk.co.uk domain with them.

I noticed that half an hour ago when I tried to get onto parishwalk.com that the site was not available. Its back now but it only appeared to be the forwarding service from oneandone that was not working.

I don't know if this makes any sense to you but what I should say is that if ever you can't get a connection with parishwalk.com then try parishwalk.co.uk

Sunday 15 February 2009

Women catching up

I continue to stress that these figures are unofficial, but of the 240 entries to date, 114 are from women and 126 from men. With 47.5% of the entries, the women are starting to catch up.

Another 10 entries

Andy Kelly
Brigid Cummins
Dave Taylor
Dennis Maddrell
Jo Kelly
John Cooper
Paul Bennett
Sharon Kinnin
Stephen Kelly
Victoria Graham

Tuesday 10 February 2009

These three take us to 230

Jack Murphy
Jean Gannon
Maureen Moffatt

Monday 9 February 2009

Three more entries this afternoon

Alison Maddrell
Juan Thornley
Lynsey Crawford

Another 7 entries

Christiana Cannell
Colleen Cubbon
Emily Cannell
Hayley Nelson
Michelle Mcelroy
Richard Drinkwater
Sue Ackroyd

Friday 6 February 2009

Latest entries

Amagoia Ayestaran
Christine Carter
Elaine Whelan
Geoffrey Sharpe
Heike Perry
Karen Sharpe
Linzi Kemp

I was at race secretary Elizabeth Corran's house last night, as you may have seen from the feature on her husband Gordon.

She tells me that all of the entries on the database are from the online system. She only has a few manual entries which will be added in due course. So to repeat (I wasn't sure about this before), if you enter with a printed form and pay by cheque, there will be an unquantified delay before your name appears here.

Tuesday 3 February 2009

Women are catching up

Of the 210 entries to date, 94 are from women and 116 from men.

That is 45% and 55% respectively.

Get the plastic out now if you have not entered yet.

Bumper entry

There have been 29 entries in the past week so the rate has increased from 3 a day to 4 a day.

Here there are:

Adrian Brooks
Ann Zachorecki
Charlie Stephens
Charlotte Barlow
Chris Wade
Christopher Clarke
Dave Lawrie
Deborah Hinks
Eleanor Humphreys
Gemma Higson
Janet Allen
John Clucas
Kath Clucas
Kellie Haworth
Kirsten Bennett
Louise Hollings
Lynda Quayle
Marie Gilbertson
Melanie Christian
Michelle Draper
Nabil Jafri
Neil Holmes
Nichola Creer
Oliver Browne
Robert Allan
Samantha Draper
Selwyn Callister
Stephen Holmes
Suzanne McKay

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