Friday 27 March 2009

Entry up to 458

Four entries since yesterday lunch time :

Adam Drewett
Jenny Killey
Joseph Clayton
Rachel Cuddy

Thursday 26 March 2009

Another 5

Amanda Litherland
Bronwen Raatgever
Katy Tucker
Phil Hancock
Sally Watterson

Wednesday 25 March 2009

16 more entries

There are a further 16 entries to publicise (taking the number to 449) including Chris Cale who was (amazingly) one of one two walkers in the top 20 last year under the age of 40.


Andrea Callow
Ashley Hanlon
Carol Sutcliffe
Chris Cale
Dagmar Griesinger
David Hoben
David Neill
Hannah Newton
Ian Lewandowskyj
Jill Thomas
Lorraine Boyd
Monica Ayestaran
Paul Callow
Rick Sutcliffe
Sarah Boyd
Stephen Bennett

Can we make it 500 by the weekend? Tell your friends to enter. Better still - demand that they enter!

Sunday 22 March 2009

Publicity increases - website hits go down!

I always thought that the publicity generated from the newspaper adverts for the Clerical Medical Parish Walk would see the hits on the website increase. But strangely, this week (when the adverts appeared) the number of "unique users" was at its lowest for a month. The average per day for the whole year is 89. I can only conclude that people already have the event fixed in their minds.

Here are the daily statistics:

Thursday 01 January
83
Friday 02 January
91
Saturday 03 January
51
Sunday 04 January
50
Monday 05 January
114
Tuesday 06 January
117
Wednesday 07 January
124
Thursday 08 January
102
Friday 09 January
78
Saturday 10 January
55
Sunday 11 January
85
Monday 12 January
118
Tuesday 13 January
104
Wednesday 14 January
101
Thursday 15 January
83
Friday 16 January
96
Saturday 17 January
62
Sunday 18 January
80
Monday 19 January
85
Tuesday 20 January
75
Wednesday 21 January
90
Thursday 22 January
75
Friday 23 January
87
Saturday 24 January
68
Sunday 25 January
82
Monday 26 January
89
Tuesday 27 January
80
Wednesday 28 January
77
Thursday 29 January
82
Friday 30 January
79
Saturday 31 January
46
Sunday 01 February
70
Monday 02 February
81
Tuesday 03 February
72
Wednesday 04 February
80
Thursday 05 February
79
Friday 06 February
113
Saturday 07 February
63
Sunday 08 February
80
Monday 09 February
93
Tuesday 10 February
90
Wednesday 11 February
94
Thursday 12 February
80
Friday 13 February
91
Saturday 14 February
72
Sunday 15 February
74
Monday 16 February
93
Tuesday 17 February
109
Wednesday 18 February
105
Thursday 19 February
80
Friday 20 February
94
Saturday 21 February
63
Sunday 22 February
99
Monday 23 February
119
Tuesday 24 February
111
Wednesday 25 February
80
Thursday 26 February
95
Friday 27 February
91
Saturday 28 February
57
Sunday 01 March
97
Monday 02 March
113
Tuesday 03 March
112
Wednesday 04 March
69
Thursday 05 March
76
Friday 06 March
98
Saturday 07 March
59
Sunday 08 March
94
Monday 09 March
108
Tuesday 10 March
155
Wednesday 11 March
120
Thursday 12 March
143
Friday 13 March
122
Saturday 14 March
66
Sunday 15 March
83
Monday 16 March
118
Tuesday 17 March
121
Wednesday 18 March
105
Thursday 19 March
109
Friday 20 March
79
Saturday 21 March
52

Entries slowing?

Come on everyone, I was expecting a bigger increase than this since I last updated!

Welcome to these 13 people who have entered:


Andrew Skelly
Cameron Mackintosh
Carl Glover
Danny Crowe
James Brew
Joan Scanes
Marianne Konieczny
Neil Helmer
Nicholas Stephenson
Nick Firth
Nicky Cormode
Rowena Hamilton-Hunter
Stuart Kneen

Thursday 19 March 2009

Writing a book on this entry

The most recent 20 entries (taking the field to 420) include Parish Walk author Dermot O'Toole:


Caroline Wheeler
Colin Quirk
Dermot O'Toole
Donny Strathie
Emily Bettison
Glenda Quirk
Ian Cordas
James O'Toole
Mark Kelly
Mike Callister
Ned Bowers
Paul Wood
Paula Westerman
Remo Ricciardi
Sara Susanna Watson
Sarah Broadbent
Sharon Murphy
Steve Plummer
Sue Jewell
William Craig

Monday 16 March 2009

Entries reach 400

I'm not sure who the 400th person was for the 11 additional entries:

Amanda McDonnell
Ashlee Duffy
Bill Entwistle
Dot Saunders
Hayley Sayle
Justine France
Monica Cowin
Paul Everett
Samantha Hughes
Tasha Keggin
William Hindley

Sunday 15 March 2009

Taking the entries to 389

Brian Wade
Christina Paul
Gillian Cunningham
Haydn Cubbon
Janette Gledhill
Joanne Cubbon
Karl Horne
Leon Steed
Malcolm Newton
Mark Whear
Pauline Keenan
Stephen Simpson
Susan Perry

Thursday 12 March 2009

I promised to write more today but I'm afraid its more of the same as I am running out of time.

8 entries today including Andrew Titley who has finished for the past 8 years.

Andrew Titley
Darren Mealin
Ian Dunbar
Julie Nuttall
Lisa Underwood
Maria Johnston
Robbie Stockton
Stephen Simpson

Can't blog everywhere at once

Its been a busy week with other events (and life!) and so I've missed updating this blog for a few days. Hope to do a bit more tonight but first there are a lot of entries to catch up with:


Adam Denard
Alan Cooper
Andrew Hartley
Andrew Thompson
Andrew Willoughby
Anthea Varey
Anthony Oneil
Baiba Laucina
Barry Lawson
Ben Gibney
Brian Leece
Charlotte Gash
Chris Coole
Claire Stanton
Darrin Oldam
David McCutcheon
David Whorrall
Debra Davey
Diane Holden
Frank Feeney
Gillian Manley
Helen Scott
Hilary Coulthard
Hugh McKnight
Jamie Joughin
Jane Crowe
Jayne Farquhar
Jim Reid
Kevin Jones
Laura Fenlon
Maeve Hurley
Malcolm Henderson
Mark Le Lerre
Mark Lockwood
May Fenlon
Nick Saunders
Paul Morgans
Pauline Harding
Peggy Reid
Robert Mylchreest
Roy Haskett
Roy McLean
Samantha Johnson
Sandra Halpin
Sheila Davies
Stephanie Nuttall
Terry Moffat
Tony Couperwoods
Zoe Lace

That is 369 now. Keep them coming!

Thursday 5 March 2009

Women take the lead

The latest scores on the doors:

Men 159
Women 161

Manx Harriers web editor in the latest 5 to enter

Amanda Butler
Helen Pope
Irene George
Kirk McCarthy
Paul Jackson


Paul Jackson is married to Marie, the British 50km champion, and his Uncle Denis was one of the most successful ever British walkers at 50km.

Its Paul's debut.

Tuesday 3 March 2009

Latest entries

Alina Phillips
Beckie Williams
Carolyn Gelling
Catherine Sayle
Craig Uren
Dave Horisk
David Gelling
David Goldsmith
Jade Kelly
James Michael Kelly
James Scott
Jenette Martin
Joanne Surridge
John Rose
Karen Black
Karen Inston
Karen Reynolds
Karen Watterson
Kerryanne Quilliam
Laura Goldsmith
Lynda Crebbin
Mandy Glover
Noel Ash
Pippa Edmonds
Robert Wright
Shaun Callow
Spence Waddell
Stephen Corkill
Steven Quirk
Sylvia Wright
Thomas Brew
Tina Cowper
Tracy Wickers

315 in total although it took me half an hour to reconcile the list after somebody changed their name!