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Its Kelly from the Isle of Man

The Parish Walk has definitely kept its Manxness judging by the names of the entrants. Here are the most common surnames:

Kelly 23

Cain 12

Moore 11

Callister 11

Smith 10

Callow 10

Webb 9

Quayle 9

Jones 9

Some of the most popular names

There are seven of these:


Walker
Taylor
Crellin
Cowley
Clague
Christian
Cannell

And eight of these:


Cowin
Quirk
Murphy
Davies

Did you know that the Parish Walk was to be held on Thursday 18 June?

The weather has been fantastic in the Isle of Man during the past few days. It would be too hot if the Parish Walk had been held today. Despite the awful weather last year I don't think that walkers would have been slowed as much as they would be by extreme heat.

I've been back running in the early mornings and the weather couldn't be better for that.

In the evening too. I went for a walk with Marie around town last night and we continued the game started by a famous walker and his family a few years ago of trying to work out which of the brisk walkers are training for the Parish Walk.

But we met one entrant who was training on ice cream. You may remember Geoff Kinvig (above) being pictured with Robbie Callister and Sean Hands at a feeding station in the End to End Walk a couple of years ago. He has walked to Peel and Ballaugh in the last couple of years and hopes to make it "up North" this year.

We took some light refreshment and overheard a barman talking about the Parish Walk to one of the customers. I think he was complaining about the prospect of the roads being blocked somewhere by "thousands" of walkers. The customer asked him when the walk was held and he said: "As far as I know its on Thursday 18 June".

He shouldn't have any problems with the roads being blocked then!

6 of each of the following have entered the race

Allen
Bell
Brew
Clarke
Corlett
Cubbon
Hughes
Martin
Roberts
Teare
Thomas
Watterson

6th featured walker

I have just finished compiling and editing the sixth special feature of the 2009 Clerical Medical Parish Walk website.

I am going to wait for the featured walker to confirm that they are happy with the content before I publish it - hopefully tomorrow.

Numbers 51 to 100

51
Chris
Murphy
Finisher 2007 and 2008

52
Janet
Allen
Finisher 2005 and 2006

53
Peter
Wood
Finisher 2002, 2004 and 2006

54
John
Callow
Finisher 2005, 2006 and 2008

55
Anthony
Atkinson
Fnisher 2006, 2007 and 2008

56
Jane
Crowe
Finisher 2007 and 2008

57
Ernie
Radcliffe
Finisher 2006, 2007 and 2008

58
Malcolm
Newton
Finisher 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2008

59
Ian
Ashcroft
Finisher 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007

60
Peter
Bettridge
Finisher 2007

61
Robert
Wright
Finisher 2006 and 2007

62
Alex
Wijsman
Finisher 2008

63
Richard
Spenceley
Finisher 2007 & 2008

64
Michael
Bonney
Finisher 2007 & 2008

65
Lisa
Motley
Finisher 2004 and 2006

66
Kevin
Graham
Finisher 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006

67
Irene
Taggart
Finisher eleven times

68
David
Cretney
Finisher 2006 and 2007

69
Bernadette
Devlin
Finisher 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007

70
Adrian
Beale
Finisher 2000, 2002, 2005 and 200

71
Mark
Honeyman
Finisher 2005

72
Mark
Kinley
Finisher 2007

73
David
Clucas
Finisher 2007

74
Bob
Corrin
Finisher 2007

75
John
Hunter
Finisher 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007

76
Louise
Thomas
Finishser 2004 and 2006

77
Bob
Noonan
Finisher 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007

78
Colin
Moore
Finisher 2006

79
David
Anderson
Finisher 2005 and 2007

80
Ian
Comish
Finisher 2007 and 2008

81
Paul
Morgans
Finisher 2006 and 2007

82
Glenn
Weir
Finisher 2004 and 2006

83
Sean
Murphy
Finisher 2007

84
Ian
Dunbar
Finisher 2008

85
Bethany
Clague
Finisher 2005, 2006 and 2008

86
Robert
Corrin
Finisher 2004

87
Jenny
Davies
Finisher 2006

88
Joanne
Cubbon
Finisher 2005

89
Haydn
Cubbon
Finisher 2005

90
Jane
Cross
Finisher 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2006

91
David
James
Finisher 2006

92
Kath
Kelly
Finisher 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008

93
Richard
Gerrard
Finisher 2008

94
Edward
Marshall
Finisher 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2008

95
Perry
Downward
Finisher 2008

96
Steve
Allen
Finisher 2007

97
Paul
Boulton
Finisher 2007

98
John
Watterson
Finisher 2007 and 2008

99
Brian
Connolly
Finisher 2006, 2007 and 2008

100
Gordon
Erskine
Finisher 2006 & 2007