Sunday, 7 February 2010

These were Friday' entries

I posted them on the wrong blog!

Catriona Farrant

Ian Wakley

John Watterson

Thursday, 4 February 2010

247 entries now

Susan Cannell

Damian Devlin

Kevin Edge

Tom Haworth

Adrian Hogg

Helen Lamming Joe Lamming

Sharon Lund

3 updates the site

I'm pleased to confirm that you can now order the Race Walking Record special edition.

There is a link on the Media page or you can follow it from here:


I've corrected the age at which featured walker Dave Fereday ran his 57.25 - he was 22 and not 19.

Finally, on the Organising Page, I have updated the wording about the change of sponsors and their common membership of the Lloyds Banking Group.

I can go for my run now!

Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Random averages

The average finishing time for a woman in 2009 was 21:15:48.


The average time during the past three years over the final leg from Onchan to the Finish is 33:42.

4 entries take total to 239

Stephen Bell

Martin Blyth

James Russell

Nick Saunders

Monday, 1 February 2010

Three more in 24 hours

James Devaney

Adrian Jones

Darren Shaw

Nothing like the last 8 years

For 40 odd years the average winning time of the Parish Walk didn't change that much.

There have now been 48 Parish Walks (remember although they started in 1960 the event was not held in 1965 or 1966).

First 10: 1960 to 1971: 16:54:53

Second 10: 1972 to 1981: 16:55:20

Third 10: 1982 to 1991: 17:02:32

Fourth 10: 1992 to 2001: 16:47:07

Although the first 10 included Graham Young's 15:43 and Leece Kneale's 16:05, they were weighed down by the first race of 19:50 and four others over 17 hours.

The second 10 included Derek Harrison's 15.20 but you must remember that between 1975 and 1977 the event was in decline with an average winning time of only 18:30.

The third 10 was the slowest ever although more consistent with only 1 over 18 hours and one marginally inside 16 hours.

The fourth saw even more consistency with the winner under 17 hours on 7 occasions and nothing over 18 hours.

So after 40 races the average was 16:54:58.

The average for the last 8 years has been 15:35:49.

Here are all the winning times for the last 8 years:

Robbie Callister 16:34:30 Peter Kaneen 15:26:07 Robbie Callister 15:26:31 Robbie Callister 15:24:24 Sean Hands 14:47:36 Robbie Callister 15:36:47 Jock Waddington 15:44:43 Jock Waddington 15:45:56