The 2012 Manx Telecom Parish Walk
Starts from the National Sports Centre, Douglas at 8 am on 23 June 2012
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Manx Radio provide live updates from around the course throughout the 24 hours covering both the front of the field and the walkers who have more modest goals with particular focus on walkers reaching Peel. They make full use of the Manx Telecom results service to broadcast updates and messages to walkers from the studio.
Sports Editor Tim Glover will be back fronting Manx Radio's wall to wall coverage.
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To say that Isle of Man Newspapers provide extensive coverage of the Parish Walk would be an understatement. Their three weekly papers cover the previews, results and reports, photo spreads, and sponsorship presentations.
Sports Editor John Watterson has been covering the Parish Walk for 27 years.
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The BBC have provided extensive media coverage for the past four years on regional TV and their website. Their three local journalists, Ariane Barua, Mark Edwards and Kelly Foran, will all assist in the coverage of the 2012 event.
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Other local media
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Information: Race Walking Record is the magazine aimed at people who pursue walking as a serious competitive activity. RWR was started in 1941 and has been distributed worldwide for 70 years. Current readers include several Olympic medallists, other famous sportsmen, The International Olympic Committee (IOC), UK Athletics (UKA), The International Athletics Federation (IAAF), USA Olympic Committee (USOC), and Australia's National Sport Information Center (NSIC). The Parish Walk Special is the first ever special edition produced by RWR, and the 2012 edition is the fourth year that it will be produced. It is being produced in recognition that the Parish Walk has become the most significant walk in and around the UK and is intended to help promote walking within the Isle of Man, and in turn promote the Parish Walk to the rest of the world. The special will be an A5 magazine containing 36 full colour pages of results, photos, reports and useful information. John Constandinou, Editor: Race Walking Record. |
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In 2005 Dermot O'Toole launched his book "A Walk Through Time" - a detailed history of the Manx Telecom Parish Walk. Eventually he will be publishing a second edition. In addition to writing reports for each of the years 2005 to 2012 (and making a few corrections) he wants to freshen it up and add some new photos. If you have any photos from any era in the Parish Walk then please email Dermot here.
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Email contacts
Elizabeth Corran (race secretary)
parishwalk.com is a part of manxathletics.com an independent site designed, edited and funded by Murray Lambden The event is organised by Manx Harriers and sponsored by Manx Telecom neither of whom are responsible for the content of the site. Race information and results are published here on behalf of the organisers together with independent pictures, statistics and general information compiled by the editor. The links to the live timing provided by SPORTident and sponsored by Manx Telecom are on a separate computer and not controlled by the editor. He is, however, grateful to both parties for making the information available to him. Thanks to the Parish Walk committee of Manx Harriers for organising a great event. All of the information on this site is published in good faith but the publisher cannot accept any liability for any inaccuracies which, if identified, will be corrected as soon as possible. Murray's Parish Walk Blog