ANOTHER bumper 300-plus turnout maintained Bolton parkrun's growing momentum on the local running calendar.

This week there were 317 runners of whom 61 were first timers while 53 new personal bests were set and 22 different athletics clubs represented.

Paul Massey, Thomas Fletcher and Luke Massey (Horwich RMI Harriers) were the first three men home while Shauna Murphy (Salford Harriers and AC), Liz McLellan (Bolton Metro Triathlon Club) and Paula Pilling (Burnden Road Runners) were their female counterparts.

Steve Nolan (83.14 per cent), Paul Massey (78.94 per cent) and Katy Thompson (77.09 per cent) scored the day’s highest age gradings.

Philip Donlan collected his third personal best in four weeks, with a cool 25mins 11secs.

Elspeth Harper scored her first new PB since September last year not far behind in 25:17. Lynda Davenport’s new time of 28:34 is an overall improvement of almost two and a half minutes, while Mustafa Logde’s 25:39 is not far off a 13-minute overall improvement.

With 61 first timers, you can be forgiven for asking who wasn’t a parkrun tourist this week?

We had around 30 runners join us from Heaton Park, as well as runners from Burnley, Pennington Flash and Havant (near Portsmouth) parkruns.

Runner of the week: One week after completing his 100th parkrun, Ryan Kitchen earned his first new PB since May 2013, completing the course in 26:51.

We have more than 5,000 people who have Bolton parkrun set as their home parkrun. With around 53 events per year, we only need a small group of those to help out as volunteers just once a year to keep the event turning over. If you are interested email BoltonOffice@parkrun.com for more information.