It's Christmas morning, the Church bells are ringing, the children are singing and the parkrunners are gathering.

In Eaton Park there are 548 happy parkrunners around the bandstand dressed in Christmas attire going through their pre run rituals before the start of the Norwich parkrun.

And across the River Yare just 1.3 miles away there is a similar scene where 249 runners are gathering around the UEA sports pavillion to run the Colney Lane parkrun.

9am is the magic moment.

The results are as follows -

Norwich (Eaton Park):

79th Tate Devlin 20:52 (61.82%) 24 runs

130th Philip Websdale 22:47 (63.72%) 101 runs

138th Jenson Devlin 22:59 (58.74%) 15 runs

202nd Kareana Symonds 25:07 (61.25%) 139 runs

279th Natisha Ramsbottom 27:18 (54.21%) 136 runs (PB)

280th Wayne Melvyn Ramsbottom 27:18 (55.80%) 187 runs

457th Carol Devlin 34:26 (53.29%) 36 runs

493rd John Robert Richardson 36:49 (46.85%) 336 runs

548 runners.

Colney Lane:

77th Louise Hudson 26:46 (57.91%) 274 runs

94th Deborah Last 27:36 (59.30%) 103 runs

95th Robert Last 27:36 (50.60%) 132 runs

136th Bella Green 29:44 (52.13%) 57 runs

139th Beatrice Green 29:51 (55.72%) 77 runs

140th Daniel Green 29:52 (46.04%) 131 runs

154th Megan Oram 30:49 (50.68%) 44 runs

177th Henrietta Green 32:43 (47.38%) 162 runs

215th Adrian Hollis 35:56 (42.76%) 136 runs

249 runners.

Catton:

95th Paul Richardson 25:55 (64.12%) 73 runs

351 runners

Brandon Country Park:

112th Sarah Lake 37:33 (41.28%) 195 runs

131 runners.

Bury St Edmunds:

134th Stuart Bizley 29:35 (54.20%) 87 runs

234 runners.

Merry Christmas everyone !