Parkrun Report Saturday 17/02/18 by Roxane Pratt

Pos Parkrunner Time Cat Grade Cat Pos Note Runs Parkrun
9 John HOWARD 18:56 VM45-49 76.06% 9 First timer! 18 Burnham
105 Liz MARTIN 30:10 VW60-64 64.31% 18 PB stays at 00:25:20 84 Ham Hill
97 Susan WHITE 29:44 VW50-54 59.30% 15 PB stays at 00:24:39 105 Ham Hill
49 Colin EVANS 26:10 VM45-49 55.03% 43 PB stays at 00:20:51 117 Ham Hill
201 Nick PRATT 27:11 VM50-54 54.69% 170 PB stays at 00:24:43 116 Solihull Brueton
72 Richard GANDY 28:03 VM50-54 52.58% 62 First timer! 62 Ham Hill
269 David GERMAN 39:21 VM75-79 52.18% 146 PB stays at 00:33:21 113 Burnham
207 Michael NORTON 50:03 VM45-49 28.54% 128 PB stays at 00:24:48 37 Ham Hill

The better weather this week attracted a higher turn out at Ham Hill Parkrun. As Tail Walker, Mike saw a different view of the event. He came into the funnel at 207th, encouraging those near the back to keep going. Richard Gandy tried Ham Hill for the first time, regulars Sue, Liz and Colin also took part and ran well. There will be one last run at Ham Hill, before it moves back to the Montacute House on 3rd March.

John tells me it was cool and a little windy at Burnham. His first Parkrun there, he ran an impressive sub 19 minutes, finishing 9th and topping our table. This week Burnham had organised pacers for 21,23,25,27,30,35 & 40 minutes. The results show a huge 83 PBs out of the 297 runners, suggesting having pacers does push people to run that bit faster. Shelly Romans paced to the 40 minute target. She was pleased to have helped one runner to his PB. Mark was another runner achieving a PB with a speedy 21:07 Dave also achieved a respectable percentage. To the relief of the organisers, there were no timing issues this week.

Nick ran his 28th Solihull Brueton Parkrun. There was a slight change of route due to soggy paths and the regular slow start with 500 runners.

Longrun Parkrun had a Valentine’s theme at their event and Shepton had their ‘Junior takeover day’.

 

For statistical nerds, here are some facts from last Saturday’s UK Parkruns:

Cardiff becomes the fourth UK parkrun to join the four-digit-club (after Bushy, Cannon Hill and Southampton).

Biggest parkruns: Bushy Park (1249), Cardiff (1192), Southampton (1031), Poole (733), Cannon Hill (701), Newcastle (651), Sheffield Hallam (642), Tooting Common (641), Coventry (628), Black Park (619).

Median parkrun: Crane Park (210).

Smallest parkruns: Ganavan Sands (38), Maesteg (37), Merthyr (31), Cheadle Hulme (30), Drumchapel (29), Windy Nook (27), Bevendean Down (23), Rostrevor (20), Lower Drummans (17), Millom (16), Black Combe (15).

New records / new parkruns: Cardiff (1192), Southsea (473), Crewe (395), Antrim (324), Didcot (244), Great Denham (240), Brockenhurst (236), Elgin (217), Cirencester (211), Bedworth (150).

There were 492 parkruns, 12 cancellations, and the total UK 5K parkrun population was 119917.

Of the parkruns that took place both last week and this week:

330 parkruns had higher attendance than last week,

130 parkruns had lower attendance than last week,

Rostrevor, Lullingstone, Plean, Rutland Water, Norwich, had precisely the same as last week,

The biggest increase in attendance (in terms of absolute numbers) was Cardiff, with a change of 562,

The biggest increase in attendance (in terms of percentages) was Haverfordwest, with a change of 164%,

The biggest drop in attendance (in terms of absolute numbers) was Pontefract, with a change of -131,

The biggest drop in attendance (in terms of percentages) was Peacehaven, with a change of -35%.

 

(1) Pacer Bibs at Burnham

1 pacers

 (2) Sunshine at Ham Hill

4 Mike Ham 

(3) John,  Dave and Shelly at Burnham 2 John DS

 3 Mark

(4) Mark finishing with a PB