parkrun statistics of the week

The parkrun statistics of note for this week (29th December) are:
187 parkrun events run
17,765 runners
The average number of runners per parkrun event run was: 95.

4 events recorded a new record attendance this week, as follows:

Event		Record Attendance
Ipswich		108
Havant		116
Woodley		174
Torrens		59

The longest standing parkrun attandance record is:
Amager Faelled  146 28/08/2010

And in the UK its:
Old Deer Park  83 15/01/2011

The highest attendance this week was 615 at Bushy Park. No surprise there. Bushy parkrun still holds the global attendance record for a single event of 1000.

The lowest attendance this week was 5 at Vejen parkrun.

6 new male course records set this week (the men winning this week!):

Event	Athlete	Time
Claisebrook Cove	Liam FUERY	16:24
Congleton	Oliver LANGFORD	16:17
Darlington South Park	Michael BLEASBY	16:29
Kawana	Greg SIMPSON	17:27
Norwich	Piers ARNOLD	15:20
Tilgate	Neil Robert BONIFACE	16:08

5 new female course records set this week:

Event		Athlete	Time
Norwich		Olivia WALWYN	17:02
Alice Holt		Sarah HILL	19:52
Hilly Fields		Clare ELMS	19:13
St Andrews		Shona ROBERTSON	19:35
Princes		Jocelyn PAYNE	18:49

An impressive 57 runners ran times under 17 minutes this week.
8 of these ran under 16 minutes and 1 under 15 minutes.

The fastest parkrunner in the World this week was Rob Mullett running an incredible 14:35 at Brighton & Hove parkrun.

The top age grade performance this week was by Peter Sandery who ran 19:28 in the VM70-74 category at Torrens parkrun, recording a 91.70% Age Grade in the process. Very impressive!

60 parkrun freedom runs were recorded this week. The fastest freedom run recorded the week was 20:58 by Ian Giggs at Black Park parkrun on 26th December 2012.