parkrun stats of the week...28th September 2013

The parkrun statistics of note for last weekend are:
- 310 parkrun events run (NEW RECORD - Breaking the previous record by 7 events!)
- 45,495 runners ((NEW RECORD - Breaking the previous record by over 1000 runners!)

The average number of runners per parkrun event run was: 146.7.

25 parkrun events recorded new record attendances last weekend, as follows:

Event		Record Attendance
Ally Pally		92
Antrim		176
Barnsley		150
Canning River		123
Darley		129
Doncaster		165
Fingal Bay		134
Frimley Lodge		466
Great Lines		144
Guildford		215
Hanley		104
Lake Mac		264
Leszno		77
Merimbula		59
Plymvalley		151
Roodepoort		149
Root 44		168
Sandon Point		61
Shrewsbury		265
St Annes		233
St Peters		292
Toowoomba		219
Tuggeranong		137
Voortrekker Monument		216
York		239

Event		Record Attendance	Record Week
Amager Faelled		146	28/08/2010

The longest standing parkrun attendance record is:

And in the UK it's:

Hackney Marshes

75

21/05/2011

The highest attendance this week was exactly 963 at Bushy parkrun.
And outside the UK it was 487 at Newy parkrun in Australia.

The lowest attendance this week was just 5 at Durham NC parkrun. 

117 runners ran under 17 minutes around the world of parkrun last weekend. 19 of them under 16 minutes. And 2 Unknown ATHLETEs ran under 15 minutes at Brighton & Hove parkrun.

9 years of parkrun (birthday) growth

Happy Birthday parkrun, 9 years old today. And to use the line we normally use with nine year olds...."Wow, haven't you grown!".

parkrun birthday weekends over the last 9 years have had the following turnouts:

Sat 2nd October 2004, Bushy parkrun, 13 runners

Sat 8th October 2005, Bushy parkrun, 56 runners

Sat 7th October 2006, Bushy parkrun, 378 runners

Sat 6th October 2007, 4 events, 681 runners

Sat 4th October 2008, 10 events, 1315 runners

Sat 3rd October 2009, 20 events, 2913 runners

Sat 2nd October 2010, 46 events, 5718 runners

Sat 8th October 2011, 95 events, 10179 runners

Sat 6th October 2012, 176 events, 23676 runners

Yet another example of parkrun very roughly doubling in size each and every year, both in number of events and the number of runners (since 2006 at least anyway).

And you can almost be sure that this weekend, 2013 will add a new parkrun birthday edition boasting roughly:

310 events and 45000 runners

Happy Birthday parkrun.

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