Friday 4 October 2013

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:

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

Record Attendance  Record Week  
Amager Faelled14628/08/2010
The longest standing parkrun attendance record is:

And in the UK it's:

Hackney Marshes7521/05/2011

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.

Wednesday 2 October 2013

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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