Fastest 10 parkruns, by male course record

These are the fastest 10 parkrun events, by male course record.

That doesn't really mean that these are the fastest courses, especially where the record holders are Olympians (Andrew Baddeley and Jonathan Brownlee), but they might just be anyway. At the very least, they are all very impressive times:

Event	Athlete	Time
Bushy Park	Andrew BADDELEY	13:48:00
Brighton & Hove	Benjamin Michael TICKNER	14:30:00
Edinburgh	Ross TOOLE	14:31:00
Newcastle	Ian HUDSPITH	14:36:00
Cardiff	Michael E JOHNSON	14:40:00
Ginninderra	Martin DENT	14:42:00
Riverside	Yared HAGOS	14:43:00
York	Jonathan BROWNLEE	14:43:00
Hull	Ian KIMPTON	14:46:00
Poole	Richard HORTON	14:47:00

parkrun registration stats this week

There is still a little time for new registrations this week, but at the time of writing and compared to the figures in my post this time last week....

Totalling up new registrations across parkrun globally, shows that parkrun has attracted a further 2508 registrations this week.

This takes the total number of global parkrun registrations (according to my official source page on the parkrun website) up to 398,499 (up from 395,991). That is a growth of 0.6% on last week.

It would therefore appear that parkrun should break-through the 400,000 registrations mark sometime in the next few days. If it hasn't already that is, as the stats are sometimes a bit behind real registrations, or so I believe.

No new parkruns starting this week, but next weekend sees the addition of Darlington South Park parkrun and Congleton parkrun to the parkrun family.

Four runs in and Malahide parkrun continues to be top of the charts in the number of new registrations category, this week adding yet another 99 new registrants so far. That is now five weeks (including before their first event) in a row that Malahide parkrun has added the most new registrations. Amazing growth at Malahide parkrun.

parkrun events showing notable growth in registrations this week are:

Event	Total	This week
Malahide parkrun	1276	99
Newy parkrun	1885	48
St Peters parkrun	2125	38
Nahoon Point parkrun	1625	37

No great surprises in the "largest parkrun in the world" category this week, where it is still:

Event	Total
Bushy parkrun	20952
Glasgow parkrun	12313
Leeds parkrun	11143
Brighton & Hove parkrun	9979

Brighton and Hove parkrun there closing in on 10,000 registrants! Next week probably, for an early Christmas present.

And at the other end of the spectrum, but just as worthy of a mention we have (including a new entry):

Event	Total
Darlington South Park parkrun	4
Upton Court parkrun	36
Congleton parkrun	41

Politicians at parkrun

Having recently been made aware that Harriet Harman MP has run a parkrun, I started to wonder whether any other politicians run at parkrun. Who are these parkrun politicians? So I decided to do a little digging and this is what I found.

Of course I am not 100% certain that all of these are the politicians, but it would be nice to think that some of them might be:

David Cameron, Waterworks parkrun, 1 run
George Osbourne, Bushy parkrun, 3 runs
Ken Livingston(e), Bramhall parkrun, 175 runs
Ed Ball(he left the 's' off for anonimity), Cardiff parkrun, 6 runs
Gordon Brown, Falkirk, 3 runs

There are a few MPs from yester-year too:
(Sir) Patrick Mayhew, Harrogate parkrun, 2 runs
David Steele, Edinburgh parkrun, 86 runs
Michael Foot, Albert Melbourne parkrun, 5 runs
James Callaghan, Brockwell parkrun, 2 runs
Harry Wilson (his less formal name), Grovelands parkrun, 1 run

And of course:
William Pitt (the much younger I assume),  Swindow parkrun, 5 runs

And from the US, we have a few ex-presidents now making the occasional parkrun appearance:
George Bush, Worcester parkrun, 2 runs
John Kennedy, Bedfont Lakes parkrun, 4 runs
Andrew Johnson, Bramhall parkrun, 3 runs
John Adams, Coventry parkrun, 6 runs
Benjamin Harrison, Newport parkrun, 1 run

There are also those that have signed up but haven't yet run:
Will(iam) Hague, Tom Jefferson, Richard Nixon and Gerald(ine) Ford

I'm sure there must be more political figures at parkrun, but these are all I have managed to find so far.