parkrun registration stats this week 8th February 2013

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 5,284 registrations in a week, 860 more than at the same time last week.

This takes the total number of global parkrun registrations (according to my official source page on the parkrun website) up to 439,521 (up from  434,237). That is a growth in total registrations of over 1.2% in a week.

As far as I am aware, there is just 1 new parkrun starting this weekend:
Lake Macquarie (AKA Lake Mac) parkrun in Australia - welcome on board.

Malahide parkrun remains at the top of the charts in the number of new registrations category this week  with 127 new registrations in the week. Malahide parkrun has only been going for about 3 months and already it is the 47th largest parkrun by number of registrations.

9 different parkrun events have added 50 or more new registrants this weekand they are:

Event	Total	This week
Malahide parkrun	2676	127
Newy parkrun	2707	99
South Bank parkrun	923	92
Nahoon Point parkrun	2440	83
Lake Mac parkrun	123	81
Telford parkrun	168	69
New Farm parkrun	4588	66
Cheltenham parkrun	235	57
Carlisle parkrun	431	55

No great surprises in the "largest parkrun in the world" category this week, where it is still the same top 5:

Event	Total
Bushy parkrun	21519
Glasgow parkrun	12792
Leeds parkrun	11572
Brighton & Hove parkrun	10366
Wimbledon Common parkrun	10018

Wimbledon Common parkrun has now become the 5th parkrun with over 10,000 registered runners!

And at the other end of the spectrum, but just as worthy of a mention we have:

Event	Total
Wallace parkrun, Lisburn	1
Delamere parkrun	17
Tuggeranong parkrun	19
Thetford parkrun	49
Scunthorpe parkrun	56

There are also two other parkrun events listed but with no registered runners at present:

Hackworth parkrun

Llyn Llech Owain parkrun

Again the top three of these appear to be new parkrun events showing up in the new registrations page for the first time. Always great to see some new events on the horizon.

On this day in parkrun history...8th February

Well I was going to write a post about the number of parkrunners that took part on one 8th February parkrunday from some time over the last 8 years or so.

However, it turns out that there has never been an 8th February parkrun, which was quite a surprise.

My maths is a little shaky these days and I can't quite remember what the calculation was for how many years it takes for every date to have appeared on each day of the week. I think the start date has some bearing on this too. But I suspect it is something like 13 years at worst before all combinations of dates and Saturdays have occurred.

So I'm afraid I can't give you any parkrun stats for the 8th February just yet.

Something to look forward to though, next year the 8th February will be Saturday and make its parkrunday debut.

I really do need to get out more!

If you want to read more pointless parkrun stats, why not check out some more of the parkrunfans blog!

parkrun stats of the week...2nd February 2013

The parkrun statistics of note for this week are:

196 parkrun events run (up 53 on last week, equalling the most ever one one parkrunday!)
26,296 runners (up 10,594 on last week)
Great to see the levels return towards the recent highs.

The average number of runners per parkrun event run was: 134.1 (up 24 on last week!).

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

Event		Record Attendance
Barnstaple		75
Carlisle		117
Chelmsford Central		87
Claisebrook Cove		124
Cornwall Park		116
Coventry		389
Crystal Palace		127
Edinburgh		393
Ginninderra		120
Gladstone		77
Hillsborough		172
Lower Hutt		137
Mile End		108
North Lakes		99
Queens		85
Temple Newsam		257
Wolverhampton		103
Wynnum		135

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

And in the UK it's:
Gorleston    156    19/03/2011

The highest attendance this week was 919 at Bushy Park.

The lowest attendance this week was 8 at Vejen parkrun.

16 new male course records set this week (12 more than last week!). The men finally managed to beat the women this week!:

Event	Athlete	Time
Chelmsford Central	Malcolm MUIR	17:00
Hillsborough	Robert BAKER	17:02
Temple Newsam	Leon FOSTER	17:21
Wolverhampton	David SMITH	16:25
Wimpole Estate	Paul MAKOWSKI	18:39
Congleton	Marc HARTLEY	15:55
Torrens	Jacob COCKS	15:08
Mansfield	Stuart KING	15:51
Southend	Ben PAVIOUR	16:22
Kirra	Caine WARBURTON	16:01
Dulwich	Thomas PAYN	15:01
Wynnum	Werner BOTHA	16:23
Inverness	Donnie MACDONALD	16:44
Livonia	Thomas PREISS	18:10
Oxford	Steven NAYLOR	16:09
Worsley Woods	John BROWN	16:19

7 new female course records set this week (the same as last week):

Event		Athlete	Time
Bryn Bach		Lauren JESKA	18:10
Chelmsford Central		June ALLEN	18:45
Hillsborough		Sally FAWCETT	19:28
Launceston		Deborah PAUNA	19:54
Sunrise-on-Sea		Cristin FLYNN	24:59
Temple Newsam		Hannah OLDROYD	19:38
Wolverhampton		Kathryn MORGANS	19:54

72 runners (up 28 on last week) ran times under 17 minutes this week. This is the highest number of 17 minuters that I have seen whilst I have been looking at the weekly stats.

9 of these runners (up 5 on last week) ran under 16 minutes!
The fastest parkrunner in the World was Thomas Payne running 15:01 at Dulwich parkrun. So close to the first sub-15 minute parkrun for a few weeks.

The fastest 9 were as follows:

Event		Athlete	Time
Dulwich		Thomas PAYN	15:01
Torrens		Jacob COCKS	15:08
Heaton Park		Bruno LIMA	15:26
Bushy Park		Nathan WHITE	15:33
Cardiff		Stephen PATERSON	15:44
Cardiff		Graham BREEN	15:48
Mansfield		Stuart KING	15:51
Valentines		James CONNOR	15:55
Congleton		Marc HARTLEY	15:55

The top age grade performance this week was:

Event		Athlete	Time	Age Group	Age Grade
Torrens		Maureen MOYLE	19:42	VW55-59	93.15%

The fastest (valid) freedom run on the "most recent 100" list at the moment is (still):

Runner	Date	Location	Run Time
Jonathan WILLIAMS	26/01/2013	Glasgow	19:54