Its all about me. Well it certainly is not but this post feels like that.....maybe you next?

Forgive my indulgence.

One of the reasons I put this little fun parkrun Yorkshire league together was to allow me to understand my running better and to be able to compare parkruns. Now with Graves changing their course  (making it a tad shorter to 5km) that does not help me, but I will put my fingers in my ears with that – for now.

Below are my results so far from 2103 and 2014 and I can see where I have got better and worse. I’ll also be looking at others times in this way as the final results of 2014 come in certainly in private, anyone any objections if I share on here?

	Overall Time
		Graves	Hull	Peter Pan	Leeds	Pontefract	Scunthorpe	Sewerby	York	Total
2013	Mark Gadie	00:23:00	00:20:24	00:23:40	00:21:39	00:21:10	00:20:56	00:21:01	00:20:33	2:52:23
2014	Mark Gadie	00:21:39	00:20:13	00:22:39	00:20:30	00:21:26	00:20:45	00:21:48	00:20:26	2:49:26
	Age Grade
2013	Mark Gadie	57.03%	63.97%	55.14%	60.59%	61.65%	62.34%	62.09%	63.83%	486.64%
2014	Mark Gadie	60.89%	65.21%	57.91%	64.31%	61.20%	63.53%	60.17%	64.52%	497.74%

So my overall time (decrease) and Age Grade (increase) has improved from 2013 to 2014 which is certainly good. I was faster at 6 out of the 8 courses in 2014. There are always anomalies like I was running with my dog at Pontefract in 2014 and she had a pit stop so that slowed me down, but I can take generalisations. I was faster in 2014 then 2013 and my age grade has improved too as I (rather surprising I know) got older in the last year. I can see the courses where I want to go back and give it another bash, but the year is running out….. but it is not over yet, I may get back to one of the 8 course, though 21.01 at Sewerby in 2013…how did I manage that!! Think Pontefract maybe is in my sights…if the weather holds. Surly I can run a sub 21 there?

2015, will I be faster or slower? Will the Hull Marathon become my A race and will I slow down? Time will tell. 

Enjoy your parkrunning...

9th of November Update

Hi all,

First to start off with a correction from last time. John Broom was down as having run 40 parkruns in England and 3 in Wales. I have just been through all of Johns runs for 2014 and that was incorrect. John as done 39 in England and 4 in Wales at the time of the last update. This will be reflected in the results going forward. I think my mistake was not recognising Colby as a Welsh parkrun.

So for this update:

Keith Littlewood has risen to the top of the Age Grade league but the battle rages with John Broom in not only this table but the other two as well. It seems both time is running out for Gregan to put up a fight…will he make the charge up the Age Grade and Overall Time tables? Im aware Gregan took a few wrong turns at Graves parkrun too, which certainly has not helped his claim.

The Unique Runs table is looking very top heavy with John and Keith really going for it. I wonder if Keith has any trips over the water to come, or if John will be visiting Wales again…

Nice to see Dave Playforth get a good time at Sewerby as he comes back from a long injury layoff and Dawn too seems to be on her way back. Still amazing Age Grade scores for Dawn even through all her injury setbacks.

Last point, we don’t see many 80% plus age grade scores. Keith managed that at Leeds last week, well done Keith.

The 80%+ scores so far this year:

Keith Littlewood 80.02% at Leeds

Gregan Clarkson 80.83% at Hull

Phill Taylor 80.55% at Hull

Keep on parkrunning…

Overall Times

Age Grade

Unique Runs