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...