So there we have it last parkrun of 2014 is complete. The tables
are updated and as expected it was very close indeed.
Overall Time
Winner of the Overall time competition is Gregan Clarkson who
completed the 8 courses an amazing 10 minutes and 53 seconds faster than second
place John Broom. Congratulations Gregan on retaining your title! John was 1
minute 51 seconds quicker than 3rd place Keith Littlewood. Keith
beat me into 4th by a ridiculous 23 minutes and 34 seconds! Paul
Backon was the only other person to complete all 8 parkruns.
Gregan completed the same courses last year in 2:13:35 so he
has an improvement of 27 seconds, setting a new record! John overall time is
2:32:38 (8 minutes 37 seconds quicker than last year) and myself in 2:52:23 (2
minutes 27 quicker). Paul is a new entry for 2014 so nothing to compare to from
2013
Age Grade
The winner of the Age Grade (WAVA) competition is Gregan
Clarkson, congratulations Gregan. Dawn Broom was last years winner, Dawn has
struggled with injury this year and Gregan has been able to add this to his
collection. In second place this year is John Broom who is only 0.76% behind Gregan.
A further 0.45% behind was Keith Littlewood in 3rd place.
Gregan’s WAVA score of 625.54% does not set a record though,
Dawns score of 626.71% still stands from 2013. Something to aim for Gregan?
Unique parkruns
John Broom retains his position as number 1 in this table,
but was seriously made to work/travel for it! Last year John scored an
impressive 31 points beating Dawn Broom by 2. This year John amassed 60 points
pushed all the way by Keith with 59 points. Trips to Wales seems to have won
over trips to Ireland. Dawn Broom came in 3rd position with 9 points
more than 2013 but one place lower. I hope all the traveling to different
parkrun has been rewarding, same again next year? Since I will be in Australia
for a few weeks in 2015 I propose a 10 point bonus for a parkrun south of the
equator! I joke of course….
So there we have it. I hope to do some analysis on the
runners who competed in 2013 and 2014 but I need to find some elusive time to
do that. Any personal objections to any analysis please let me know.
We have one new entrant so far for next year, Stephen
Maddison, any others please contact me. Do we have anyone who wants to be taken of the list? Checking people each
update who seem to have no real involvement in the leagues is a little frustrating.
Happy to have everyone who want to be involved, involved. Any new entrants for
2015 need to let me know by the end of February. The end of next year could
have a delayed final official update as I intend to be abroad.
Enjoy New Years day parkruns and 2015…..
Final Tables below:
Overall Time:
Age Grade:
Unique parkruns:
