Update April 10th

Hello everyone,

Please see the tables for the latest positions. We have a new member Kay Farrow how contacted me in February to join. So lots of yellow splashed everywhere and too many good runs to pick out a few. Plenty going on gave a good look at the tables and set your sights on your next parkruns! Weather is so much nicer now but not too hot so this is the time of year to get those scoring runs in, if your fit and ready to go. Ill be at Hull tomorrow so anyone there, say hi.

Any mistakes please let me know, ill correct next update.

All the best,

Mark

Overall Time

 Age Grade League

Mini League

Unique Run League

Update 4th March

It’s been a while I hope you are all enjoying your parkruns!

I have visited York and Rotherham in the last two weeks and enjoyed both. York I have been to before but Rotherham was my first time. It’s a three lap course, undulating but very nice. All paths and reminded me of how Hull was about 4 years ago with a turnout around 50. I can certainly recommend a visit.

So the leagues, what’s what. We have 5 people that have run three of the courses in the main league at Gregan has picked up a decent lead in the overall time and WAVA. My fiancée Kristina Rose is propping up the tables as the only competitor not to have run. That said she is on her way back and ran at Rotherham last week.

John and Dawn Broom are 4 points ahead on the unique runs table as their adventures continue I wonder if anyone can challenge them this year like Keith Littlewood did last year?

The new Table this year, the mini east Yorkshire table will be interesting. This is designed as having a small number of events (four) to allow those that don’t travel too much to get involved properly. Ashley Porters top of the tree at the moment with Dave Playforth not far behind.  

Next week there is a new parkrun starting in Halifax, Wetherby in the not too distant future too.

Any mistakes on the tables please let me know.

All the best,

Mark

Overall Time League

Age Grade League

Mini League (East Yorkshire)

Unique Runs

New year, new start… 30 Jan 2015

Hello all,

Please see below the latest tables for the pYL. We have 4 new runners over last year’s competition (welcome) anyone else can join in at any point up until the end of February. Just send me your registered name on parkrun and your unique number. Anyone not included who was included last year, I have not included you because I don’t think I have hear from you. Please let me know if you want to be back involved. We have the same tables are last year and for 2015 only we have one extra one that is an overall time table for Hull, Sewerby, Peter Pan and Humber bridge.

Leeds parkrun will be soon known as Woodhouse Moor parkrun, so that change is shown in the tables. Personally I wish it had stayed as Leeds, the formatting of the tables now looks odd! Ah well ;-)

It’s very early days I won’t go into analysis of the tables, it’s there for us all to look at. Enjoy your parkrun weekend and hope to see you all out there. Let hope the weather holds….no ice please!

Mark

PS any mistakes at any point, please let me know.

Main League - Overall Time

Main League - Age Grade

Mini League - Overall Time

Unique parkruns

2014 League Tables, the results are in.....

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 3^rd place Keith Littlewood. Keith beat me into 4^th 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 3^rd 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 3^rd 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:

Correct tables - as of 12/12/14

Sorry yesterday I uploaded from the incorrect folder. The correct tables are below:

Overall Time

Age Grade 

Unique Runs

League Tables as of 11/Dec/14

Hi all,

It’s been a month a busy month. I enjoyed a run at Albert parkrun in Middlesbrough a few weeks ago and I can fully recommend that as a fast friendly parkrun.

So where are we with pYL?

We have had a few PB’s over the last month and special mention must go to Neil Mickleburgh for shaving a few seconds off his Hull parkrun. The other run that stood out was Gregan’s run in Scunthorpe. Not the easiest of parkruns, certainly not the flattest with some tight turns Gregan run a fantastic 15.59 age grade of 81.33%!

Overall time League we now have John Broom at the top 83 seconds ahead of Keith Littlewood. Is this one sewn up? Think lots depends if Gregan can get a good run at York before end of the year.

Age Grade League, 1.61% Keith has over John. Again there is a chance Gregan can overtake with a good run at York. Gregan are you going to York?

Unique parkruns league looks done and dusted to me. John has had a run in Wales and Ireland in the last month that has pushed him ahead of Keith who has been sticking local.

So with a few weeks left, time to kick back and say it’s too cold and windy to improve times at parkrun, or time to really show the rest what your made of…..?

Keep on enjoying parkrun…

Mark

Overall Time League Table:

Age Grade League Table:

Unique Runs League:

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...