20th August 2014

Hi all,

Its been a while and as each week goes by I get more and more eager to update the yPL. The update is complete and im happy to see a lot of people have been running hard over the peak of the summer and doing some touring.

Paul Backen is still in the lead of the Overall Time and Age Grade but is being chased down by Keith Littlewood. It was a pleasure to meet Keith a Hull parkrun last weekend where he ran from out of my site quickly and finished in 17:50, a parkrun PB! It seems if John Broom and Keith could have a epic battle on in the league this year on all tables looking how close their stats are.

 

I have been to Leamington and Fountains Abbey (35^th birthday treat) recently and wish to report how very friendly Leamington parkrun is (including free squash and coffee!!) and utterly beautiful Fountains Abbey is. I can fully recommend visits to both.

 

Any mistakes noticed, please let me know.

 

Enjoy your parkruns,

 

Mark

 

Overall Time

 

Age Grade League

 Unique Runs

 

29 June 2014

Afternoon,

 

Over half way through the year and below is how the pYL tables are looking! There have been some outstanding performances of late and plenty of tourism. With regard myself I hope to be focusing on smaller races (5k 10k) August onwards so watch out … in the middle of the pack! Keith Gadie is my dad by the way, the competition on the Age Grade table looks interesting. We seems to be very similar age grade runners.

 

So what did I notice while putting the update together (sorry if I miss anything out I shouldn’t)..?

 

Keith Conkerton's great run to get 21 minutes flat at Hull, with a massive 71.35% age grade. What a stomping run Keith.

 

Gregan has knocked two great runs out at Hull and Sewerby, the Sewerby run was just 2 seconds short of Phill (not the power) Taylors best run this year. Can Gregan go back and beat 16.40?

 

Keith Littlewood has set the benchmark at York for this year, 18:08….who can go and beat that?

 

Then there is the Stephen Taylor and Vince McGowan tussle at Hull. Both have knocked time off since the last update, but Vince with his 18:41 has the edge over Stephen on 18:46 

 

Guy Gibson must have been happy with his 20:56 at Hull his fastest since his last PB back in September 2012, but with a age grade of 69.90…so close to getting into the 70’s. Guy can you do it, can you get into the 70%?

 

For the unique parkruns, John Broom is storming it again, Keith had a break for a while in Jamaica and has lost ground. Must say its good to see Dawn getting some parkruns in again, knowing how prohibitive the injury has been.

 

That’s it for this update, the next update I will aim to do will be the beginning of August. Enjoy your parkruns and let me me/us know how its going. Any mistakes you see I have done, please let me know.

 

Well almost…… Kristina Rose, I didn’t forget you. Hull parkrun 31 of May on her 100^th run Kristina knocked out a PB.  Her last PB was in April 2011. Amazing Kristina, I had faith you would do it and you did. Well done.

 

The tables:

 

Overall Time:

 

Age Grade Table

 

Unique parkruns:

 

11th of March Tables:

Please see below the tables as compiled today:

There are many notable performances and the danger is to list them and to miss some big ones out! The yellow highlight shows the improvements over last time and to risk it I want to say a special well done to:
Sheila for a massive PB at Hull,
Keith Gadie for a massive PB at Hull
Vince and Stephen for jointly getting 18:57 at Hull on the same day. A PB for Stephen but a PB equalling effort for Vince.
Need to say a well done a nice to see you back to Phill Taylor for his 16.17 run at Hull a few weeks ago.

Anyone have any dog friendly Fountains Abbey accommodation tips please let me know. I want to go there for my birthday!

Keep on running and improving through May and I hope to have a update early June. All the best..Lets all chase Paul Backen and John Broom down....

Mark

Overall Time

 Age Grade

 

Unique Runs

7th of April Correction....

I uploaded the wrong screenshot for the unique parkrun league last time around! Well spotted Sheila,  Dave and Gregan too I think! Here is the correct one from 07/April:

9th of March 2014

A week later then planned but the bonus of that is that there is more yellow boxes showing updates! So here is a update of questions...

So lots improvement out there and lots of tourism. We have had not one but two runs in Wales (first for pYL) one run in Scotland (first for pYL) and one run in Northern Ireland (not a first for pYL). John Broom did the two runs in Wales, but seems to have not taken Dawn Broom! Shocked by Johns single mindedness in trying to retain his 2013 parkrun Unique Runs trophy! I joke of course. It seems this year Keith Littlewood will be the main competition and with a different parkrun each week including a trip to Ormeau in Northern Ireland, there will be a battle on there! When will Keith visit Hull though? Hopefully he lets us all know first so we can say hello.

With the overall time table Paul Backen has stormed to the lead, way out in front with only Graves parkrun on the list for him to knock off. It seems once again York parkrun is his fastest so far.....is York on a good day quicker then Hull? Andrew Cross has run so fast at three events he finds himself comfortably in second place, will Andrew do enough events to catch Paul Backen up?

The age grade table looks similar to the Overall time with Paul Backen once again way out in front. Well done Paul for a great start to the year even with all your injury problems.

 

Must just welcome my dad Keith Gadie to the league....only started running a year and half ago he certainly seems to be enjoying parkrun.

Also a special mention to Kristina Rose, who due to her birthday managed to improve her yearly age grade at Hull parkrun on the 8th of March but not her time! Nearly missed that update!

 

So the weather is getting better, its brighter in a morning and we all should be getting fitter and faster....improving all the time....work on getting those runs in and get climbing all the tables.

The tables:

Overall time:

 

Age grade:

 

Unique runs:

2nd February

Its February and the league has grown by two. We welcome Neil Mickleburgh and Andrew Cross. Hope you enjoy the league chaps.

Ill keep it short this time as there are too many improved runs to pick out, please see the yellow cells for all improvements. Let me know if there are any mistakes and keep on parkrunning....

The league will be closed to new entrants for this year at the end of this month, if anyone want to join (or leave) just let me know. In the meantime lets chase Paul Braken (overall time and WAVA) and John Broom/Keith Littlewood (Unique runs) down...

Until the next update then...probably start of March....

Mark

Overall Time

 WAVA

 

Unique Runs

January 11th 2014

So 2014 is here, we welcome Keith Littlewood and Paul Backen to the league as they have let me know they want to join. Anyone else needs to let me know before the end of February. No one has let me know they want to leave...yet but please do if you wish to.

So quick update as I am flagging today...

Paul Backen has done three events in the league and that has catapulted him to the top of the Overall time and the Wava/Age Grade tables, even though he is 'injured' from a fall at Pontefract parkrun. John Broom looks like he is going to be trying to retain his most unique runs with knocking 4 different parkruns out already in 2014. Way to go!

 

Ill endeviour to update the league at least at the beginning of each month....next update will be probably 2nd of February so lots of time to get moving up those tables....

 

All the best,
Mark

Overall Time

 

Age Grade

 

Unique parkruns