174 parkrun events run (a few cancellations this week!)
18,324 runners (down 3,558 on last week)
The average number of runners per parkrun event run was: 105 (down 13 on last week - Winter must be here!).
Just 4 events recorded a new record attendance this week, as follows:
| Record Attendance | ||
| Ally Pally | 59 | ||
| Cornwall Park | 66 | ||
| Gdansk | 78 | ||
| Torrens | 44 |
Also of note were two parkrun events getting within 1 person of their attendance record:
| Record Attendance | Record Week | This Week | ||
| Northampton | 172 | 22/09/2012 | 171 | ||
| Launceston | 92 | 10/11/2012 | 91 |
The longest standing parkrun attandance record is:
Amager Faelled 146 28/08/2010
And in the UK its:
Old Deer Park 83 15/01/2011
The highest attandance this week was 741 at Bushy Park. No surprise there. Bushy parkrun still holds the global attendance record for a single event of 1000.
The lowest attandance this week was 6 at Fritton Lake parkrun.
4 new male course records set this week:
| Athlete | Time | |
| North Beach | Reece ALLARD | 17:30 |
| Sandgate | David LEAN | 16:59 |
| South Bank | Geoff BERKELEY | 17:06 |
| Torrens | Daniel HARTWIG | 17:15 |
10 new female course records set this week (the women win this week!):
| Event | Athlete | Time |
A total of 50 runners (down 12on last week) ran times under 17 minutes this week.
6 of these (down 2 on last week) run under 16 minutes!
Impressively, 4 of those were at Cardiff parkrun, that must have been some sight!):
| Event | Athlete | Time | |
| Cardiff | Owen WALPOLE | 15:36 | |
| Cardiff | Rhodri BUFFETT | 15:40 | |
| Cardiff | Joshua GRIFFITHS | 15:43 | |
| Cardiff | Edward R TAKATA | 15:47 |
The fastest parkrunner in the World this week was by Owen Walpole running 15:36 at Cardiff parkrun.
The top age grade performance this week was by Peter Sandery who ran 19:50 in the VM70-74 category at Torrens parkrun, recording a 90.00% Age Grade in the process. Very impressive!
The fastest freedom run recorded the week was:
19:55 by Jake Allen at Brighton & Hove parkrun on 1st December 2012.
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