Abbie Donnelly and Jonathan Glen ran the quickest parkrun occasions within the UK this week (nineteenth March).
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This week’s parkrun high 10 is a bit late as I’ve been busy with the Hour 7 crew weekend in Ambleside, within the Lake District. It did really contain a parkrun as we speak too, on the great Rothay Park. A course document for Ollie Garrod and first feminine finisher for Jo Murphy was a superb haul for the brand new ultra-running crew.
Another person who was flying as we speak was Lincoln Wellington’s Abbie Donnelly. Clocking one of many quickest feminine parkruns of all time at Doddington Corridor with 15:52, it actually did take some particular to high the ladies’s rankings this week. Final yr Donnelly broke 16 minutes for the primary time on the observe over 5000m with a 15:42.65 at SOAR MK 5000 PB Particular and the preceded to take action twice extra that yr.
The entire males’s podium had been based mostly up in Scotland this week with one other run that options extremely on the all-time lists. Jonathan Glen, of Inverclyde AC, ran 14:18 at Greenock parkrun close to Glasgow. The 14:01 5k runner has blasted into marathon working this yr already with a 2:20:54 PB in Seville in February and a 64:23 PB at Farnborough Winter Half Marathon simply earlier than that.
At Bushy park in London it was Georgia Bell who was first previous the publish, if there’s a publish, with 16:14. The gorgeous inexperienced house in London usually sees fast occasions and this weekend was no completely different.
A burn-up in Edinburgh
We’re undecided if it was sturdy pleasant coaching collectively, or an almighty battle to the road, however Alastair Hay and Peter Avent had been solely a second aside on the end as we speak at Edinburgh parkrun (and solely a second from Lewis Gamble Proctor in fourth). Central AC’s Hay and Shettleston Harrier Avent have each featured in our rankings earlier than however such a wholesome rivalry on the identical occasion is all the time good to see.
Georgia Schwiening, of Cambridge Harriers, was the third quickest woman (and likewise one other of 5 beneath 17 minutes) at Storey’s Subject. 16:36 is a time that might high the ladies’s rankings most weeks and reveals the excessive commonplace of distance working within the UK proper now, but in addition that the two:35 marathoner is having a cracking March with a 72:18 half marathon PB already within the books.
Quickest Course
Holly Web page of Dartford Harriers ran 16:43, one other advantageous efficiency, but in addition at Edinburgh to provide the occasion three runners within the rankings this week. Cardiff did characteristic twice, however not fairly sufficient to be the quickest occasion this weekend.
Males’s high 10
1) parkrun: Greenock
Jonathan Glen, 14:18, Inverclyde AC
2) parkrun: Edinburgh
Alastair Hay, 14:47, Central AC
3) parkrun: Edinburgh
Peter Avent, 14:48, Shettleston Harrier
4) parkrun: Redcar
Lewis Gamble-Thompson, 14:49, New Marske Harriers AC
5) parkrun: Southampton
James Pettersson, 15:00, Ipswich Harriers
6) parkrun: Cardiff
Felix McGrath, 15:11, Newcastle (Employees) AC
7) parkrun: Isabel Path
Philip Nicholls, 15:15, Birchfield Harriers
8) parkrun: Poolsbrook
Paul Wright, 15:28, Mansfield Harriers & AC
9) parkrun: Worcester Pitchcroft
Ben Jones, 15:28, Cambridge & Coleridge AC
10=) parkrun: Alvaston
Alex Pilcher, 15:29, Derby AC
10=) parkrun: Ashford
Wegahta Zerom, 15:29
Ladies’s high 10
1) parkrun: Doddington Corridor
Abbie Donnelly, 15:52, Lincoln Wellington AC
2) parkrun: Bushy
Georgia Bell, 16:14
3) parkrun: Storey’s Subject
Georgia Schwiening, 16:36, Cambridge Runners
4) parkrun: Edinburgh
Holly Web page, 16:43, Dartford Harriers AC
5) parkrun: Sutcliffe
Holly Dixon, 16:44, Cambridge Harriers
6) parkrun: Cardiff
Alaw Beynon-Thomas, 17:12, Swansea Harriers AC
7) parkrun: Sutcliffe
Megan Marchant, 17:18, Cambridge Harriers
8) parkrun: College Parks
Chloe Richardson, 17:22, Birchfield Harriers
9) parkrun: York
Becky Rigby, 17:23, Preston Harriers
10) parkrun: Brockenhurst
Sophie Wooden, 17:35, Sale Harriers Manchester
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