Katie Snowden and Jacob Allen ran the quickest parkrun occasions within the UK this week (twelfth March).
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It’s price stating that that is the largest prime 10 we’ve ever had, with 24 runners making the reduce this week. That’s all the way down to 4 runners all crossing the road in 15:48 this week at completely different parkruns for tenth spot. If one in every of them had been a second faster there may have been a better job this afternoon, however all the time good to see loads of runners faring nicely.
Properly that was true, till we obtained an extra add from the tremendous fast Belfast Victoria parkrun in Northern Eire and now we’ve got [counts on fingers and toes] 25 runners in two prime 10 rankings, so 10+10 doesn’t all the time equal 20…
It wasn’t removed from the 4 lads in 15:48 to first feminine runner in 16:05 this week. Katie Snowden, an actual life Olympian, specialises within the shorter distances on observe, however had time for a parkrun PB right this moment. With a 4:02.77 finest for 1500m from her warmth in Tokyo final summer time, Snowden opens her 2022 account with a present of her cardio kind from the Winter.
Ben Branagh of St. Malachy’s was truly the quickest park runner this weekend with a 14:38 at Belfast Victoria. Have been this nonetheless 2021 it will be a parkrun PB, however Branagh began 2022 with a 14:17 parkrun on eighth Jan after which ran 13:58 at Friday Evening Beneath Lights Meets Podium 5K in Feb. So he’s flying.
Jacob Allen, who nonetheless must replace his membership on the parkrun web site, was prime of those rankings on the finish of Feb and was second this weekend with a 14:56 at Finsbury parkrun. The 13:43.75 5000m runner modified venues, however stored the shape robust and is the opposite runner beneath quarter-hour this week.
Two extra beneath 17
The ladies’s podium this Saturday wanted beneath 17 minutes and when a GB runner of Gemma Metal’s customary is within the fourth spot you’ll be able to see why.
Basildon’s Gemma Kersey, who was a robust seventh on the UK Indoor Championships over 3000m, clocked 16:55 at Barking parkrun right this moment. It’s the second 16:55 of the 12 months for Kersey, who ran the identical time at Raphael parkrun in January and is three seconds off her parkrun finest from 2014.
Sophie Wooden of Sale Harriers, Manchester is not any stranger right here both and ran 16:59 at Stretford parkrun. The Higher Manchester athlete has been busy in 2022 already, with robust runnings on the Northern Counties XC Champs, in an England vest on the Mitja Marató Granollers in Spain and a win on the Hit the Path 5 in Stockport.
Rudman and Richardson on the following steps
George Rudman was first finisher at City Moor parkrun with 15:17 and it’s almost a minuet faster than his earlier parkrun finest. That mentioned the Morpeth Harrier did run 14:49 at Mid-Cheshire 5K final August and impressed with a ten:45 2.2 mile leg on the North East Highway Relay Championships in February.
William Richardson is a Canon Hill common in Birmingham and the Birchfield Harrier posted his quickest parkrun of the 12 months by some 20 seconds, presumably as a result of swap from Wyre Forest to the quickest occasion. Having seen a racing season in 2021 shut with a 10k PB of 29:56 on the Leed’s Abbey Sprint in October, Richardson clearly has some robust kind and could be focusing on a few of his wonderful highway PBs of 14:50 for 5k and 66:38 for half marathon in 2022.
Quickest course?
Dulwich parkrun in south-east London was the quickest this week, with the ninth and tenth male runners battling it out to the road and solely having two seconds between them and Katie Snowden lower than 20 seconds behind as nicely.
Males’s prime 10
1) parkrun: Belfast Victoria
Ben Branagh, 14:38, St. Malachy’s
2) parkrun: Finsbury
Jacob Allen, 14:56, Highgate
3) parkrun: City Moor
George Rudman, 15:17, Morpeth Harriers & AC
4) parkrun: Canon Hill, Birmingham
William Richardson, 15:19, Birchfield Harriers
5) parkrun: Felixstowe
Dean Williamson, 15:24, Military AA
6) parkrun: Telford
Daniel Galloway, 15:25, Telford AC
7) parkrun: Belfast Victoria
Fionntan Campbell, 15:33, St. Malachy’s
8) parkrun: College Parks
Miles Weatherseed, 15:36, Tonbridge AC
9=) parkrun: Morecambe Promenade
Stephen Connolly, 15:42, Annadale Striders
9=) parkrun: Alexandra, Moss Facet
Simon Crawford, 15:42, Lengthy Eaton RC
11) parkrun: Dulwich
Daniel Gaffney, 15:46
12=) parkrun: Dulwich
Ben Howe, 15:48, London Metropolis Athletics Membership
12=) parkrun: Burgess
Isaac Maxwell, 15:48, Kent AC
12=) parkrun: Ruchill
Scott Stirling, 15:48, Falkirk Victoria Harriers
12=) parkrun: Poole
David Lewis, 15:48, Hallamshire Harriers Sheffield AC
Girls’s prime 10
1) parkrun: Dulwich
Katie Snowden, 16:05, Herne Hill Harriers
2) parkrun: Barking
Gemma Kersey, 16:55
3) parkrun: Stretford
Sophie Wooden, 16:59, Sale Harriers Manchester
4) parkrun: Watermead Nation Park
Gemma Metal, 17:07
5) parkrun: Cardiff
Millie Gold, 17:20, Cardiff AC
6) parkrun: Luton Wardown
Holly Lathwell, 17:22, Luton AC
7) parkrun: Seaton
Innes Fitzgerald, 17:25
8) parkrun: Hull
Della Hatfield, 17:28, Metropolis of Hull AC
9) parkrun: Pomphrey Hill
Hannah Alderson, 17:30, Bristol & West AC
10) parkrun: Brockenhurst
Ellie Marie Monks, 17:42, Southampton AC
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