Lauren Heyes and Marcus Fletcher ran the fastest parkrun times in the UK this weekend (10th August).

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In a weekend where the Olympic Marathon was inspiring us all to get out and hit the road we saw some quicker than usual times at parkrun as well.

Lauren Heyes makes it two weeks in a row with a 16:24 at Penrose parkrun, two seconds quicker than her 16:26 last weekend at Eden Project parkrun last weekend. In doing so Heyes once again claimed home bragging rights as her husband Andy ‘only’ managed fifth (after eighth last week).

Marcus Fletcher took a resounding victory in the men’s rankings with an excellent 14:19 at The Old Showfield parkrun. Now I don’t want to question Marcus’ integrity here, but it is a significant jump from his parkrun best of 16:38 so I did some investigating and it seems from Strava that he ran 17:33.

So Oscar Bell at Gunpowder parkrun is likely the fastest this week with 14:40, a parkrun PB for the Herts Phoenix athlete. The middle distance athlete has a 5k PB of 14:07 and a 5000m best of 14:03.30 and has also clocked some PBs over the mile and 3000m this year.

The best of the rest

Three other women ran under 17 minutes this week with Ellie Stevens running 16:41 at Long Eaton, Bryony Gunn 16:54 at Cannon Hill in Birmingham and Sonia Samuels 16:56 at Watermead County park in a speedy week.

The men’s rankings had Alastiar Watson break 15 minutes with 14:56 at Long Eaton and Mohamed Hussein just over at 15:06 in Leicester Victoria park.

The fastest course?

Both Worthing and Long Eaton parkrun feature twice, but Long Eaton sat on two podiums so takes the biscuit this week.

Women’s Rankings

Men’s Rankings