Sophie Pikett, Julian Moynihan and Toby Bawtree ran the fastest parkrun times in the UK this week (Saturday 27 September).
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Yes, it’s been quite a while since the last parkrun Top 10 was posted, but – we’re back!
In her fifth parkrun of the year, Sophie Pikett sits in the top spot of the women’s rankings. She ran 17:13 at Town Moor parkrun. It’s a course she knows well, this being her third visit within a month. Sophie is also no stranger to the parkrun distance, having set a PB of 16:12 on the roads in Cardiff back in May.
A time of 15:03 is the fastest men’s time this weekend, set by both Julian Moynihan and Toby Bawtree. Julian was running at King’s Lynn parkrun. His time is a 20 second improvement on his previous parkrun best – set on the same course earlier this year. Julian has had a busy summer; the U20 athlete competing at everything from 100m to 3000m, plus the hurdles, steeplechase, long jump and pole vault. Plus fourteen parkruns!
Toby, meanwhile, was running at Pegwell Bay and had quite a breakthrough. His previous fastest parkrun was 16:18 (and his fastest this year was 17:31!). Another U20, the Tonbridge athlete has not taken to a parkrun course since April, and has set PBs over 800m and 1500m this summer. So perhaps his improvement should be no surprise.
Best of the Rest
Jamie Crowe’s 15:16 at Camperdown in Dundee completes the men’s top-three. Sophie is joined by Kirsti Foster (17:23 at Castlewellan) and Donna Morris (17:27 at Groe) on the women’s podium.
Fastest Course
Two courses appear twice this week, Battersea (a seventh and eighth place) and Yarborough Leisure Centre (seventh and ninth). It’s a close one, but the South London course takes the honours this weekend.
Women’s Rankings
Men’s Rankings
