Indira Patel and Jack Millar ran the fastest parkrun times in the UK this weekend (28th September).

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Another week and another weekend of parkrun and fast times. Indira Patel was the quickest woman with another excellent showing of 16:39 at Walsall Arboretum in the Midlands. The Shaftesbury Barnet Harrier was second last week so went one second quicker and it was enough to grab the top spot this Saturday. Not quite a parkrun Pb (16:36) but quicker than Patel’s road 5k PB still!

Jack Millar was at Dulwich parkrun to stop it being a double weekender for Mohammed Hussein with 15:04. The Bristol and West AC runner is a 14:04/14:05 road/track runner over the distance and ran 14:32 at the Great North Run UKA 5K Championships earlier this month so we expect that was just a jog in the park… relatively speaking.

The best of the rest

Olivia Tsim has been in these rankings on many occasions and this time she has company on the second step of the podium with Charlie Thornton, with both athletes running 17:21 at Cardiff and Doddington Hall parkruns respectively.

As mentioned above, Mohammed Hussein couldn’t make it two weeks at the top, but keeps up a run of podium performances with a 15:19 at his favoured Leicester Victoria parkrun. Seven seconds back in 15:26 is George Ravenhall of North Leeds Fell runners, who came down from the hills to run quickly around Storey’s Field parkrun this Saturday.

The fastest course?

Three events featured twice with Doddington Hall, Storey’s Field and Raphael the courses in question. With a dead heat between Doddington and Storey’s Field, with 3rd and ninth for both (in a three way tie for 9th in the men’s) it goes down to a new method of comparing the relative strength of the performances. To do this I’m going to use 15 flat for men and 17 flat for women as a marker and then go from there.

So after an unnecessary amount of mathematics and typing for a section of the article we don’t even know if people read… the award goes to Doddington Hall with 21 and 48 seconds being a lower total than 26 and 43. Blimey that was close.

 

Women’s Rankings

Men’s Rankings