Lauren Heyes and Dan Jarvis ran the quickest parkrun instances within the UK this week (4th January)
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Lauren Heyes topped the ladies’s rankings this week with a 16:54 clocking at Millfield parkrun. That point is a good method shy of her 5k PB of 15:22, set on the Mid Cheshire 5k final August. Nonetheless, it’s a good opener for 2025 in her first go to to the course. Lauren is a daily to the Quick Working spherical up, and has topped these rankings many instances earlier than.
Dan Jarvis was quickest of the boys racing this weekend. The Bedford & County athlete completed in 15:00 on the new, however quick, Battersea parkrun. The South London venue is well-known for producing quick instances, and the introduction of parkrun has been no completely different. That point is his quickest parkrun since 2019, with bests of 15:22 and 16:26 in 2024 and 2023 respectively. Dan raced sparingly final 12 months, so it’s nice to see him returning to type.
Better of the Relaxation
Impressively, Olivia Inexperienced clocked the very same time at Bromley as she did on New Yr’s Day, 17:10. That places her second on the rankings this week and equals her parkrun greatest. That point is considerably sooner than her 5k PB, though that was set in 2018.
Finishing the ladies’s top-three is Charlie Thornton, who ran 17:19 at Yarborough Leisure Centre. It’s the Lincoln Wellington athlete’s equal third quickest parkrun, having run 17:06 at Market Rasen Racecourse in November. Charlie is extra typically seen at Doddington Corridor, however her time this weekend was virtually two and a half minutes sooner than her final go to to Yarborough Leisure Centre, in July 2023.
Amongst the boys, Jack Pickett’s 15:09 clocking at Shrewsbury noticed him take second this week. Jack is a parkrun common, participating in a powerful 37 occasions final 12 months. He has a quickest time of 14:43, set at Telford final October, which equals his street PB. Shrewsbury is his common course, and this time is his second quickest at this venue.
Luca Messenger-Jones sits third on the boys’s rankings, after operating 15:11 at Dulwich. The south London venue is a frequent customer to the top-ten rankings, however this week Luca had a solo effort. He completed over one minute forward of everybody else participating.
Quickest Course
With 4 appearances, together with the quickest males’s time, Battersea parkrun takes the honours of the quickest course this weekend. The occasion could also be in its infancy, however it’s changing into a daily inside these rankings.
Ladies’s Rankings
Males’s Rankings
