Georgina Schwiening and Mohammed Hussein ran the quickest parkrun occasions within the UK this weekend (twenty first September).
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What per week for the ladies’s rankings with three athletes beneath 17 minutes and a few critically fast occasions! And for the boys Mohammed Hussein lastly takes the highest spot after a number of weeks on the rostrum.
Georgina Schwiening is an athlete with a bucket load of expertise and a marathon PB of two:26:28 to show it. The Cambridge Runner has had a quiet 2024 to date with a 16:54 win over 5k at Mallory Park in August, so 16:38 on the splendidly named Bug Hunter Waters parkrun is an efficient signal for an Autumn or Winter marathon. Perhaps Valencia the place that 2:26 was run in 2022?
Mohammed Hussein has been an everyday at Leicester Victoria parkrun lately and his title has popped up a number of occasions on this checklist, however this was a parkrun PB by one second. His first and solely different time beneath quarter-hour for the 5k distance was final yr in September at Abbey parkrun. From the surface it seems to be like 12 months for one second enchancment, however everyone knows endurance working is extra sophisticated than that.
The most effective of the remainder?
The 2 different ladies beneath 17 minutes have been Shaftesbury Barnet Harrier Indira Patel and Torbay athlete Paige Quinn. For U23 Patel it isn’t fairly a parkrun PB, which was 16:36 at Lengthy Eaton final November however it’s a quickest time of 2024 and alongside related performances for highway and observe 5k and 5000m of 16:40 and 16:58.58.
For Quinn, an U17 from Devon within the southwest, it was a parkrun PB, one second sooner than her earlier greatest from earlier this yr and paired with a brand new PB of 16:31 at Mid Cheshire 5k this August. The teen is one to look at with wonderful showings on the highway, observe and cross nation in 2024 already.
Tomos Roberts and Scott Stirling have been the second and third quickest male athletes with 15:05 and 15:10 respectively . It’s a parkrun PB for Welshman Roberts who additionally has a 5k greatest on the highway of 14:28 at Race The Highland Prepare 5K in July this yr. The prepare was most likely not very completely satisfied that day.
Stirling, who has been high of this checklist prior to now, has run beneath 14 minutes for 5k on the highway and 5000m on the observe, so this isn’t a parkrun PB for him, however an excellent Saturday morning exercise we think about.
The quickest course?
It doesn’t appear that any occasion featured twice this week, though two Victoria Parks in numerous cities did. Subsequently it provides me nice pleasure to award the win to Bug Hunter Waters parkrun, for quick working and an awesome title.
Girls’s Rankings
Males’s Rankings
