Here are some stats from the nice people at parkrun.
It seems that half a million of you have completed 5K in less than 45 minutes and a surprisingly high number of people have gone below 20 minutes – to do that sort of performance you HAVE to train to some degree. Looks like we are all getting fitter as a nation.
Other stats show that 6 million runs were completed by males and 4 million by females. 1.5 million runs (including 2ks) were completed by the under 17-year-olds.
| Fastest Run Time of UK 5k parkrunners – 52 weeks to 20.3.16 | ||
| UK 5k parkrunners – 52 w/e 20th March 2016 | Number of Runners in Last 52 Weeks | Share of Runners in Last 52 Weeks |
| Total Runners | 510,822 | |
| Fastest Time 0-19:59 | 32,575 | 6.4% |
| Fastest Time 20-24:59 | 147,372 | 28.8% |
| Fastest Time 25-29:59 | 163,901 | 32.1% |
| Fastest Time 30-34:59 | 100,122 | 19.6% |
| Fastest Time 35-39:59 | 43,688 | 8.6% |
| Fastest Time 40-44:59 | 15,481 | 3.0% |
| Fastest Time 45-49:59 | 5,140 | 1.0% |
| Fastest Time 50-54:59 | 1,701 | 0.3% |
| Fastest Time 55-59:59 | 623 | 0.1% |
| Fastest Time 60 Mins + | 219 | 0.0% |
| Source: parkrun | ||
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