This is just a post that I’ll keep updated with any interesting statistics I find. If this is your sort of thing, there is a parkrun stats geeks group that you might find interesting and it’s one of the places I’ve found my info.
Of the 519 people parkrunning in Pocket:
- 48.9% did a double (254)
- 50.7% were first timers in Pocket park (263)
- 11.0% ran a new PB (57)
- 4.2% ran thiervery first parkrun! (22) - 8.3% of all first timers this week
- just 3.8% forgot thier barcode (20)
of those 254 parkrun doublers:
- 90.9% also ran in Huntigdon (231)
- 6.3% also ran in Great Denham (16)
- 2.8% also ran in Letchworth (7)
231 makes Huntingdon -> Pocket the 26th most popular double worldwide an the 20th most popular in the UK
Around the world:
- There were 153 ‘solo doublers’ that were the only people to complete those two parkruns.
- The most popular double was Linford Wood -> Milton Keynes (490)
- There were 38,176 people who ran doubles
- People ran 626,875km on New Years Day at parkruns (not includng the extra distance by those who also ran between events)
- That’s the same as travelling around the world 15.6 times!
- or running to the moon and halfway back!
- 60.9% of kilometers run were run by those doing a double