Huge new UK record!
Put alongside record turnouts in four other parkrun countries (Australia, Germany, New Zealand and South Africa) there was also a new worldwide record which, when all the results are in, should be just shy of a quarter of a million parkrunners!
Biggest parkruns: Bushy Park (1380), Southampton (1134), Heaton Park (867), Cardiff (856), Cannon Hill (835), Huddersfield (830), Tooting Common (817), Poole (807), Coventry (776), Sheffield Hallam (748).
Median parkrun: Thetford (233).
Smallest parkruns: Haverfordwest (35), Drumchapel (35), Merthyr (33), Bevendean Down (32), Black Combe (28), Limavady (27), Gainsborough (27), Millom (24), Cheadle Hulme (23), Dolgellau (15), Rostrevor (11).
New records / new parkruns: Southampton (1134), Heaton Park (867), Tooting Common (817), Northampton (701), Tilgate (653), Brueton (608), Bedford (607), Fulham Palace (573), Brockwell (571), St Albans (570), Bradford (563), Wycombe Rye (542), Warrington (539), Heslington (532), Bexley (501), Lincoln (493), Colchester Castle (492), Ipswich (458), Long Eaton (454), Hampstead Heath (446), Hanley (436), Victoria (429), Crystal Palace (426), Birkenhead (425), Southport (424), St Helens (418), Wakefield Thornes (415), Princes (408), Oxford (408), Pontypridd (398), Market Harborough (394), Andover (373), Hilly Fields (368), Rother Valley (367), Highbury Fields (367), Falkirk (324), Ally Pally (318), Sunderland (317), Carlisle (287), Folkestone (283), Gunpowder (249), Gladstone (238), Grovelands (222), Workington (193), Melksham (154), Clifton (141), Whinlatter Forest (139).
There were 488 parkruns, 9 cancellations, and the total UK 5K parkrun population was 132598, plus a pending result from Lower Drummans (the NI prison parkrun).
Of the parkruns that took place both last week and this week:
289 parkruns had higher attendance than last week,
155 parkruns had lower attendance than last week,
Black Combe, Sheffield Castle, Pymmes, Henley-on-Thames, Burnage, Blickling, had precisely the same as last week,
The biggest increase in attendance (in terms of absolute numbers) was Newcastle, with a change of 237,
The biggest increase in attendance (in terms of percentages) was Gibside, with a change of 90%,
The biggest drop in attendance (in terms of absolute numbers) was Hyde, with a change of -203,
The biggest drop in attendance (in terms of percentages) was Trelissick, with a change of -60%.