Parkrun Run Times Trend

Every one of the 225 parkruns is plotted below with the finish time on the vertical axis and the date of the run on the horizontal axis. The orange line is the average finish time for each year. The shaded red bands mark the two breaks in the training: the Covid lockdown in 2020 and the rehabilitation after an ACL reconstruction in 2024.

Finish times over the years

Parkrun finish times plotted against the date of each run, with the yearly average shown as an orange line.

What the chart shows

Every blue dot is a single parkrun finish time.
The orange line joins the average finish time for each calendar year.
The band from March 2020 to July 2021 marks the Covid break, when no parkruns were held.
The band from March 2024 to March 2025 marks the recovery period after an ACL reconstruction.

Finish time by year

The same information in a table, for the summary page and for search engines.

Average parkrun finish time for each year
Year	Runs	Average time	Best time
2015	13	26:49	25:31
2016	8	26:48	25:38
2017	20	27:07	26:06
2018	17	27:08	25:28
2019	26	26:02	24:36
2021	16	25:42	23:48
2022	29	25:47	24:53
2023	19	26:24	25:21
2024	17	41:22	30:27
2025	35	26:35	24:59
2026	25	25:28	24:41