The Green Leek 10.5 km run is a mixed terrain race now in its third year. Today’s was a wet and muddy edition. The chip times were posted this afternoon and using my previous code, I took a look at the results.

I was a bit disappointed with my time, which was about 24 s slower than last year. Considering that I’m running faster this year than last, I wondered whether the conditions affected my time. To look at this I quickly retrieved times for people who’d run it all three editions and looked to see if this edition was generally slower than previous editions.

Excuse the formatting of the plot. It looked pretty flat but then we’re probably only considering very small differences over 10.5 km. So I looked at the difference in time from the 2016 edition. Again the formatting is bad (23:55 is 5 minutes faster than 2016, 00:05 is 5 minutes slower).

Three people recorded much slower times this year, but the majority are within the difference from 2016 to 2017. Obviously this is just a few people that could be easily picked out using a script, more runners might reveal more of a pattern. Anyway, here’s hoping for better weather next year!

Well done to Andy Crabtree and Rachel Miller who were fastest male and female, respectively. Thanks to the organisers and volunteers.

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The post title is taken from “Pledging My Time” a track from Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan