Happy new year!
Here's the figures for last year's (2019) attempts and successes on the Bob Graham Round.
Fastest times were 17:25 for the men and 18:45 for the ladies.PHP Code:+--------+---------------+--------------+---------------+-------+
| | registrations | successes_cw | successes_acw | total |
+--------+---------------+--------------+---------------+-------+
| male | 202 | 107 | 4 | 111 |
| female | 22 | 12 | 2 | 14 |
+--------+---------------+--------------+---------------+-------+
| Total | 224 | 119 | 6 | 125 |
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The average age of successful contenders was 38yrs 5months.
The age of successful contenders ranged from 23 to 60.
Previous attempts
Successful qualifying Rounds by month and direction.PHP Code:+---------------+------+--------+
| prev_attempts | male | female |
+---------------+------+--------+
| 0 | 90 | 13 |
| 1 | 17 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 |
+---------------+------+--------+
Most popular starting times:PHP Code:+-------+-----------+---------------+-------+
| month | clockwise | anticlockwise | total |
+-------+-----------+---------------+-------+
| 01 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 02 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 04 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 05 | 20 | 2 | 22 |
| 06 | 45 | 3 | 48 |
| 07 | 24 | 0 | 24 |
| 08 | 10 | 1 | 11 |
| 09 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 10 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
+-------+-----------+---------------+-------+
The busiest days were the following.PHP Code:+------------+-------+
| start_time | total |
+------------+-------+
| 18:01 | 22 |
| 19:00 | 14 |
| 23:00 | 13 |
| 21:00 | 9 |
| 22:00 | 9 |
| 01:00 | 8 |
| 00:00 | 7 |
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The year's fastest time isn't actually listed above since those figures only relate to qualifying Rounds. Kim Collison did his second winter Round (and his third Round overall) at the start of December in a stunning time of 15:47. This is not only the quickest winter Round by some margin, bettering Jim Mann's 2012 time by 2 1/2 hours, but was also quick enough to be in the top ten fastest ever times. Another impressive winter Round was Tom Gibbs' fastest mid-winter Round of 20:20 in early January. There were eight winter attempts in 2019 with three being successful.PHP Code:+--------------+-------+
| success_date | total |
+--------------+-------+
| 2019-06-22 | 18 |
| 2019-06-15 | 8 |
| 2019-06-01 | 5 |
| 2019-07-21 | 5 |
| 2019-05-11 | 5 |
| 2019-07-13 | 4 |
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The Bob Graham Round is seeing increased interest from overseas and 2019 saw 12 successful Rounds including the first from The Czech Republic, Denmark, Belgium and Italy. This brings the total of overseas runners to 41.
I've updated and uploaded the document listing club members to the Club's website - http://www.bobgrahamclub.org.uk/index.php?page=members. The listing now indicates female members, winter qualifying rounds, nationality and deceased status where appropriate. Deceased status is year if known or ("Deceased") otherwise. I have basic details of nearly all members' Rounds entered into a database so any errors will now be fixed there and will then propagate to documents generated from it such as the above.
There are now sufficient winter successes that the table on the Club website is getting rather big so it's easier to generate a similar document from the database. This is available here - http://www.bobgrahamclub.org.uk/index.php?page=winter
Hopefully I've fixed any obvious transcription errors that previously existed but it's entirely possible that I've missed some, and maybe reintroduced some, so if you find any errors in either document please let me know.
A quick note on "basic details". Even before GDPR came into effect, as a club we've little need for much personal info, what data we do ask for is limited to age on the day of success, gender and nationality along with information about the Round. This lets us answer questions such as: "Who's the oldest lady to have succeeded?" (Beverley Redfern at the age of 54) or "Am I the first completion from xxxx?" (no idea!).
