BGR Summary for 2023

[Bob]

Here's the annual figures for 2023 for attempts and successes on the Bob Graham Round.

I’ve updated the various files on the site with this year’s successes but a check in the code that prevents access to the current year means it won’t be available at http://www.bobgrahamclub.org.uk/index.php?page=members until the new year. The year's data is available for the various record lists at http://bobgrahamclub.org.uk/index.php?page=records

There were 226 registrations (28 ladies) with 105 successful rounds (10 ladies).

There were 101 successful clockwise rounds (10 ladies) and 4 successful anticlockwise rounds (0 ladies).

Fastest times were 18:58 for the men and 16:54 for the ladies.

The average age of successful contenders was 40yrs 7months.

The age of successful contenders ranged from 19 to 63.

Previous attempts

Previous Count
0 88
1 11
2 6
Total 105

Successes by month

+-------+-----------+---------------+-------+
| month | clockwise | anticlockwise | total |
+-------+-----------+---------------+-------+
| Jan | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Apr | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| May | 15 | 0 | 15 |
| Jun | 37 | 4 | 41 |
| Jul | 28 | 0 | 28 |
| Aug | 11 | 0 | 11 |
| Sep | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Dec | 1 | 0 | 1 |
+-------+-----------+---------------+-------+


Reasons for failure

+-----------------------+----------+
| failure | count(*) |
+-----------------------+----------+
| No reason given | 8 |
| Did not Start | 3 |
| Completed Out of time | 4 |
| Injured | 2 |
| Bad Weather | 8 |
| Ran out of time | 1 |
| Became ill | 11 |
| Gave up at... | 5 |
+-----------------------+----------+

As with last year 2023 was bookended by winter successes but this time it was the women showing the way. Eleanor Davis starting things with the fastest women's winter round to date (20:21) then just before Christmas Henriette Albon bettered that time and became the first woman to complete a winter round in under 20hrs. Her time of 17:55 is the second fastest winter time overall (only Kim Collison being quicker), the fastest mid-winter time to date and is the fourth fastest women's time overall.
There were actually very few fast times this year, just seven under 20hrs with the fastest time of the year, a rapid 16:54 by Anna Llewellyn, being unusual in that it was by a woman, 2021 is the only other year this has happened.

There have now been 57 successful winter rounds including four individuals who have done two winter rounds: Jim Mann; Kim Collison; Andy Berry and Jack Oliver. Somewhat surprisingly there have been more in the mid-winter season than the standard winter season: 33 to 24.

Andy Berry gained the 24hr Fell Record traversing the same 78 peaks as Kim Collison but was 20 minutes quicker in doing so. Two existing members, Chris Welton (#2112) and Phil Vincent (#1462) added a 50@50 to their palmares, Chris actually did 57 tops. There were five completions of the Steve Parr Round including the second success in winter by Jack Oliver (#2611) continuing his winter campaign from last year, the fastest women's round by Carol Morgan (#1766) and the first solo, unsupported round by Mingma Tshering Sherpa.

Andrew Lamb became the third generation of his family to have completed a round (Richard Lamb #366 and Ken Turner #143 completing the triptych). This is only the second such instance to date. Keeping on the general theme of relationships, another trawl through the records reveals that there have been twenty married couples to have completed the round, not always on the same day (though that has happened).

This year saw the number of those who've supported rounds pass 12,000. There are roughly 2,200 members amongst those and around 460 of non-members who have supported five rounds or more so there's a very long tail of those who've supported just one or two rounds.

[Steve Chilton]

Thanks for that, Bob.
I have done my annual tinker to show the trends in the data, which is available on my blog at: https://itsahill.wordpress.com/2024/...data-for-2023/