Great North Run: Initial Datacrunching

I'll post my thoughts on competing in this year's Great North Run later, but as I thought I'd share some initial data-crunching with you.

54,000 places were awarded.

Of these 37,491 people finished. I haven't seen numbers for how many people started, so I can't say how many didn't start (e.g. injured beforehand and so deferred) compared to those that started and couldn't finish.

22,133 of the finishers were male, 15358 were female.

I was the 25,125th fastest overall, the 11,532th fastest under 35yr old and the 17,387th fastest male.

Still very happy, all the same

Figures derived from Great North Run website: http://www.greatrun.org/Results/