28 January 2016

2016 Runs for Cookies Virtual 5K Results

Congratulations to everyone who completed the Virtual 5K on Monday! When I first thought of the idea for a virtual race on my 31st birthday, I never imagined it would turn into an annual thing. It's been so fun to see people from all over the globe running 5K on the same day. Here are some fun stats:

A whopping 50+% of participants completed the race on a treadmill! I'm not sure why this surprised me so much. This was actually the first year that I did my race outside--in the past, I've used the treadmill. The weather has been very wacky this year!


Over 80% of participants reached the goal they'd set when they signed up.


Here is how the age groups broke down. Not surprisingly, there was an overwhelming ratio of female to male participants. Only six were male, and two of those were my own children ;)


And finally, here are the individual results (as of 1:00 pm today... if you submitted your result after that, it won't be on here). Because of the large size of this chart, I had to truncate this post, so you'll have to click through to see the individual results...
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