Running mas8/14/2023 ![]() ![]() The data covers 96% of US race results, 91% of the race results from the EU, Canada, and Australia and a big portion from Asian, Africa and South America.If you're looking to compare yourself to other runners, check out our finish time comparison tool. The motives for participating in running are potentially changing from being acheivement-focused to being phycological, health and socially focused, which in part can be proved by more people traveling to race, slower finish times and how milestone-ages (30, 40, 50) now are much less dominant than 15 and 30 years ago.Traveling to race has never been more popular than today.For the first time in history, there are more female than male runners.Spain has the fastest recreational runners on the marathon distance, Russia on the half marathon, Switzerland on the 10K and Ukraine on the 5K.Runners have never been older aging from 35.2 in 1986 to 39.3 in 2018.In 1986 the average finish time was 3:52:35, whereas today it's 4:32:49 - a slowdown of 40 minutes and 14 seconds. Runners have never been slower - male runners in particular.Event participation has declined by 13% since 2016, when it peaked with 9.1 million runners crossing the finish line.For special requests, or questions, email lead researcher Jens Jakob Andersen at Key conclusions You may use material from this report as long as you refer to this original report. This is by far the largest study of race results in history. The analysis covers 107.9 million race results from more than 70 thousand events from 1986 to 2018. ![]() This is the first mapping of Global running participation. ![]()
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