Fastest 1000 Men from Peachtree 2004

I thought it would be interesting to look at the top 1000 men from last year's Peachtree 10K. The Peachtree's results page wasn't in the ideal format. It broke up the men into the open and masters category. In the combined results, it didn't list gender. So for simplicity, I took the top 500 from both the open and masters men. This isn't really the top 1000, but it should be close.

There were 17 men who ran under 30 minutes. What makes this extra impressive is the fact that the temperature was a warm 72°F with a humidity of 93%. Kenya dominated the race. All but two of the top 20 were from Kenya. The top US runner came in 16th place with a time of 29:43. There were 25 Kenyans in all and they had the incredible average time of 29:45.

From the age stats, the 20s age group had the fastest mean time.

I was expecting to see more nations represented, but there were only about 4% of the top 1000 men who were from outside of the US and most of these were the Kenyans.

For state representation, Georgia had 793 of the top 1000. Florida was next at about 29 and North Carolina was third with 24. The fastest state was Ohio. Those 12 men had an average time of 38:46.

Below are the details from 2004 Peachtree 10K results page.

Male Runners by Times - Move mouse over cells to see median times. Top 3 times also shown in left columns.

Ages	under 30	30 to 35	35 to 40	over 40
teens	0 (0%)	6 (6%)	56 (53%)	44 (42%)
twenties	15 (9%)	36 (22%)	56 (34%)	57 (35%)
thirties	2 (1%)	23 (10%)	73 (32%)	132 (57%)
forties	0 (0%)	10 (3%)	80 (21%)	292 (76%)
fifties	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	16 (15%)	90 (85%)
sixties	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	12 (100%)
Total	17 (2%)	75 (8%)	281 (28%)	627 (63%)

Average/Best Times By Male Age Groups

Ages	Number	Percent	Mean Time	Best Time
teens	106	11%	39:09	33:29
twenties	164	16%	37:15	28:02
thirties	230	23%	39:48	29:31
forties	382	38%	42:02	30:09
fifties	106	11%	42:44	36:27
sixties	12	1%	44:11	42:35
Total	1000	100%	40:32	28:02
Fastest Ages (by average)
twenties	164	16%	37:15	28:02

Average/Best Times By Nations (cutoff=1)

Nation	Number	Percent	Mean Time	Best Time
AUS	1	0%	30:13	30:13
BER	1	0%	38:47	38:47
BERMUDA	3	0%	40:34	38:54
CAN	1	0%	31:05	31:05
KEN	25	3%	29:45	28:02
MEX	1	0%	37:30	37:30
NAM	1	0%	30:28	30:28
NZL	1	0%	29:39	29:39
RSA	1	0%	34:47	34:47
USA	963	96%	40:51	29:43
unknown	2	0%	43:17	41:30
Total	1000	100%	40:32	28:02
Fastest Nation (by average)
NZL	1	0%	29:39	29:39

Average/Best Times By State (cutoff=10)

State	Number	Percent	Mean Time	Best Time
AL	16	2%	40:15	34:28
FL	29	3%	40:45	34:20
GA	793	79%	41:06	30:42
NC	24	2%	39:11	30:43
OH	12	1%	38:46	30:18
SC	14	1%	40:04	32:39
TN	16	2%	40:47	34:15
VA	11	1%	39:36	31:06
other	37	4%	32:01	28:02
Below Cutoff	48	5%	38:50	29:43
Total	1000	100%	40:32	28:02
Fastest State (by average)
OH	12	1%	38:46	30:18