Last Saturday the star Bathurst runner covered the five kilometre Peace Park course in a time of 15:36, shaving two seconds off his personal best.

His previous PB was set on May 8 when becoming the first runner in Bathurst to go sub 16 minutes.

"Often for a parkrun I'll have a time picked out that I want to run, so I'll have like a one kay auto lap on [his watch] so it will go off everyone one kay and I'll know if I'm on track for the time I want to run," he explained.

"I try not to look at it too much, it does start playing mind games if you do that.

"I wanted to go under 15:30 but it was a bit slippery on the grass at the start and finish so thought I wouldn't go near that. I thought I lost a bit of time towards the end, so I didn't know I was on track for a PB, so I was happy to get that."

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His effort came with the temperature sitting just above one degree.

"I used to always run early, when I was in school I used to always run early to get it over and done with," he said.

"So I am used to running when it's a bit colder."

Setting records on the Bathurst course is something Martin has become known for - he's done so in four of his seven appearances.

His first record came in the second edition of the Bathurst event on August 8, 2016 when clocking a 16:41.

Martin then moved away from Bathurst and it saw the record change hands, firstly to Patrick Cantlon with a 16:35 and four days later on January 1, 2020 Bevan Lord did a 16:28.

"When parkrun first started I got the record on the second running of the event then I moved to Adelaide for work and saw it got beat," Martin said. "So when I moved back to Bathurst I wanted to target it so it was back in local hands. It was good trying to get under 16 minutes and now I've done that, the next goal is getting under 15:30."

While Martin's determined to improve, he thinks in the future it could be Miller Rivett who holds the Bathurst record. The junior talent placed third on Saturday and has a 16:59 PB.

"Miller, he's really young so for him to be running the times that he is now, that's a good sign. I know he's doing well in school system as well," Martin said.

"That goes to show the talent he has, when he's going through that school system and racing well there and qualifying for state in cross country and athletics. I think he's got a good future if he sticks at it."

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