Vi är superglada över att kunna berätta att hemsidan för den nya parkrun i Sverige – Skatås Parkrun i Göteborg – kommer att publiceras nu på fredagen 21:a juli. Det betyder att från och med det datumet kommer du kunna att register dig med Skatås parkrun som din hemarena. Det första loppet är på lördagen…
We are delighted to announce that the website for the latest new parkrun in Sweden, Skatås parkrun in Göteborg (Gothenburg) is going live this Friday, 21st July. This means that from this day onwards you’ll be able to register with Skatås parkrun as your local parkrun. The first event is on Saturday August 12th at…
After reading an article the other week about falling attendances to major athletic events in the UK it got me thinking. People are disassociated with elite and professional athletes and I would hazard a guess to say that the average “motionär” in Sweden feels no affiliation to the people that are supposed to inspire them!…
Not sure what to expect when you turn up to parkrun? Take a look at this film that we did to show you exactly how parkrun works! It’s really very simple, and very friendly, so if you’ve not already come along to parkrun, we hope to see you on Saturday morning at Örebro or Haga…
There’s been a recent change in the naming of role of what has previously been known as the ‘Tail Runner’ – the role for the volunteer who accompanies the last person on the course, to ensure that no-one finishes ‘last’ and that this person always has company on the way around the parkrun. It’s an…
Looking at the statistics for Sweden, we can see that in total, Swedish parkrunners have now run a grand total of 13,815km! Not quite once around the world, but at least enough to get to the other side of the world. We thought that we would take a look at where that would get us,…
För en del börjar parkrun med ett litet steg, för mig började det med ett maraton. Jag hade sprungit regelbundet i ett par år och började känna att jag behärskade halvmaraton-distansen. Jag hade alltid tyckt att maraton var på tok för långt men någonstans började ändå ett frö att gro, visst kan väl jag springa…
We think that most of you will know this already, but just to make it clear one more time – parkrun takes place all year round, which of course includes the summer! So there will be a parkrun every week in July and August in both Haga and Orebro, and from August 12th in Skatås,…
This week we share a story from a parkrunner in the UK who has been using battling cancer and finding parkrun as the perfect means of keeping active during this difficult time. “Hi, my name is Sarah. I am 42 years old, I have a 10-year-old son and I am a regular at Beeston…
When we started up parkrun in Sweden, one of the things that we often heard was that we’d never be able to get the volunteers to be able to put on the event every week. In fact, it was the same when parkrun started back in the UK, especially when the event was on every…
