I was in my first couple of weeks of teaching when I was introduced to parkrun. As the roll was being marked, I had asked the class to tell me one thing that they did on their weekend. One of my year 3 students told me that they got a PB at parkrun. My…
Bundaberg might be well known for Bundaberg Rum, sugar and ginger beer but the regional centre 400m from Brisbane also has a great parkrun. A southern gateway town to the Great Barrier Reef and a popular nesting ground for Loggerhead turtles, Bundaberg is situated on the Burnett River. The three laps of Bundaberg parkrun…
Ros Heit might never have found parkrun or started running if she hadn’t got diagnosed with breast cancer. It was August 2015. Ros had just become a local councillor through a by-election in the South Burnett Regional Area (just inland of the Sunshine Coast, QLD) and suddenly her world was turned upside down. Breast…
Jenny Allwright’s son Owen has just reached his 100th milestone. Owen has learning difficulties, and Jenny had previously found it difficult to get him out of bed in the morning. Here Jenny tells us about how parkrun changed their lives. Around three and a half years ago, shortly after his Dad died, Owen and…
Chinchilla might be the watermelon capital of Australia but it is also the home of Charleys Creek parkrun. The vibrant country town is on the edge of the Darling Downs in Barunggam country, about 280km west of Brisbane. It is also the home of the “the big melon”, which sits next to the…
This time last year, we were planning an overseas holiday and looking for places we could still do our weekly parkrun. We managed to find a parkrun in Krakow in Poland, Stretford in the UK and Paris in France. Poland meant a pre-Christmas run in the snow followed by hot, sweet tea. Stretford…
On Saturday 2 October 2004, 13 runners and five volunteers turned up to Bushy Park in Teddington, London for a free, timed, 5k run, known then as the Bushy Park Time Trial. Little did they know what they had started. 15 years later, more than four million different people around the world…
When Brit Steve Darby started parkrunning, he could have run all the parkruns in the world in a single month. Then 42, now 53 – Steve will notch up 500 parkruns this Saturday and will be the first person outside the UK to do so. To date, only 70 people in the world have reached the…
parkrun Australia and Heart Foundation Walking have teamed up to mark Active Ageing Week by encouraging more walkers to join in at their free local parkrun event. Active Ageing Week, which runs from 1-7 October, aims to give as many older adults as possible the means to experience wellness activities in a safe and…
I’ve had a goal of running in a parkrun for a while but getting out of bed at 7am is not ideal – thankfully the public holiday on Friday made it easier, so on Saturday I finally did my first run with Coburg parkrun and I loved it! I expected to get a time…
