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This Saturday will see two significant milestones for parkrun in Australia. We will launch seven events in seven states and territories in one day, something that has never happened anywhere else in the world. These new events will take our total number of events to over 300.
All of this is made possible thanks to the Medibank Free + Active program, and to celebrate we will be live streaming from the parkrun Australia Facebook page at each of the seven new locations on Saturday.
Medibank launched the Free + Active program in August last year, to enable opportunities for Australians to be more active in mind, body and their local community, to find out more about the new locations launching this weekend visit, medibank.com.au/freeandactive
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