A parkrun Australia project has been recognised with a major industry innovation award at this year’s National Sports and Physical Activity Convention in Melbourne. The 12 month project, which was funded by the Australian Sports Commission, was designed to celebrate and promote parkrun participation amongst women and girls – including walking, running, volunteering and spectating….
We are excited to announce a landmark partnership with health company Medibank, who have become the first presenting partner for parkrun Australia. Medibank has been parkrun Australia’s official health and wellbeing sponsor for the past six years playing a key role in the growth of parkrun across Australia and helping parkrun become what it…
parkrun Australia has joined forces with Invictus Australia to encourage more military veterans and their families to become involved in their local parkrun event as walkers, runners, volunteers and spectators. Invictus Australia is the legacy organisation of the 2018 Sydney Invictus Games and was established to harness the power of sport to benefit those…
When her local parkrun shut down due to COVID-19 restrictions, Merrilyn McMillan was, in her words, “devastated”. “I was totally lost,” she told ABC Sport. “It was like someone had died.” Just over a decade ago, the now 73-year-old McMillan had no inkling that the community-based activity would become such an integral…
General Practitioners around Australia are being supported to refer patients to parkrun events as part of an exciting Community Partnership between parkrun Australia and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP). The ‘parkrun Practice’ initiative aims to help GPs understand how parkrun may benefit some of their patients, start a conversation with those…
Not so long ago, Chris Murphy was unfit, unmotivated and stressed out. He was working long hours and couldn’t find the time to exercise or relax. Then he was hit with myocarditis — a disease that causes inflammation of the heart muscle. Things got harder. Just walking up stairs was a challenge. …
You never know who might be jogging alongside you at your local parkrun and the stories they could tell. At the coastal town of Port Fairy in south-western Victoria, Olympic bronze medallist and former world record holder Judy Amoore Pollock is a regular. At the age of 81, her love of running is…
So you’re looking to run a PB? Whether you’re a regular runner, a novice, or just looking to get back on the running track, setting a new personal best time can be very motivating. Adelaide’s Jess Stenson knows this well. One of Australia’s top marathon runners, the Olympian and Commonwealth Games medallist…
If walking was a colour, it’d be the new black. There’s no shortage of evidence that walking is truly a wonder drug; an exercise that can shed weight, increase life spans, reduce the risk of disease, improve heart health, keep joints mobile and benefit mental health. “You’d have to take a lot of…
I’m not sure of the moment black started becoming my preferred colour. But I knew I needed it in my wardrobe. Not the stylish black, high-street fashions that made this Queenslander feel out of place on a Melbourne tram, but a simple T-shirt. A black T-shirt with the number 100 in large white…
