At 8.22am I look at the clock on the oven again. I flew in from Rome last night after covering a big story that kept me up through the previous night. I’m tired. I’m always tired. It’s par for the course of being a foreign correspondent in one of the busiest bureaus. I’ve looked at…
Last month we ran a competition with Medibank to ‘Experience your ultimate parkrun’. The response was enormous with entries from all over the country. With so many worthy submissions, the team at Medibank had a tough choice in picking the winner but the intrigue of visiting, perhaps our most remote parkrun, got Jennine from…
Parenting is leadership in its pure form! According to statistics, approximately 8% of those who set New Year’s Resolutions actually achieve them. The numbers aren’t promising, but in 2017 I am determined to be one of the 8%. My NYR is simple: I will go on a run every single day in 2017! …
Win a trip to any parkrun in Australia. The prize includes return airfares from your closest airport to the airport closest to the parkrun event you choose. Transport from the destination airport to your hotel. One night of twin share accommodation. Enter here: https://www.medibank.com.au/livebetter/win-a-trip-for-you-and-a-friend-to-parkrun Entry is only open to Australian residents aged 4…
From Tim Oberg, parkrun Australia CEO This week I’m thrilled to welcome TomTom as a new National Partner, joining Medibank, Suncorp Bank and Stockland. This partnership has been over a year in the making so it’s a great feeling to finally get it across the line! My first experience of TomTom goes back…
Every year about this time as the weather is starting to heat up we get requests to change the start time of certain parkrun events so they can be held earlier. Whilst this seems okay in theory, it goes against one of the key principles of parkrun; that all events are held in the same…
