We don’t have many celebrities at parkrun but Bev Vallance from Rosebud parkrun is making a case to be our most widely recognised parkrunner. Bev has recently starred in a TV commercial from our friends at Medibank and is learning to manage her newfound fame. It’s a long way from when she first started…
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…
Dr Jenny Dowell was Mayor of Lismore in 2015 when she was approached by a member of her community about starting a parkrun. Having never heard of parkrun she went online to find out more, and never could have imagined the journey it would take her on. parkrun changes lives – I’ve seen…
When parkrun arrived in Australia in 2011, there was initially only a handful of people instrumental in its weekly success and John Borbidge was one of them. The Ballarat stalwart turned Gold Coast local said the infancy of parkrun gave him just what he was looking for at the right time in his life….
Kevin O’Shea is our Event Director at Fingal Bay parkrun and reflects on his journey from reluctant runner to leading his event. On a nice sunny parkrunday in March 2014 I lined up not knowing what was in store for me… “park run was only 5k’s” I thought. My 84-year-old mother was doing it so…
It was the third annual Octogenarian get-together at Bushy parkrun in the UK on Saturday 6 July, with a record number of 48 men and women aged over 80 taking part! parkrunning Octogenarian Richard Pitcairn-Knowles was one of them, completing his 350th parkrun, and he tells us more about the special day. With…
Gerry Lovett used to regularly walk the popular Diamond Creek parkrun trail on a Saturday morning and get a bit grumpy when the hundreds of runners started coming towards him. He mentioned this to a friend, who happened to be a regular Diamond Creek parkrunner, who told Gerry to stop whinging, and join in….
On Saturday Vivienne Singleton (W70-74) completed her 50th parkrun (walk) event. Vivienne has already completed 25 volunteers. This is her story: Vivienne encouraged to start parkrun in 2014 by her cousin from Melbourne – she said to her cousin “I can’t run anymore” to which her cousin replied, “parkrun wasn’t only for runners, you can…
Greg Eather survived prostate cancer, a heart attack, and a cardiac arrest before the age of 60. The Grafton parkrunner explains how his determination to reclaim his physical fitness has played a significant role in his recovery. In April 2015 I was diagnosed with Prostate Cancer that had a high chance of metastisizing. I…
You are getting older, and there are things you can do and things you can’t do — or at least things you can no longer do as well as you once could. Hills become a problem and you feel the burn in your legs and have difficulty getting your breath walking to the top…
