I have chronic severe asthma & I’m a Personal Trainer. Most Saturdays you will see me cross the line at Wyndham Vale parkrun scan my barcode and go straight back out to finish with my PT clients. I started taking my clients to parkrun as a way to motivate them to include more exercise…
I knew nothing about parkrun until I saw a brochure on the back of my door at work about Christie’s Beach parkrun. That got my interest but due to work commitments didn’t do anything about it but said to my colleague if they ever start a parkrun st Aldinga Beach, I would be interested in…
I signed up for parkrun about 2 years ago, but could never drag myself out of bed to make it there by 8am. Finally, on May 25th 2019 I pushed myself to go along to the Diamond Creek parkrun, and haven’t stopped since. I tell all my friends and family (and co-workers!) about how…
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…
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…
parkrun has been so important to me. I have always enjoyed my running and was running around 26 minutes but then I suffered a severe meniscus tear and thought my running was over. With support from fellow parkrun participants at Mt Penang, I took an intensive exercise program and lost 17kg. I have now…
I finally ran my 250th parkrun at New Farm. It’s considered a milestone, and, as such, there was a visible increase of red and green to celebrate the memorable moment of completing 1250km. I couldn’t help to think of how lucky and privileged I am, to call two places home. For that, I would…
I’d always gotten short of breath when I exercised – and I thought it was just because I was a bit unfit. But a few weeks ago I really started to notice how hard it was to breathe when I was doing the parkrun – especially in the cold of winter! Last week I…
I would like to introduce you all to my husband Ian (I will never run!!) Martin. As a loving gesture to me his wife he decided to come to his first parkrun on the 2 September 2017 to celebrate my 100th run. This is a picture of him at his first even parkrun. …
One year on from her very first parkrun, newly 5-year-old Quinn has now completed 28 parkruns and volunteered 3 times. She has also managed to cut her time from 56 minutes down to a PB of 39:21! Here she is offering encouragement to her running buddy, Duke, while volunteering at West Beach. …
