I managed to run until I was 37 weeks pregnant, then volunteered as tailwalker at many different parkruns. I tailwalked at my home parkrun, then the next day I had my 3rd beautiful baby boy. The following week Saturday came and we were back at our home parkrun (Reynella East) as timekeeper. It truly…
I just wanted to say an extra thank you to one of the volunteers and her two young helpers (not pictured) when I visited Chipping Norton the other week. In addition to getting to parkrun by 8am on a Saturday morning with two youngsters in tow (no small achievement in itself), she gave up…
I have been asked many times, why do I use poles for walking? The simple answer is for my health and well-being. I have been an avid walker most of my life until two years ago when I had a total hip replacement. It left me 7mm out on one hip which has now developed…
Following on from a recent completely random fact about junior volunteers I wanted to share this with you from Calleya parkrun in Western Australia. Today we celebrated one of our juniors who has so far done 43 runs, but the reason for the celebration was this morning she did her 25th Volunteers position. Ella…
I am a member of the Rotary E-Club of Australia Nomads. Our members live all over Australia and we donate to and get involved in organisations such as the Royal Flying Doctor Service and Foodbank to name a couple. Earlier this year we started to become aware of and get involved in parkruns in…
I have been into fitness all my life. As a runner, cyclist, bushwalker, skier and soccer player. As a living kidney donor and being aware of the massive boom in kidney disease driven by high blood pressure and poor fitness levels, I am passionate about getting people moving. And by that, I mean people of…
I am a 61-year-old bloke who likes to exercise and keep fit. I have not run much since I turned 40 as a result of a deteriorating left knee. I had a Lateral Compartmental Replacement on the 20th October 2009 and have never looked back. In the meantime, I have done a lot of…
My brother-in-law, David, introduced me to parkrun in early 2015 at Tamworth. I had heard of it but didn’t really know what all the fuss was about. We didn’t have a local parkrun in Port Macquarie at that time so I only did a couple of tourist runs here and there. That was until…
Hi, I’m Aliyah and I’m in Year 5. Last year I got a “poor” for effort in sport. Mum and Dad were really not happy and said I had to try as hard as I could the next semester. I came last in cross country because I walked most of the way. My grandparents…
My daughter, Quinn, has been itching to turn 4 so she could start coming out to West Beach parkrun with me. She got her own special running outfit for her birthday and we started doing some practise runs and walks around home. Three weeks ago she finally completed her first full parkrun in just…
