15th December 2018 was a unique day for Paul Bovington (Bov) who was using his local Carisbrooke parkrun event as part of his training towards his goal to run a marathon. He was running with his brother-in-law and training buddy, Craig Hicks. Running side by side, they turned at the halfway point and were pushing…
‘parkrun is our church … it’s a place of belonging … it is as welcoming and inclusive as it is diverse’: Teresa and Peter Colhoun 2019 was a big year for Teresa and Peter Colhoun. In November, Teresa crossed the finish line of the world’s toughest half marathon; Hobart’s 21.1km Point to Pinnacle…
Darren Wood has just completed his 750th parkrun. That’s the most parkruns of anyone in the world. Here he tells us about his parkrun journey to this incredible milestone. I first heard about parkrun, or Bushy Park Time Trial as it was then known, through the Ranelagh Harriers running club newsletter. I actually…
Peta Lawrie and Tim Yates met around seven years ago through a mutual friend. They shared a love of music and art but it wasn’t until they saw some Facebook posts from Peta’s high school friend Mark Cooper that they decided to give parkrun a try. Peta used to run in high school and after…
Darren Lydeamore turned 50 in 2017 and decided to come along to Atherton parkrun in January of his ‘milestone year’ after a work colleague in the UK had encouraged him. He was unfit, unhealthy and unhappy with how he was feeling but with the encouragement and support of the Atherton parkrun community, all that has…
66-year-old Alison Campbell lives in South Australia’s Adelaide Hills, which meant the prospect of walking or running 5km was somewhat unappealing! After some gentle persuading from her younger sister however, Alison went to parkrun in 2018 to get herself ‘off the couch’ and she’s been walking 5km every days since. In November 2018 I was something of…
Coming from a non-running background, parkrun has had quite an impact on Manny Usman’s life over the last five years. Prior to that, he didn’t like to run and always avoided it, however, the day he literally walked into the first Ipswich QLD parkrun in February 2014 changed his life. Our local councillor and…
I was in my first couple of weeks of teaching when I was introduced to parkrun. As the roll was being marked, I had asked the class to tell me one thing that they did on their weekend. One of my year 3 students told me that they got a PB at parkrun. My…
Jenny Allwright’s son Owen has just reached his 100th milestone. Owen has learning difficulties, and Jenny had previously found it difficult to get him out of bed in the morning. Here Jenny tells us about how parkrun changed their lives. Around three and a half years ago, shortly after his Dad died, Owen and…
When Brit Steve Darby started parkrunning, he could have run all the parkruns in the world in a single month. Then 42, now 53 – Steve will notch up 500 parkruns this Saturday and will be the first person outside the UK to do so. To date, only 70 people in the world have reached the…
