Based in a small Quebec town, Saint-Paulin parkrun has an even keener sense of community than many other parkruns. Event Director Annie tells us how pleased they are to see participants return from illness and injury after time away. We’re lucky that our parkrun is a little different to most others. Ours is in a small town, which…
We welcome another new parkrun to the family on Saturday August 17, taking us to 35 in Canada. Step up Breakwater parkrun, Kingston! Megan Clemens and John Sadler are the dynamic duo behind Ontario’s newest parkrun, and got in touch to tell us some more about their event. Who are the Event Directors of Breakwater parkrun?…
Did you know there there is a small but growing number of parkruns launching in prisons? Inmates at the Wandoo Rehabilitation Prison in Perth, Australia, became the first women in custody anywhere in the world to take part in weekly parkrun events when Wandoo parkrun launched in July. There were 42 finishers and 11 volunteers…
Nous avons la chance d’avoir un parkrun un peu différent des autres. Nous avons un tout petit parkrun, qui est encore peu achalandé. Nous sommes une communauté qui se connaît, qui est là pour tous. Dès qu’une personne manque deux semaines en ligne, tout le monde s’informe à savoir ce qui se passe avec…
Bonjour! Je m’appelle Fin et je viens du sud-ouest de l’Angleterre. J’ai 23 ans et, comme la plupart des jeunes de 23 ans, les week-ends je dors généralement jusqu’à midi… C’est donc une surprise pour tous ceux qui me connaissent (et même pour moi) de savoir que je me lève à 8 heures le samedi…
Hello! My name is Fin and I come from the South West of England. I’m 23, and like most 23 year olds my weekends usually involve sleeping till midday…so it’s a surprise to everyone who knows me (especially myself) that I would rather wake up at 8am on a Saturday and cycle over to Frédéric Back…
It’s been less than a year since we celebrated reaching the milestone of 5 million registered parkrunners in the world. Recently, our global parkrun movement hit a new high when barcode number A6000000 was issued! The runaway success of the simple parkrun concept is evident, with regular Saturday morning events now taking place in more…
C’était il y a moins d’un an, nous contemplions avec enthousiasme le franchissement de la barre des 5 millions d’inscrits à parkrun dans le monde. Et bien il y a quelques jours, parkrun vient d’atteindre un nouveau sommet puisque le code-barres A6000000 a été remis quelque part dans le monde! Le succès du concept n’est…
parkrun continues to sweep the country adding new events every week! Breakwater parkrun starts on August 17th, 2019. Two laps along the beautiful Kingston waterfront paved path through Breakwater & MacDonald Parks, looping around the Gordon Downie Pier. The start and finish will be at the Waterfront Pathway directly across the road from Lower University…
The easy format of “show up> run> get scanned” is so simple that its ability to be replicated is a strong factor to the global success of parkrun. Aneez from Whitby recently had the opportunity to run or volunteer at 4 different parkruns over 4 weekends in Canada and the UK, and took note of a…
