Read Cyndy McLean’s uplifting perspective on her experience at Guelph-Eramosa parkrun. Getting up and out of the house before 9 am in not my strength but on a beautiful late summer morning I found myself at the start of the Eramosa River Trail parkrun. I even managed to talk my partner, Sylvain, into…
This week we hear from Cullen Price, Event Director of Downsview parkrun – the first parkrun within the city of Toronto – who celebrated their inaugural event on 21st September. The Downsview parkrun core team is made up of Amy, Lawrence, Bonnie, Kate, Fred, and Cullen. Each of them discovered parkrun in their own…
Independent survey commissioned by UK-based charity parkrun gets more than 60,000 responses and shows that volunteering has a bigger impact on health and wellbeing than just running or walking. The first weekend of October 2019 saw the 15th anniversary of parkrun. To mark the occasion, parkrun UK have released results from an independent survey,…
This past spring, Tiare Baird was looking to get more involved in the Whistler community, so she started a search for volunteer opportunities. She stumbled across an energetic Aussie (who also happened to be the Whistler parkrun Event Director) and her Saturday mornings haven’t been the same since, thanks to the people she’s met…
Le printemps dernier, Tiare Baird cherchait à s’impliquer davantage dans la communauté de Whistler, elle a donc commencé à rechercher des possibilités de bénévolat. Elle est tombée sur une Australienne énergique (qui se trouvait être également directrice du parkrun de Whistler) et son samedi matin n’a plus été la même depuis, grâce aux personnes qu’elle…
On Saturday 2 October 2004, 13 runners and five volunteers turned up to Bushy Park in Teddington, London for a free, timed, 5k run, known then as the Bushy Park Time Trial. Little did they know what they had started. 15 years later, more than four million different people around the world…
One of the nicest things about parkrun at Victoria Park, Kitchener is that you’ll quickly feel like part of the family. The sort of commitment you normally reserve for blood-ties underpins the event, whilst the welcome you receive is as warm as the one you’d hope to receive on a special family occasion. …
L’un des plus beaux atouts du parkrun Victoria Park, à Kitchener, c’est que vous aurez rapidement l’impression de faire partie de la famille. Le type d’engagement que vous réservez habituellement pour les liens de sang soutient l’événement, tandis que l’accueil que vous recevez est aussi chaleureux que celui que vous souhaitez recevoir lors d’une occasion…
In July 2019 I was honoured to attend the parkrun ambassadors conference in the UK. This event brought together parkrun ambassadors from the UK and many countries around the world. We got to meet the UK support team and hear presentations from them and network with our peers. It was a weekend to celebrate everything…
En tant que mère de deux adolescents, il est parfois difficile de trouver des choses avec lesquels nous avons un intérêt commun. Je suis heureux de dire que le bénévolat et la participation à parkrun ont été des activités que nous aimons tous faire ensemble. Comment avons-nous entendu parler de parkrun? Ma soeur…
