In our four-part training series, we’ll be introducing some of the training methods you can use to help you improve your running and your parkrun PB, whilst showing how a couple of tweaks to your mid-week training can help you become a more confident runner, whatever your aspirations! In this instalment, we’re discussing tempo running. …
The great thing about parkrun is you can walk, jog, run and volunteer, making it fun for all the family. And there’s one family that certainly loves their Saturday mornings at parkrun: The O’Sullivans! Dad Mark tells us more… We started parkrun at Lower Hutt, in September 2012, trying to get Jess fit…
In our four-part training series, we’ll be introducing some of the training methods you can use to help you improve your running and your parkrun PB, whilst showing how a couple of tweaks to your mid-week training can help you become a more confident runner, whatever your aspirations! In this instalment, we’re discussing Hill Training. To help…
In our four-part training series, we’ll be introducing some of the training methods you can use to help you improve your running and your parkrun PB, whilst showing how a couple of tweaks to your mid-week training can help you become a more confident runner, whatever your aspirations! In this instalment, we’re discussing Interval Training. …
Robyn Richards from Blenheim parkrun has just completed her 100th parkrun! Having reached the milestone, Robyn began to reflect on how parkrun, and the journey parkrunners go on, reflects life. I’m a huge parkrun fan, and recently I realised why. Along with 350 or so others, I was jogging around a 5km course on the island…
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…
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…
Dwaine Faletanoai first heard about parkrun through his wife Catherine. Now Saturday mornings are a whole family affair! Dwaine tells us more about his parkrun journey… I first heard about parkrun through my wife Catherine who, along with two of her sisters tried it for the first time around March 2018, after hearing…
Linda Compton was approaching her fifties when she decided to come along to her first parkrun. Linda explains how she went from being THAT kid at school who hated running, to the verge of joining the parkrun 50 club. I first came to parkrun because, while I had already lost quite a bit…
Wilson is a five-year-old Jack Russell terrier who is CRAZY about parkrun! He runs in Tauranga weekly and has done nine runs so far. When he hears the start horn he goes absolutely goes for it! He wants to get to the front and get a good time. So far his PB is 25:33,…
