After the highest ever number of parkrunners on a Saturday in January last week, we set another record with 1171 parkrunners across our 24 events this week. Great to see that people are taking advantage of the mild weather and sticking to their New Year’s resolutions! Here’s a snapshot of how parkrun looked around the…
parkrun has grown from one event in a park to a global movement of millions of people walking, jogging, running and volunteering across 21 countries. But parkrun is so much more than a walk, jog or run in a park! If you or someone you know is yet to come along for the…
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This week at parkrun in the Nordics there have been: 24 events! 1171 finishers! 156 fantastic volunteers! 145 brilliant PBs! 113 amazing first-time parkrunners! 194 newly registered parkrunners!
People were clearly sticking to their new year’s resolutions as we celebrated the highest ever turnout for parkrun in January in the Nordics. Volunteers setting up courses around the region were treated to an amazing sunrise, a reward for rising early perhaps! Here’s our photo round-up from across our region: Reaching down low to…
Kungsängen parkrun is a cosy friendly event, usually attended by 15-20 regular local parkrunners, and organised by a small dedicated team of volunteers. It is a beautiful parkrun that first runs alongside the edge of the forest for just over 1km, before a sharp right turn plunges runners deep into the woods. Here the…
Five kilometres. 5,000 metres. 500,000 centimetres. 5,000,000 millimetres. However you think of it, parkrun is the same distance every week. However, some weeks it can feel a lot, lot longer! Here are five mental tricks you can use to make your weekly parkrun feel like a walk, jog or run in the park…….
This week at parkrun in the Nordics there have been: 24 events! 1155 finishers! 158 fantastic volunteers! 123 brilliant PBs! 125 amazing first-time parkrunners! 209 newly registered parkrunners! It was also another incredible record for parkrun around the world, with over 345,000 people taking part in a parkrun last Saturday, an increase of…
The first parkrun back of 2020, and unexpectedly mild conditions across the Nordics meant that all of our 25 events could go ahead on Saturday, and snow was only to be seen in one or two events in Norway! København and Malmö had pretty terrible conditions so well done everyone who came out to take…
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…
