Welcome to a round-up from the weekend’s parkruns across the Nordics (the photos from our Norwegian events, including the May 1st ‘special day’ events can be found here). We had a record number of people taking part in our parkruns over this past weekend, here’s some photos from across the region
Well done to Line and Janne for reaching their 25th volunteering milestones at Amager Fælled parkrun
Tailwalking with a traditional hat to mark the Vappu celebrations at Tokoinranta parkrun
Enjoying a post-parkrun coffee after Tampere parkrun on Saturday
Capturing the beautiful trees at Billdalsparken parkrun this weekend
Event Director Gunilla enjoying taking part in Vallaskogen parkrun this Saturday
Before the start of Uppsala parkrun on Saturday
Loving the encouragement given to parkrunners passing by the start/finish area at Vääksyn kanava parkrun
A great turnout with 76 parkrunners enjoying their Saturday morning at Örebro parkrun
Selfie frame action at Esbjerg parkrun this week
Congratulations to Claus who has recently achieved his 50th parkrun milestone at Nordre Fælled parkrun
Tailwalking at Fælledparken parkrun this week
And enjoying the beautiful weather, also at Fælledparken parkrun
Another great morning at Haga parkrun with 128 participants this week
Well done to Tomasz, who crossed the line first for the very first time this week at Huddinge parkrun, on his 114th parkrun!
A couple of lovely parkrunner portraits from this week’s Växjösjön parkrun….
….and some great shots too here from Skatås parkrun
And finally, spring is arriving in Umeå and the fabulous Broparken parkrun
This weekend will be a celebration of parkrun with our ‘special day’ events taking place in Denmark on 5th June and Sweden on 6th June, in addition to our regular parkrun events on Saturday 3rd June. In Denmark 6 of our 9 events will be hosting a special event on Monday 5th June, including…
All around the world, we’ve seen over 28,000 unique volunteers in the parkwalker role and they’ve parkwalked over 52,000 times! We speak to one of the parkwalkers, Cathy Hannon, about why she chooses to volunteer in her favourite role every Saturday morning. Cathy’s chronic condition means that parkwalking is the best option for her, she relishes the…