A warm welcome to another week of summer Nordic parkruns. We enjoyed blue skies and great conditions for much of the region although some our Finnish friends were not quite so lucky. Welcome to over 100 people parkrunning for the first time on Saturday! Here’s the best of the action: Crossing the finish…
Wheelchair user Jono Whitehead was recommended parkrun by a good friend and frame runner. Initially hesitant, he arrived to find the tail walker that day was his former maths teacher so felt instantly at ease! Here he tells us why he wants to see more disabled people at parkrun. I’m disabled and I…
Welcome to the last Nordic parkrun photo round-up for July, a month which has seen over 5000 people attending our events across the region. Here’s some shots of the action: First of all, parkrunning is a family affair at Esbjerg parkrun Also at Esbjerg, thanks to this week’s Tail Walker Jimmy…
There’s no need to do the 5k at parkrun. Lois Rowland was a parkrun volunteer for more than ten years before eventually deciding to have a go at the 5k, following an ectopic pregnancy. Having now completed 50 parkruns, she tells us her story. My husband is a keen parkrunner and has been taking…
A warm welcome to another round-up of summertime parkruns across the Nordics. We enjoyed seeing plenty of regulars and first-timers across all our events this weekend – were you one of them? Take a look! We start this week with a roll call of thanks to some of our fantastic volunteer teams this…
parkrun is committed to ensuring our events are as accessible as possible to as many people as possible, which includes breaking down barriers to signing up. As a result, and following a lengthy international consultation, we evolved the gender question on our registration form in 2020 to include ‘another gender identity’ and ‘prefer not to…
Welcome to another week of summer parkruns, with sunny skies and again over 1,000 participants across all of our events around the Nordics. Here’s the photos that captured the action! Great to see a strong summer attendance at the fantastic Örebro parkrun. Jimmy proudly wearing his volunteer milestone t-shirt at Nordre Fælled parkrun! A…
Summer is here, and it is wonderful to see all the photos of our parkrunners enjoying their events under clear blue skies. Here is a selection of photos from across the region this past weekend, enjoy! In Tampere there was a lot of strong-age graded scores – not so surprising perhaps when…
With schools breaking up for the summer in many of the parkrun countries, and the weather becoming more than encouraging to spend time outside and plan holidays, it is a perfect time to take care of yourself! And we are here for you all – every week, wherever you are, all summer. Summer is…
It was the fifth annual Octogenarian get-together at the home of parkrun – Bushy parkrun in the U.K, on Saturday 2 July, with a total of 39 octogenarians and two nonagenarians making the trip – 32 men and nine women. George Frogley and Richard Pitcairn-Knowles have been jointly organising this wonderful event since 2017. The annual event invites…
