As a runner myself, I have a passion for running that I just want to share with everyone! It’s one of the most satisfying things about being involved with parkrun, knowing that what we’re creating with parkrun is helping to bring the joy of running to many people, and also bringing people together, so that…
We’re delighted to say that plans are underway to introduce parkrun to Huddinge in the south of Stockholm. After an exhaustive search of venues, the local team have chosen Källbrinks IP to be the location for the event, where there will be a three lap course (one smaller lap, followed by two slightly longer laps)…
This past week were visited by running legend Björn Suneson. You might have read his columns in the Swedish edition of Runners World. He’s been running for more than 30 years now, having only started as a 35 year old. He’s now run more than a million kilometres, or three times around the world! And…
The whole concept of parkrun relies on volunteering. Each week over ten thousand volunteers around the world enable up to 200,000 people to take part in their parkrun event. Here at parkrun we want to discourage the idea that by volunteering you are ‘giving up’ your time or that volunteering is something boring, negative, and…
January is a peak time of year for parkrunning, with many people starting the New Year with the best of intentions. Good on them! And just as Sweden saw good numbers at Haga parkrun this week, globally it was the very first weekend with over 200,000 people running parkrun, including big attendances in Australia, South…
So parkruns are always 5km. Planning the route is great fun, but what else do you need to take into consideration? Well, first and foremost, it should be safe. So you will find that a parkrun route never crosses a road, or a car park, and that stairs, blind corners and other dangers are…
Do you know anyone who might want to be involved in bringing parkrun to Göteborg, Malmö & Uppsala? In all of these cities we have teams working to start up events during 2017 and they’d love to hear from people who would like to be part of their teams! So if you know of any…
No, there isn’t a punchline, just a Saturday morning after Haga parkrun! In Sweden, like several other countries around Europe where parkrun has been established, we’ve found that a good number of the ‘early adapters’ are people who know about parkrun from ‘back home’ and are delighted to find that it’s finally arrived in Sweden….
This past weekend saw a new parkrun worldwide attendance record, with over 170,000 people taking part in part in parkruns around the world on Saturday 7th January. Plenty of New Year’s resolutions being kept. We also saw a new record for the number of registrations in one day, with over 12,000 people registering for parkrun…
I’ve been involved with starting up parkrun in Stockholm but never actually experienced one outside of Hagaparken until this New Year’s Eve when I was back in my native Ireland with the family. Dublin’s Marlay Park had more than 450 runners on New Year’s Eve (and nearly 700 last week) and the funny things was,…
