parkrun Norway are excited to launch the first ever Norwegian parkrun in Tøyenparken on Saturday 26th August at 09.30. With a week to go, the response has been great with the registrations rolling in through the Norwegian parkrun website and many parkrun tourists who have sent us messages that they will be travelling over for…
Wow, has it really gone one year already?! Everything seems a very long time ago when we stood, slightly nervously, at Hagaparken on August 27th 2016, and launched the very first parkrun in Sweden. Now we are warm in our clothes, and we have learnt a lot over the past year! We know exactly…
Skatås började förra veckan och Huddinge börjar denna vecka vilket gör att vi har nu fyra parkruns i Sverige och det finns mer på gång. “Det känns kul att parkrun börjar ta fart och att Stockholm får sitt andra parkrun,” säger Colm O’Callaghan, Run Director i Huddinge parkrun. “Vi har märkt en stor skillnad…
Skatås parkrun börjar nu på lördag, 12:e augusti! Spännande. Här berättar Jonas Boman, en av de ansvariga för Skatås parkrun, lite om banan. Bakom Skatås Motionscentrum hittar ni samlingspunkten för Skatås parkrun – vid gräsytan bland de röda stugorna. På samma plats är även start och mål för loppet. Ingen föranmälan behövs för…
We’re delighted to have reached another milestone, 2000 people registered for parkrun in Sweden! It took us around 8 months since we first launched Haga to reach the first 1000 runners registered, and now it’s taken another 4 months to reach this next milestone. We’re definitely on an upwards trend! Looking forward to continuing…
Recently, at Haga parkrun, I was asked why I was involved in parkrun? Well, it’s a question that often gets asked, when you consider that it takes up a fair amount of my free time! But I’m happy to be doing something positive with my time and it’s a pleasure to be involved in…
Ihop med att Huddinge parkrun börjar har vi också börjat samarbete med Huddinges lokala friidrottsklubb, HAIS, som ordnar ett 5km-lopp Huddinge centrum tisdagen den 29 augusti. Det ser ut att bli en riktig rolig bana och Huddingeloppet erbjuder nu alla parkrunners en rabatt på 70 kr på anmälningsavgiften och ni betalar därmed endast 180 kr…
Behind the scenes, a lot has been happening in parkrun in Scandinavia over the past year. As some people may have noticed, for a while there has been a dedicated group of parkrunners in Oslo, who have been working hard to get parkrun off the ground in our neighbouring land to the west. The path…
August 26th sees the launch of Norway’s first parkrun, Tøyen parkrun , in Oslo (Registration opens on Friday 4th August). Below, Runar Sæther, one of the Core team in Oslo, tells us about Tøyenparken and the experience awaiting Norwegian parkrunners…. When we initially started looking at potential locations for the first Norwegian parkrun, Tøyenparken…
It’s going to be a busy autumn for parkrun in Sweden! Here’s a few dates for the diary for you to note: August 12th – Launch of Skatås parkrun in Goteborg August 19th – Launch of Huddinge parkrun in the south of Stockholm August 26th – 1 year anniversary for Haga…
