In today’s world, it’s so easy to spend hours sitting in a chair looking at a screen, feeling cut off from the outdoors and the rest of our community. At parkrun we are doing our small piece to buck that trend. We want to help people to get outdoors, connect with nature and be…
Always lovely photos on offer from Örebro parkrun Handing out the tokens at this week’s Tampere parkrun in Finland Family running at this week’s Tøyen parkrun We also had supporters on skis in Oslo, in true Norwegian style! Snow was notable by its absence at Malmö Ribersborg parkrun! 44 runners including 11…
Let me tell you a story about a Frenchman in Sweden. (Cue one of my favourite songs, “Englishman in New York” by Sting). I moved to Sweden in the summer of 2008, to be with my then girlfriend, who is now my wife. I don’t think I realised the adventure I was going to embark…
In our four-part training series, we’ll be introducing some of the training methods you can use to help you improve your running and your parkrun PB, whilst showing how a couple of tweaks to your mid-week training could help you become a more confident runner, whatever your aspirations! In this instalment, we’re discussing Strength…
From North to South and East to West, it was a blanket of snow that covered the whole of the region this weekend. Tough conditions in some places, but when Saturday morning parkruns are a way of life, you can count on the runners and volunteers to come along and keep things on the…
Vad fort ett år flyger förbi! (Jag tror att vi sa så även förra året…….). Det känns verkligen svårt att tänka att vi började 2018 utan Malmö Ribersborg och Uppsala parkrun, vilka nu är väletablerade event i parkrun Sverige-familjen. Båda äger rum på fantastiskt fina banor som verkligen visar upp de två städerna…
How fast a year flies by. (I think we also said this last year!). It really feels hard to think that we entered 2018 without Malmö Ribersborg and Uppsala parkrun, which are now established events in the parkrun Sweden family. Both take place on stunning routes which really show off the very best…
In recent years ‘barefoot running’ has become something of a trend, but this isn’t so practical in winter with snow all around. So what’s the solution for the minimalist runner? Well, the answer comes from Finland, woollen socks. Last week we included a photo in our newsletter of parkrunner Tanja Kairimo and her son…
Clear skies and chilly temperatures were the theme to this week’s parkruns in the Nordics, with every event being run in sub-zero temperatures for the first time this year. It was a morning when anyone getting up early for parkrun was rewarded with stunning scenes to warm the spirits, whatever the temperature. The sun…
In our four-part training series, we’ll be introducing some of the training methods you can use to help you improve your running and your parkrun PB, whilst showing how a couple of tweaks to your mid-week training can help you become a more confident runner, whatever your aspirations! In this instalment, we’re discussing Interval Training. …
