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Read more › News - 20th February 2018

Highlights from last week

Across the Nordics, four events survived the weather last weekend, with the long-awaited return of Toyen parkrun in Oslo, together with Tampere in Finland and Haga and Huddinge in Sweden.   It was cold and snowy across all events, but that didn’t dampen the spirits of the people taking part as you can see from…

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Read more › News - 13th February 2018

Let’s hear it for the course checkers!

Winter brings a challenge for parkruns in colder climates, like here in the Nordics. We always want to make sure that parkrun is safe for everyone to take part, regardless of what footwear they’re wearing. (Sometimes it might be best to wear spiked shoes, but we never want to make it a requirement as it…

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Read more › News - 13th February 2018

Tampere parkrun – coming of age

Tampere parkrun achieved a milestone of 18 events just last Saturday. Although still quite young in terms of number of events it is still enough experience to write a blog piece and look back at how this milestone was reached.   Giving birth to Tampere parkrun was not easy. Already few years back there were…

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Read more › News - 8th February 2018

parkrun Nordics welcomes Salming Sports as a sponsor

We’re delighted to announce that Salming Sports will be a sponsor of parkrun Nordics in 2018.   Salming Sports have a well-established history across a range of indoor sports, leading the way for footwear for squash, floorball, handball and badminton. It wasn’t until 2012 that the journey began in their running shoe range and they…

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Read more › News - 8th February 2018

CauseyWestling fortsätter att vara stolt sponsor av parkrun!

Vi på CauseyWestling är övertygade om att en helhetssyn på människan och företagande utgör grunden till ett långsiktigt och hållbart entreprenörskap. Därför arbetar vi aktivt med att främja våra medarbetares hälsa och välbefinnande, och försöker skapa goda förutsättningar för dem att våga vara innovativa och finna nya vägar. Från gemensam företagsträning till regelbundna utbildningar strävar…

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Read more › News - 31st January 2018

Veckans volontär – träffa de som gör Skatås parkrun möjlig!

Vi på Skatås parkrun är så väldigt stolta och tacksamma för våra glada volontärer att vi har skapat en serie – veckans volontär! Idén var Emelie Carlssons, och vilken bra idé! Nu har vi haft en hel månad av veckans volontär och har träffat fyra som ständigt hjälper till att skapa en god och uppmuntrande…

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Read more › News - 31st January 2018

“Life is all about helping each other”

Bernie Andersson is an Irishwoman living in Huddinge. She has become a regular volunteer at Huddinge parkrun. She’s not a runner but she has become a big parkrun fan. Here’s her story.     ”I first heard about parkrun about 3-4 years ago, from my niece. She lives in UK and is big into running…

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Read more › News - 24th January 2018

Everyone welcome at Stavanger parkrun – coming soon!

The west coast of Norway joins the parkrun family with the launch of an event based around Mosvatnet lake, in Stavanger. This will be the second Norwegian parkrun, following the success of the Tøyen parkrun in Oslo, launched in August of last year.   Steve Colgrave, at Bedgebury parkrun in the UK   Steve Colgrave,…

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Read more › News - 21st January 2018

A parkrun adventure to South Africa!

This festive season we were lucky enough to visit South Africa. Of course no trip abroad is complete without a bit of parkrun tourism and on this holiday we managed to squeeze in not one but two new parkruns.   First up we visited Winterton parkrun which started and finished at ‘The Waffle Hut’, no…

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Read more › News - 16th January 2018

Super lördag – Örebro parkrun och Rynningeviken skridskouthyrning

Förra vecka (13/1) var det Superlördag på Rynningeviken.   Detta är namnet vi skapade för ett evenemang som officiellt markerar öppningen av skridskoåkning och därmed uthyrning på Hjälmaren och i kombination med parkrun som körs varje lördag året runt. Mannen ansvarig för Rynningeviken är Anders Schreiber som har haft sin “Rynningeviken” -operation i flera år…

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