parkrun is all about the taking part, and running quicker is not really the priority. But of course, you get a time, and many people do enjoy trying to get quicker and get a parkrun PB. Here’s a few small bits of advice for anyone who wants to get quicker! 1. Run More Virtually…
Vi är glada att kunna meddela att en till parkrun ska starta i Sverige! Så vart ligger Kungsängen? Det är ett samhälle på pendeltågslinjen, cirka 25 km nordväst om Stockholm. Det är lätt att ta sig dit – bara 25 minuter från centrala Stockholm antingen med pendeltåg eller med bil längs E18. Det bor…
Efter att vid flera tillfällen försökt få ut Linnèa i joggingspåret här i Nora, högg jag som en cobra när hon plötsligt sa – på lördag åker jag på parkrun i Örebro. Före start var det ganska bistra miner, oj vad alla ser duktiga ut. Efter målgång känns det bättre, efter fika på Naturens…
Numbers. Statistics. parkrun is a great place for this. Every parkrun that you’ve ever done, your time, your position, your Age-Graded score. That time when you were injured and were on the comeback trail. That time when you were the Tail Runner/Walker at an event. The times when you’ve run with your child, walking and…
Now that parkrun has found its way to Stockholm and Göteborg amongst other places, it seems unfair to not let Sweden’s third biggest city, Malmö, get in on the fun. There’s been plenty of interest in starting up a parkrun event in Malmö and now plans are in full swing to get an event off…
The sun was out and the biscuits were ready for the first ever parkrun in Norway held in Tøyenparken on the 26th of August. Norway is the 17th country in the world to join the parkrun family (counting that parkrun South Africa has events in Botswana and Namibia). Participants were reminded that their speed was…
There are many good reasons to walk, jog or run parkrun! Here’s 10 of them to get started. Tag a non-parkrunner if you think one of these applies to them! You want to get started with exercising Maybe it’s hard to get started with exercise and you think that if you entered a running…
Sandra is my name, I’m originally from Karlskoga but I moved to Ireland when I was in my early twenties. I live in Dublin with my Irish husband Stephen and our nine year old triplet boys. When the boys were small my husband started running as a way of relieving the stress caused by…
Det är inte helt lätt att få upp tonåringarna en lördagmorgon. Det kanske är den största utmaningen, men när de väl är där på plats har de älskat varje sekund. Det är som ledare på Löparakademin så inspirerande att få visa ungdomarna verksamheter som parkrun med vetskapen om de alltid kommer kunna delta om…
As you will have hopefully have seen, the past two weeks have seen the launch of two new events, Skatås in Göteborg, and then Huddinge, south of Stockholm. I had the privilege to be at both inaugural events and it was great to see the efforts of everyone involved in the build-up of each event…
