Sunny weather, spring in the air and a big turnout around the region. A glorious parkrun Saturday. Here’s some snaps from the 21 events that went ahead this weekend: This is what the biggest turnout at a Nordics parkrun looks like – 199 people taking part at Örebro parkrun Token sorting is…
Roderick Hoffman is a well travelled parkrun tourist – and as an analyst for ‘a major UK airline’, he’s makes the most of his possibilities for travel to visit parkruns around the world. Recently he has set out on a new mission – to run the most parkrun events in different countries in consecutive weeks!…
Den här veckan kan vi med glädje ge er lite mer detaljer om en ny parkrun som vi hoppas kunna lansera under 2019, Växjö parkrun! Vi har länge känt att Växjö skulle vara en underbar plats för en parkrun, det skulle vara det första parkrun eventet i Småland och det faktum att den vackra…
Nordre Fælled parkrun i Randers er det første nye løb til at komme i gang i Danmark i mere end 6 år. Nordre Fælled Parkrun bliver dermed d. 22. parkrun event i Norden. Det finder sted i Randers Nordby i det smukke naturområde som har givet begivenheden navnet. De 5 kilometer er en…
With winter just around the corner, our partners at Salming Running are delighted to announce the launch of their award-winning new iSpike shoe, ready to get you around your local parkrun course, whatever the conditions underfoot. The shoe was the Gold award winner at ISPO (Global Sports Exhibition) 2018 in the category Health &…
parkrun started in Sweden back in August 2016 and is fascinating to look back at the barcodes of the people who signed up at that time, as it shows that in this relatively short period of time, the total number of parkrunners worldwide incredibly has doubled, going from around 2.5 million parkrunners to the imminent…
Blue skies and bright sunshine was the default setting for our events this week in the last parkrun in the first half of the year. With over 150 first-time runners this week, parkrun continues to reach out to new participants through the best form of advertising, word of mouth. What’s not to like?! These…
Our parkrun friends in the UK have compiled a list of European capitals where you can run parkrun, and of course our Nordic parkruns feature prominently on the list! Read on to see where else you can run a parkrun on your travels. With parkruns now taking place in 20 countries worldwide, we take a closer…
In order to keep parkrun free, forever, for everyone taking part, parkrun relies in part on money brought in from sponsors. Globally, parkrun is starting to be able to attract more sponsorship funds in countries where the events are well established – obviously when you have 1 million people in your database, this makes it…
We’ve now been going for 13 weeks at Haga parkrun. We’ve had nearly 700 people register on the parkrun Sweden website and there’s now close to 400 different people who have run Haga parkrun. It’s great that more and more people have found their way to parkrun and understand that there is plenty to like…
