“It feels like my body is packing up on me.” That’s how I described it to my parents one Sunday morning in August 2015. This was after a few months of feeling strange, and regularly not being able to sleep due to a pounding head and feeling flushed. I took my blood pressure on…
Idet vi tager afsked med 2020, reflekterer parkruns grundlægger Paul Sinton-Hewitt (CBE) over tolv meget anderledes måneder for parkrun. 2020 begyndte med så meget håb. Vores bevægelse, som nu er i sit 16. år, voksede. Holland blev det 22. land med aktive parkruns, vi lancerede en overvældende kampagne med titlen This Girl Can til…
We were delighted to welcome parkrun back across most parts of New Zealand at the weekend, which together with events in Australia’s Northern Territory and one in the Falkland Islands, saw more than 2,700 people walking, jogging, running and volunteering across 27 locations. The first time round, it took us five-and-a-half years to go from…
In last week’s update we explained that parkrun staff would be directly contacting all parkrun event teams and volunteer ambassadors. I’m pleased to let you know that that process has begun, although with around 2,500 conversations to schedule it will likely take several weeks to complete. Whilst no country in the world has yet…
This week at parkrun in the Nordics there have been: 24 events! 989 finishers! 149 fantastic volunteers! 137 brilliant PBs! 71 amazing first-time parkrunners! 107 newly registered parkrunners!
Plenty of rain this Saturday, although it should be noted that it was entirely and perhaps unexpectedly dry in Bergen, where Løvstien parkrun was celebrating their first birthday. In Finland both Tampere and Vääksyn kanava parkrun also had birthday celebrations. Here’s the best of the photos for this week’s round-up: Autumn leaves on the…
Jakob and Natalija Hedén are regular runners at Malmö Ribersborg parkrun. Natalia who’s from Novibirisk, travelled back to her home town with the family for the summer. And what better to take in when at home than of course parkrun! Novosibirsk Naberezhnaya parkrun marked on the map of Russia Novibirisk is the third…
If there’s one young life to have seen more than a multitude of adults, it’s Joseph Oosterhoff from Quinns Rocks parkrun in Australia. Looking at his youthful physique whenever he attends parkrun, one would be hesitant to think the 15-year-old has undergone numerous procedures for health conditions which have plagued him since birth –…
Denna vecka har vi från Örebro Kanotförening fått turen att dela med oss av vår verksamhet. Vi är ett gäng ungdomar som älskar att träna, och framförallt att paddla. Vår klubb tror på att framgång byggs via gemenskap, vilket är en åsikt vi delar med parkrun. Att delta i evenemanget har blivit en del av…
Last weekend at parkrun in the Nordics there were: 24 events! 927 finishers! 146 fantastic volunteers! 126 brilliant PBs! 93 amazing first-time parkrunners!
