We’ve sought, throughout lockdown, to be consistent and transparent in our communications, and feel that having a scheduled update of our most recent position helps that. We also feel it’s important to maintain a routine, and to ensure that our community and external stakeholders can easily access our most up-to-date position. Further, whilst the…
The parkrun family is made up of 22 countries around the world, and we’ll be taking a closer look at a number of them. This week it’s Germany, Country Manager Jakub Fedorowicz and Ambassador Michelle Purse tell us all about the history of parkrun Deutschland. Germany was the nineteenth country to join the…
Every parkrun has a story, and this week hear from Helen from The Woodlands Waterway. I grew up in South West London, just around the corner from Bushy Park where parkrun began. My dad used to run parkrun before it was even called parkrun – back in the days of the Bushy Park Time…
We’ve now seen parkrun New Zealand take place for the second weekend in a row, and it’s been great to welcome parkrunners back across the country. Pleasingly we’ve not seen attendance negatively affected, and across all metrics we measure (for example age, gender, pre-registration activity levels, finish times) things are largely back to where…
With everything that’s going on in the world at the moment, the ability to reduce stress and build resilience has never been more relevant or important. Dr Carolyn Ee is a GP, researcher, health and wellbeing advocate and runner. Dr Ee tells us more about mindfulness… What is mindfulness? Mindfulness meditation is defined as paying…
The parkrun family is made up of 22 countries around the world, and we’ll be taking a closer look at a number of them. This week it’s Finland, and Country Manager Deri Thomas tells us all about the history of parkrun Finland. The fact that parkrun is in Finland is largely thanks…
This is far and away the most common question that parkrun USA receives. For many years we had to say, “No,” but since August 2018 we’ve been able to say, “No but there’s one in NJ you can get to from NYC.” Delaware and Raritan Canal parkrun (aka D&RC) is in Somerset County in…
Saturday saw the long-awaited return of parkrun New Zealand, the first parkrun events back after an extended global lockdown, and a return, in that part of the world at least, to pre-Coronavirus routines. Since the earliest days of this challenge we had prioritised the work required to ensure a smooth return to action when the…
The parkrun family is made up of 22 countries around the world, and we’ll be taking a closer look at a number of them. This week it’s the US! Having recently celebrated eight years since the first event took place, here is the story of parkrun USA… The parkrun culture is communal, supportive,…
With everything that’s going on in the world at the moment, the ability to reduce stress and build resilience has never been more relevant or important. Dr Carolyn Ee is a GP, researcher, health and wellbeing advocate and runner. Dr Ee tells us more about meditation… What is meditation? Over the past few decades…
