(not)parkrun continues. This is me on my 62nd (not)parkrun, at Midstream and I got a PB! 27:39 Krishna Priyadarshi How’s this for the most impressive route mapped out by our fabulous core volunteer at Rondebosch Common parkrun, Gerhard Dehlan! Dedicated to our healthcare workers. I am inspired by…
There are just a few days to go before this Saturday’s reopening of Cape Pembroke Lighthouse parkrun on the Falkland Islands, as well as all three events in Australia’s Northern Territory. It’s an incredibly exciting time for all of us and I’m sure I can speak on behalf of the entire parkrun family when I…
The Western Cape ambassadors, event teams and parkrunners would like to say a big thank you to Torrin Theron for all the time and hard work she has put into developing our region – from the wine farms, to the beaches, shopping centres, golf courses, local parks, and forests. Torrin joined parkrun in May…
Although my home parkrun is in South Africa, my (not)parkruns have been in Lima, Peru where I have been stuck for the past six months. The government here enforced a very strict lock-down for four months with the army on the streets and long curfew periods, but this was actually comforting under the circumstances…
We face the prospect of living in a world where being apart becomes normal, and where the risk associated with social interaction and participating in physical activity is deemed to outweigh the benefit. parkrun’s Global Head of Health and Wellbeing Chrissie Wellington tells us why the time is now for resuming parkrun. Following…
parkrun Global Chief Executive Officer Nick Pearson announces intent to resume parkrun events in England toward the end of October. Ever since parkrun events closed in the UK and across the world, we’ve been focused on understanding how and when we would be able to resume in a safe and appropriate way. Throughout, we…
We are delighted to confirm that, as announced on local channels last Friday, parkrun is set to return in the Falkland Islands (Cape Pembroke Lighthouse parkrun) and in Australia’s Northern Territory on Saturday 19 September. As we confirmed in last week’s update, there are clear and specific local guidelines that permit us to return…
We’re excited to publish the findings of the rapid review of evidence for outdoor transmission of COVID-19, commissioned by parkrun and undertaken by the Centre for Sport, Physical Education & Activity Research (spear) at Canterbury Christ Church University. Led by Professor Mike Weed and Dr Abby Foad, the review looked at evidence of incidents…
The (not)parkrun is a fantastic motivation. I run three times a week on different 5k routes in our beautiful city of Cape Town and submit my times to (not)parkrun. It has become part of my training during the lock down struggle. I’m super fit and excited awaiting the parkruns to start, missing my parkrun…
Those of you who have followed these weekly updates since early April will know that, whilst we wouldn’t rule anything out, our initial preference has been that we would only start entire parkrun countries at a time. This was based on a number of factors, but largely that the complexity of supporting numerous varied regulations,…
