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2018 Comrades Marathon champion, Ann Ashworth, is a regular parkrunner and volunteer, and joined Comrades down run record holder and parkrun 50 club member, Frith van der Merwe at Ebotse parkrun recently.
Local Scouts also attended the parkrun to paint it purple to highlight their activities. Purple is both the colour of Scouts and the parkrun 25 volunteer club.
I love greeting everyone when I volunteer at parkrun. When I do timekeeping, I encourage everyone to “finish strong” and when I barcode scan I always ask how the run was. I’m sometimes a bit slow on the scanning but I want every participant to feel valued and let them know how friendly parkrun is!…
Ruimsig parkrun in Gauteng joined the parkrun family in September 2018. In the first year 9,000 different people completed the course, covering 175,000km! Adele Enslin, Event Director at Ruimsig tells us more: How did Ruimsig parkrun come about? We moved to Stubensvalley from Secunda in April 2018 & some parkrun tourist friends mentioned to me…
