I got a message from my friend Bradley, telling me about the 4X4X48 Challenge website and immediately became intrigued. You run four miles (6.4 km) every four hours for 48 hours. All thanks to parkrun, we knew we could complete four miles, so I thought to myself ‘this shouldn’t be that bad’! After persuading another…
I first started doing parkrun in 2018 as I wanted to lose some weight. But in 2019, parkrun became my “way back”. Unfortunately, I suffered a serious attack from a dog back in August 2019 and lost 50% of my left hamstring. For any person, a serious injury, for a former Olympic Athlete… a…
One day in early November 2019 we received an e-mail from a parkrun tourist from Gauteng by the name of Doris Dondur who indicated her plan to attend Outeniquasbosch parkrun (Mossel Bay in the Garden Route) and asked whether she could volunteer if we need an extra pair of hands – which we, of course,…
At the beginning of January 2021 I asked myself the question “how do I get to run the Two Oceans Marathon with my Dad?” Taking into account my 78 year old Dad (Boet van Zyl) has already done it 31 times, I knew my version of an “Ultra Marathon” will only ever be a 5k….
It was a beautiful morning for a socially distanced (not)parkrun this morning with the team from Bellville parkrun. It was also a double celebration as got my 200th (not)parkrun whilst also being able to at last hand over some milestone t-shirts (which I had brought back from the UK just days before the first lockdown) to…
There were so many friends around me convince me to start parkrunning and told me all the motivational, good stories and community projects involved. I started with my own parkrun journey in 2018, and have achieved my first milestone of 50 runs. I reached 68 runs before Covid derailed us! Bridget and Allen Klue…
On this day a year ago I did my last parkrun at Voortrekker Monument with my friend Estelle. It was my 121st parkrun and my 60th different venue. I was doing pretty well getting through my parkrun alphabet too – travelling as far as Tasmania with Iain, Brooke and Hamish to get my ‘Q’…
I started going to parkrun in July 2017, with my first run at Welkom parkrun. I started to feel fitter and eventually did a 21km! I’ve also now completed 80 parkruns in South Africa and Australia. At age 54, I am still going strong. Last year, I even did a 45km lockdown run! Estelle Henrico…
When lockdown hit us in March last year, everyone thought that it would be for a few weeks only, and that, after the initial ‘captivity’, we would be back to business as before. However, reality struck hard when we realised that exercising in general, and parkrun in particular, would be a no-no for the foreseeable…
Last week I completed my 100th (not)parkrun having run my first one back in June. It has been an amazing experience – I have run some fairly fast ones and some very slow ones, I’ve run alone, with friends and family and with dogs. I’ve run on the roads in the suburbs, in the mountains…
