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…
parkrun changed my life. I started with my very first parkrun back in 2016 out of curiosity. Overweight, not motivated at all. I fell in love with the whole vibe of parkrun. I have been working hard, planning my Saturdays to run a parkrun every week and joining many different parkruns across the whole country,…
My parkrun journey started by chance back in August 2015 at Ebotse. A year earlier, I had a life-changing accident which prevented me from participating in many fitness activities. A colleague at the time suggested that I try this new craze called parkrun that her and her family had become addicted to. So, off I…
My son JG started parkrun because there was a girl he wanted to get to know a little better. So obviously the next weekend I tagged along to show him how it was supposed to be done. Well I lost the challenge – It took me a little longer. I got addicted and planned…
