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Parkrun (stylised as parkrun) is a collection of 5-kilometre (3.1 mi) events for runners, walkers and volunteers that take place every Saturday morning at more than 2,000 locations in 22 countries across five continents. Parkrun was founded by Paul Sinton-Hewitt on 2 October 2004 at Bushy Park in London, England.
parkrun, a series of weekly 5 km events held on Saturday mornings in 22 countries around the world, has for some time been the largest running event in the world. On a regular Saturday, around 300,000 people take part across nearly 2000 events.
The organisers changed the name to UK Time Trial (UKTT) and in October 2008 to Parkrun. In 2007, the Parkrun events began to be staged elsewhere in London and the UK. It has also since expanded into 23 other countries. Originally Parkrun results were recorded manually on laptops with runners receiving a metal token after finishing.
2024 has been the year of running. There have been run clubs, marathons, and the Paris Olympics. Parkrun just celebrated its 20th anniversary. But the year isn’t over.
A parkrun in Hampshire along forest paths and trails at Alice Holt has also been called off. Organisers said: "Sorry folks, not the start to the New Year we'd hoped for, but due to high winds the ...
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Cardiff parkrun is a parkrun event that takes place every Saturday morning at 9 am in Cardiff, Wales. The parkrun was the first in Wales [ 1 ] and has become the second largest in the UK. [ 2 ] The run was started on 16 February 2008 and celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2018 with its largest ever attendance.
There are several prominent 5K race series, including The Color Run, an international, mass participation, city-based series involving coloured water showers, [11] and the parkrun series, which is a worldwide network of free-to-enter, volunteer-led races occurring each weekend, originating in the United Kingdom. [12]