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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.
Bushy Parkrun (stylised Bushy parkrun) is a running event that takes place every Saturday morning at 9 am in Bushy Park, Teddington, London. It was the very first Parkrun, founded by Paul Sinton-Hewitt in October 2004 under its original name Bushy Park Time Trial. The event has become a pilgrimage for Parkrunners, attracting entrants from ...
Peter Paul Sinton-Hewitt CBE (born 1960) is the founder of parkrun. [1]He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) "for services to Grassroots Sport Participation" in the 2014 Birthday Honours, [2] and was selected as an Ashoka Fellow in 2016. [3]
Parkrun just celebrated its 20th anniversary. But the year isn’t over. Autumn marathon season is just getting started with, Chicago and NYC marathons still to come over the next month.
A woman is running all 17 parkrun events in Suffolk to help raise awareness of cervical screenings. Cara Lawrence, 28, is a cervical screening administrator at the Suffolk GP Federation and works ...
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.
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 ...
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]