junior parkrun is a free, fun, friendly weekly community event, organised by volunteers of all ages, for children aged 4 to 14. These 2k events take place on Sunday mornings in the UK, Ireland and Australia. Walk, jog, run, volunteer or spectate with us. ...
It’s also utterly awful that the management continues to allow men to run in the female category, spoiling the event for many women. Then they removed the stats (which many people loved) to try and hide the fact that men were claiming women’s course and age grade records. Then lied ...
Individual parkrun profile data is kept in order to create and maintain our results tables, historic records of participation, allow participants to access their participation records and to allow anyone registered with parkrun to continue to participate at future parkrun events without the requirement t...
We’re super proud of the fact our volunteer-led, free-for-all 5k and 2k events have been taken up by so many people across so many cultures in so many countries. Of course, it was a bit more low key at the beginning… Our first ever event was in Bushy park, Teddington, UK, whe...
Parkrun has received criticism for ranking individual times and maintaining course records when parkruns are marketed as not being races [8]. However, these are likely to be important motivating factors for many to take part in parkrun. Furthermore, some elements of the gamification of parkrun ...