My first 100 parkruns

1. Lullingstone 02/09/2017 I'd started couch to 5k and was planning to go to parkrun when my sister Katy invited me to their local run. Lullingstone is a lovely parkrun but not an easy one. It starts halfway up a massive hill, which you run to the top of, then down to the bottom, then back to the top, then back to the bottom, and finish halfway up again. I walked the up bits, and spent a lot of time talking with the tail walker. At the time it was in all the "top 10 hardest parkruns in the UK" list.
2. Stretford 12/05/2018 whilst in Manchester for a weekend.
3. Exmouth 26/05/2018 visiting family.
4. Bressay 23/06/2018 on our summer holidays, in Shetland - had to get a ferry for this one. The 9am ferry to Bressay is FULL of runners.
5. Aberystwyth 14/07/2018 My first outing at Aberystwyth was as a volunteer. I wanted to see what it was like but I didn't have the confidence to try and run it, so I signed up to give out the finish tokens instead. I didn't actually complete the event until early August... and even then it was as a tail walker, not a jogger. It really did take me quite a while to get the courage up for my home parkrun. It's interesting to look at the results and volunteer list now -- I didn't know many people at the event then but now about 10% of the names on that list are friends...
6. Llanerchaeron 21/07/2018 this is the nearest parkrun to Aberystwyth that's not Aberystwyth...
7. Ormskirk 28/07/2018 visiting friends Jude and Steve for a big birthday. I forgot my sports bra so had to walk this one... my Jude seemed happy to walk it though, and Steve was run director so we had to hang around till the end anyway.
8. Aberystwyth Juniors 12/8/2018 Later that summer I volunteered at Aberystwyth Juniors for the first time (I've now done this over 80 times, it's huge fun). The first time I did it was because the nephews were visiting but we'll often go down to help out now regardless of whether we have eligible kids staying in the house - it's a joyful way to start your Sunday. And it's over by 0930. And if you are tail walker you get to wear an actual tail.
9. Tewkesbury 01/09/2018 A carful of hackers bust out of EMFCamp to do a parkrun,and one of the crew insisted on Tewkesbury as they needed a 'T' for their parkrun alphabet. This information introduced me to the concept of collecting parkrun venues... up till now I was just trying to go for a run.
10. Dartford Heath 06/10/2018 This is one of my favourites, fairly flat heathland, trail but not too challenging, and for this one I was running with a chatty teenage nephew most of the way (I was providing an excuse for a slow run for him).
11. Dartford Juniors 07/10/2018 when you volunteer to marshal at Dartford Juniors they give you a big foam hand to assist in hi-fives. Or at least, they used to.
12. Ashford 29/12/2018 visiting family -- this is a lovely victorian park two-lapper with bandstand, windy river, and an out-and-back section where you can hi-five faster family members.
13. Haverfordwest 23/02/2019 This is one of several parkruns I've done that follow the route of racecourses or old racecourses (no horses race in Haverfordwest any more, at least, not here). I was actually in Haverfordwest for some dental surgery because living in west Wales is like that - sometimes you get medically referred to places 2h drive away.
    
    
    
    It's around this time that I did my first stint as run director in Aberystwyth. I'd tried a lot of the volunteer roles, I'm fine with computers so results processing holds no fear, and I have no problem with doing the run-director's briefing at the start (as a lecturer, I'm pretty audible). So they asked me and I thought I'd give it a go. It took a while to get used to but it's now my favourite volunteer role. Indeed it's become part of my xmas traditions, and I generally run direct the xmas special run.
    
    
    
    
14. Potternewton 30/03/2019 For years I lived in Leeds and this was my nearest park. Great to see that it now has a parkrun.
15. Queen’s, Belfast 13/04/2019 This was the start of the parkrun weekend thing. Since 2019, my sister Katy and I have done a parkrun weekend instead of birthday and xmas presents. Queen's gav a Q for both our parkrun alphabets. I got the ferry from Birkenhead and took Friday-Monday; Katy flew from Gatwick, nice airbnb, bit too much stout, loads of pizza. Great weekend.
16. Stratford-upon-Avon 11/05/2019 For a while we did an annual theatre trip with the parents so Stratford Upon Avon is one of the parkruns I have done most frequently. It's a nice, fast, multilap course just across the river from the RSC. The last time I did this parkrun I saw Daniel Evans (who is co-artistic director) who'd we'd seen the night before on stage in the Swan playing Edward II.
17. Telford 18/05/2019 The first timer's briefing dude told us to look out for the animatronic dinosaurs, then corrected himself to say fibreglass. So,not quite so exciting, but still, a parkrun with dinosaurs.
18. Sheringham 25/05/2019 this is a lovely woodland single-lapper in Norfolk which I did with my sister and familly during a summer holiday. This one I ran with a very chatty under 11 nephew (who sped off when the finish was in sight).
19. Ipswich 01/06/2019 After the holiday with all the fam we headed down to Ipswitch for an extra night, so we could get a letter 'I' for our alphabets.
20. Northampton 29/06/2019 I did this one after giving the keynote at a computer science teachers conference. This is a city park that used to be a racecourse, so it's flat and oval-ish.
21. Groe 27/07/2019 Builth Wells parkrun is called Groe, and it's in a small town park by the river Wye.
22. Killarney House 21/09/2019 My first properly overseas parkrun was Killarney House, visiting the ancestral region in Co. Kerry. This was a phase of my life where Guinness definitely played a role and I expect my performance was 50% Guinness,50% chips.
23. The Leas 02/11/2019 Out and back on the seafront on the Isle of Sheppey. We were part of an athletics club outing (not my athletics club, I was just tagging along - when the park at Dartford is in use they all decamp to a nearby parkrun, the core team had a coach and everything).
24. Newtown 07/12/2019 This one is an out-and-back along the river Severn with a loop around a park; it's one I can get to by getting up early although the only time I've done it so far I was actually staying in the area. My abiding memory of this one is that the final bit around a park takes forever.
25. Folkestone 28/12/2019 During the inter-xmas gap I did Folkestone with the grandkids and the nephews. This is a very picturesque along-the-top-of-the-prom event. Big views, nice cafe.
26. Cyclopark 01/01/2020 It used to be the case that parkruns on new year's day were able to choose their start time (either 9am or a bit later) and so it was possible for a while to do two parkruns on one day. Cyclopark parkrun is usually next to the cycle track but as it was shut (being new year's day) we got to run on the actual cycle track which was cool. I ran with my nephew who would naturally have been a lot faster than me, however, as an under-11 he had to slow down and talk all the way.
27. Shorne Woods 01/01/2020 Shorne Woods was my second new year 2020 parkrun. it's about 15 minutes drive from Cyclopark. I was super slow, having already done one 5k. By the time I finished they'd run out of finish tokens and were using raffle tickets, and the results unsurprisingly took a long time to come out. The course is a lovely little trail run in a wood however it was a bit swamped on the day I went. This is still my highest ever finish position (I came 765th, out of 780 finishers).
28. York 18/01/2020 My sister and I did York (for a Y) as a birthday present to each other. Great weekend, lovely racecourse course which is flat and fast. It was at the time very popular with alphabet hunters, however there have been tons more Y events opened up since.
29. Dolgellau 07/03/2020 Dolgellau is one of the few parkruns I can comfortably get to by waking up early - it's about a 45 minute drive - so I've done it four times now. Out-back-out-back by the Mawddach trail with the best post parkrun cafe in T H Roberts.
    
    
    There then followed a parkrun-free lockdown-heavy interlude without any tourism.
    
    
    
30. Barry Island 06/11/2021 For a while one of our mates lived in Barry, so Barry Island had to be done. Bit of a hill, bit of a promenade, lots of fun. We followed it with crazy golf.
31. Chester 04/12/2021 We got into virtual hikes during lockdown, and a bunch of us did the Wales Coast Path (WCP). Once Lockdown finished, we decided to meet up to do the last leg of the WCP, in Chester, so obviously some of us also did the parkrun.
32. Burgess 01/01/2022 New year's day 2022, I'd been celebrating with the parents and (not)godfathers the night before at Oval so got up early and headed to Burgess Park. I liked this one a lot - it had a real party atmosphere, a very entertaining first-timer's briefing, and some drumming marshalls. I remember visiting this park with my grandparents. It's changed a lot, but also it's probably been about half a century.
33. Ashton Court 09/04/2022 I went to this one after a conference in Bristol. There's only one hill, the problem is you go up it for the first half of the run and down it for the second half (and there is zero flat). Great fun bombing it down to the finish, hard work getting to the turnaround point in the first place...
34. Woodhouse Moor 04/06/2022 There was a bit of a gap here between parkruns becauuse I broke some ribs and punctured my lung in a freak hiking accident, but eventually a trip to Leeds saw me tick off Woodhouse Moor. This was one of the first parkruns in the country and is pretty huge in terms of numbers; it's also a park I used to walk across to uni every day back in the 1990s so definitely a bit of a homecoming moment.
35. Nobles 02/07/2022 Nobles is the parkrun on the Isle of Man, which I did when on our hols.
36. Tawd Valley 09/07/2022 On our way back from the Isle of Man we stopped in with Steve and Jude (of Ormskirk parkrun fame) and did a parkrun and a curry just before they emigrated to Ireland.
37. Cannon Hill 17/09/2022 Fun fact: Cannon Hill park in Birmingham has a scale concrete model of the Elan Valley reservoir system. I ticked this one off the morning after a Half Man Half Biscuit gig; Rog got collared at the start because he was wearing his Dukla Prague away kit shirt. The run director announced "There's a wasps nest by the bridge... so ... I dunno. Run faster?" which is one of the more useful RD announcements I've heard.
38. Henley Wood, Oswestry 08/10/2022 This is a friendly little trail run loopy parkrun, not too hilly, quite uneven/technical underfoot.
39. Cardiff 29/10/2022 We were in Cardiff for a John Cale gig at the Millenium Centre, which was pretty great. Not sure I'll ever learn how to spell Milennium though. Cardiff is a very big parkrun and I got overtaken by a kid in a full dinosaur suit.
40. Sale Water 19/11/2022 We were in Manchseter for the Rugby League world cups (women's and men's games) so took the opportunity to do another of the Manchester parkruns. Sale Water Park is a post-industrial lake/canal area with lots of shade. The paths are pretty uneven in places (I remember running over old bricks) but the views are great for a city centre jobbie.
41. Swanley 01/01/2023 New Year's day 2023 I did Swanley with my sister, nice Kentish park with a miniature train in it.
42. Woodley 28/01/2023 For our parkrun weekend in 2023 my sister and I did Reading in order to get an 'R'... but Reading itself was cancelled. So we did Woodley, instead, with a cousin.
43. Pont y Bala 25/02/2023 This is one of the 'get up early' tourist locations we can do from Aber... and this was my first sub-30 parkrun. It's a flattish out-back-out-back course and I did the first 'out' a bit too fast and just tried to hang on. Hurrah!
44. Warwick Racecourse 22/04/2023 This is a commutable-from-Stratford-Upon-Avon parkrun and is unsurprisingly on a racecourse.
45. Exeter Riverside 06/05/2023 Visiting family in the South West again, I went uptown for the Exeter parkrun.
46. Victoria 10/06/2023 I stayed an extra couple of days after a meeting in Glasgow to tick this one off. I picked my hotel based upon crow's flight distance not realising that the river Clyde was in the way and that I'd have to take the Clyde foot tunnel, which is a frankly terrifying experience as it locks both ends behind you, and crossing the river takes about 15 minutes of damp underground tunnel with no other people in.
47. Dudley 17/06/2023 One of my alltime favourites - running track, park, canal, woodland, running track. Most varied parkrun ever. Their local LGBTQIA+ running group was doing a volunteer takeover too so it was very rainbow indeed.
48. Crosby 01/07/2023 In Liverpool for work, I stayed on an extra day to tick off Crosby. I've always wanted to do this one because of the Anthony Gormley statues on the beach.
49. Cliffe Castle 15/07/2023 We held a memorial do for my nana in a place near Keighley and so my sister and I did Cliffe Castle, which is a nice Victorian park loopy parkrun with a big hill. I think Kate might have been poorly as this was the first time I ever finished before her.
50. Kirkwall 22/07/2023 This was another summer-holiday parkrun. Now when we go on holiday my first question is "do they have parkrun?". Kirkwall was a super, flat parkrun, with a nice big lake. Windy as fuck.
51. Perth 29/07/2023 We got off the ferry from Orkney at 0730 and set off in the general direction of "south", stopping for a parkrun wherever we got to around 0930 (Scottish parkruns start at 0930). It turned out that where we got to was Perth. Lovely parkrun. First time I've seen a sign-language interpreter at the run director's briefing.
52. Old Railway Trail, Llangollen 19/08/2023 This was a pre-hike parkrun; we were away for the weekend to walk some Offa's Dyke.
53. Zuiderpark 09/09/2023 For my 50th, Kate took me to the Netherlands to get a Z for my alphabet. Great weekend. We did one night in Den Haag and two in Rotterdam, got the whole thing done using trains. Eurostar is great. Zuiderpark itself is lovely, a flat, oval course, friendly marshalls, etc. This was the first time I saw a queue for the parkrun sign.
54. Teifi Marshes Nature Reserve 16/09/2023 Teifi Marshes is one of the three parkruns that are in or go across the border of Ceredigion, the county where I live (currently). This is a great little parkrun. Out-back-out-back on the cycle path (all flat) then the last 400m is a little windy uphill section: a proper sting in the tail, but giving lovely views across the nature reserve.
55. Riddlesdown 07/10/2023 Riddlesdown is a south London parkrun, around the edges of fields - one for trail shoes on muddy days.
56. Reading 25/11/2023 Finally we got to do Reading, a lovely trail run by the Thames. Did this one with cousin Tom, and his eldest kid, and my sister Katy and her youngest.
57. Sutcliffe 30/12/2023 Sutcliffe is another South London one, three laps of a park, no hills, without many sharp corners. This is one my sis does when she wants a good time. The cafe here was nice but someone hadn't turned up for their shift and oh my, the poor woman trying to serve an entire parkrun's worth of coffee on her own was having a bad morning.
58. Maidstone River Park 01/01/2024 New Year's day 2024, Maidstone (now Maidstone River Park) with the family. This was super busy; it's a very picturesque course. One of my faves in the Kent/South London area.
59. Dartford 27/01/2024 This is the home parkrun for the running club my sis used to go to so it's a bit strange I took so many years to get to it. It's a multi-lap city park job but I like those; interesting changes of path (tarmac/trail/around a football pitch) with a little hill.
60. Leybourne Lakes 16/03/2024 If I was going to pick my favourite Kentish one so far I think it's a toss up between Leybourne Lakes (was Maling when I did it - they renamed this one) and Dartford Heath. Leybourne Lakes is around a couple of lakes, lots of birds, largely flat, mostly good quality trail paths. Nice cafe.
61. Pontypridd 04/05/2024 This one has a lido! Mmmmm post parkrun swim with an inflatable obstacle course. Later on that trip we went to see Bruce Springsteen in Cardiff, so it was a pretty great weekend.
    
    
    
    It was around this time that I became co-event director of Aberystwyth parkrun. So, now I'm in charge, sort of. The event directors are the people who manage risk assessments, run director/core team recruitment and fundraising and so on for a particular event. In Aberystwyth we have decided to go for co-event directors so the work doesn't all fall on one person; we also decided to have a 5 year term so nobody gets stuck in the role forever.
    
    
    
    
62. Tonbridge 25/05/2024 Another kentish parkrun with a lake... this one was super busy, and perhaps a victim of it's own success.
63. Camperdown 01/06/2024 I walked this one with auntie Marianne, in my ongoing campaign to get everyone to parkrun. She said she liked it but I'm not sure she's been back.
64. Wakehurst 22/06/2024 Wakehurst place is a stunning garden and arboretum, so this parkrun is one of the most picturesque I've done. Although I've just seen the next on the list and it's got some competition ...
65. New Ross 13/07/2024 On holiday in Ireland I'd planned to do a racecourse parkrun in Wexford but it wasn't on due to the horse racing. Initially, this was a disappointment - I'd booked our hotel to be next to the racecourse on purpose. Then we located the second nearest parkrun, which turned out to be New Ross in the John F Kennedy Memorial Arboretum. Wow. This one really was a stunner.
66. Mullingar 20/07/2024 The second Irish parkrun of the holiday was this wuper friendly flat parkrun on canalside cycle paths - delightful. There would have been a third one (we got as far as the carpark but it was cancelled because a tree had come down on the course).
67. Mile End 03/08/2024 Another bit of South London/Kent tourism ticked off when visiting family. This one was super busy, in a long narrow park with twisty paths.
68. University Parks 17/08/2024 Our parkrun birthday weekend for 2024 was in Oxford - we did some comedy, ticked off a U for the alphabet, ate some great food, and hired a rowboat on the Thames. Cracking parkrun, cracking weekend.
69. Y Promenâd, Abermaw 31/08/2024 This is an out-back promenade job and it's an early start from Aberystwyth but totally doable. I tood a carful of Aber mates (mostly regular parkrun volunteers, not entirely coincidentally) for a roadtrip and a breakfast - great fun.
70. Brockwell 07/09/2024 Another parkrun with a lido - we did this on the train from the parents', planning to swim after, then my sister realised she had her teenage son's bag (containing his wallet and laptop) and he'd gone off with her bag (containing swimmers, towel, etc.). Hilarity ensued, along with a trip to the charity shops... we got our parkrun and our swim in. There were a lot of kids from a private school doing a sponsored fundraiser parkrun for their school here which was a bit distracting as they had no idea how parkrun worked and didn't appear to have much supervision but hey, it takes all sorts.
71. University of Stirling 28/09/2024 Travelling up to do the Loch Ness Marathon I stopped into University of Stirling and strolled the course to stretch my legs on the drive north, and meet up with some friends on the way. It's got a Loch! Stirling campus is pretty picturesque.
72. Worcester Pitchcroft 16/11/2024 A weekend in Worcester with the parents took me to Worcester Pitchcroft parkrun which is another racecourse one. Flat, fast, no sharp corners.
73. Wolverhampton 21/12/2024 For R's big birthday I took him to Wolverhampton for the weekend. They weren't doing an xmas day run so the 21/12 run was their christmassy one - the first timer's briefer was dressed as virgin Mary (and was pregnant, which shows real dedication to fancy dress). She was also pretty speedy and overtook me on lap 2.
74. Bracknell 28/12/2024 Did Bracknell with cousins Tom and Harry before a family event. This is another "bit of park, bit of trail" parkrun which is a style I like. The woody trail section had lots of tricksy tree roots to keep you on your toes, and also twisted and turned a lot. Without signage I would have no chance of reconstructing this route, a magical mystery parkrun.
75. Mote Park 01/01/2025 New Yea's Day 2025 and we did Mote Park, in the middle of Kent, which has lakes, hills and a very entertaining RD's speech. If you can't ham it up a bit on new year's day when can you, though?
76. Ruthin Memorial Playing Fields 29/03/2025 Ruthin Memorial Playing Fields might just be the only flat couple of KM in a very bumpy part of North Wales but they've managed to find it and put a parkrun in it. We did this one before a hiking weekend, up near the top bit of Offa's Dyke (again).
77. Greendale Farm Shop 03/05/2025 Visiting Devonian family I did this new-ish parkrun around a farm shop. R volunteered as marshal - and got a free bacon sandwich. Now there's a way to recruit volunteers! This parkrun has fields, hills, a lot of farm animals to look at including llamas and alpacas and even an ostrich. And a pretty fancy farm shop at the end.
78. Shrewsbury 10/05/2025 We went to see a comedy gig in Shrewsbury (Henning Wehn) and treated ourselves to a last minute hotel room so we didn't have to drive back in the middle of the night. Obviously, I did a parkrun the next day...
79. Greenfield Valley 31/05/2025 Another pre-Offa's-dyke parkrun, this time walking it with a coupl e of the hiking group. I liked this one, it's scenic on an old railway line and goes by some ruins.
80. Lydiard 14/06/2025 This was one of those 'life gets complicated sometimes' weekends... Why was I in Swindon? Well, I'd been external examining in Glasgow the week before and needed to be in Reading at the weekend for a family birthday and it just made sense to meet in Swindon. Lydiard is a very handsome parkrun. Lots of green, country park style.
81. Amsterdamse Bos 12/07/2025 Summer holiday 2025 parkrun number one: Amsterdamse Bos. A lovely wooded parkrun, flat, super-friendly.
82. Waterakkers 19/07/2025 Summer holiday parkrun number 2, a small event in a small town (Oosterhout), by a canal.
83. Kralingse Bos 26/07/2025 Summer holiday parkrun number 3, Rotterdam's woodland and lakeside run.
84. Elder Park 16/08/2025 In Glasgow again for fun this time, I did Elder Park in Govani meeting up with a mate. Multilap small park, not a picturesque or touristy one, this is a proper community event.
85. Severn Bridge 30/08/2025 Our birthday trip this year was to the Severn Bridge parkrun which starts in Wales and crosses the old Severn bridge to England and back again. Very picturesque and touristy!
86. Bexley 13/09/2025 A nice urban park with a lake and a little bit of a hill. I think this is the first parkrun I did with both sisters.
87. Park in the Past 11/10/2025 A strange park in north Wales with a replica Roman camp in it, which is pretty cool. Very active volunteers including some marshals at 'disco corner' (with music and glitterball). I walked this one with auntie Liz.
88. Nova Prestatyn 15/11/2025 This was another pre-hiking parkrun in Wales. A friendly promenade jobbie, out and back, strong winds, quite a lot of sand.
89. Whitecliffe Lake 29/11/2025 This is near the folks house in Kent and had opened just four weeks previous (that is, we attended the fifth event). My claim to fame here is that I joined my sisters in the queue for the loo before the event and unknowingly cut in front of Dame Kelly Holmes. She's awesome, she ran a superb parkrun then hung around till the end getting selfies and autographs with everyone.
90. Perton Playing Fields 20/12/2025 In Ironbridge for our birthday weekends this year, I did a new parkrun near Wolverhampton around the edge of some playing fields. It was pretty slippery on the corners (yes I did take the wrong trainers, and therefore fall over) but good fun nonetheless.
91. Avery Hill 27/12/2025 This one used to be called Greenwich but is now renamed after the park it's in (which probably makes sense as it's not that near to Greenwich).
92. Thames Path, Woolwich 01/01/2026 New Year's Day this year we did Thames Path Woolwich, which has a famous hill (the Walnut Whip) that you spiral up then down again. It also has Anthony Gormley statues.
93. Bromley 14/03/2026 Largely flat city park style parkrun - fast people lapping, bit of shouting, groups running three abreast with headphones on - honestly, it was fine but I think I prefer a smaller run.
94. Greenwich Peninsula 21/03/2026 This one goes across the meridian line, and also has an Anthony Gormley statue nearby. It was busy, but thinned out enough before the out and back section to feel manageable.
95. Peckham Rye 28/03/2026 Another bright London morning, I did this one on the train with my brother in law. Peckham Rye is a big park but the course stays close to the wooded area in the centre which was welcome on a hot morning. Not entirely flat but in no sense hilly. I enjoyed this one! This is a another park I remember going to with my grandparents.
96. Llwybr Dyffryn Tywi, Nantgaredig 23/05/2026 This new parkrun (we went to their 7th event) has opened up on a cycle path near Carmarthen, so I can get there with an early start. I drove, and we arrived about 0830 to a friendly carpark marshal with TONS of space to work with; the parkrun is pretty much hosted by the rugby club who open their bar for welshcakes, bacon sandwiches, coffees, and if you really want it, a post-run pint. Whilst I have to admit I was tempted by the other black stuff (Guinness Zero) I decided to stick to black coffee. The actual run is an out-back-out-back on a flat cycle path. Lovely.
97. Canterbury 20/06/2026 We were in Kent visiting family, again, so did Canterbury. I volunteered a run report and R volunteered to marshal; this is an out-back-out-back on a cycle path too but it's not in any sense flat and finishes with a bit of off road. Indeed this one was a bit of a challenge... Even after hundreds of these things sometimes a parkrun catches you on a slow day (and that's fine).
98. Blaise Castle 18/07/2026 I was in Bristol to do a longer running event on the Sunday and so volunteered as parkwalker at Blaise Castle. Usually the parkwalker volunteer just walks the course, but I got chatting with the tail walker so was effectively a second tail walker this time. The tail has to stay behind the last participant, which we were doing, then some people dropped out after their first lap. This meant we finished about 10 minutes after the previous finisher... we'd have had to run the whole of lap two to catch them, and we were having a great chat about various parkruns we'd done, so that was all fine (we had to explain to the other volunteers though).
99. Y Promenâd, Llandrillo-yn-Rhos 25/07/2026 This was another pre-hiking weekend parkrun. Some of the other hikers went for a dip in the sea whilst I ran on the prom, the weather was so hot. Lovely picturesque one this, along a very nice bit of promenade from Llandrillo Yn Rhos to Colwyn Bay.
100. Nonsuch 08/08/2026 And here we are at number 100! One of the largest I have done, if not the largest, with nearly 1000 participants, a hot day, friendly volunteers, family (two cousins, two cousins once removed, two sisters and a nephew)... crowded start, lots of dust, all good.

I expect the next 100 parkrun venues to be just as fun although probably slower.