parkrunning in Australia - latest runbritain blog
I'll be honest and admit that (on a personal level) I hadn't quite bought into the whole "parkrun" thing. It's obviously an amazing initiative and as soon as I was aware of it I signed up for the newsletter and checked out the impressive weekly participation figures (the current record is just over 22,000 from Saturday 8 September), but I wasn't convinced I'd actually do one, more out of laziness than anything else; a 9am start on what can be a rare Saturday off just wasn't massively appealing.
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