Airlie Beach Parkrun COMMUNITY

Seventy-four motivated people ran, jogged, and walked the five-kilometre waterfront course at this week’s Airlie Beach parkrun. Knox, Rencia, Elizabeth, Charlie, Leanne, Elise, and Emma completed their first parkrun, while Liv, Craig, Nick, Michael, Tracy, Stephanie, Addison, and Ben achieved new personal bests.

Daisy completed her 10th parkrun as a junior, while Gus and Phoebe completed their 25th parkrun.

The event was made possible by 18 generous volunteers: Peter, Nick, Justin (RD), Kara, Margaret, Greg, Susanne, Valerie, Carys (photographer), Kirsty (photographer), Ashley, Michael, Laura, Lynne, Dennis, Anne and Margaret.

Airlie Beach parkrun started on December 5, 2015, and has since seen 4,596 participants complete 23,892 parkruns covering a total distance of 119,460 km, including 2,748 new Personal Bests. A total of 383 individuals have volunteered 3,491 times.

Parkrunners are encouraged to bring a plate to share at a post parkrun picnic at Shin-