The Ultimate Guide to parkrun: Everything You Need to Know About the Friendliest 5K in the World
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The Ideal Guide to the Run That Spread Round the World'A brilliant emotive book which spreads the joy and love of parkrun' –Dame Kelly HolmesPerfect for any parkrunner, or wannabe parkrunner, this joyful book reveals how a Saturday 5km run in the park has become a global phenomenon.The Ultimate Guide to parkrun (always with a lower case p!) covers how parkrun started, how it is staged every week, how to get involved as a runner, walker, or volunteer –and even how to start your own run.Written by a running writer and qualified athletics coach, this celebratory book goes behind the scenes to tell the heartwarming human stories behind parkrun. But it also brims with practical information, with training plans for different types of runners so that you can (if you wish to) improve your own finishing time.Published to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the founding of the mass participation event in Autumn 2024, the book delves into parkrun’sorigins as the brainchild of Paul Sinton-Hewitt, an unemployed man in London. Just 13 runners competed in the first Bushy Park Time Trial on 2 October 2004.Now parkrun has more than 9 million registered runners at more than 2,200 parks in 23 countries, with the most popular countries being the UK, Australia, and South Africa.The