Lucy Waterlow
The Ultimate Guide to parkrun: Everything You Need to Know About the Friendliest 5K in the World
The Ultimate Guide to parkrun: Everything You Need to Know About the Friendliest 5K in the World
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The Ultimate Guide to parkrun is a celebratory book that explores the history, growth, and impact of the global parkrun phenomenon. It covers how parkrun started, how it is staged, how to get involved, and practical information for runners and volunteers. The book also features the heartwarming human stories behind parkrun and includes training plans for different types of runners. Published to coincide with the 20th anniversary of parkrun, it delves into its origins, growth, and milestones, including the most popular countries, fastest and slowest parkruns, and top parkruns in the UK and the world.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 26 September 2024
Publisher: Canbury Press
The Ultimate Guide to parkrun, a captivating and joyful book, delves into the remarkable journey of a Saturday 5km run in the park that has become a global phenomenon. Written by a running writer and qualified athletics coach, this celebratory book goes behind the scenes to tell the heartwarming human stories behind parkrun. It also brims with practical information, including training plans for different types of runners, to help you 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 parkruns origins as the brainchild of Paul Sinton-Hewitt, an unemployed man in London. Just 13 runners competed in the first Bushy Park Time Trial on 2nd October 2004. Now parkrun has more than 9 million runners at more than 2,200 parks in 23 countries, with the most popular countries being the UK, Australia, and South Africa. The book features all aspects of parkrun, including how public-spirited volunteers put on the event, sustainably and for free, every week, and fun boxes such as the most interesting courses around the world, from Poland to the Falkland Islands. If you want to know more about parkrun tourism, how to complete the A-Z Alphabet challenge, and other parkrun milestones, this is the book for you! It includes lists of the five fastest and five slowest parkruns in the UK as well as the top 10 parkruns in the UK and the top 10 parkruns in the world. About the author Lucy Waterlow is a journalist, ghostwriter, and author who has contributed to numerous national publications.
Weight: 432g
Dimension: 135 x 212 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781914487361
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