The Pre-Race Race (they all count) 👏
If you watched the teaser on our last video, here’s the result!

Kelly & I vs Simon Tobin & Mike

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#guiderun #race

I think we underestimate the vital role volunteering parkrun UK can be for people on the periphery of our communities and who are socially isolated 👇

The rivalry is hotting up !!! 😉
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Just how hard can it be to “run blind”?

Pretty easy???

Turns out it’s harder than MIKE and Rose Mac think as they take on me and Kelly in the #Blindfoldchallenge Southportparkrun

Video here👇
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Chrissie Wellington Eileen Jones Paul Sinton-Hewitt

We’re thrilled at the involvement of people with visual impairments #VI at our event BUT we’d like to do more

How can we encourage more people with VIs to walk, jog, run or volunteer parkrun UK ? 🤔

Chrissie Wellington Paul Sinton-Hewitt Kirsty Woodbridge St. Vincent's School D Swanston

Easy to overlook opportunities for people with visual impairments #VI to volunteer parkrun UK events

Southportparkrun they have been
Marshals
Barcode scanners
Tokens/token support
Tail/park walker
Course set up/shut down

What about your event?

Colwick parkrun Helen Hood

“I turned up for my first ⁦parkrun UK⁩ in July 2019, scared, nervous and not knowing what to expect. But I soon relaxed as the atmosphere was amazing and so welcoming, with a real sense of community from a group of people I’d never met before”
👇 blog.parkrun.com/uk/2024/04/30/…

.parkrun UK is community adhesive 👍

Wonderful, alongside Kelly and MIKE to represent the tens of thousands 😳 of volunteers who make parkrun UK and @parkrun events across the world possible

Running Detective (Retd) Tom Williams Chrissie Wellington Eileen Jones Paul Sinton-Hewitt #VI

Getting 400,000 people out and active in their community for free, every week, in 2400+ locations, is no mean feat.

It takes an army.

And it was amazing to celebrate the incredible contributions of all who make parkrun happen with the PM UK Prime Minister

To the next 20yrs 🥂

Lovely to spend time chatting with Amelia Hilton (she/her) on RNIB Connect Radio today about how parkrun UK delivers wonderful opportunities for people with visual impairments whether walking, jogging, running or volunteering
#VI

Why not give it a go?

Interview here 👇🏼

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A labour of love but so pleased to see it in print BMC. An honest account of the highs & lows of community outreach. There are challenges, but parkrun is addressing them & I'm thrilled to be working with them to grow & diversify junior parkrun🌟 doi.org/10.1186/s12889…

“The connections that develop parkrun UK make me think of parkrun as a sort of ‘community adhesive’, bringing people together.”

Great blog piece on how parkrun can play an important role in #SocialPrescribingDay

blog.parkrun.com/uk/2024/03/13/…

Astonished at the bravery of Kelly who’s blind, running 5K without touching a guide runner

Importantly, it speaks of the inclusive, supportive, welcoming, encouraging, enabling + fun environment parkrun UK events everywhere that make this possible

Tom Williams Paul Sinton-Hewitt