Harriers take over Clair Park Run

PARKRUN ORGANISE free weekly 5km timed runs around the world.   They are free to everyone and safe and easy to take part in.   They are held every Saturday at 9am in local parks and attended by 263,937 runners with 23,169 volunteers.   There are 270 junior Parkruns attended by 22,005 under 14s with 4,960 volunteers worldwide.

Saturday 8th June saw the Haywards Heath Harriers take over Clair Park Run.   We took up all of the volunteer roles and anybody free then ran in the event.

I had one of the roles with a stopwatch on the finish line with Marion.   This meant ensuring that by the end of the run everybody had an accurate finish time. So I had the responsibility of all the PB's!   Oh God!!


It was a good day for the event; a little cold but not raining and the set up went really smoothly.   The First Timers and the tourists got their briefing on time and we included the announcements and health and safety information.   Shelagh from Harriers was there running her 200th Park Run which was amazing and worthy of comment, and last week saw Paul running his 250th.

Park Run is amazing. It draws on people of all abilities to take some time out for themselves and just do 5k however they want.   Run, jog, walk or a combination of all of them.

For me the most amazing thing about running is the way it gives you an identity, a sense of belonging and a community.   The two best things I have ever done are marry my wife (wife retching at this point) and start running (in that order).