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3 Run Directors from Riverside parkrun (myself, Kay Duthie and Jeff Johnston) have secured places in the London marathon. We are thrilled and looking forward to the challenge.

Parkrun has enriched our lives. Jeff was the first of us to participate in parkrun around 2010. During lockdown he found his thoughts of parkrun changed from PB’s to community.

I did my first as a reluctant participant but quickly became hooked, trying to beat my time and regularly volunteer.

Kay completed the C25K and graduated at Riverside in 2016.

The opportunity to keep fit, make friends and challenge ourselves has been immense. It gave us the confidence to take in bigger challenges - the Great North Run is just 4 parkruns - one after the other! A marathon 8 and an ultra marathon significantly more. We’ve met so many wonderful people and made great friends on our journey.

We want to fundraise to spread the parkrun joy - on average it costs £4K to set up new parkruns, we also need funds to cover the cost of defibrillators and volunteer bibs. Locally we need funds for first aid supplies, replacement kit etc.

The best bit about parkrun and junior parkrun is that it’s free to participate so:

“Please help us to keep parkrun free for everyone for ever!”

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