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Friday, October 4, 2024

Llan parkrun celebrates movement's 20th birthday tomorrow


Llangollen's Old Railway Trail parkrun is a celebrating a global milestone in the movement's history with a special event tomorrow (Saturday).

October 2 saw the 20th anniversary of parkrun being set up by Paul Sinton-Hewitt.

And all 2,500 parkruns around the world have been asked to celebrate with a set of community events.

The Old Railway Trail will mark the occasion by staging its own 68th event tomorrow.

Since its formation parkrun across the world has notched up: 

* 98 million parkrun finishes by walkers, joggers and runners

* More than 900,000 different people have volunteered at parkrun worldwide in the two decades

* 500 million kilometres have been traversed by park-runners since 2004.

An Old Railway trail official said: "We extend a warm welcome to anyone and everyone from Llangollen who can come and walk, jog, run, volunteer or simply come and watch and be part of our parkrun community."



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