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Eight years ago Paul Sinton-Hewitt had an idea of such shiny-foiled Easter-egg perfection, that what was a time trial in Teddington is now something life-changing.
Sinton-Hewitt was a good club runner with a knee injury. He was bored and wanted to stay involved with the running community, so on Oct 2, 2004, he organised for 13 friends to turn up at Bushy Park and timed them over a 5km course.
He came again the next week and the next and slowly the word spread and the number of runners turning up on a Saturday morning grew. Then, during 2007, the idea got wings and six more events started up ? Parkrun was born. By the end of 2009 there were 24, and last Saturday there were 124 involving 16,950 runners.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ot...from-a-humble-start-to-a-runaway-success.html
Sinton-Hewitt was a good club runner with a knee injury. He was bored and wanted to stay involved with the running community, so on Oct 2, 2004, he organised for 13 friends to turn up at Bushy Park and timed them over a 5km course.
He came again the next week and the next and slowly the word spread and the number of runners turning up on a Saturday morning grew. Then, during 2007, the idea got wings and six more events started up ? Parkrun was born. By the end of 2009 there were 24, and last Saturday there were 124 involving 16,950 runners.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ot...from-a-humble-start-to-a-runaway-success.html