parkrun tourism

For those not in the know, parkrun tourism is the deliberate visiting of multiple parkrun locations, and has become a popular activity for growing number of parkrunners, with its own jargon.

Part of my wandering was driven by an effort to visit less muddy locations in the winter than my home parkrun of Bury St Edmunds, but in 2016 I started to visit other parkruns simply for the pleasure of visiting new places and new people, running courses of different characteristics. Ironically some of them have been more muddy than Bury St Edmunds as I’ve become rather more relaxed about varied terrain.

There is a most events table on the parkrun UK website, and a similar global one, so for UK parkrunners at least, someone visiting 20 different venues may be regarded as a semi-unofficially a tourist – but make up your own rules.

I’m aiming to visit all of those in the East of England region (55 at the time of writing) but I’m in no particular hurry to get there – it’s the journey rather than the objective that’s the fun thing. Others have been picked up usually in association with holidays or other times away from home.