The Ultimate Guide to parkrun

* The most complete guide to parkrun ever published

* Packed with fun and information for runners and volunteers

'A brilliant emotive book which spreads the joy and love of parkrun' - Dame Kelly Holmes

'Wonderful' - Lisa Jackson, Runner's World

This joyful book reveals how a Saturday 5km run in the park has become a global phenomenon.

The Ultimate Guide to parkrun (always a lower case p!) covers how parkrun started, how it is staged every week, how to get involved as a runner, walker, or volunteer – and even how to start your own run.

Written by a qualified athletics coach, The Ultimate Guide to parkrun delves an unemployed man in London, Paul Sinton-Hewitt, launched a time trial in Bushy Park Time Trial in 2004 with just 13 runners.

That one small step has become a global phenomenon – parkrun now has more than 9 million registered runners in 23 countries.

The Ultimate Guide to parkrun features all aspects of the weekly run, including how volunteers put on the event for free every week, together with snippets such as the most interesting courses around the world, from Poland to the Falkland Islands.

If you want to know more about parkrun tourism, how to complete the A-Z Alphabet challenge, and other parkrun milestones, this book is for you.

It lists the five fastest and five slowest parkruns in the UK and the top 10 parkruns in the UK – and the top 10 parkruns in the world.

It also delves into junior parkrun and other less well-known facets of the world's most popular community running event.

In short, this is the ideal present for anyone looking for a parkrun book, parkrun merchandise or parkrun gift.

Reviews

'With 224 fact-packed pages, beautifully illustrated with 150 photographs, this is not just any guide to parkrun as it says on the cover – it is the ultimate guide to parkrun. As a former sub-20-minute participant with 171 runs and 111 volunteer credits, I thought I knew everything about the Saturday morning 5K ritual. However, having read Lucy Waterlow’s...