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The Ultimate Guide to Parkrun, by Lucy Waterlow


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This book is everything you’d want to know about parkrun. How it started, what countries it spread to, how it benefits mental and physical health, and why participants keep coming back to both run and volunteer. The book has 9 chapters: 

  1. How it started… and how it’s going
  2. Meet the parkrunners
  3. The high-viz heros
  4. A day in the life of a parkrun
  5. Why you should parkrun for your health and well-being
  6. Parkrun around the world
  7. Training, destination and challenge inspiration 
  8. The future 
  9. How to set up your own parkrun

Lucy Waterlow is an author, ghostwriter and journalist who has contributed to numerous titles including The Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail, Women’s Running and OK! magazine. She is the author of The Ultimate Guide to parkrun: Everything you need to know about the friendliest 5k in the world, and the co-author of the books: Nell McAndrew's Guide to Running, and Run Mummy Run: Inspiring Women to be fit, happy and healthy. She is the ghostwriter of ultra-runner Mimi Anderson's two memoirs: Beyond Impossible and Limitless. Lucy is also an experienced runner and a British Athletics qualified running coach.

 

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