I truly enjoy writing about my running adventures and hopefully providing enjoyable and useful running and parkrun resources for average runners like me.
However, I am not the first running about these topics and in some areas, what others have written can complement or be better than my posts. We are all in these hobby together, so we should promote each other and widen the amount of running resources people have access to.. The sites linked below work well in conjunction with my parkrun course reviews, parkrun info pieces and my race reviews and training recommendations: no one has the full picture after all! 🙂
In this page I will list links to running and parkrun resources that I found useful, intriguing or simply worth noting. If I linked your website and you don’t want it to be here, ping me and I will delete it. Otherwise, think about linking my site as well, network effect benefits us all!
I will mostly list websites that are currently active and still publishing; I have no doubt there will be missing info, feel free to contact me with recommendations or complaints 🙂
parkrun blogs
- parkrun UK blog
- The official blog of parkrun UK. How could we ignore it?
- Blog7T
- Probably the most comprehensive source of parkrun course reviews. With a nice focus on the history and features of each venue
- Silent Runner
- A ‘running blog for everyone’, with a good selection of parkrun course reviews. Focused on South East England
- Mike Runs
- A nice running blog merging international running recommendation with parkrun course reviews. Focused on the Sheffield area and surroundings
- Beards and Thriathlons
- The blog of a man with a beard who does thriathlons, including parkrun course reviews. Bonus: some particularly interesting book reviews
- This Bunny Runs
- A diverse sports blog with some nice features about parkrun and race reviews
- Maria Runs
- An interesting running blog with parkrun course reviews focused on South East England
- parkrun touring
- Interesting variation, with a focus on international parkrun touristing. And he was in Huddinge like me!
- Richard Gower
- The gold standard for parkrun maps and regional challenges
- Running scared
- Nice personal blog with long write ups about parkrun adventures
- Seven07
- A running and parkrunning written by a very entertaining author
- Christ Jeanes parkrun
- Good event reviews with terrain filters available
parkrun resources
- Challenge chaser
- Useful web-based tool to find venues for your target challenges. Alternative to the apps
- parkrun wiki
- If you feel like geeking out on anything parkrun, including some interesting stats and trivia
- Running Challenges
- A beautiful Chrome extension including the Voronoi map
- 5K parkrunner app
- A great companion app as described in my dedicated post
- Running Achievements
- Another great companion app that shines when it comes to national and international touristing
- Regionnaire Maps
- Interactive maps to track regional completion. The website is clunky and it only supports manual additions, but it works
- parkrun interactive Most Events visualisation (WiP)
- Dynamic visualisation of Charlie Pearce’s chart showing events run vs locations visited
- parkrun driving distances
- Pick an event and find driving distances of nearby events (apps show ‘as crow flies’)
- Geerly: parkrun to Strava automatic stats sync
- Tool to sync your official parkrun results and certain stats to Strava activities. It also includes other tools for gear and pace calculators
