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parkrun is a FREE weekly timed event held right around the country on Saturday mornings. In Tasmania parkrun is held at the following locations at 9am*:
- Bellerive
- Bells Parade (Latrobe)
- Burnie
- Devonport
- Geeveston
- George Town
- Kate Reed (Prospect)
- Kingston Park
- Launceston
- Montrose Foreshore
- O’Connors Beach (St Helens)
- Our Park (Orford)
- Port Sorell
- Queens Domain (Hobart)
- Railton
- Risdon Brook (Risdon Brook Dam)
- Tynwald Park (New Norfolk)
- Westbury Town Common
- Whitemark Wharf (Flinders Island)
- Windsor Precinct (Riverside)
- Wynyard Foreshore
- Zeehan Golf Club
Simply register online and download a barcode to print (it helps to laminate it, or you can purchase a keyring or wristband online). The events are casual and family-friendly. Each week a race director will give a race briefing, and upon finishing officials will scan your barcode (to record your time). If you forget your barcode, you can still run – you just won’t get a time. parkrun operates on a strict no barcode no time policy.
You’ll be emailed your results later that day, including where you placed and whether it was a PB for you.
If you’re travelling interstate or overseas, you just take your barcode as per usual – there are over 450 locations across Australia and over 1200 worldwide that hold events every Saturday.
*Devonport starts at 8am.
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