parkrun

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

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.