Parkrun Volunteering

parkrun runs on volunteers, and couldn't survive without them. There are many different roles to play and they do not all involve large amounts of time.

Obviously one of the biggest roles is that of Run Director. The person who coordinates the whole morning, looks after all the volunteers, starts the event and generally is in charge making sure everyone has a good time and achieves their event for that day.

I never dreamed of becoming a director but less than a year after returning to parkrun I got asked if I was interested and so today, with a little supervision, I undertook my first solo director role. Everyone there was amazing and very supportive, the sun shone and the rain stayed away.

Everyone successfully completed the course and the results got submitted on the computer with no hiccups or issues on my part.

These pictures make it look so easy but I think my heart was racing the whole time!