Every Saturday morning at 8am between 30-70 people, walk, run, jog or volunteer at Northparkes Oval Parkrun.
The October 7 parkrun was a special one for Dan Greef as he participated in his 100th event.
This was doubly special as only a few weeks prior, Dan had volunteered at parkrun also for the 100th time.
Dan is one of a small group of people who worked very hard behind the scenes to bring parkrun to Parkes.
Parkrun is totally run by volunteers and is accessible to everyone as the most inclusive event in world athletics, perhaps even world sport.
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Participants turn up by 8am on a Saturday morning to take part in the event.
Those that register are given a barcode which records their times and event/s participated in, no matter where in the world they attend a parkrun event.
Northparkes Oval Parkrun is one of 2,454 parkrun events across 26 countries where each Saturday nearly 300,000 people run, walk or volunteer. In Australia there are 470 events.
Whilst most of Dan's parkruns have been here in Parkes (59), he has also participated in parkruns at 31 other locations.
These include nearby parkruns at Cowra, Orange and Dubbo and further afield places such as Broken Hill, Parramatta, Ballarat, Mildura and even Kangaroo Island!
If you are interested in knowing more about Parkrun and/or would like to walk, run, jog the five kilometre course or even volunteer, come along to Northparkes Oval at 7:50am on Saturday mornings or visit our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/northparkesovalparkrun
For those that are keen, you can register at https://www.parkrun.com.au/register and join nearly 900 000 Australians who have participated in Parkrun since 2011.
