Luton Wardown parkrun

We need some volunteers for essential roles this Saturday before we can go ahead. Come and wear your high viz with pride, and start the weekend with a smile! We need:
- x1 timekeeper
- x1 finish token support
- x2 or 3 barcode scanners (a quicker runner could do this after their run)
- x1 tailwalker
- multiple marshals
Please comment below, or email at [email protected] if you can help, and make this RD happy 😁

Thanks, Julie (RD for this week)

So good to see all 287 of you today supported by our 32 wonderful volunteers.

Welcome to our visitors from Leicester!

Lots of milestones to celebrate. 🎉

parkrun 1 million events 👏🏻

Gail ( Batman) 200th parkrun
Ann ( Robin) 200th parkrun
Jordan 100th parkrun
Shaan 100th Luton parkrun and 25th volunteer.
Revolution Women’s 5th Anniversary

How was your parkrun today?

What a beautiful morning for parkrun.
Get ready and head down to the park.

Remember
First timers welcome. 08:45
Main briefing 08:50.

See you soon!

We now have a full roster so a big thank you to everyone that has volunteered for tomorrow. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

We are celebrating the one millionth parkrun this weekend. Since October 2004, 8.3 million have taken part and more than one million different people have volunteered. That adds up to park runners crossing the finish line 138 million times. 😮

Looking forward to seeing you for all the milestones and other celebrations.

**EDIT**
Thank you to everyone who has volunteered. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Come and join our wonderful volunteers on Saturday and help celebrate some milestones. 🎉🎉
Hopefully the sun will shine. 🌤️🤞🏻🤞🏻

We need

**BARCODE SCANNERS x 2 **( speedy runners could do this after running!)✅

Marshals x 2 ( more welcome)

Tail walker x 1 ✅
Post event close down x 1 ✅

Please email [email protected]

Saturday's parkrun was part of Volunteers Week.
Kate, who was the run director, started her parkrun journey by volunteering with us as part of her Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award. She obviously liked it as she kept coming back! Saturday was her 206th volunteer stint (she is usually our token guru).
We could do with some more volunteers for this Saturday when parkrun will celebrate it's 1 millionth event!
Have a look here -https://www.parkrun.org.uk/lutonwardown/futureroster/, and either comment below or email us at [email protected]

Morning all,

Looks as though it will be a bit rainy this morning so don't forget your coat!

See you soon!

Kate P

Dennis was back again yesterday taking his usual fab photos. Part 1 is on the link below, where you'll also find parts 2 & 3.

Well that was a busy parkrunday!!

Heat, milestones (including 250 parkruns for each of these smiley people), first-timers, pacers, tourists, cake, the funfair, thoughts of further Eid celebrations, and lots of chat with lovely people in the sunshine.

Thank you everyone who stepped up when asked to do so 🙂
The results will be out as fast as rubbish eyesight, tiredness and 'dealing with the aftermath!' allows!.
In the meantime, how was your parkrunday?

The sun is shining, the roster is looking good, there are milestones and celebrations so there will be cake afterwards, the café is open for business with a familiar face running it (possibly for one week only!)
AND it is Chase the Pacer week, although we only have 6 so far so room for lots more 😀
See you in a while