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‘Free forever for everyone’
BRIAN MELLEY writes on the upcoming 20th anniversary of Parkrun
And they’re off: Runners compete in the parkrun event in Bushy Park, southwest London
ON A WEEKEND morning in the autumn of 2004, 13 runners lined up in a London park for an informal race — unaware they were taking the first steps in what would become a global movement.
Paul Sinton-Hewitt had simple ambitions: to provide a free, weekly 5-kilometre (3.1 mile) run open to anyone.
“I didn’t know who was going to join me on that day,” Sinton-Hewitt said. “I didn’t care how many people came. I would be on the start line every single week for the rest of my life, and I would help people to run.”
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