{"id":468066,"date":"2026-05-30T17:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T17:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/468066\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T17:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T17:51:09","slug":"london-man-becomes-first-in-world-to-complete-1000-parkruns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/468066\/","title":{"rendered":"London man becomes first in world to complete 1,000 parkruns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wood first took part in October 2004 and has regularly participated in the free weekly event ever since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He had been struggling with his mental health over debts and the break-up of his marriage breakup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But when he went to parkrun &#8220;everything felt normal&#8221;, he said, adding: &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t judged any more, I could just be me and I could talk to people and explain how I was feeling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wood, who is 36 parkruns ahead of his closest rival, said the attention around being the first to 1,000 has been &#8220;a little bit overwhelming&#8221; but added it was &#8220;just a nice celebration&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Parkrun is inclusive for everyone,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Everyone is welcome and it will change and save lives if we can get more and more people involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Because parkrun has changed and saved my life and it will do that for others, I would almost guarantee that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wood first took part in October 2004 and has regularly participated in the free weekly event ever since.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[163,85,46,522,523],"class_list":["post-468066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}