{"id":476127,"date":"2026-06-14T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T01:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/476127\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T01:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T01:00:12","slug":"parkrun-founder-shares-how-the-events-help-his-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/476127\/","title":{"rendered":"Parkrun founder shares how the events help his mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That initial event has evolved into a global community of weekly timed 5km parkruns on Saturdays and 2km junior parkruns on Sundays, with more than 2,800 event locations in 23 countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Runners held cards to form a &#8220;thanks a million&#8221; sign at Bushy Park on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were joined by Dame Kelly Holmes, who won 800m and 1500m gold medals at the 2004 Olympics, to celebrate the one millionth event. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The landmark parkrun saw a large turnout, with runners queuing in finish funnels to get their times recorded on a sunny morning in the capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sinton-Hewitt said: &#8220;All these people in the queue waiting to be scanned are having a chat with one another, they&#8217;re becoming friends and next week they&#8217;ll have a little bit of a rivalry with each other, it&#8217;s all part of the magic. And really anyone can take part.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That initial event has evolved into a global community of weekly timed 5km parkruns on Saturdays and 2km&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-476127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}