{"id":521172,"date":"2026-04-09T09:35:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521172\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:35:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:35:27","slug":"record-turnout-for-fakenham-easter-sunday-running-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521172\/","title":{"rendered":"Record turnout for Fakenham Easter Sunday running festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Fakenham&#8217;s Easter Sunday Festival of Running is in its 11th year and is described as one of the town&#8217;s &#8220;most-loved community events&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The festival featured a closed-road 5km race, a 1km fun run, and a Toddle \u2019n\u2019 Trike ride for under-fives.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It saw a range of community groups participate, including the Fakenham Ospreys Canoe Club, which completed the fun run while carrying two canoes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The event, on April 5, was organised by Active Fakenham, which said it experienced a record turnout of runners.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>The event saw a range of people and community groups take part (Image: Active Fakenham)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Richard Crook, who founded the organisation in 2013, said: &#8220;We were concerned that the weather might put people off, but we had a fantastic turnout from both locals and visitors.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The event is all about inclusivity, and it was great to see such a wide range of abilities taking part with so many smiling faces&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Crook added they had &#8220;around 350 entries&#8221; for the 5K race and &#8220;approximately 160, mostly children&#8221; in the fun run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fakenham&#8217;s Easter Sunday Festival of Running is in its 11th year and is described as one of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-521172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}