{"id":22798,"date":"2025-10-30T17:20:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/22798\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T17:20:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:20:06","slug":"brooklyn-bridge-parkrun-a-free-weekly-5k-is-drawing-thousands-of-new-yorkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/22798\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Bridge Parkrun, a free weekly 5K, is drawing thousands of New Yorkers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether\u00a0you’re having NYC Marathon<\/a> FOMO, trying to get back into running or have never run a day in your life, the Brooklyn Bridge Parkrun<\/a>\u00a0invites\u00a0you to\u00a0join NYC’s newest addition to running culture\u2014and it’s completely free.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Parkrun is a weekly community event where people of all ages and abilities are invited to walk, jog, run or volunteer in a 5K every Saturday morning in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The event is designed to be a positive, community-focused event\u00a0that is welcoming for all. To join, you register online to receive a unique barcode used to track, time and record your participation and results, even though it’s\u00a0not a formal race. The group also meets for a post-event coffee and snack catch-up at the Breads Bakery<\/a> near Brooklyn’s Pier 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Since\u00a0its official launch\u00a0in NYC last month, Parkrun has\u00a0hosted weekly 5K events every Saturday at Brooklyn Bridge Park, welcoming over 2,000 participants.\u00a0But\u00a0this\u00a0event isn’t exclusive to only NYC residents. Parkrun\u00a0is actually a worldwide, global event, with its first U.S. event launching in Michigan back in 2012.\u00a0It was first created\u00a0in the UK and its popularity\u00a0has stretched\u00a0all the way to Japan, South Africa and Australia, with 3,000 local events happening every weekend across the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Not only is this an easy way to meet and connect with your neighbors, but it’s a great way to hold yourself accountable if you’ve been trying to start a new running habit. There’s no pressure to be the fastest or even finish the race in\u00a0a certain time. Plus, it all ends with a sweet treat at Breads afterward.<\/p>\n

“Given the recent running boom, our ethos is to be open to all\u2014evidenced by the fact that our fastest runner so far completed the course in 16:11,” Brooklyn Bridge Parkrun director Ben Roach told Time Out. “So far we’ve been going for nine weeks and have welcomed over 2,800 finishers, with the youngest age being\u00a07 and the oldest being 80 plus.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Participants\u00a0are also welcome to run with\u00a0their dogs or with their children\u00a0or even a stroller.\u00a0Anyone over the age of\u00a04 can register, but children must be accompanied by an adult if under age 11.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Parkrun is free with registration<\/a>. Heads up that the\u00a0event is\u00a0canceled on Saturday, November 1 due to the NYC marathon weekend. The race is moving to a 9am start time beginning on November 8.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whether\u00a0you’re having NYC Marathon FOMO, trying to get back into running or have never run a day in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,4773,2530,2521,1733,1829,2520,2526,2523,2525,9,24,4774,63,4772],"class_list":["post-22798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-categories-sports-and-fitness","tag-family-kids-good-for-kids","tag-good-for-good-for-couples","tag-good-for-good-for-going-in-a-group","tag-good-for-good-for-going-solo","tag-good-for-good-for-going-with-friends","tag-good-for-good-for-locals","tag-good-for-good-for-tourists","tag-good-for-vibe-outdoors","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news-sports-fitness","tag-nyc","tag-sports-and-fitness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}