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parkrun tourism
Come and join us as we visit numerous parkruns around the country. Your parkrun barcode is valid at all parkruns. If you haven’t got a barcode yet, register for one. Check out the BPJ Tourist Board Facebook page for information on car sharing to the events and share your photos from any other parkrun tours that you go on. Don’t forget your club kit! Thanks to Lucy and Mat Capel for co-ordinating the fixtures and promoting parkrun tourism.
2023 Fixtures
The following are the ‘official’ tourist fixtures. These are also champions league events. There is lots of other tourism going on from week to week usually organised via the BPJ Tourist Board Facebook group.
- 7th January – Woodgate Valley parkrun
- 11th February – Edgbaston Reservoir parkrun
- 11th March – Cannon Hill parkrun
- 15th April – Brueton parkrun
- 13th May – Oaklands parkrun
- 10th June – Dudley parkrun
- 1st July – Babbs Mill parkrun
- 12th August – Sandwell Valley parkrun
- 9th September – Perry Hall parkrun
- 14th October – Sutton Park parkrun
2023 parkrun tourism challenge
The 2023 parkrun tourism challenge is Brumdone. To complete the challenge you must complete the following parkruns within 2023:
Previous BPJ parkrun challenges
Peter Darwen set up the original challenges for members to try and spell out different phrases in a calendar year. Members completing the challenge earned a bespoke medal.
2022 – Seven Severn
The 2022 challenge was to complete seven of the parkruns that are within a mile of the river Severn: Newtown, Shrewsbury, Severn Valley Country Park, Worcester Pitchcroft, Gloucester City, Berkeley Green and Severn Bridge.
2022 ‘Seven Severn’ challenge progress
2021: M’FRIENDS
With parkruns only just resuming in July, it hasn’t left much time to complete a challenge, so we extended the 2020 challenge. Also, with Yeovil being permanently cancelled and the closest ‘Y’ was 3 hours away, the challenge was changed to the Northern sounding ‘M’FRIENDS’.
2020-2021 ‘M’FRIENDS’ challenge progress
2020: MYFRIENDS
The challenge was cut short when all parkruns were cancelled due to the global Covid-19 pandemic in March. Only 1 member managed to complete and spell out ‘MYFRIENDS’, with the ‘Y’ being a tricky one; either York or Yeovil.
2020 ‘MYFRIENDS’ challenge progress
2019: BLACKPEARS
The first year of the challenge saw 46 members complete and spell out ‘BLACKPEARS’. The ‘R’ proved the trickiest for most; Ross-on-Wye was the closest, but was plagued with cancellations due to flooding and heavy rain. Members had to venture out to Rugby or Newport (Riverfront).
Top of the list
Check out if you’ve made it on to the official list of most parkrun events.
Find a flat one
Score a PB by finding the flattest parkruns around the country.
Go international
parkrun has expanded to lots of different countries. Why not try a proper ‘foreign’ parkrun?
Black Pear parkrun Tourist Leaderboard
Below is the list of the most travelled parkrunners in the club (10 or more different events). Newly joined members and recently completed events may take a few weeks to show on this list. The data is fed from the Run Britain Rankings site, so register there and ensure your parkruns are showing if you think you should be on here. International parkruns are not shown currently.