Barking junior parkrun

🌟 Event Report: #154 🌟

What a sizzling Sunday morning at Barking Park! The sun was beaming, the magical unicorn boats were sparkling on the lake, and 31 amazing juniors absolutely smashed it at event number 154! ☀️🏃🏽‍♀️🏃‍♂️

A massive shoutout to our fantastic Run Director, Leigh Li, and the incredible team of 19 Hi-Vis Heroes who kept everyone safe, cheered the loudest, and made sure the morning ran like clockwork. We couldn’t do it without you! 🧡

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📊 The Big Numbers This Week:

31 fabulous finishers (walking, jogging, running, and smiling!).
5 speedy new Personal Bests (PBs) — congratulations! 🎉
4 brand new First Timers! Welcome to the parkrun family. We hope you loved it and will be back next week! 👋
19 wonderful volunteers keeping the magic alive.

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👑 Ultra Marathon Milestones!

A huge, extra-special round of applause goes to our newest milestone achievers. Completing 50 junior parkruns is an incredible achievement:

🏆 Naimisha
🏆 Dhruvansh

Give yourselves a massive pat on the back! Your orange Ultra Marathon wristbands are officially earned. 🟠✨

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📸 Capture the Memories

Want to see the smiles, sprints, and high-fives from this morning? Check out our official photo album 👇🏽

Event #154 Photo Album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/f6TEuNM7aP8zz4Ks6

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We do it all over again next Sunday morning.

🙌 Want to volunteer next week?

We’re always looking for marshals, scanners, and fun-makers. It’s easy, rewarding, and full of good vibes. Drop us a comment below or email us at [email protected] to get your name on the roster.

Have a wonderful week, and see you next Sunday! 🌳✨

Barking junior parkrun #153 — Run Report ☀️

What a sizzler of a morning at Barking Park today! Event number 153 brought us gorgeous blue skies, plenty of sunshine, and heaps of junior parkrun magic. The weather was hot, hot, hot, but our junior parkrunners were absolutely cooler than the ice creams we were all dreaming about afterwards! 🍦✨

A massive shoutout to our fabulous Run Director, Sarah Burt, and her incredible squad of 25 Hi-Vis Heroes! 🧡

From cheering along the course to handing out those finish tokens, our volunteers made sure today was safe, smooth, and full of smiles.

Here is today's event by the numbers:

33 brilliant finishers who walked, jogged, sprinted, and skipped their way around the 2km course.

3 First Timers welcomed into our parkrun family today. We hope you loved your first event and can't wait to see you back next week! 👋

3 shiny new Personal Bests (PBs)! Massive congratulations to everyone who pushed hard in the heat to bag a new record. ⏱️🚀

Full results 📲https://www.parkrun.org.uk/barking-juniors/results/2026-07-05/

Photos 📸 https://photos.app.goo.gl/nZNsGNPspQRhkuZJA

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🧡 We Need You!

parkrun simply cannot happen without our amazing volunteers. If you fancy wearing the iconic yellow hi-vis next Sunday (or any future week), please drop us an email at [email protected] or comment right here on this post. It’s fun, easy, and gives you the best feel-good vibes to start your Sunday!

Enjoy the rest of your sunny weekend, look after those feet, and we will see you next Sunday morning next to the splash park!

(Don't Forget Your Barcode! 📲 Cards, wristbands, or the official parkrun app on your phone are all accepted—no barcode, no time!)

RD: Wayne Latibeaudiere
Event: 151 21/06/2026
Weather: Sunny and hot 🥵 ☀️
Volunteers: 26
Finishers: 47
First timers: 8
Personal bests: 8

What a fantastic morning in Barking Park for our 151st event! 🌳

Well done to all 47 amazing juniors who walked, jogged and ran their way around our 2k course — you were all brilliant! 👏

We were delighted to welcome 8 first timers to Barking juniors this week. We hope you had a fantastic experience and look forward to seeing you again soon! 💜

Congratulations as well to the 8 runners who achieved new personal bests — a great effort and something to be very proud of! 💪

A huge thank you goes to our wonderful team of 26 volunteers — our hi-vis heroes who make the event possible every single week. From marshalling to timekeeping, scanning to tail walking, your support keeps everything running smoothly. 🙌

Whether you're chasing a PB, taking part for fun, or volunteering with friends and family, you are all what makes this community so special.

Join us again next Sunday at 9am — don’t forget your barcode and bring a friend! 📣

And don’t forget that you can cool off for free in the Splash Park for the 10am session (1 junior and 2 adults) throughout the whole summer thanks to our friends Splashy Land UK 💙

Full results: https://www.parkrun.org.uk/barking-juniors/results/2026-06-21/

Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/H2Ex9VCg8jXLfQf26

This weekend parkrun will host its 1 millionth ever event.

Since the first event in 2004, people have gone through a finish funnel 138 million times and volunteered on more than 16 million occasions.

parkrun is a charity that believes in the power of community, empowering people through shared movement, every weekend.

Every year more and more people sign up to parkrun who were previously inactive, more people come from the lowest socio economic groups. People can take part in prisons, people are prescribed parkrun by their GPs, and more than 2000 primary schools are twinned with a local junior parkrun.

parkrun is truly changing the world and we invite you to help support the weekly events that you love so that they can continue to deliver the next million events and beyond. And reach more and more of these people with the most to gain from the parkrun magic.

Thanks a million to all of the volunteers, runners, walkers that have joined us. And, thanks to all the donors, land owners and commercial partners, and everyone that makes parkrun happen 🧡.

The 2026 Vitality Westminster Mile takes place on Saturday 26th September 2026. It is a family friendly event, with an amazing finish line just outside Buckingham Palace. You can also enjoy the Wellness Festival in Green Park throughout the day, with a number of free activities happening for people of all ages.

Excitingly, we have a junior parkrun wave for families this year and we are inviting everyone connected to junior parkrun to join the fun!

Please see the link below if you would like to book a spot. Spaces are limited for the junior parkrun wave and are a first come first serve basis.

Details of the event are as follows:
Saturday 26th September
junior parkrun wave starts at 13:30

It is free for children under 11 and there is a discounted rate for both 11-17 year olds (£2) and for adults (£7).