Pakapakanthi parkrun

06/06/2026

06/06/2026

Event number 328 - 6th June 2026
This week 575 people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 24 completed their first ever parkrun, 52 were first time visitors and 90 recorded new Personal Bests - including Josh Raman in his 100th parkrun. Representatives of 25 different clubs took part.

The setting up, the event itself and the packdown was made possible by 24 volunteers; one of whom volunteering for the first time all the way through to someone volunteering on their 453rd occasion:

Elizabeth IUSSA • Ian MEGAW • Anthony PATERSON • Chalisa MATTAYOMKUL • Jennifer SAVILLE • Ben O'BRIEN • John SAVILLE • Matthew STARK • Hazel CHURCHES • Francine EDWARDS • Richard EDWARDS • Jonathan HEDGER • Georgia LOADER • Patricia VELAITIS • Mary STAUNTON • Kellie DOSTAL • Neil DAVIDSON • Nicole JONES • Thomas DOSTAL • John NGUYEN • Nick TWOHIG • Galit SHACHAF • Patricia THAGGARD • John STRELAN

Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Pakapakanthi parkrun Results Page.

Pakapakanthi parkrun started on 4th August 2018. Since then 17,981 participants have completed 110,158 parkruns covering a total distance of 550,790 km, including 16,991 new Personal Bests. A total of 1,200 individuals have volunteered 6,337 times.

05/06/2026

We look to be in for a foggy start in the morning. Visitors will find us close to the corner of Halifax St & East Tce, which is also where our regulars will find us!

Due to expected low visibility (and expected common courtesy) please do not congregate on paths prior to the event so that other park users can use the paths without having to worry about weaving through you.

03/06/2026

UPDATE: Thanks to the wonderful community we now have a viable roster for this Saturday 6/6/26 and don't need to progress beyond VolCon2. Future weeks have plenty of vacancies so please don't be shy!

Hey Paka Peeps - we've moved to VolCon2 with the timekeeper, funnel manager and a minimum of one more marshal still to sign up for this week's roster.

Our regulars are either already on the roster or away this weekend, so we really need others to occasionally assist us in running the event. Please comment, message or email - or use the parkrun app to let us know what role has your name on it. Remember, you can always sign up for future events too!

02/06/2026

These ducks are used to seeing a few hundred people walk and run around their wetlands on Saturday mornings but as things stand, there won’t be much activity this weekend. We’re still looking for the following:

• Timekeeper
• Funnel Manager
• Marshal x3

Let us know via a comment below, message or email if you can help out! The ducks have already politely declined our request on account of our volunteer vests being a terrible fit for them 🦆

30/05/2026

Thanks for this morning, everyone - we just about avoided the rain! No photographer = no photos for the second week in a row aside from this one of our beautiful bunch of volunteers 🫶 thanks for joining us and have a good weekend!

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Pakapakanthi parkrun
Event number 327
30th May 2026

This week 454 people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 54 were first timers and 58 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 20 different clubs took part.

The event was made possible by 27 volunteers:

John BATE • Joanna JENSEN • Olaf JENSEN • Jeffo KASPARIAN • Elizabeth IUSSA • Ian MEGAW • Voula. NISYRIOS • Jennifer SAVILLE • Kerry MADIGAN • Ben O'BRIEN • John SAVILLE • Matthew STARK • Jonathan HEDGER • Georgia LOADER • Johannah PHAM • Robert WHITFIELD • Patricia VELAITIS • Mary STAUNTON • Matthew COOPER • Ona COOPER • Stephanie TAYLOR • Elliott SMITH • Ai Vy NGUYEN • Gerry VELAITIS • Alana KNIGHTS • David BIERTON • Patricia THAGGARD

Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Pakapakanthi parkrun Results Page.

Pakapakanthi parkrun started on 4th August 2018. Since then 17,905 participants have completed 109,583 parkruns covering a total distance of 547,915 km, including 16,901 new Personal Bests. A total of 1,199 individuals have volunteered 6,313 times.

29/05/2026

Expect a few puddles during your parkrun tomorrow - but as it stands, don’t expect any photos as we’re still missing a photographer 💔

We could really do with another barcode scanner as well so if you’d be happy to help us out either by taking photos or scanning barcodes, please let us know!

26/05/2026

Morning all,
We've got a few volunteer spots for this Saturday. We'd love to hear from you if you could assist. Email us as [email protected], DM us, or drop a comment below. If you can't help this week there are squillions of openings for future weeks.

This week we need:
- 2 barcode scanners (who are available the whole time)
- 1 course marshal
- A photographer

As always, we can help if you have never done these roles before. Just drop us a line.

23/05/2026

What a lovely morning for 530 people to make their way around our wonderful wetland parkrun. So great to see, and the weather, as advised, was "splendid"!

We had a great cohort of volunteers this week. Parkrunners who did so for their fellow parkrunners, and we are forever grateful for that. Parkrun happens because of its volunteers - as always, please consider if you can assist in future weeks and drop us a line. Sorry, no photos generally this week as we did not have anyone put their hand up for that role.

See you all next week I hope!

Here's a list of our fab vollies for this week:
Jeffo KASPARIAN • Elizabeth IUSSA • Ian MEGAW • Jennifer SAVILLE • Ben O'BRIEN • John SAVILLE • Francine EDWARDS • Jonathan HEDGER • Georgia LOADER • Patricia VELAITIS • Chantelle SHEATHER • Mary STAUNTON • Henry WILSON • David SLEATH • Stephanie TAYLOR • John NGUYEN • Gerry VELAITIS • Mackenzie HOOPER • Alana KNIGHTS • David BIERTON • Joseph ALVAREZ • Claire CAHILL • Patricia THAGGARD

20/05/2026

***UPDATE***
Thanks to Georgia, Alana, David, Claire and Elizabeth we have most positions filled. Still need a photographer is anyone is able to help out - drop us a line.
Oh, and the weather is still going to be splendid!!

Hi parkrunners,
The weather looks splendid for Saturday!

We need several people to assist as volunteers to ensure we can operate safely. All these roles require volunteers who are available for the whole event. All are simple and easy to be briefed about on the day. We currently need:
➡ 3 Course Marshals
➡ A Funnel Manager
➡ A Finish Token Support person
➡ A photographer (OK, we can do without this, but then how do we look ourselves up afterwards!!??).

If you are able to help (or if you cannot this week but can in future weeks), please comment to this post, send us a message, or email to [email protected].

Many thanks!