Moors Valley parkrun

11/07/2026

🌞Moors Valley parkrun #466🌞

It was a warm one this morning, with summer certainly making its presence felt. Fortunately, our temporary B Course provided plenty of shade through the forest, although there were still a few exposed sections where the ‘heat’ could be felt!!

5️⃣7️⃣6️⃣people joined us to walk, and run the course, including 107 first timers.

👏👏 Congratulations to the latest Moors Valley Couch to 5K graduates, who completed their first 5K at parkrun today. Reaching this point is a fantastic achievement, and we hope today is the start of many more parkruns.

We were pleased to welcome visitors from Solihull, Portsmouth, Colchester, Cheddar, Guernsey, Harrow, Manchester, Chippenham and Weymouth, along with members of Poole AC, who joined us for a club visit. We hope you all enjoyed your morning at Moors Valley.

🎉Milestones🎉

Congratulations to everyone celebrating a milestone today:

2️⃣5️⃣parkruns
Tom Herbert
Rebecca Jackson
Aisling Scott
Abigail Batley
Arthur Musgrove
Sheena Davis

5️⃣0️⃣parkruns
Jackie Belbin

1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣parkruns
Dave Woodhead

2️⃣5️⃣0️⃣parkruns
Katy Godbeer

We also had several runners reach unofficial milestones:

1️⃣5️⃣0️⃣parkruns: Natalie Brown, Dave Newby, Phillip Mills and Natasha Stone
2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣parkruns: Helen Whittaker, Jenny Woods and Chris Barnett
4️⃣0️⃣0️⃣parkruns: Nicola Ruby

Congratulations to all of you.

💜A special mention also goes to Amelia Uphill, who reached her 2️⃣5️⃣Volunteer milestone. Thank you for giving your time to support parkrun.

💜Finally, a huge thank you to our 4️⃣4️⃣volunteers. From setting up the course before most people arrived, to marshalling, barcode scanning, timing, funnel management and packing everything away afterwards, every role is essential. parkrun simply couldn't take place without people volunteering their time each week, so thank you to everyone who helped make today's event happen.

If you'd like to see parkrun from a different perspective, we'd love to welcome you to the volunteer team. There are roles to suit everyone, and no previous experience is needed. As always, parkrun can only happen thanks to our volunteers

Thank you to everyone who joined us this morning. We hope you managed to stay cool afterwards, and we look forward to seeing you again next Saturday.

💚

10/07/2026

NOTICES, PARKING, DOGS & HEAT!

1. The park has its Pedals in the Park event this Saturday, therefore we will be on our B course.
If you are celebrating a milestone, Birthday or anything else with us this weekend let us know ([email protected]).

We could also benefit from another scanner.

2. It’s set to be another warm run!!

Back in June parkrun wrote a little blog regarding running in the heat. Link below.

https://blog.parkrun.com/uk/2026/06/22/top-five-tips-for-parkrunning-in-the-summer

Whilst you know your furry friend better than we do, we ask you consider whether you need to bring your dog with you.
Attached is guidance surrounding dogs & heat for you to make an informed choice. Our preference is they stay home.
Below is the extract from the parkrun blog.

“While we can adapt to warmer weather, our four-legged friends have a much harder time. Dogs can only regulate their body temperature through panting, which isn’t always enough to prevent overheating. All dogs are at risk of heatstroke, so it’s often safest to leave them at home on particularly warm mornings. Please follow the RSPCA’s advice on dog first aid and identifying the signs of heatstroke”.

3. Parking Reminder!

The park have advised that several people have approached them regarding parking; paying at 10:45am and receiving the higher charges.

We make it clear in our brief and on our website that in order to receive the parkrun discounted parking you must.

a) PAY BEFORE 10:30 am.
b) EXIT the park before 10:45 am.

Therefore if you pay after 10:30am, the higher charge is payable.

Full details on the parking charges, instructions etc are on the course page of our website.

https://www.parkrun.org.uk/moorsvalley/course/

That’s the ‘nags’ out of the way. See you all tomorrow!!

05/07/2026

Yesterday's event number 465 had all the ingredients for a brilliant Saturday morning at Moors Valley – sunshine (mostly), smiles, milestones and, of course, an extra pair of watchful eyes keeping everyone in line.

A very special mention goes to our guest Fun Director, Bobby, who stepped in to assist his dad, RD Mark, with the important business of making sure everything ran smoothly. We can't confirm whether Bobby was conducting spot checks on volunteers, participants or just making sure the walkie-talkies were well tested, but he did a fantastic job!

Mark had plenty of shout outs for celebratory milestones - here are the ones that we mentioned in the briefing:

🦺Mike reached an incredible 350 volunteer credits – a huge thank you for everything you do.
👐Amy (aged just 8!) completed her 10th parkrun.
💫Alex celebrated her 25th parkrun.
✨Abbi and Emma both reached their 50th parkruns.
🌟And Alison completed a fantastic 200th parkrun.

Huge congratulations to all of you on your amazing achievements and anyone else celebrating something fabulous yesterday.

It was also lovely to welcome participants from our relatively local neighbours at Andover, Bognor, Weymouth and Brockenhurst, along with Sharon from North Dorset, who kindly provided this week's run report (link will be in the comments later today). We hope you all enjoyed your visit and that Moors Valley will tempt you back again soon.

Finally, a small favour to ask. Our volunteer roster for Saturday 11th July has plenty of spaces waiting to be filled. If you can lend a hand, we'd love to hear from you at [email protected] (please include your barcode number) 🙏
Volunteering is easy, rewarding and comes with full training (and occasionally the supervision of our Fun Director).

An early message offering to help would make our Volunteer Co-ordinator extremely happy and could even guarantee her the elusive luxury of a nice, relaxing Friday evening 🥹

Thanks everyone for a great event and see you all next Saturday 🌳🧡

02/07/2026

Hi everyone!

We’re looking forward to coming back after our week off, but we’re short of some marshals.
Could you help?

Please get in touch with your barcode number ASAP to [email protected] and we’ll add you to the roster.

Being a marshal means you get to cheer & support everyone as they run/walk/jog/gallop round the course and even better, you get a hi-vis AND a walkie talkie!!

Please be a hi-vis hero and help us run our event safely and smoothly 🙏🏼

30/06/2026

Hello everyone, Stanley here.

What a wonderful day we had celebrating our Million Event After Party on June 20th! During all the excitement (and watching everyone else do the running), I had a great time exploring the event with my wonderful parkwalker, Ruth.

Ruth spent the morning capturing photos of our fantastic volunteers and marshals, who worked so hard to keep everything running smoothly. From cheering people on to keeping everyone safe and pointing everyone in the right direction, every single volunteer helped make the event such a success.

I had a great time saying hello to everyone along the way and seeing so many smiling faces. It's days like these that remind me just how special our parkrun community is.

Now I've got a little favour to ask.

Our volunteer roster for Saturday 4th July is looking a little light, and we're especially in need of marshals this week. If you've ever thought about volunteering, marshalling is a brilliant role. You'll have the best view of all the action, you'll encourage participants every step of the way, and you'll help ensure our event can take place safely.

If you can help this Saturday, we'd love to hear from you. Just send us a message to [email protected] with your barcode number, and we'll get you added to the roster.

A huge thank you to everyone who gives their time to make parkrun happen. I hope to see you all on Saturday morning!

Love Stanley 🐾

26/06/2026

Whilst we’re not holding an event tomorrow, our lovely juniors are going ahead on Sunday and could use some support. Can anyone lend a hand please?

Please contact the team at [email protected] 🙏🏼

Want to be *super cool* this weekend? Why not volunteer! Join us in the stunning Moors Valley Forest for a lovely morning.

We could really do with the following roles:

1x timekeeper
1x funnel manager
1x tail walker
2x barcode scanners
6x marshals

If you can help please leave a message below or email us on [email protected]

Thank you!

26/06/2026

🔔🔔 Reminder for tomorrow - 27th June 26🔔🔔

⚠ 27th June 2026 - Important Event Update ⚠

Unfortunately, we have been asked by the Moors Valley Country Park team to cancel our event scheduled for 27th June 2026 due to other events taking place within the park on that date.

We know this may be disappointing, and we wanted to let everyone know as early as possible. Please help us spread the word by sharing this post with anyone who may have been planning to attend on 27th June 2026.

Thank you for your understanding & continued support 🧡

20/06/2026

What a wonderful morning we had at Moors Valley parkrun today!

Our pacer event brought a fantastic atmosphere to event 464, with 25 amazing volunteer pacers proudly wearing their bibs and helping participants chase those all-important personal bests. It was brilliant to see so many people taking on the challenge and supporting one another around the course.

The weather was certainly on the warm and sticky side, but thankfully the rain stayed away and the forest provided a lovely setting for another memorable Saturday morning. Adding to the celebrations, there was a real party feel at the finish area with balloons, cakes and plenty of smiles as we joined in with our after party special celebrations of parkrun’s one millionth event.

A huge thank you also goes to everyone who answered our last-minute volunteer appeal last night. With two large local parkruns cancelled, we had a feeling we might be a little busier than usual — and we were! An incredible 771 participants joined us this morning, all supported by a fantastic team of volunteers who helped keep everything safe and running smoothly.

We always love welcoming visitors, and today we had tourists from as far afield as Holland and New Zealand, alongside visitors from Crawley, Jersey, Harlow, Buckingham, Devizes and Lancing Beach. We hope you enjoyed your morning with us and that you'll visit again soon.

Next week it's our turn to be cancelled, so many of us will be heading off on our own parkrun adventures elsewhere. Wherever you're parkrunning, have a wonderful time and we look forward to hearing all about your tourism stories.

Looking ahead, our volunteer roster is open to be filled from 4 July onwards. If you'd like to give volunteering a go, we'd love to hear from you. Please email [email protected] with your barcode number, your preferred role and the date you'd like to help.

Thank you to everyone who came along today, whether you walked, jogged, ran, volunteered, paced, cheered or ate cake. You helped make it a very special morning.

17/06/2026

We’re looking forward to celebrating the after party, following the one millionth parkrun events achievement last weekend.
On Saturday, we’ll be hosting our Moors Valley parkrun pacer party 🥳

We’d love you to come along & join us and we’re looking for volunteers to help keep the event running smoothly & safely.

If you’re free and would like to be part of our awesome volunteer team, please email [email protected] with your parkrun barcode number 🙏🏼

As we get ready to celebrate 1 million events, we're taking a moment to recognise everyone who makes parkrun happen.

From our partners, funders, fundraisers, supporters and landowners to all the volunteers, walkers, joggers and runners who join us each week, this wouldn't be possible without you.

Thanks a million 🫶

🌳