Heathcote Valley Runners

24/07/2025

Planting day this Sunday in Morgan’s valley, Christchurch this area serves as the backdrop for Mary had a lamb and Morgan’s Baa Baa loop. We have over 400 trees 🌲 to plant and would appreciate any assistance to restore this beautiful space back into a native regeneration habitat.

We will have spare planting spades, but recommend that you bring a spade or a grubber, sturdy shoes or Gumboots would be useful.

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23/05/2025

One more sleep 😴 to go, sunrise at 7:45 for the wow 🤩 factor. Fingers crossed for no frost so that the boardwalk isn’t an ice 🧊 rink.
Be ready for breath taking views.
See you tomorrow.

20/05/2025

Recommend starting your Saturday morning with some amazing views and enthusiastic volunteers at Scarborough parkrun. You can walk, jog, run or volunteer.
It’s fun 🤩 free and definitely not a race.
Looking forward to seeing you there on Saturday whether you are a first timer 👏🥳 or a milestone chaser 🏃‍♀️🎯

Who’s New Wednesday😎

💥All these amazing participants🙋‍♀️joined Scarborough parkrun Saturday event #58, we enjoyed the company of 24 first timers. Of which 7 were using their barcodes for the first time and 17 were visitors to our parkrun by the sea🏖.

👀Last week we had 12 new registrations, pushing the incredible total of team Scarborough parkrun to 733😍.

💖Two new volunteers were added to our volunteer family of 248 since event #1, a year ago. One getting close to a 50-volunteer milestone and a real first timer achieving a Scarborough parkrun milestone of our 250th different volunteer✔️.

2️⃣ first time volunteers
🦺47 Yana Sandford (Barcode Scanning) 249th
🦺1 Greta Prince (Finish Token Support) 250th🎊

🙏Welcome everyone, we hope you all enjoyed the experience.

7️⃣ first ever time
Ben Wortelboer🫵
Daniel Gibbs🫵
Gareth Clendinning🫵
Lyn Quinlan🫵
Crystal Reeves🫵
Catherine Coups🫵
Marta Lapini🫵

1️⃣7️⃣ first time visitors (parkrun tally, home parkrun)
🇳🇿Mike Boomer (2, Hagley)
🇳🇿Ariana Bruwer (2, Halswell Quarry)
🇳🇿Manie Bruwer (3, )
🇳🇿Ryleigh de Groot (4, )
🇳🇿Yvonne Williams (7, Halswell Quarry)
🇳🇿Sofie Koekoek (10, )
🇳🇿Ash Ellis (13, Tauranga)
🇳🇿Qi-Wern Lim (18, )
🇳🇿Miriam Geddes (27, Hagley)
🇳🇿Janet Geddes (31, Hagley)
🇳🇿Thomas Wallace (34, Hagley)
🇳🇿Quoyah Barr-Glintborg (41, Hagley)
🇳🇿Dominic Todd (51, Lower Hutt)
🇳🇿Tara Snell-Newman (54, )
🇳🇿Jennifer Monnox (73, Hagley)
🇳🇿Charlotte Booker (94, )
🇳🇿Will Jones (260, )

⬇️Here’s a few numbers to think about.
✨️24 First timers was the 19th= highest total in New Zealand, out of the 59 events held.
✨️42 Personal Bests, 10th= on the list.
✨️17 Volunteers helped us to 17th= in the volunteer numbers (up 9 places).
✨️191 finishes Saturday, put 19th on attendance countrywide.

🤔Now, Remembering parkrun isn’t a race, it’s about community, participation, goals, personal achievements & coffee and cake. Or Scone or Scone… There were some amazing age category records broken in Canterbury on this parkrun Saturday.
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🔥JW10 Annabel Puklowski 22.51min -74.69%- (Ashburton Domain)

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🔥SW30-34 Mary Gray 20.52min -70.93%- ( )

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🔥SW30-34 Ariana Harper 18.18min -80.87%- (Hagley)

😎Only three days till 8am⏰️Saturday, come along and join the fun! Bring a🙋‍♂️friend for event #59. For the full experience🦺volunteer, email📧our volunteer coordinator at [email protected] you’ll love it.

Team Scarborough parkrun.💝

27/03/2025

Look at all these happy people enjoying Scarborough parkrun, you don’t have to run, you can jog or walk. Or if that’s not your thing then they are all looking for volunteers and they have a fabulous team of friendly and inclusive volunteers.

Celebration Sunday🎉

🤔We Celebrate Sunday why? It’s because all these new listed participants joined Scarborough parkrun event #50, celebration had by 54 first timers. Of which 13 were using their parkrun barcodes for the first time and 41 added a new parkrun venue to their list, with us at Scarborough.

😎One of these first timers stood out from the rest, Ben McGonigle running in the VM70-74 age category. Smashed the previous record by 2min36sec, finishing in 22.06min💪. An amazing 81.83% age grade percentage adding to that strong run. Ben is visiting form Ardgillan parkrun near Dublin in Ireland✈️. Completing 275 parkrun’s at Ardgillan and the current age grade record holder as well, at 22.20min.
👍Scarborough was added to his other New Zealand venue record at Broad Park. Looking at other Christchurch parkrun records, this time is very close or better than most. I wonder who’s next? Congratulations 🎊 Ben, hope to see you again soon.

😎Last week we had 25 new registrations, pushing the incredible total of team Scarborough to 593. Four new volunteers have been added to our volunteer family of 222 since event #1, almost a year ago.

4️⃣ first time volunteers
🦺Angus Simmonds - Finish Token Support
🦺Iona Garrett - Barcode scanning
🦺Ken Atkins - Barcode scanning
🦺Ezekiel Nakaroti - Token Sorting

🙏Welcome to all of you, we hope you all enjoyed the experience.

1️⃣3️⃣ first ever time @ parkrun
Ange Hansen🙋‍♂️
Luke Wenham🙋‍♀️
Hamish Wenham🙋‍♂️
Paul Sayer🙋‍♀️
Lola Seipp🙋‍♂️
Zelda Glass🙋‍♀️
Brenda Wenham🙋‍♂️
Henny Newlands🙋‍♀️
Sharyn Pratley🙋‍♂️
Freddie Travers🙋‍♀️
Deb Rhode🙋‍♂️
Toni Logan🙋‍♀️
Margot T🙋‍♂️

4️⃣1️⃣ first time visitors (parkrun tally, home parkrun)
🇳🇿Murphy Kupe (2, Hagley)
🇳🇿Seiya Bowen (2, Hagley)
🇳🇿Greer Preston (2, Hagley)
🇳🇿Joel Kitto (3, Hagley)
🇳🇿Damian Allerby (3, Foster)
🇳🇿Abbey McSherry (4, )
🇳🇿Dorian Grault (5, Hagley)
🇳🇿Tim Hull (5, Hagley)
✈️Jack Kingston (6, )
🇳🇿Simon Nieper (7, Hagley)
🇳🇿Theo Nieper (7, Hagley)
🇳🇿Bee Rūder (7, Hagley)
🇳🇿Nat Anglem (8, Hagley)
🇳🇿Marisa Dawson (8, )
🇳🇿Teresa Balckmore (10, Hagley)
🇳🇿Marseille Bowie (14, Hagley)
🇳🇿Maree Greig (14, Hagley)
🇳🇿Amber George (14, )
🇳🇿Takuma Peters (16, Foster)
🇳🇿Abrahm Rollins (16, )
🇳🇿David Hurrell (19, )
🇳🇿Lisa Brignull (20, Hagley)
✈️Kirsten Cluley (23, )
🇳🇿Grant Low (26, )
🇳🇿Jennifer Zhou (31, Hagley)
✈️Miranda Hladysh (39, )
🇳🇿Braden Judd (43, Foster)
🇳🇿Dallas Judd (48, Foster)
🇳🇿Elena Kondrateva (49, Hagley)
✈️Carolyn Morton (66, )
🇳🇿Katie Yee (72, Hagley)
✈️Andrej Kujikis (78, )
✈️Alison McGonigle (82, Ardgillan)
🇳🇿Ford Bockman (103, Hagley)
🇳🇿Giselle Bockman (103, Hagley)
🇳🇿Dianne Davis (112, Hagley)
🇳🇿Nick Johnson (118, )
🇳🇿Monica Sherman (151, )
🇳🇿Wajahat Ali Muhammad Jawad (153, )
✈️Ben McGonigle (297, )

Please enjoy the celebration again, join us Saturday 8am⏰️. Bring a friend🙋‍♀️for event #51. For the full experience volunteer🦺, [email protected] you’ll love it.

Team Scarborough parkrun.🌟

14/03/2025

Scarborough parkrun tomorrow at 8am and some milestones coming up. 22nd March will be our 50th event and the Don Grieg racing stables are coming with their pacers and then on the 12th April we will be celebrating 🥳 our first birthday 🎉 and no doubt there will be cake 🎂 🧁

28/02/2025

Scarborough parkrun tomorrow at 8am. Fun, free, tail walker so you are never last

22/02/2025

Late notice alert 🚨, 14km ish run starting from Silos at 7am tomorrow morning

26/04/2024

Local parkrun recently started in Sumner

Nothing - it's free! but please register before you first come along. Only ever register with parkrun once and don't forget to bring a scannable copy of your barcode (request a reminder). If you forget it, you won't get a time.

23/06/2023

Out and back course at Broad Park run tomorrow, also known as the High five 🖐️ course.

OUT AND BACK COURSE for Broad Park parkrun #39, Sat 24 June.
The boss has spoken! No, not Bruce Springsteen in this instance but George Poole, our run director and course checker for tomorrow Sat 24 June. George advises we'll be using the out-and-back course for the event as the rain has made the loop course a no go.
Even on the out-and-back there will still be plenty of puddles so wear trail shoes if you have them, and maybe some dry shoes and socks at the end for going to the Brighton Beach House!
We also still need a marshall for the turnaround point to make sure parkrun doesn't turn into ultarun for anyone if they miss the spraypaint and keep going. If you can help with that, email [email protected]

06/02/2023

“Mindful running is the medicine which throws out all the negativity from mind and body.”

Looking forward to seeing and cheering you all again tomorrow for Week #4 of the ASICS 5K Series.

🗓 7th Feb 2023
📍North Hagley Park
💰$5.00 per race
⏰ 5.30pm Children's Race (FREE for this event)
⏰ 5.45pm Competitive Race
⏰ 6.15pm FUN RUN/JOG/WALK
✅ https://www.5krunseries.com/

01/02/2023