Parkrun gets colourful for Murihiku Pride Week
“The opportunity to show parkrun is for everyone was too good to miss."
By Lance Smith
Invercargill’s parkrun on Saturday was a colourful affair. As Liz Henry - the run director - called it: “Ourr rainbow run”.
It started with a call from Invercargill’s Chroma Initiative asking if Invercargill parkrun would support of the first Murihiku Pride Week to be held. Liz jumped at it.
“The opportunity to show parkrun is for everyone was too good to miss,” she said.
Young, old, slow, fast, runners, walkers, duckwalk from actual ducks, rainbow community, any community: diversity is a parkrun byword.
So, Liz encouraged parkrun helpers to make themselves as colourful as possible.
Who was fastest over the 5km? That doesn’t really matter, parkrun is for participation and times, while taken and recorded, are not that important. In fact, the term parkrun is a bit of a misnomer.
Many were walkers.
Is there a better way to start a weekend than a run or leisurely stroll on a fine spring morning in a picturesque park cheered on by colourfully attired marshals and officials?
Possibly Not.
Parkrun is held every Saturday morning at Queens Park, while the first Murihiku Pride Week will run through to September 16.