The inaugural hosting of a weekly 5km parkrun on Saturday mornings in Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve is set to take place today (20th July 2024).
Hundreds of parkruns take place around the country at 9am every Saturday. Each event is a free-to-enter timed 5k run that is open to everyone and designed to be safe and easy to take part in.
Discussions about hosting a parkrun in Bradley Stoke have been going on ever since the Little Stoke Park parkrun ceased operating in April 2016.
The Bradley Stoke event faced opposition from some town councillors who said they were concerned about the potential impact on the nature reserve. However, following a public consultation held last year, the town council submitted a ‘no objection’ response to South Gloucestershire Council, the owner of the nature reserve. The local authority subsequently granted permission for the event to go ahead.
The route of the Bradley Stoke parkrun is formed of a “clockwise out and back double loop, starting near the picnic tables [at the Three Brooks lake, a.k.a. ‘the duck pond’]”.
Full details of the weekly event can be on the official Three Brooks parkrun webpage.
Over 400 participants
UPDATE added 12th August 2024.
The inaugural Three Brook parkrun held on Saturday 29th July 2024 attracted a massive 414 participants.
The first finisher was Callum Moore who completed the course in a time of 16:57.
The first female (and second overall) was Freya Bradley in a time of 17:08.
