“It’s official – the first Aberystwyth Parkrun will take place on Saturday 1st September at 9am in Plascrug – the town end by the green gates. Our “Aberystwyth Parkrun” page is being created on the parkrun website http://www.parkrun.com/. The national Parkrun manager, Tom Williams, will be present for our first event.

Financial support has come from Sport Wales, Ceredigion Actif / Ceredigion County Council and from the University Harriers – who will also participate and help to marshal when term starts. There has been a lot of interest, both from within Aberystwyth AC and from outside the club so we will need to run the route before the 1st September with as many people as possible to find out where the congestion points are, where we need to place signs, etc. Hopefully they will stop digging it up soon and remove those yellow barriers………… then I’ll send a message out to all of you (and bring your friends!) to test the route, ideally at 9am on a Saturday morning for realistic conditions.

To enter the real event, you’ll need to log into the parkrun website, register as a runner, and print out the barcode that is allocated to you. It is FREE to register and once you have a barcode you can run at any parkrun event in the world! here’s the link http://www.parkrun.org.uk/aberystwyth”

Al.