S3 E6: Happy 75th birthday to the NHS, and a word with the woman behind the success of junior parkrun
Description
A chat with Chrissie – Chrissie Wellington, parkrun’s global head of health and wellbeing.
In this episode, we’ll find out what a warm-up leader does at junior parkrun and celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of our NHS. But first, let’s meet Chrissie Wellington, parkrun’s global head of health and wellbeing, and a huge advocate of junior parkrun, and find out about the part she and others have played in the growth of the movement.
To find out more on how to take part in a parkrun event or collect a free copy of the printed magazine head over to magazine.parkrun.com. parkrun magazine is created by parkrun with the audio version made possible through editing and audio adaptation by Imogen Lees, and production by Like the Wind Media and Runcomm.
We hope you enjoy listening.
Key topics:
Junior parkrun history [0:57 ]
Volunteering at parkrun [8:50 ]
NHS diamond anniversary [10:38 ]
North-west England’s inspiration on parkrun [15:14 ]
Website: magazine.parkrun.com
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