parkrun record broken with 22,344 runners on Saturday 8 September

We thought you’d peaked when we saw that almost 20,000 of you had taken part in parkrun events across the UK on Saturday 18 August, one week after the Olympic Games concluded...but no...

On Saturday 8 September, just as the Paralympic Games were coming to a close, that record was broken with 22,344 runners taking part in parkrun events on a very special and inaugural adidas PB weekend.

With every second counting towards a Breakthrough Breast Cancer donation, 5807 runners beat their personal best parkrun times and the cumulative time knocked off PBs was an impressive 92 hours 34 minutes and 37 seconds.

Were you one of the 22,344 parkrunners last weekend? If so, have you claimed your free runbritain handicap and if you’ve got that far, have you entered September’s edition of Reward Running?

In a nutshell, Reward Running is our free monthly competition where runners can win a prize if they reduce their handicap score by the largest number of points in the month. At the end of the month, the runners who are in the top 10 of the leaderboard that month will win a prize - an adidas miCoach for the winner, and Sennheiser headphones for the rest.

The Reward Running top 10 consists of the runners who have improved their handicap the most in that month (make sure you’ve claimed your free runbritain handicap first!), but within the top 10, one place is reserved for the most improved in each of the four handicap categories:

1: 5 or under

2: 6-12

3: 13-20

4: 21 or above

There is also one place reserved for the most improved runner that has run at least 10 races in the year before the competition month.