The R.E.D mission is to be more than a month-long healthand- fitness challenge. It’s a lifestyle movement, where everyone feels motivated to continue the positive habits they pick up at the start of the year. I am determined, too, to embrace this in my own life.
As a runner, I am aware of parkrun and recommend it to others. Like R.E.D, it’s free, and community spirit is at the heart of it. So, why on earth have I not been to one? Time to try it for myself.
‘Running is so close to walking that pretty much everyone can do it. From the word go, we refused to call it a race, it was a run, and we said you can run with a dog; and you can push a buggy. I think those “rules” make it possible for people who feel excluded from competition to feel included,’ says founder of parkrun, Paul Sinton-Hewitt.