Dame Kelly Holmes nearly quit running after winning two Olympics gold medals - she was ready to throw in the towel - until she found parkrun.
I started running when I was at secondary school in Tonbridge in Kent Running in South Africa, the sun was shining with a big blue sky above. It was a 5km parkrun at Zandvlei in South Africa and I was alongside people of all ages, from diverse backgrounds. I thought to myself: ‘This is perfect.’ It’s part of my mini project to run parkruns in places that begin with every letter of the alphabet and I could now cross off ‘Z’.
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