Parkrun events return for first time since March 2020
走者s of all abilities and ages have celebrated the return of the first parkrun events in Northern Ireland since the start of the pandemic.
The popular 一連の 5k runs were permitted to return に引き続いて the 緩和 of coronavirus 規則s to 許す up to 500 people to gather for outdoor 演習.
Before the pandemic, around 30 parkrun events took place across Northern Ireland.
While most of the returning events began at 9.30am on Saturday, the Ormeau parkrun ? one of the best …に出席するd in the 地域 ? did not take place 予定 to 関心 it could attract more than the permitted 500 people.
Brendan Mulgrew is a run director with the Queen’s Parkrun in south Belfast.
He 解任するd the last event on March 14, 2020 and 憶測 then that the break might just be for a few weeks or months.
“No-one thought for a second there wouldn’t be another one for 16 months,” he said.
“Everyone is just so pleased it is 支援する, there is a real sense of community about the whole thing, people have really 行方不明になるd it. We were getting messages on our social マスコミ channels from people 説 they 行方不明になるd it and were so excited it was 支援する.”
Mr Mulgrew said the return of the runs was planned 安全に with 指導基準s around social distancing, 特に stopping the start line from becoming congested and 減ずるing physical 接触する when 走者s receive their time at the end.
He 追加するd: “One of the 広大な／多数の／重要な things about parkrun is that everyone hangs around afterward and 雑談（する）s. But all of that is 存在 discouraged at this 行う／開催する／段階, it’s turn up, run and go home again.
“But if that’s the road to getting 支援する to what we had, that is 罰金, it’s what we’ll do.
“Pre-Covid, we had about 160 走者s every week at Queen’s, and I would say 90% were 正規の／正選手s there every week, and we had people who turned up every week to volunteer, people got so much out of it. For some people, it is their 週刊誌 遠出 and the only time during the week they get out to 雑談（する） to people. 肉体的に, and mentally 同様に, it means a lot to people.
“It’s important to get it 支援する, and it’s important to get it 支援する 安全に.”
The parkrun series was started in London in 2004 and has spread around the world.
Mr Mulgrew said the first parkrun in Northern Ireland was at the Waterworks in north Belfast, and the Queen’s one followed. He became 伴う／関わるd in 2016.
“I enjoy when I go on holiday getting to check out the 地元の parkrun, I have done parkruns in Florida, Italy, 負担s in the south of Ireland, 負担s across Northern Ireland,” he said.
“It’s always nice to try a new one, and when you’re feeling fit and want to get a good time you go to Victoria Park in Belfast because it is flat ? it’s the fastest one in Belfast.”
On Saturday, the Department of Health 報告（する）／憶測d an 付加 298 確認するd 事例／患者s of Covid-19 in Northern Ireland. There were no その上の deaths 報告（する）／憶測d
The 最新の ワクチン接種 人物／姿／数字s on Saturday put the total number of jabs 治めるd in the 地域 at 1,996,954.
