Torquay parkrun

Torquay parkrun - Event number 396

✨MASSIVE✨ thanks to our volunteers and people week popped their name down for next week 👏👏👏 We still need another 4 volunteers (at least) for parkrun to go ahead next week. Please get in touch to help out 🙏

This week 228 people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 33 were first timers and 32 recorded new Personal Bests.

The event was made possible by 13 volunteers:

Jennifer BEAMENT • Tony OVERMAN • Stephanie BULLEN • Greg THOMAS • Rob BULLEN • Pam TINDAL • Josie MCINERNEY • Marianne MCKAY • Kate EDDIEHAUSEN • Stuart JONES • Adelaide Matilda JONES • John HOGARTH • Robyn NEVILLE

Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Torquay parkrun Results Page.

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Torquay parkrun
Event number 395
15th August 2026

We celebrated our 9th birthday 🎈

Thank you to Kate and Ashtyn for the delicious birthday cake. Thanks also to our costume competition entrants and congrats to Pam on winning best dressed!

Huge congratulations to Greg on his 300th parkrun, Rochelle on her 100th and Mari on her 50th! Sorry we didn’t manage to snap a celebration picture of you Rochelle.

Welcome to our visitors, we had a lovely chat with visitors from New Zealand. And thanks Alex, a run director at Albert Park for his voluntourism! Sorry we ran out of time to shout out all our visitors. Please comment below 👇 where you are visiting from!

This week 193 people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 22 were first timers and 24 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 17 different clubs took part.

The event was made possible by 14 volunteers:

Megan ATKINSON • Julie MULCAHY • Martin MCCREDDEN • Sarah MINTER • Marianne MCKAY • Finlay MINTER • Andrew MIDDLETON • Dean WALTON • Mel HOWARD • Alex DAWSON • Martin STEYN • Isla MINTER • Robert ASHTON • Gail MCCREDDEN

Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Torquay parkrun Results Page.

Torquay parkrun started on 12th August 2017. Since then 14,780 participants have completed 69,499 parkruns covering a total distance of 347,495 km, including 9,565 new Personal Bests. A total of 656 individuals have volunteered 4,473 times.

Happy birthday to us, happy birthday to us, happy 9th birthday Torquay parkrun…. Happy birthday to us!

You are invited to Torquay parkrun’s 9th birthday this Saturday, 15 August. Arrive at 7.45am for an 8am start.

Theme: op shop formal
No need to RSVP

It is a birthday party so there will be birthday cake 🎂 if you are a keen baker and would like to bring something yummy, please comment below.