Leybourne Lakes parkrun

19/09/2026

Please give a big THANK YOU to your super and most awesomely lush volunteer team for today!! 👏

You dont have to, but we'd love you to join us one weekend and give it a try. We're always on the lookout for new talent so whether you fancy just helping out once in a while or perhaps even ready for a new challenge - get in touch!

Emails please (incl barcode) to [email protected] 🙏

Lastly, the temporary diversion route we'll be using in October does need a few extra marshals, so some extra help for those weeks would be really really appreciated.

19/09/2026

👋 Hey parkrunners, parkwalkers, parkskippers and parkcrawlers - in fact however you managed to get around today, well done you!

We especially love first time visitors and we had a WHOPPING 56 of you today. Will you come back? Do let us know in the comments!!

REMINDER - We are cancelled NEXT WEEK. Hopefully the week after we will return and the section of path from Meadow down to Divers Corner will have been upgraded 🤞

All being well we will be back on our birthday October 3rd, albeit with a diversion - MORE INFO TO FOLLOW, watch this space 👀

Have a great rest-of-the-weekend!

12/09/2026

👋 Hey parkrunners!

Last post today... please say hello to your volunteer event team for today!

Randomly we included Kirsty (celebrating her 100th parkrun) in our photo because, well because we're nice like that 😁

Anyway, don't be shy and do think about lending us a hand one week. It might look like we have lots of volunteers and don't need any more help, but this is *only* because lovely people *do* offer 🥰

As always the best method is to email your name and parkrun ID plus the date(s) you want to help via [email protected].

If you can please always include your ID it will often save us having to look you up and/or having to email you back if we cant find you or there are multiple people with the same name 🙏

12/09/2026

👋 Hey parkrunners!

What a lovely morning!! Here's your essential stats for today...

Reminder - we are cancelled on the 26th and will be on a diversion route for the following 2 weeks. More details about the temporary course in due course!

Have a lovely rest of the weekend 🍷🍺

11/09/2026

👋 Hey parkrunners!

Good news and bad (well just less good really)....

👍 Tomorrow is PARKRUNDAY yeh! (that's the good news)
👎 We are CANCELLED on September 26th (that's the bad news)

Most of the core team are unavailable that week AND it's the start of much-anticipated path upgrade works which would require 2 separate diversion routes.

Rather than try to operate a diversion just for 1 week with a severely depleted team and then switch to a different diversion the very next week.... we've decided to skip the 26th and then just operate the 2nd diversion over the next few weeks.

Hopefully this advanced notice will give you plenty of time to make alternative arrangements. It'll all be worth it as when completed we'll have a super smooth and fast course around the whole lake!

Special thanks to the ranger team at Leybourne Lakes Country Park for being so accommodating to our needs 🥰

05/09/2026

Just before it got crazy, RD Pascale drew the winner of Sinton at random. Congrats to Kirstie Hart! You’re a winner! 🥇

Thanks to all the donations towards ED Darran’s Vitality 10k fundraiser for parkrun.

It’s not too late though! If you want to support the parkrun global charity there’s still time using the link below…

https://2026vitalitylondon10000.enthuse.com/pf/darran-potter

05/09/2026

This week Co-ED Darran managed to grab photos of (hopefully) all the volunteers while out park walking. Please give it up for your volunteer crew - there were so many we very nearly ran out of hi-viz!

Don't forget we'll always welcome more and on the 26th Sept in particular most of the core team are off to take part in the Westminster Mile, so if you fancy helping out that week (or any week) then just drop us a line via [email protected]

Worth mentioning again that volunteering *is* an equal form of participation and you do get milestone credits... so you're *not* giving up a run; you are gaining a wonderful, heart warming and fun activity that you're brain and blood pressure will thank you for!

05/09/2026

👋 Hey hey parkrunners!

Good numbers today and a whopping 63 first time visitors to our lovely park and 13 people doing their first ever parkrun - WELCOME!

Today must have been near perfect conditions for fast times and sure enough there were 51 PBs 👏

Did you see the swans this morning? If you were running so fast you missed them check out the pics below!

Have a great weekend and see you next week 😎

03/09/2026

Someone will be going home with more than they arrived with this Saturday!

If you want to support the parkrun global charity and have a chance to win Sinton... just donate £1 to Co-ED Darran's Vitality 10K fundraiser and you'll be entered into the raffle!

Last entries into the raffle midnight Friday 🕛

👋 Say hello to Sinton! He could be YOURS!!! For a chance to win this fabulous prize just donate! For every £1 donated you'll get 1 entry into the prize draw to win this super cute, if somewhat large,

03/09/2026

👋 Hey parkrunners!

Here's your chance to provide some valuable feedback to "the management" 😎

Seriously though, we've been asked to share as they would like to get as many comments as possible to help shape the future of our wonderful park! 👍

Conducted every 4 years, we would really appreciate if you could take the time to fill out our market survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/N8HQPL5