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Author : Eileen Jones
Release : 2021-03
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Book Rating : 030/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis How Parkrun Changed Our Lives by : Eileen Jones
Download or read book How Parkrun Changed Our Lives written by Eileen Jones. This book was released on 2021-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Hindley
Release : 2022-06-01
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Rating : 838/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis parkrun by : David Hindley
Download or read book parkrun written by David Hindley. This book was released on 2022-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to take an in-depth look at parkrun - the free, weekly, timed 5km run on a Saturday morning - and to examine why its participants love it so much and why it has been such an astonishing success. Author David Hindley – a self-described ‘middle of the pack’ parkrunner – draws on new research, including interviews with other runners, volunteers and organisers, to shine a light on the unique combination of ingredients in parkrun’s magic formula. Tracing the development of parkrun from its first event in the UK in 2004 to the global network of today, he takes a close look at themes like inclusion, volunteering, community, green space, health and well-being, and unpacks the mantra of ‘it’s a run not a race’ that has come to define the spirit of parkrun for so many of its participants. Part sporting event, part social movement, and part public health intervention, parkrun perhaps offers a model for sustainable public participation in other areas of social life. This book is compulsory behind-the-scenes reading for all parkrunners and parkrun volunteers, and anybody working in sport development, events, recreation, public health, volunteering or community organising.
Author : Lucy Waterlow
Release : 2024-09-26
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 362/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Ultimate Guide to parkrun by : Lucy Waterlow
Download or read book The Ultimate Guide to parkrun written by Lucy Waterlow. This book was released on 2024-09-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for any parkrunner, or wannabe parkrunner, this concise and joyful book reveals how a Saturday 5km run in the park has become a worldwide phenomenon. The Ultimate Guide to parkrun (always with a lower case p!) covers how parkrun started, how it is staged every week, how to get involved as a runner, walker, or volunteer – and even how to start your own run. Written by a running writer and qualified athletics coach, this celebratory book goes behind the scenes to tell the heartwarming human stories behind parkrun. But it also brims with practical information, with training plans for different types of runners so that you can (if you wish to) improve your own finishing time. Published to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the founding of the mass participation event in Autumn 2024, the book delves into parkrun’s origins as the brainchild of Paul Sinton-Hewitt, an unemployed man in London. Just 13 runners competed in the first Bushy Park Time Trial on 2 October 2004. Now parkrun has more than 9 million runners at more than 2,200 parks in 23 countries, with the most popular countries being the UK, Australia, and South Africa. The book features all aspects of parkrun, including how public-spirited volunteers put on the event, sustainably and for free, every week, and fun boxes such as the most interesting courses around the world, from Poland to the Falkland Islands. About the author Lucy Waterlow is a journalist, ghostwriter and author who has contributed to national newspapers and specialist publications such as Runner’s World and Women’s Running. She is a keen amateur runner, and a qualified England Athletics coach in running fitness. She is the co-author of Nell McAndrew's Guide To Running and Run Mummy Run: Inspiring Women to be Fit, Healthy and Happy.
Author : Anne Rogers
Release : 2023-11-30
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 526/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Living with Health Inequalities by : Anne Rogers
Download or read book Living with Health Inequalities written by Anne Rogers. This book was released on 2023-11-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how people encounter, understand, live with and respond to health risks associated with social, economic and political inequality. Complementing a traditional public health approach, the book moves beyond a focus on categories of morbidity and their structural causes. Instead, it focuses on everyday understandings and actions for people living in unequal social conditions. Making use of a variety of case studies related to physical and mental health, the authors emphasise interpersonal relationships, biographical meanings and the daily tactics of ‘getting by’. These are recurrently linked to the social-structural aspects of particular times and places. The book: Draws upon, applies and extends the biopsychosocial approach, which is well known to students of public health. Respects and gives due weight to the experience in context of people who live with health inequalities, in domestic and local settings. Explores notions of personal agency and the contingencies of everyday life, in order to offer a focused psycho-social compliment to a public health tradition dominated by top-down reasoning. This is an important read for all those seeking to understand the complexities of health inequalities holistically in their studies, research and practice. The book brings together thinking in the fields of public health, sociology, mental health and social policy.
Author : Steve Chilton
Release : 2023-04-20
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 209/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Voices from the Hills by : Steve Chilton
Download or read book Voices from the Hills written by Steve Chilton. This book was released on 2023-04-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A must read for anyone with a passion for women's equality and sport.' -Sue Anstiss Voices from the Hills is the story of the barriers encountered by the first female fell runners who fought to participate in the early days of this male-dominated sport. Despite experiencing discouragement and resistance, these women responded with personal courage and self-confidence. Thanks to them, women now compete at traditional fell races, international mountain races and endurance challenges such as the Bob Graham Round in increasing numbers. Told predominantly through interviews with pioneering female athletes who recount their lives and running careers, this is the story of a fight for equality of opportunity and reward.
