Lithgow parkrun

16/10/2026

Lithgow parkrun is set for another great morning of running, jogging, walking and talking, tomorrow, 17/10/2026.

It may be a cloudy morning, making it a great temperature (we hope) for parkrun and a morning coffee break.

Lithgow parkrun is on each Saturday at 8am and it is a FREE event for all ages.
Please try to look past the work parkRUN, as this is an event for all levels of fitness, age and sporting prowess., and some people come and join us just for a Saturday morning chat.
You are all welcome.

Come along and join us at the Lithgow Pony Club grounds for a parkrun at 7:45am for our first timers welcome briefing and our general briefing at 7:50am with the hope of an on time 8am start to our event.

Let's see who our Run Director is this week?
Will we get away to a start at 8am?
Yep, looks like we will thanks to Cathy, our RD for this week.

If you are a little uncertain as to your compatibility with a parkrun, please come along a little earlier at 7:30 if you wish and we can have a chat and answer some of your questions about parkrun on any Saturday morning before the event starts.

We have parkwalker's who are happy to walk along with any person that wants to walk during the event and ask questions along the way.

Your fear of coming last will never happen knowing we have a parkrun tail walker, it is their sole job as a volunteer to finish last at parkrun each week, so you as a participant will never come last at parkrun.

Come along and bring a friend, a pram or your dog (on a short lead), and get into the fun and fitness that is parkrun.

If you have any question's you can reply here or email us at [email protected]

13/10/2026

Come along and join us for a Saturday morning run, straight after parkrun.

We’ll be doing a 10km training run after Lithgow parkrun on Saturday 17th October
We’ll run Parkrun and then gather for a start about 8.45am to 9am.
We’ll run the 10km course that covers 10km of the 22km, 30km, 43km and 50km of the Lithgow Ridgy-Didge Trail Run Festival 2027 courses.
Let us know if you are coming by responding to this post, or the Lithgow Parkrun post or PM us. If you are not on Facebook send us an email at [email protected]

13/10/2026

Goof afternoon fellow parkrunners. Photos from last Saturday thanks to Alex, and apologies for forgetting to post them up….. I was probably talking too much. I’m thinking of a new parkrun volunteer role called “blame”. I’m getting good at forgetting things. Chris

10/10/2026

Someone needing the help of 3 little ones to cross the line 🤣.

10/10/2026

Lithgow parkrun #430 started on time after some early morning rain and with a damp track, but finished without any more rain and the sun peeping through. Congratulations to all 40 walkers and runners who did something good for themselves and our community. We had 9 first timers to Lithgow and visitors from Parramatta, The Ponds, Picton and Mudgee.
Julie completed 250 parkruns and 100 volunteer occasions, but looked like she needed help to get across the finish line (see separate video post). And Brett knocked up 100 parkruns as well. Well done to both 👏.
Thanks as always to our awesome volunteers, some who were too busy to get in the photo - where are you Peter?

08/10/2026

EDIT…… (Friday PM)
We/you have done it.
We now have enough of our volunteer roles filled to have a parkrun tomorrow.
Thank you to everyone that offered to fill a volunteer role for tomorrow.

Don’t forget to thank a volunteer anytime you see one while your out running or walking at parkrun, it’s because of them that you can enjoy such an event and free of charge as well.

Thank you volunteers. 👏👏👏👏👏
Lithgow parkrun volunteer coordinator.
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Lithgow parkrun upcoming event 10/10/26… (tomorrow)

We are still in need of a few volunteers for our event to go ahead this weekend.

We need to fill these volunteer positions to be able to run the event.
Run Director
Barcode scanner
First timers briefing
Equipment pick up and delivery to site
Event set up
Event pack up

These volunteer positions are also available but we can run the event without filling these.
parkwalker
Photographer

Thank you to all our volunteers, parlrun can not run without you.
Please think about volunteering g any week you are available.

Lithgow parkrun volunteer coordinator.
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03/10/2026

Lithgow parkrun 3/10/2026
A few pictures from todays event thanks to Alex while multi tasking today, and taking on RD and doing a great job.

03/10/2026

Lithgow Parkrun #429 3/10/2016

It was a lovely morning for a parkrun today at Lithgow, with the overnight rain easing off and staying away for the entire time allowing everyone to have a “dry” walk or run.

Today was a quieter Lithgow Parkrun, with a lot of our “regulars” running the Born to Run festival at nearby Portland, or away for the long weekend, but we had 23x park runners/walkers join us for a walk/run today.
We were joined by visitors from Lawson, Richmond, Sydney, Gold Coast and even some honeymooners from Rockhampton. Thank you for visiting us today at Lithgow Parkrun, we hope you enjoyed our friendly local Parkrun.

We did have a brief “scare” with a missing #8 token 😂 thankfully this was just local legend, Chris, busy talking and unaware of the frantic volunteers around him searching for #8 and wondering who was going to break the bad news to Paul 😂

Thank you to all the volunteers who keep our Parkrun going each week, and to Lithgow pony club for allowing us to share their facilities each week.

Today’s volunteers were:
Run Director & Photos- Alex
Time keeper- Penny
Barcode Scanning and first timers briefing- Felicia
Finish Tokens- Narelle
Tail walker- Andy
Course check- Rebecca
Setup/pack up and gear transport- Colin and Peter

01/10/2026

Lithgow parkrun 3/10/26

Good luck to all the participants in the Portland born to run featival this weekend. 👏👏👏

This may mean our parkrun will be slightly lower on numbers this week, but it will still be on.

One small issue, I had already volunteered for Run Director before I realised I had to work an early shift, this may make me late to parkrun, so I am looking for a back up RD for this week incase I do not make it or someone to fill in until I get there, if I’m late.

Please reply here if you want to or email me direct-
[email protected]

If I don’t make it to parkrun that would mean we will also need someone to do tokens as Levi would be coming with me.

If you’re available, please let me know.

If your off to the Born to run events, we hope you all have a great time and get a good time in your chosen race. 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️👏

26/09/2026

Lithgow parkrun 26/9/26 event #428

A few pictures from today’s parkrun thanks to Chris Curran while multi tasking as your Run Director today.

We has a couple of visitors from Redcliffe and parramatta.

We had 48 participants with 15 of them being first timers and 7 people taking home a new PB. 👏👏👏

A big thank you to all of our volunteers today, helping to make parkrun happen.
Chris CURRAN
Run Director
Rebecca KACZMARCZYK
Timekeeper
Jacqueline ALTAIR
Barcode Scanning
Lynne CURRAN
Finish Tokens
Catherine ROOD
parkwalker
Pennie HUDSON
Tail Walker
Colin FITZPATRICK
Post-event Close Down
Pre-event Setup
Equipment Storage and Delivery
Peter FITZPATRICK
Post-event Close Down
Pre-event Setup
Equipment Storage and Delivery
Rebecca SMITH
Event Day Course Check
Paul VANSTONE
Volunteer Co-ordinator
Katy WOODS
First Timers Welcome