Aveley parkrun

24/06/2026

We have a full set of volunteers for this Saturday!
A reminder that the following Saturday 4th July is our 13th Anniversary - the theme is Country and Western - dress up is optional (please , no horses on the course, thank you!)
We are hoping to hold a flashmob line dance before the start around 7.55am - if you'd like to take part, again, completely optional - please take a look at the dance - link below.
If anyone would like to practice the dance, we'll be having a practice after parkrun finishes this Saturday, just after 9am.
Here's a link to the teaching of the dance

Line Dance: Miles On It (32 count, 4 wall, 2 Restarts)Choreographe...

20/06/2026

Lovely morning for a parkrun. We had 101 parkrunners this morning with 14 first timers and 22 PBs - well done!
Special congratulations to John Oldfield celebrating his 500th parkrun, an awesome achievement from someone who has ALSO voluntered 250 times, a true parkrun legend!
Special thanks (of course) to our team of vollies: Tatenda, Gareth, Gedda, Oscar, Kim, Nic, Lauren, Catherine

Results are in and can be found at https://www.parkrun.com.au/aveley/results/2026-06-20/

See you next week.

Tom

20/06/2026

20/06/2026

19/06/2026

This legend “Tom” is celebrating his birthday today and is returning as RD this morning. Let’s wish him a happy birthday and support him today.
Your parkrun family wishes you a happy birthday TOM!

19/06/2026

Hi parkrunners!
Full team of volunteers tomorrow (thanks guys, you are awsome!
Weather looks good and we may be celebrating a significant milestone!

17/06/2026

Evening parkrunners. We still need 4 volunteers for this Saturday please.

Roles are :
Timekeeper,
Bar Code Scanner
Photographer
Marshall

If you have never volunteered, time to give it a go! It's fun!

Send a message to learn more

14/06/2026

FINISH LINE ETIQUETTE

A few things to remember to keep our finish line running smoothly

**ONLY GO THROUGH ONCE - if you have already finished and gone back to be with a friend, please DO NOT go into the finish chute a second time. You can go around the outside of the chute but entering the chute and crossing the finish line a second time can record another finish time and confuse the volunteers.

**DO NOT HARRASS THE TIMEKEEPER - the timekeeper's role is to record the time. Not to advise you of your time. If you wish to know your finish time immediately, you can ask the timekeeper but if you are ignored or they can't tell you immediately, DO NOT bother them again. DO NOT TRY TO TOUCH THEIR PHONE. The timekeeping app requires some skill in recording and a volunteer might be nervous or not able to read the time while also recording other finishers crossing the line. Your interruption may cause them to lose focus on recording times causing misalignment in times and tokens. You will have your time emailed to you later in the day (often within an hour of the event finishing). If it is critical that you know your finish time straight way and the timekeeper is not able to assist, please see the Run Director who will assist you.

**PLEASE TAKE A TOKEN - it's easy to forget to do things after a hard effort, but the volunteers aren't always able to chase you down to hand you your token. They will try to keep it aside, however, if this happens a few times, there might be a mix up in getting the right token to you. If you are not registered, please either take a token and return it to the table, or advise the token handler you do not wish for a token.

If you have any concerns about volunteers on the day, please see the Run Director on duty.

If you believe any of this is unreasonable, I encourage you to take up a volunteer role to experience firsthand what is involved in finish line mechanics. Our key volunteers and I will also do all of the above to you in person so you may enjoy the full chaotic experience. 😉

Thank you for your co-operation and keeping our event running smooth.

::Nic

13/06/2026

Saturday 13th of June