Lower Hutt parkrun

31/05/2026

A few of our keen parkrunners are looking at setting up a new parkrun event just over the hill in Wainuiomata!
The start-up crew are in advanced planning with parkrun HQ, and are looking to pull together a core team of around 15 volunteers to help establish the new parkrun event. This is an exciting community project, and they are looking for people who can commit for at least the first few months to helping regularly while they get properly established.
They are looking for:
- 2 Event Directors
- 4 Run Directors
- 10 additional regular volunteers for a range of event roles.
The proposed 5k course will be based in the Hine Road recreational area, potentially following the Gum Loop track. The official name of the event, and the start date are yet to be decided.
If you’re keen to be part of something positive for the Wainuiomata community, we’d love to hear from you. Please contact the Lower Hutt parkrun team on [email protected] if you'd like to get involved and we will get you connected with the new Wainuiomata parkrun team.

30/05/2026

29/05/2026

336 finishers today on a fine but cool ParkRun. Results have been posted - congratulations to our first timers and thanks to all our volunteers! It's good fun - let us know if you'd like to volunteer next week!

28/05/2026

For this coming parkrun at event 701, the weather forecast is predicted to sunny with light northerlies.
Volunteers - we are still on a lookout for the following available roles to be filled, please comment below or email [email protected] if you can do any of the following:
- Finish Token Support
- Funnel Manager
- Photographer

In advance: If you know in advance that you would like to volunteer (either the next weekend or a future date) please email [email protected] and we will be in touch – we’d love to hear from you! Please include your full name and, if you know it, your parkrun ID found on your barcode.

26/05/2026

It's only Tuesday but already we are thinking about parkrun on Saturday! 🦺🦺🦺
A few volunteer roles available for Saturday:
- Timekeeper
- Finish Token issuer
- Tail Walker
- Photographer
- Funnel Manager
Message us below or email us at [email protected] if you would like to help! Check out our future roster here:

Here is the volunteer roster for the next few weeks. If you'd like to volunteer at a future event please email [email protected]. To find out more, visit the volunteer page.

23/05/2026

Event 700 stats shown below.

As we have achieved another milestone. Our pacers had delivered again and there were plenty of chats afterwards.

Event 700's run report has been written by Dan Joe who captured the details from the event itself. You can read more about it from the link below https://www.parkrun.co.nz/lowerhutt/news/2026/05/23/lower-hutt-parkrun-700-23rd-may-2026/

Congratulations to all of our milestone achievers

23/05/2026

Thank you to the pacers who paced at today's event. We all hope that everyone enjoyed themselves and worked a step closer towards your achievements.

Some stats as shown below:
- 52 PBs (about 15% of our total participant count of 353)

- 21 obtained PBs from pacer times as indicated below (PBs obtained by 20 seconds on either end of the pacers allocated time)

- 20 mins - 2
- 22 mins - 2
- 23 mins - 1
- 25 mins - 3
- 26 mins - 6
- 28 mins - 3
- 30 mins - 1
- 32 mins - 1
- 35 mins - 2
- 37 mins - 0
- 40 mins - 0

- 10 parkrunners did their first ever parkrun
- 10 parkrunners achieved a milestone, including 1 of whom have achieved a volunteer milestone.

If you missed out on pacing this time around, the next pacer event date will be announced in due course.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend everyone.

22/05/2026

353 parkrunners today on a calm day with LOTS of PBs - thanks to all our pacers and volunteers.

As usual the rain kept away until just after we finished!

Results have been processed and your emails should be with you shortly.