Mangawhero River Walk parkrun, Ohakune

Mangawhero River Walk parkrun, Ohakune A free, weekly, timed 5k event every Saturday morning at Mangawhero River Walk. Everyone welcome!

And some more photos from today, 3 October. It was parkrun's 22nd birthday today so we had the tutus out for a bit of a ...
02/10/2026

And some more photos from today, 3 October. It was parkrun's 22nd birthday today so we had the tutus out for a bit of a celebration 🎂

It is so cool to think parkrun was going almost 20 years before our wee event was even a twinkle in our EDs' eyes. We are one event of over 2500, with more than 3500 finishes out of an amazing 90 million! We may be a small event, but together we are mighty!

Check out parkun's blog post, it's a good read. https://blog.parkrun.com/nz/2026/09/29/celebrate-22together-22-years-of-parkrun/

🥳 HAPPY BIRTHDAY PARKRUN! 🥳

We had an unexpectedly drizzly, but exciting morning at parkrun today! Nice early start for some with a decent shake at ...
02/10/2026

We had an unexpectedly drizzly, but exciting morning at parkrun today! Nice early start for some with a decent shake at 3am, before 54 of us headed out to walk, jeff, run, woggle and volunteer.

Half of our participants were visitors today, from Wellington, Upper Hutt, Kāpiti, Masterton, Napier, Tauranga, Auckland and Whangārei. We love visitors, come back any time!

We had lots of milestones today, Theo P-M with 10 parkruns, Peter E with 25 and Daniel G with 50, well done all. ⚪️ 🟣 🔴

It was Jennie's turn to take the black shirt for an impressive 100th volunteer today. Jennie started out marshalling at the swingbridge with a speaker, dress up and a great deal of aplomb before taking on an RD role which she has done beautifully. We can always count on Jennie for a bit of a party vibe at parkrun. 🥳 Thanks for all you do 🧡 ⚫️

Shout also the Buscke Whānau, with Bailey and Graeme taking first and second tokens and Katrina first female. Bailey also got highest age grade, an amazing run on a trail course! Ka mau te wehi 🏃‍♂️

See you next time...

Join us this Saturday for parkrun's 22nd birthday! parkrun started in London's Bushy Park in 2004 with 13 runners and 5 ...
29/09/2026

Join us this Saturday for parkrun's 22nd birthday! parkrun started in London's Bushy Park in 2004 with 13 runners and 5 volunteers (a bit like on a freezing day for us now!)

Today parkrun is operating in over 2500 locations across 23 countries, with about 390,000 participants plus 43,000 juniors getting out there every week 💜

Tutus are encouraged to join in the celebration 🍾 usual times are on, see you there!

Another nice fine day for our 38 runnners, walkers and volunteers! We had visitors from Ngāruawāhia (Te Ara), Upper Hutt...
26/09/2026

Another nice fine day for our 38 runnners, walkers and volunteers! We had visitors from Ngāruawāhia (Te Ara), Upper Hutt (Trentham Memorial) and Wellington (Waitangi).

Congratulations to Orla and Joe on their 25 🟣 milestones achieved today 👏

Honourable mention to the Harvey whānau too, Shaun taking the first token and highest male age grade, Emily getting a PB, Tommy with most parkruns and William doubling back for another go around! Great mahi!

Leah, Darcey and John also smashed out PBs of their own today and Laura got the much sought after Palindrome challenge (ifkyk 😅)

We'd love to see you out there next week 💜

We are looking forward to seeing you for event 120 tomorrow! Usual times ⏲️ apply0745 vollies meet0750 first timers brie...
25/09/2026

We are looking forward to seeing you for event 120 tomorrow!

Usual times ⏲️ apply
0745 vollies meet
0750 first timers briefing
0755 RD welcome
0800 set off

See you there!

A lovely dry day for 48 runners and walkers, eight volunteers and four hybrids today. We had two first time volunteers -...
18/09/2026

A lovely dry day for 48 runners and walkers, eight volunteers and four hybrids today. We had two first time volunteers - chur Judy and Laura L 🩵 and eight first timers to parkrun, that's the end of Saturday lie ins for you!

Along with our awesome locals we had visitors from Auckland, Hamilton, Palmy, Whanganui, Upper Hutt and Aussie, with a big contignent celebrating a 30th birthday 🎂 we are happy to help kick off the festivities - great photo as well!

Congrats to Cameron on your 50 🔴 milestone
👏 too to Laura N, Liva, and Laura L on your PBs today, you crushed it 💪

See you next time for parkrun day!

We have a lovely full roster for tomorrow's parkrun and some relatively decent weather to look forward to, we hope you c...
18/09/2026

We have a lovely full roster for tomorrow's parkrun and some relatively decent weather to look forward to, we hope you come and enjoy the morning with us.

Usual times apply ➡️
0745 for vollies
0750 for first timers (get that all important course description and a How To for brand new first timers!)
0755 RD welcome
0800 kick off

See you out there!

Thank you to the park participants who laced up and joined us by the river on Saturday for Event #118 👍We welcomed visi...
14/09/2026

Thank you to the park participants who laced up and joined us by the river on Saturday for Event #118 👍

We welcomed visitors from Kapiti, Palmerston North, Auckland and Whangarei - we hope you enjoyed our scenic track and the fresh Ohakune air.

Congratulations also to everyone who smashed out a new Personal Best (PB) today! 🚀

✨ An extra special thank you to our incredible team of high-vis heroes. Without you standing out there cheering us on, checking the course, and timing our finishes, this event wouldn’t happen. You are the absolute heartbeat of our parkrun 💕

Infographic for those that like numbers is in the photos.

📸 Antony, Jonathan and Linda

We're on for tomorrow, weather is looking decidedly average (cloudy with showers) so come prepared…🦺 7:45 volly briefing...
11/09/2026

We're on for tomorrow, weather is looking decidedly average (cloudy with showers) so come prepared…

🦺 7:45 volly briefing
👶 7:50 first timers
👑 7:55 director welcome
👟 8:00 start time

See you there 🏃☕️😁

A lovely dry and almost balmy day for 34 parkrunners, 8 vollies and 4 hybrids today! Along with our awesome locals we ha...
05/09/2026

A lovely dry and almost balmy day for 34 parkrunners, 8 vollies and 4 hybrids today! Along with our awesome locals we had visitors from Auckland, Wellington and surrounds, Australia 🇦🇺 and England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 It was great to see so many of the kids out having a go and seeing what they can do, we hope to keep seeing you!

A very happy belated birthday to Pete as well, who reportedly enjoyed his 22nd 🤨 birthday a couple of weeks ago and some well deserved cake today!

We have a few milestones coming up amongst our crew, remember to keep an eye on your stats so we can give you praise and adoration at the appropriate times.

We also want to mention our totally top secret and open to anyone vollie messenger chat, if you want to be added to this group just message the page or ask the RD at any event and we will very gladly add you in 💜

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2 Mangawhero Terrace
Ohakune
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