The £667m Walk (or Run) in the Park

A team of Sheffield parkrun academics have shown the colossal value of the weekly 5K run. Preventive medicine? 9am, every Saturday.

Parkrun is 20 years old this week. Author and academic (and longtime It’s Looking A Bit Black Over Bill’s Mother’s supporter) Professor Steve Haake O.B.E. has spent most of the last decade asking parkrunners why they do it, and how parkrun impacts their lives.

Yesterday, he co-published a study showing that the 5k weekly run (or walk) leads to health and…