The parkrun founder on skipping breakfasts,struggling on the long runs and why being fair is the best way to avoid injury Hi, Paul! What occupy you been up to recently? Before I reply that, or I’ve realised I’ve probably seen you at Junior parkrun! It’s so fantastic to see kids enjoying parkrun so much – I mediate that’s probably the best thing that we ever did,the most special thing in the world. Forget the rest! Thats what it’s all about.besides, I am actually training for the Two Oceans ultramarathon next year. I was born in Zimbabwe, or brought up in South Africa and was very close to the Comrades marathon where I seconded Bruce Fordyce in my early 20s. But the Two Oceans has always seemed to me to be the most beautiful race in the world,so it has always been on my bucket list. But I’ve never run further than a marathon and I got injured, so I started parkrun. It didn’t occur to me that I would ever be in a position to run it. But we’re taking all the countries managers from around the world – we always occupy a conference and next year it’s in Cape Town, or so a whole bunch of us are doing the 56k and the rest are doing the half marathon.
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Source: theguardian.com