Off to the #parkrun #parkwalk
Community-based, volunteer organised, local 5k run or jog or walk every Saturday morning. They’re all over the world.
Community-based, volunteer organised, local 5k run or jog or walk every Saturday morning. They’re all over the world.
@neil https://anagora.org/parkrunhttps://anagora.org/parkwalk
[[parkrun]] – anagora.org
https://parkrun.com
Home We organise free weekly timed runs all over the world. Held in pleasant parkland on weekend mornings, our runs are open to all – from juniors and first timers to Olympians and octogenarians…
@neil Oh wow, there is even one in my little town in north Germany ❤️
@barning Nice! Yes there’s one in my little town in the north of UK too 🙂
@neil And a beautiful example of effective, real-world anarchist organizing! No sponsorship, no state subsidy, pure community self-organization.
@adamgreenfield It does seem to have some central / top-down infrastructure these days (always?), like the website, time keeping software, etc. But those are all pretty useful. It does have companies and ‘partners’. But of course each local group is entirely a local initiative, and there’s no parkrun tithe you have to pay to HQ (AFAIU). The governance looks a bit top down, could be nice if it were a bit more federalist. https://www.parkrun.com/governance/ Gets me out for a run each week though
The Organisation
@neil Ohhhh, some of that is new, then, and a shame. When I did the Highbury Fields parkrun of a few years ago, a lot of that was tacitly verboten. It was lovely!
@adamgreenfield Nice! I used to go to Burgess Park before moving away from London, loved itThat balance/tension is really interesting. Seen similar things with community repair, transition towns, etc etc too. Local groups spring up autonomously, some kind of banding together/network forming occurs, the networks brings shared resources and benefits, but gets a bit too centralised, starts to lose connection to the grass roots, splinters occur…Would love info on how to walk that line.