Mount Barker parkrun

19/01/2026

If you thought it felt extra busy at parkrun on Saturday, we contributed to those attendance records with 421 finishers on the day!!

With almost 100,000 walks, runs and volunteers recorded around Australia last Saturday, we saw some state participation records! 💥

There were volunteer records in the ACT (191), Tasmania (294) and South Australia (675), while we had record numbers of finishers in Queensland (25,832), Victoria (21,627), South Australia (9,671) and the ACT (3,222). Wherever and however you were parkrunning on the weekend, thank you!

⬇️ Here's how the rest of the numbers shaped up for our 5k events:
📍 515 events
💜 6,666 volunteers
😀 92,950 finishers
😮 5,039 first timers!

⬇️ junior parkruns on Sunday around Australia saw:
📍 5 events
💜 108 volunteers
😀 471 finishers
😮 37 first timers!

📍 South Beach Recreation Reserve parkrun

18/01/2026

Our volunteers make saturday mornings possible, without them we wouldnt have our parkrun’day.

EDIT: Whilst our roster is looking healthy for Saturday, we will never say no to more amazing vollies.

It would be great to have a few more barcode scanners for the day, at least one more dedicated scanner from the start and a few more can be run / scan- lets us know and we can add you to the roster.

We also have multiple opportunities available in the coming weeks. If you’d like to be part of the wonderful community of volunteers, check out our roster via the website:

https://www.parkrun.com.au/mountbarker/futureroster/

17/01/2026

Mount Barker parkrun
Event number 591
17th January 2026

This week we had an attendance record 🎉🎉 421 people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 45 were first timers and 52 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 13 different clubs took part.

The event was made possible by 23 volunteers:

Paul BUTLER • Jacqui JOHNSON • Janet THOMPSON • Emily CAMPBELL • Brianna MCAVANEY • Paula HOPLEY • Fernando FARRUGIA • Justin TEAL • Greg CROWDEN • Alison JOHNS • Shaun FITCH • Rachel SARGEANT • Jodie ELLERY • Zane BASIC • Kim HEPBURN • Robert FISHERS • Gavin KLOSE • Bhavani QUIRKE • Julie GRIGGS • Philippa SANDERSON • Margaret BARTER • June ROSS • Helen SHILLABEER

Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Mount Barker parkrun Results Page.

Mount Barker parkrun started on 22nd March 2014. Since then 9,709 participants have completed 113,253 parkruns covering a total distance of 566,265 km, including 14,673 new Personal Bests. A total of 896 individuals have volunteered 8,447 times.

17/01/2026

15/01/2026

Only one more sleep until parkrun is back again. That means only one more sleep until your next PB; only one more sleep until you're with your parkrun family again; only one more sleep until you hear the magic words "Ready, Set ..... Go!"

We're looking forward to seeing you all again tomorrow 😊

12/01/2026

Do you have a volunteering or participation milestone coming up this weekend? If so send some photos and a brief description through and we'll put them up here and give you a shout out on Saturday Morning.

We also realise it can be a long way between milestones so if you are celebrating an amazing achievement (big number that isn't an official milestone) let us know and we can mention it on Saturday.

You can send it through to mountbarker@parkrun.com and we'll do the rest.

11/01/2026

We’re looking for one more Tail Walker, if you’re interested, comment or send us a message. We love all our volunteers and the time they put aside to make parkrun happen.
For future weeks head to our future roster https://www.parkrun.com.au/mountbarker/futureroster/

10/01/2026

Mount Barker parkrun
Event number 590
10th January 2026
This week 399 (!) people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 46 were first timers and 45 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 12 different clubs took part.

The event was made possible by 21 AMAZING volunteers (thank you all!):

Ros LOWE • Paul BUTLER • Jacqui JOHNSON • Jennifer HARRISON • Greg CROWDEN • Sara JOHNSTON • Rachel SARGEANT • Lisa DAVIS • Ashleigh GORE • Kim HEPBURN • Brian AMBROSE • Elizabeth MONCRIEFF-PHILP • Asher JOHNSTON • Andrew HUGGINS • Gavin KLOSE • Bhavani QUIRKE • Terry SANDERSON • Margaret BARTER • Terri PAMMENT • Nigel EATON • Rich MCCLELLAND

Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Mount Barker parkrun Results Page.

Mount Barker parkrun started on 22nd March 2014. Since then 9,664 participants have completed 112,832 parkruns covering a total distance of 564,160 km, including 14,621 new Personal Bests. A total of 896 individuals have volunteered 8,424 times.