Mount Barker parkrun

27/12/2025

27/12/2025

A huge congratulations to Garry Leech on reaching his 100th volunteer milestone and Melissa Cox for 150 volunteers - we are so lucky to have you both as part of our event team.

26/12/2025

What an awesome morning was had at Mount Barker parkrun event #587

There were 353 legends who ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 43 were first timers and 45 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 11 different clubs took part.

The event was made possible by 25 volunteers:

Ros LOWE • Janet THOMPSON • Danielle BAKER • Melissa COX • Greg CROWDEN • Alison JOHNS • Phoebe FARRUGIA • Nathan SACHSE • Garry LEECH • Harley COPPING • Lisa DAVIS • Ashleigh GORE • Kim HEPBURN • Brian AMBROSE • Christian ANDERSON • Robyn LIERTON • Cheryl LIERTON • Andrew HUGGINS • Andrew RUTTER • Gavin KLOSE • Terry SANDERSON • Philippa SANDERSON • Cora ANDERSON • Terri PAMMENT • June ROSS

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 9,539 participants have completed 111,817 parkruns covering a total distance of 559,085 km, including 14,508 new Personal Bests. A total of 890 individuals have volunteered 8,356 times.

25/12/2025

Does anyone know what day it is? Ahhhhhhh yep it’s that crazy weird day in between Christmas Day and parkrun’day!
That’s right; it’s parkrun eve 🌳

We still have a few volunteer opportunities, can you help out with Finish token support or Marshall ?

If you celebrating a milestone?
It could be an 'official' 10 🤍 25 💜 50 ❤ 100 🖤 250 💚 500 💙 walk/run/volunteer, or an 'unofficial' milestone. Let us know - we'd love to celebrate it!

parkrun checklist - barcode✅ parkrun gear✅ alarm set ✅
7:40am - volunteers arrive
7:45am - first timers welcome
7:54am - Run Directors welcome brief (please be quiet for just a few minutes so everyone can hear)
8:00am - parkrun is go!!

We are looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow morning ❤💜💙💛

25/12/2025

Merry Christmas to all - especially those who joined us at Mount Barker for event #586 where 343 athletes ran, jogged and walked the course! We had 32 first timers and lots of lovely visitors from afar including New York, India, NSW and Perth! Let us know in Comments if any of those are you or if you too travelled from afar and where from! And congrats to the 48 parkrunners who brought home a Personal Best < many of whom rang that PB bell!

The event was only made possible because these 23 legends chose to give back and volunteer.
Ros LOWE • Janet THOMPSON • Greg CROWDEN • Paul KITCHING • Kelly KITCHING • Esme KITCHING • Oliver GOODWIN • Tracey SHEPARD • Rachelle SANDOW • Garry LEECH • Suranie ALWIS • Ashleigh GORE • Lexi COPPING • Narelle COPPING • Robyn LIERTON • Cheryl LIERTON • Andrew HUGGINS • Gabrielle KINSLEY • Sally HARDING • Terry SANDERSON • Philippa SANDERSON • Margaret BARTER • Rachelle SANDOW

Check out the pix of most of said legends here! With thanks to Elf Garry for all the other pix already up on our page!
Meanwhile today's full results (and a complete event history) can be found right here: https://www.parkrun.com.au/mountbarker/results/latestresults/

Thanks to all who made today’s special Christmas Day parkrun possible. We love our parkrun community and thank YOU for being part of it!

PS: And special thanks to the lady who came up after her run to thank me for suggesting in my welcome speech that we all stop and turn to someone new and say hello and wish each other Merry Xmas. And then say hello and well done to your new Xmas Day parkrun friend when out on the course. I’m glad that made a difference to you - and I’m hoping to others as well - on what can be a challenging day, but for all should be a day with love and kindness shared in many ways. xx PK, today’s Run Director.