North Yorkshire Water Park parkrun

18/06/2026

Avid followers of Yorkshire parkruns will know the parkrun World Cup is ongoing. Following our win against Bowling Park earlier this month we are now up against Sewerby. We need your votes to stay in the competition.

To vote please go to Yorkshire parkruns - collect them all

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14/06/2026

Event Report No: 215 on the 13th June 2026 by Jayne GRAVES

Graduation of Couch to 5K

On the 13th March 2026 run leaders from Scarborough AC waited in anticipation to welcome complete beginners that had signed up for a nine-week program "Couch to 5K". Would anyone turn up? We were not disappointed. There were some worried faces and comments, such as, "I don’t think I can do this, I’ve never run before". However, after the initial week, confidence began to grow and the group progressed forward with increasing determination towards their 5 km goal!

Today was the final test or graduation as we began to affectionately call it.
Meeting time at the North Yorkshire Water Park Parkrun was 8.30am to enable the runners to warm up prior to the start. The weather wasn’t great and the rain made an unwelcome appearance early on but this did not dampen the enthusiasm of the runners. Warm up done and we headed to the start. It was quite humbling to think that our goal also coincided with the millionth Parkrun, which started at Bushy Park 20 years ago.

After the safety talk and a shout out to our group from the Race Director (which raised a loud cheer,) it was on to the run. "Runners ready"? "Timekeepers ready"? and then "Go"!! We were off! The rain had stopped and the sun even made an appearance.

Each C-2-5K graduate ran with a member from SAC, that supported and encouraged them throughout the run. The completion of the first lap was marked with loud cheering from the marshals and other spectators, the runners all dug in deep and commenced the second lap. Before they knew it, the finish line was in sight and they were collecting their finishing tokens, registering their positions and checking their times!

Turning up to participate in any sport is often the hardest thing to do. They all proved it doesn’t matter if you’ve never run before, with an amazing show of determination they all completed the 5 kms. Some achieving their own personal goals along the way. There was every emotion on finishing, but one thing was for sure, once they had caught their breath the big smiles followed and the achievement began to sink in. Celebrations afterwards encompassed hot drinks from the on-site cafe and homemade cakes accompanied by the uplifting stories of everyone’s personal journey.

Jayne GRAVES

13/06/2026

Here is the infographic for Event No: 215 on the 13th June 2026.

13/06/2026

08/06/2026

Event No: 214 on the 6th June 2026 by Avril METCALFE

On a slightly damp and cool morning I arrived at one of my local parkruns, the North Yorkshire Water Park to run my 201st parkrun, 95th at this location. I completed my 200th run here last week so it’s now countdown to the recognised 250!

I first started parkrun many years ago to see if I could, the rest is history! As regular park runners know it soon becomes a Saturday morning habit. parkruns are for everyone, all abilities and ages with an opportunity to walk the route.

NYWP is a two lap fairly flat course on gravel paths around the beautiful lake currently home to the inflatables for the summer season. The trees on the course offer some welcome respite from the sun on warmer days.

A big shout out and thank you to all the volunteers that make parkrun possible as without them personal bests, milestones and achievements wouldn’t be possible. The volunteers are brilliant with first timers and visitors, so nobody needs to be nervous about giving it a go.

The facilities at the park are excellent; plenty of parking, toilets and a cafe for a post run chat, coffee and cake!

Avril METCALFE

08/06/2026

Here is the infographic for Event No: 214 on the 6th June 2026.

Congratulations to Harry Butterworth for breaking our course record by 30 seconds.

06/06/2026

Everyone welcome

06/06/2026

well here we are again back with set 2 of this weeks photos hope your all enjoying a warm up and or dry out ,have a great week

06/06/2026

and finaly after a few technicals this morning we get this weeks photos , including a varied weather situation and we have our own brolly dollys to keep you right
photos this week by Mik , should be 2 sets plush a short video

04/06/2026

We’ve been put into a competition called the parkrun World Cup. This week we’re up against Bowling Park parkrun, and we need your votes to stay in the competition. It’s really close, so we would appreciate your votes.

To vote please go to Yorkshire parkruns - collect them all!

Thanks in advance
Tony