Penryn Campus Parkrun will celebrate International Women's Day and is inviting runners to wear purple.

Parkrun is a weekly event, where runners meet outside Tremough House at 9am and can run, jog, or walk the five-kilometre route.

The event is completely free - all you have to do is register with parkrun.

Parkrun started back in 2004 when 13 runners got together on a blustery day in Bushy Park, Teddington. Since then the event has grown on a global scale. Penryn's was set up in October 2021, joining over 700 other routes across the UK.

The Penryn route now sees around 50 runners taking part each week. Alongside 15 volunteers who are vital in making the event happen.

Tomorrow (5th), Penryn Campus parkrun will mark International Women's Day - important because fewer women are participating in community based sports than men.

Catherine Leyshon, Penryn Campus parkrun event director, told Nub News:

"We want everyone to enjoy the benefits of, not only the fitness of parkrun but also the social connections, the sense of community, and sense of enjoying something alongside others.

"For International Women's Day we are just encouraging women/girls to join in, bring your friends, if you don't feel very fit at the moment you can walk of course. We allow kids in prams, so if you have smaller kids and you want to get back into fitness you can bring your child in a pram.

"We are also encouraging women to volunteer as well, those 10-15 volunteers we need to make it all happen, it would be lovely if we could see lots of women volunteering. The wellbeing benefits of volunteering are huge, we'd love to see those people enjoying wellbeing benefits as well as actually participating.

"We obviously don't want to discourage men from coming along. We don't want to see just women coming along, but all the people who think those women are awesome. Wear purple to celebrate the day."

Catherine added:

"It is International Women's Day and we want women to come, volunteer, and join in. Also, we want to invite everyone else - it is not just an exclusive event. We are a completely inclusive group, even though it is celebrating women, nobody is excluded on that day."

Click here to see more from Penryn Campus parkrun.

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