This saturday, I went and did a 5K practice run with my wife Trine. It was the first for a while. The people behind the “race” are parkrun.com.

It is free, all you need to do is to go to their website to register.  

Once registered you get a barcode to print and you are ready to go. Once you get to the Park Run, the procedure is as follows:

  1. Bring your bar code to the Park Run (on your phone or printed)
  2. Run the 5K
  3. At the finish line you receive a bar code (hold on to it, this is your goal time)
  4. Once you have cooled down a little, find the official that can scan your member bar code and your goal time bar code.
  5. That’s it, now you will see your run and the time on parkrun.com site.