Mount Barker parkrun

18/04/2026

parkrun event #603, 18th April 2026

18/04/2026

Mount Barker parkrun

Event number 603

18th April 2026

A chilly but glorious morning celebrating another amazing start to the weekend!

This week 340 people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 24 were first timers and 37 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 13 different clubs took part.

The event was made possible by 24 volunteers:

Paul BUTLER • Jacqui JOHNSON • Janet THOMPSON • Alison JOHNS • Paul FITZPATRICK • Wayne VEARS • Natalie NEWBERY • Harley COPPING • Emma CHAMBERLAYNE • Brendan CHRISTIAN • Lexi COPPING • Narelle COPPING • Kim HEPBURN • Joan VEARS • Robyn LIERTON • Cheryl LIERTON • Clare DOREY • Terry SANDERSON • Philippa SANDERSON • Margaret BARTER • June ROSS • Rachel KEYNES • Lauren LIM • Robyn VINCENT

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 10,088 participants have completed 117,451 parkruns covering a total distance of 587,255 km, including 15,195 new Personal Bests. A total of 926 individuals have volunteered 8,770 times.

15/04/2026

Congratulations to Jacqui Johnson on reaching her 250th volunteer milestone this Saturday!

In Jacqui's words:
'This Saturday I will celebrate my official 250th volunteer. I will have volunteered 413 times unofficially, as some weeks I do more than one role on the day.

I joined parkrun back on 29/3/2014, focusing mainly on improving my time doing the course. I then started to make new friends and quickly discovered that volunteering made me feel great too. My first volunteering role was as barcode scanner on 22/11/2014, using a little Opticon scanner that needed to be plugged into a laptop at the end to download the results. It then it took me a couple of years to give timekeeper a go. Now keep in mind, we used an old stopwatch back then, the JUNSD timer, now was it the left or the right button I was not supposed to click??!!

I then got a regular gig putting out the turnaround flag each week in 2016 before becoming part of the core event team as a Run Director on 8/4/2017.

Last week I also celebrated 6 years as Co-Event Director for Mount Barker parkrun, after Ros Lowe retired in 2020 and I stepped in to try and fill her shoes alongside Paul Butler. I was an Event Ambassador too for nearly 3 years, supporting a few other parkrun events and their Event Directors behind the scenes.

It still gives me such a buzz to see the joy parkrun brings to people's lives each week. Seeing first timers grow into regular participants. Seeing regular participants become regular volunteers, sharing personal milestones and sometimes life's hurdles with members of our amazing community. We are so lucky at Mount Barker parkrun to have such an awesome core event team too.

I have made a lot of friends in 12 years and a Saturday just doesn't feel the same without a parkrun to start it. I look forward to another 250 volunteers 💚'

15/04/2026

If you have a milestone coming up this weekend for either participating or volunteering let us know and we can give you a shout out on Saturday morning, put your name up in lights on Facebook or even both!

Send some details through to mountbarker@parkrun.com or via Facebook Messenger and we'll make it happen.

13/04/2026

The roster is looking magnificent for this weekend coming up. That said, if you would like to help out this weekend or any others have a look at the link below and let us know if you'd like to help out.

You can send us an email to mountbarker@parkrun.com, message us via Facebook Messenger or leave a comment here and we'll add your name right in!

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

11/04/2026

11/04/2026

Mount Barker parkrun
Event number 602
11th April 2026

Another beautiful autumn morning!

It was great to welcome people from Mansfield, Phillip Island and Berwick Springs in Melbourne along with some first timers!

Thanks for giving the new finish line funnel a go - feedback has been very positive.

This week 299 people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 26 were first timers and 33 recorded new personal bests.

The event was made possible by 22 volunteers:

Ros LOWE • Paul BUTLER • Jacqui JOHNSON • Janet THOMPSON • Melissa COX • Alison JOHNS • Sonya ATKINSON • Roslyn GORE • Natalie NEWBERY • Harley COPPING • Tim BEAN • Ashleigh GORE • Lin ROCKS • Kim HEPBURN • Robyn LIERTON • Cheryl LIERTON • Ben TRIFFITT • Sally HARDING • Margaret BARTER • Robyn VINCENT • Roxy MURN • Miranda JACKSON

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 10,064 participants have completed 117,111 parkruns, and 924 individuals have volunteered 8,745 times.

10/04/2026

Who’s excited for parkrun tomorrow? We all are!! It’s the best day of the week!! 🥳

Time to walk, run, catch up with friends, and volunteer.

Let us know if you’re celebrating a parkrun milestone. If you want to volunteer it’s not too late - we can always do with more barcode scanners.

parkrun checklist - barcode✅ parkrun gear✅ alarm set ✅
7:40am - volunteers arrive
7:45am - volunteer intro and team photo
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 ❤💜💙💛

Note - we are going to trial a finish line funnel - details on the page and more in the morning.

10/04/2026

New finish line funnel being trialled this week!

We will be trialling a finish line funnel to make keeping in order and handing out finish tokens work more smoothly for everyone.

When you cross the finish line the timekeeper will record your time. Once you are in the funnel, remember to:

STAY IN ORDER

KEEP MOVING THROUGH THE FUNNEL AND COLLECT A FINISH TOKEN (even if you don't want a time recorded or don't have your personal barcode ready, please take a token ANYWAY when leaving the funnel or it will put all the results for everyone behind you out of sequence. You can then get your personal barcode and token scanned as usual or simply place the finish token in the bucket to be recorded as a 'unknown')

CROSS THE FINISH LINE ONCE ONLY (if you go back to run with a friend, do NOT go back over the finish line)

YOUR TIME IS THE TIME YOU CROSS THE FINISH LINE (not the time you take a token, so stay calm, keep moving and keep in order)

TAKE YOUR TOKEN TO THE BARCODE SCANNERS

SAY THANK YOU TO THE VOLUNTEERS

SEEK OUT THE VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR AND PUT YOUR NAME ON THE ROSTER - it's fun, easy and everyone will love you!!