Pegasus parkrun

02/03/2026

Its a happening thing,
And its happening to you

This coming parkrunday, Saturday 7th March is a TuTu day.
It's entirely up ToYou, if you wear a tutu

01/03/2026

And now, lets hear from Karl of the Travelling Smith family.

Pegasus parkrun #474, 28th February 2026

Basically every Saturday morning our family, the travelling Smith parkrun family, travels to a different parkrun around Canterbury. Our home parkrun is Foster out in Rolleston and we love getting out into different communities and seeing what each parkrun has to offer. Every single time it is always a new experience with new people as well as reuniting with friends old and new who we've met along the way. Today we decided to go back to Pegasus and see what's going on. We were greeted once again by amazing weather - a nice 8 degrees early morning with beautiful warm sunshine by 9am. Pegasus is a really beautiful place to visit and to run around your lake was also different and enjoyable.

Today's run was completed by 190 finishers who were ably assisted by a really amazing volunteer team of 14 passionate individuals who really do a wonderful job for this special community and live the ethos of what parkrun embodies - to get out and have some fun as a community irrespective of your speed ability, body shape or background. So thank you Pegasus parkrun! You do an amazing job for the movement that parkrun is.

Some stats for event #474 -

First 5 to the finish line:

1. Luke Mansell - 17:09

2. Hannah Oldroyd - 17:33

3. Alex Ellerm - 18:46

4. Willem Young - 19:10

5. Jason Riach - 19:45

First Timers ever to parkrun (AMAZING!!!) :

Emma Priest

Nick Horn

Jason Reid

Nikki Jarvis

Miles Dalton

Paula Ruess

John Thompson

Hayley Stafford

Suzanne McNabb

Milestone Club:

Samuel Williams - Junior 10

Jasmine Hannaby - 25

Lucy Page - 25

Simon Potts - 25

Peter Page - 25

Claire Galilee - 100

Most number of parkruns at Event #474 :

Hannah Oldroyd - 606

Geoff McMillan - 431

Trudy Diggs - 371

Rosie Whitham - 365

Stacey Garrett - 344

As can be seen in the stats today was another day of celebration. Every day is a celebration of life but Saturday is extra special in that we all share our common love of parkrun with one another. We get up with the sparrows, whether it's freezing cold, wet or a scorcher of a day ahead of us and we move on down to our parkrun where we connect. We share our stories of the week gone by, we talk of what's to come, we catch up with old and new friends and we share this celebration with each other. So a word of encouragement to everybody who competes and who may be reading this - you are all winners and keep on achieving and creating these beautiful memories. They are special.

Other than that, have a wonderful week Pegasus parkrun family. Hope to see you all sooner than later. We will be at Riverlution next week.

Karl Smith

Thanks Karl and indeed the whole family, we always enjoy having visitors from other parkruns.
Pegasus parkrun New Zealand

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www.parkrun.co.nz/pegasus/

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01/03/2026

This morning I had the opportunity to talk to one of our co Event Directors and also to next weeks Run Director. Taking on board what they said it is now time to declare March Madness month as next weeks RD is also RD on the 21st and given that the RD in question is one of our Maddest, "expect the unexpected" is the main theme for the first Autumnal month. Saturday 7th has been declared an extra special TuTu parkrun!
Why? Because its Madness to have a TuTu run on the 7th! As a result of their finish positions or number of runs completed this week the following people are almost certainly going to be wearing a tutu - Edna Kilshaw, Alasdair Mitchell and Maddison Ballinger. Many others should be firmly ensconced in their tutu, or possibly even in someone elses but (& its a big BUT) if tutu wearing genuinely isn't your deal, you are cordially invited to assume some other attire that allows all to see that Madness reigns Supreme 😉

27/02/2026

Plus another handful. Congratulations to Claire on her 100th and special welcome to Darryn from Brisbane and Paula all the way from Austria!!!

27/02/2026

So many Happy, Healthy Humans.
parkrunners & barkrunners lapping up the SunShinyness at Pegasus this morning

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27/02/2026

Looks pretty good to me.
I'm predicting some fast times, some PBs, some First Timers and also that everyone that finishes will have 1 more parkrun under their belt than when they started 😁
First-Timers Welcome at 7:45 and "kick-off" at 8:00a.m.

25/02/2026

Wanna check the course❓️

Bidgie isn't available this week, is there someone else that could check for hazards on Saturday?
Please let us know in the comments.

22/02/2026

It's Sunday evening and the only Volunteer role we have left for this Saturday is Marshal - be in quick if you'd like to direct the traffic 😀

20/02/2026

20/02/2026

Thumbs up to our amazing Pegasus parkrun!!! Huge thank you to all our volunteers and massive thanks to all those who came along to the best addiction of the week!! Photos coming soon.

20/02/2026

Pegasus parkrun Run Report #473

I met Ron today.
Ron is 84 years young, completed his first parkrun in 64 minutes and didn't go through the finish chute, only because he didn't have a barcode and didn't think it likely that he would be back here. Ron is Dawn's Dad, they walked together with Dawn completing her 24th parkrun. I tried to get Ron to come through the finish chute but he wouldn't have it, very nice fellow, all the very best Ron.
We had 8 Absolute First Timers today, congratulations Emma, Vince, Daniel, Maddison, Jess, Bronwyn, Chris and Neil, welcome to the weekly addiction that is driving the nation towards healthiness.
The all important 2nd and 3rd times on course were completed by Simon, Eilish, Julian, Sam, Jane, Ang, Everleigh, Nerida, Cooper, Ruby, Tamara and Rebecca - proves my point, we keep coming back for more ‼️
Our First Time Visitors today, coming from within NZ, Australia and the UK were Nerida, Oskar, Leonardo, Anna, Lisa, Robert, Becky, Geraldine, Paul and Sarah - welcome all of you, so glad you made it to the Land of the Mythical Flying Horse of the Gods.
Should I now tell you about the fastest people today 🤔 oh OK, I will. Grabbing themselves the podium for our Juniors were
🥇Amilee Forbes
🥈Therese Carshalton
🥉Esha-May McHugh
For the Blokes we had
🥇Richard Lee
🥈Tim Hollobon
🥉Gary Devlin
For the Blokettes
🥇Mairi Law
🥈Brooke Fortune
🥉Amilee Forbes
And our Over All Quick 3
🥇Mairi Law
🥈Richard Lee
🥉Tim Hollobon
Great results 🥳🏃‍♀️🏃
Lets put up another round of applause 🙌 👏 for our Volunteer Team today - Thanks to Tania, Maxine, Esther, Andrew, Trudy, Stacey, Anne, Bidgie, Laurie, Geoff, Craig, Karyn, Amy and Beth, we simply cannot parkrun without Volunteers.
There were some outstanding Age Graded Results today, in the +80% Gary Devlin
+70% saw Thomas Carshalton Mairi, Therese Carshalton, Lynnley Driver, Esha-May, Brooke, Tim, Lisa Ainley, Amilee, Marion Burleigh, Myla Clark Van Notten, Caren McKay, Gwenda Johnson and Richard all gave massive efforts 👌 And what about todays PB list? Huge! 39 PBs recorded today - go you good things Mairi, Tim, Amilee, Therese, Thomas, Owen, Myla, Simon, Ben, Simon, Aaron, Tara, Angela, Marietjie, Eilish, Julian, Lavina, Sam, Samantha, Heather, Robyn, Jane, Corinne, Ang, Nichola, Isaac, Megan, Melissa, Everleigh, Chris, Sandra, Amanda, Karolyn, Ruby, Glenn, Tamara, Rebecca, Lesley and Kevin - WOW thats spectacular Where would we be without celebrating our Milestones???Completing R25 today was Samantha Mould. And R50 was Lavina Pockson while at R100 we had Toby Wilhelm - Massive Congrats to you three. We also had a couple of Volunteer Milestones today, V25 Beth Wilhelm and V50 Karyn Templer - Congratulations Ladies that is awesome ‼️‼️Thats all I've got today, until next time. The PegaScribe