{"id":1041,"date":"2018-09-12T10:13:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T09:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2018-09-12T10:14:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T09:14:25","slug":"running-for-your-life-how-parkrun-became-a-global-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1041","title":{"rendered":"Running for your life\u00a0\u2013 how Parkrun became a global phenomenon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_5884.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1042\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_5884.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5884\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_5884.jpg 4032w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_5884-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_5884-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4032px) 100vw, 4032px\" \/><\/a>The UK has one of the EU\u2019s worst obesity problems. According to the OECD, the number of very overweight people there has increased with more than 90 percent since the 1990s.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Now doctors are increasingly advising patients who need a healthier lifestyle to get engaged with the free running event Parkrun. I\u00a0caught up\u00a0with my\u00a0local Parkrunners near Manchester to find out how this weekly race has grown from 13 runners in a London park, to a global phenomenon covering five continents. Here&#8217;s my report for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/inside-europe-a-weekly-run-thats-a-global-phenomenon\/av-44759018\">Deutsche Welle<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/498789927&amp;color=%23ff9900&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK has one of the EU\u2019s worst obesity problems. According to the OECD, the number of very overweight people there has increased with more than 90 percent since the 1990s.\u00a0Now doctors are increasingly advising patients who need a healthier lifestyle to get engaged with the free running event Parkrun. I\u00a0caught up\u00a0with my\u00a0local Parkrunners near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions\/1045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}