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Parkrun
Poole parkrun
A free, fun, and friendly weekly 5k community event. Walk, jog, run, volunteer or spectate – it's up to you! Nearby Sunday 2k junior parkrun events for 4 to 14 year olds and their families can be found here.
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United Kingdom
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England
- 5 kilometres
- Poole Park, Poole
Meeting point: 50.72035, -1.96888. The interactive map loads with JavaScript. Open the same point in OpenStreetMap.
Coordinates 50.72035, -1.96888.
The course
Course description
Poole parkrun is flat, fast, scenic, fabulously well organised, and one of the UK's most popular courses. We have a nice wide start line on the grass field near Kingland Road play park, close to the car park at the Dolphin Leisure Centre. After a dash across the grass (Braveheart-style) turn right onto the park road, which is closed to traffic until 10am. Watch out for road furniture on this early section! The course then heads east towards the cricket pitch (keep right) for an anticlockwise lap of the tarmac cycle path. The lap starts with a sharp right turn so take care here. After completing a lap of the cricket pitch head back towards the start, keeping right as you pass slower runners (and give them a wave). After passing the fountain/finish area, the route then takes you on an anticlockwise lap of the beautiful large lake/lagoon. Keep the water on your left, look out for swans, and take care not to fall in! Your lap of the lake will take you past a weeping willow, over some sluice gates, past a model boating lake and back into the park - please keep to the footpath until you're back inside the park gates! Then with your lap of the lake nearly completed, turn right for one more lap of the cricket pitch (keep right, same as before) and back to the finish line under the row of trees near the fountain. Have fun in our famous multi-lane finish funnel, chat to your new Poole parkrun friends and hopefully celebrate a new pb!
On the course
The course is 5k long. The course starts at West field, near to the crazy golf facility in Poole Park, postcode BH15 5SW, and is run on a mixture of tar and compacted gravel paths. Some sections of the course may accumulate mud, leaves and puddles after rain. Dependent on availability, marshals will be at key sections of the course, or signs will be in place.
Please remember that the parkrun uses shared paths. For the continued success of the event, please give way to other park users. This won't hurt your time, it won't stop you from getting a PB and it will make sure everyone continues to enjoy the event.
Please, wherever possible walk, jog, cycle or use public transport when attending the event. If you do have to drive, please consider car-sharing to reduce our impact on both the environment and other park users. Please also watch out for other park users when arriving and leaving. Parking may be limited so try to arrive early.
More details
Public transport
Its a ten minute walk from both Poole bus station and Poole railway station, through the park towards the civic centre.
On foot
It is only a five-minute walk from both Poole bus station and Poole railway station, through the park towards the west entrance.
By road
There is no parking or vehicles allowed in the park until 10am. Nearest public car park is the Dolphin swimming pool car park, BH15 1TN. This is just across the road from the park.
Coffee
Every week we grab a post-parkrun coffee: in one of the many local cafes in town or the concessions within the park. Please come and join us!
We're friendly
Every week we grab a post parkrun coffee in one of the many local cafes in town or the concessions within the park - please come and join us!
Course safety
Poole parkrun is a fun, free event organised by volunteers for the benefit of everyone. We wish to make the event as safe as possible, so participants, spectators and helpers are asked to take care about the following:
- Please be considerate to the park and other park users at all times.
- Children under the age of eleven must be accompanied (within arm's reach) throughout the event by a parent, guardian or appropriate adult of the parent's choice.
- Please arrive by foot, by pedal-power or by public transport if you can - your efforts help to reduce our impact on the park and the planet.
- We invite everyone to consider volunteering at parkrun. Your support helps your parkrun events remain sustainable and free for all in your community, and it’s also a wonderful way to improve your own health and happiness. Please visit the volunteer page for more information.
- Take care near roads and car parks – some vehicles drive very quickly. Please congregate away from the cars and be careful in particular if you have children. If you’re driving to the event, please drive carefully.
- Take care on uneven surfaces – whether on grass or on tarmac. Watch out for cyclists, other participants, pedestrians, children, dogs, wildlife, park animals, vehicles, park maintenance work, falling branches, bollards, posts and other obstacles around the course.
- Please ensure that you are fit enough to walk, jog, run 5k (3.1 miles) with us.
- If you see someone with a serious problem, please stop to help them out and get help as soon as possible.
- If you’re watching, keep clear of participants on the course, and look after any children and dogs you may have with you.
- Lyme Disease is a bacterial infection spread to humans by infected ticks. Consider protecting yourself by wearing repellent when at parkrun events in grassy or wooded areas. See lymediseaseuk.com for further details.
- You are welcome to take part with one dog by your side, within reach at all times, on a short, handheld, non-extendable lead. The use of waist harnesses is prohibited. Please also see this Support Site entry for further details about parkrunning with dogs.
We hope these tips help to ensure that Poole parkrun is fun and safe for everyone.
Age grading
All parkrun events use Age Grading to help parkrunners compare results.
parkrun events use Age Grading to help parkrunners see progress and compare results.
For more information, please see our Support page.
Volunteering
All parkrun events are organised by volunteers - email poole@parkrun.com to help.
Safeguarding
parkrun is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk. For our full safeguarding processes and policies please see our Safeguarding Hub.
To report a safeguarding concern please email safeguarding@parkrun.com.
Event stats
- 724
- Events
- 48,577
- Finishers
- 460,822
- Finishes
- 2,762
- Volunteers
- 62,579
- Personal bests
- 1,874
- Groups
- 00:28:02
- Average finish time
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- Durlston Country Park parkrun Durlston Country Park · 14 km
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- The Tank Museum junior parkrun The Tank Museum juniors · 19 km
Challenges this parkrun helps with
- Alphabeteer Challenge Starts with P
- UK Postcode Areas Postcode area BH
- Periodic Table Matches symbols: P, Pr, Po, Pa, Pu
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