The parkrun organisation have a number of milestones from 25 to 500 parkruns. The thing about milestones is that they are open to everyone and anyone can aspire to reach a certain level.
A number of people have recently passed the 250 mark and it's a significant achievement as it takes at least five years to complete. Thanks to all those who sent on updates and corrections.
Cork 250 Rules... As with any list, there must be some sort of guideline or rules. The criteria I went with are simple...
- At least 100 of the 5k parkruns must be in Co Cork
- Only the information on the parkrun website counts
I'm sure there are plenty of people in Dublin and elsewhere who are over 250 but this post is about the parkruns in Cork.
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Cork runners who have completed 250 or more 5k parkruns Club - Q3 2025... The end of September 2025 was the end of Q3 so it's time to check up on who is on the 250 plus parkrun list.
Joanne Sullivan continues to lead the top Bere Island trio with 453 5k parkruns completed and it seems likely that there will be a blue 500 t-shirt on Bere Island in late 2026.
Olive McCarthy of Glen River has been busy racking up the parkruns and now moves up two places from 13th to 11th place.
Mary Hourihane, Maria Neville & Ursula Cooney move above 320 and into the top half of the 250-plus list which is shown above.
The second half of the list from 250 to 319 is shown below.
Since the end of June 2025 (Q2), six people have passed the 250 mark and joined the list... Eddie O'Carroll, Maria Madigan, Sam De Lint, Breeda O'Sullivan, Noël Healy & Jerry O'Keeffe.
Needless to say, it's the army of parkrun volunteers that keep the show on the road and the 'super volunteers' have 250 or more credits.
With the dual volunteer credits from both the 5k parkrun and the junior 2k parkrun, Maretta Brennan is rapidly closing the gap to 1st place. Maretta racked up 20 volunteer credits in the last quarter and if she continues then we should see a blue 500 volunteer t-shirt in Ballincollig in the summer of 2026.
The volunteer list grows by three to sixteen with Suzi Quirke & Donal Fennessy of the Ballincollig parkrun and John Hutchins of the Castlehaven parkrun joining.
Link... More information about the 5k parkruns in Co Cork and previous lists can be found HERE
2 comments:
Thanks for the interesting stats, however it's worth noting that some people will not be in the 250+ brackets as they regularly do non-running volunteer roles such as timekeeping.
The figures can show a running volunteer person in the 250 bracket but not a person that ran 100 parkruns because they do a lot of non-running volunteering & arguably more demanding roles.
The running volunteer gets the Kudos while the non-running volunteer loses out. I'd like to see a chart for the non-running volunteers!
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