Pete’s part of parkrun, but he found out this community isn’t just about running

One Saturday morning in May, 44-year-old Pete Johns went for a 5-kilometre run with his children.

When he got home, he collapsed.

Four days later, he woke up in intensive care after suffering a cardiac arrest.

Pete’s now fine and he’s back running again — thanks a lot to his local parkrun community.

Parkrun is a free, weekly, 5-kilometre run that happens in parks and open spaces across the world.

But forget what the name implies, because most people will tell you it’s not about running at all.

After his heart episode, Pete’s parkrun friends created a running roster to help him get moving again.

“The cardiologist was really clear with me that when I got back into running, I wasn’t allowed to go running by myself,” he says.

“Three of my really…