The free, five kilometre weekly event is held every Saturday morning at the Bicentennial Walk in the Pebbly Beach parkland off Head Street.

Related: Getting ready for parkrun

parkrun came to Australia back in April 2011 with a course on the Gold Coast at Main Beach with the blessing of founder, Paul Sinton-Hewitt.

Today thousands of jogging and walking enthusiasts take part in the weekly ritual throughout Australia at 256 locations.

parkrun is often a family affair – mums, dads and the kids, husbands wives and even the family dog enjoy the weekly run or walk.

Here are some interesting statistics, since the first parkrun 31,986 events have attracted 370,073 runners.

Throughout Australia the average runs per event are 125.8,  average number of runs per runner, 10.9, average run time,  00:31:51 and the  total hours run,  243.