Barriers to initiating and maintaining participation in parkrun

• Main Authors: L. J. Reece (Author), K. Owen (Author), M. Graney (Author), C. Jackson (Author), M. Shields (Author), G. Turner (Author), C. Wellington (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Interventions that increase population physical activity are required to promote health and wellbeing. parkrun delivers community-based, 5 km events worldwide yet 43% who register never participate in a parkrun event. This research had two objectives; i) explore the demographics of people w...