Completing all Bedfordshire parkruns
There are currently 7 parkrun events in present-day Bedfordshire. The first was Bedford which started on June 11th 2011 and the newest is Henlow Bridge Lakes which started on September 25th 2021.
I first completed the county on August 24th 2019 at Bedford.
Note that the address for Rushmere parkrun is in Bedfordshire but the whole of the parkrun course is in Buckinghamshire so I have listed it there.
The interactive maps below take you to the approximate location for the course, typically the centre of the park. See the course instructions in the parkrun page for each event for specific directions to the start. Course maps show the route at the time that I ran it and may have changed since then.
Bedford
Completed: August 24th 2019
Time: 26:06
Other routes touched (walk): John Bunyan Trail
Inaugural: June 11th 2011
Dunstable Downs
Completed: May 18th 2019
Time: 28:35
Other routes touched (walk): Icknield Way Path, Chiltern Way
Other routes touched (cycle): Icknield Way Trail
This event is also part of Chilterns parkrun
Inaugural: February 23rd 2019
Great Denham
Completed: July 27th 2019
Time: 25:50
Other routes touched (walk): Ouse Valley Way
Inaugural: February 17th 2018
Henlow Bridge Lakes
Completed: November 6th 2021
Time: 26:47
Other routes touched (walk): Hicca Way, Kingfisher Way
Other routes touched (cycle): none but NCN 12 runs past the entrance.
Inaugural: September 18th 2021
Houghton Hall
Completed: New Year’s Day 2018
Time: 27:02
Other routes touched (cycle): NCN 6
This event is also part of Chilterns parkrun
Inaugural: December 23rd 2017
Luton Wardown
Completed: April 15th 2017
Time: 26:51
Other routes touched (walk): Lee Valley Trail
Other routes touched (cycle): N/A, but the Western edge of the course runs close to a parallel with NCN 6
This event is also part of Chilterns parkrun
Inaugural: April 18th 2015
Millennium Country
Completed: July 16th 2019
Time: 26:09
Other routes touched (cycle): NCN 5
Inaugural: March 23rd 2019
Actual course outlines for the parkrun events in present-day Bedfordshire.
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