Every Saturday for the past 12 months, Rachel Hateley has woken up early, headed down to Sawyer Park and run.
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The Horsham woman has taken part in all 52 Wimmera River parkrun events, either as a volunteer or participant.
This Saturday will mark the Horsham event's one year anniversary.
"If I'm volunteering I sometimes marshall, so I will stand at the bridge or the turnaround point and will encourage the runners and walkers. I've also been a photographer for the event as well," she said.
"My mum Bernadette was one of the ones who wanted to get it started up and she found a few other people interested, so they talked about it and got a trial up and running and it kind of started from there.
"I think everyone who gets involved each week has definitely become closer. We have a few new volunteers checking the course each morning before we run it, but other than that the way it's been run has stayed fairly consistent.
"The attendance numbers have slowed down a bit in the winter months with the football and netball seasons, but we average maybe 80 to 100 people each week."
Ms Hateley is one of 126 parkrun volunteers.
Organisers say 916 runners have completed 4426 runs since the first event, with 243 people attending on the first day.
Participants run 2.5 kilometres from Sawyer Park, over the Anzac Bridge and under the traffic bridge on the other side of the Wimmera River before turning around and running back to Sawyer Park.
Daniel Hall has completed the fastest men's Wimmera River parkrun, completing the circuit in 16 minutes and 39 seconds on June 8.
Aleesha Robertson has completed the fastest women's time with 17 minutes and 41 seconds on February 23.
Ms Hateley said the track was five kilometres altogether, like all other parkruns around the world.
"People like to bring their friends and family along and they kind of chat as they walk," she said.
"If you want to train for it, I guess you can do some interval training and keep a steady pace and you do the track. We run no matter if its sunny or raining and no one ever comes last because we have a volunteer role called the tail walker who is always the last person."
Horsham's parkrun began six months after a similar event in Nhill.
Ritchie Dodds, who co-directs the Nhill event with Bev Rethus, said they have staged 80 events with people completing two laps around the town's lake starting from the Apex Park.
"We find we meet a lot of people travelling through town who have done parkruns where they live - they will adjust their trip so they can cross another event off their list," he said.
"We've had people from Horsham and across Australia come to do our run. You can tell the impact it's had with how some of the participants' fitness has improved over time, and physical fitness is important given there are high levels of heart disease, diabetes and obesity in our community."
The first ever parkrun took place in the UK in 2004, when founder Paul Sinton-Hewitt decided to organise a weekly run with friends after being sacked from his job.
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