Christmas Day festive run at Stormont breaks course participation record A Belfast Parkrun broke its course participation record on Christmas Day, as almost 800 festive runners crossed the finish line.
The previous course record at Stormont was 776 participants, set on New Year’s Day a few years ago.
Hundreds descended on the Stormont estate in east Belfast for an event that has become a seasonal favourite in the local running calendar.
Such was the size of the bumper crowd that organisers had to record the times of dozens of runners manually in the closing stages, as they only had 720-time tokens to hand out to finishers.
Festive music playing through loudspeakers reverberated around the estate, while crowds of supporters cheered the runners as they passed.
