Jessica Ennis-Hill at Endcliffe Parkrun

Olympic champion Jessica Ennis-Hill joined hundreds at the weekly Endcliffe Parkrun as she supports community exercise initiatives.

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00:00I've worked with Vitality for years now and I've done some amazing things with

00:04trying to get as many people active and just living healthy lifestyles. Parkrun,

00:09particularly this one here at Encliffe Park, is one that I've done a few times

00:12and my husband's done and we come down regularly. So yeah it's just fantastic to

00:17be part of this event and introducing Parkwalk where we're just trying to

00:21encourage more people to find a community, a healthy community where you

00:25can have conversations that you might not have had with different people, you're

00:30active, you're walking, it's great like mental headspace and then it might lead

00:35you on to running one day. So yeah just a fantastic morning, there's obviously lots

00:38of runners coming in and yeah there'll be lots of walkers today so it's an exciting

00:44morning. Brilliant and do you think that it looks like from what I was hearing

00:48there's going to be more people than ever here today, do you think that's a really

00:51exciting possibility to get people in the area to actually take that jump into

00:55you know doing some more exercise and getting outside a bit more? Yeah I think

00:58it's so exciting, I think that it can often feel really daunting to you know take

01:02that first step to be active, to run, to go on a long walk but actually being in

01:06this environment where like you said there's potentially 800, 900 people going

01:10to be here this morning, it's such an amazing atmosphere and like community to be

01:14part of. Hopefully that'll encourage more people to want to do it regularly on a

01:19Saturday morning in the future.