Paul Sinton-Hewitt has done more for the nation’s fitness than Mr Motivator, Davina McCall, Rosemary Conley and, whisper it, even the national treasure Joe Wicks.
Yet on a bracingly cold morning at his local Parkrun in Horsham, West Sussex, Sinton-Hewitt, 64, stands near the back of the 600-strong crowd, inconspicuously, as he is not a recognisable household name like the other four.
Twenty years ago, he organised the first Parkrun for 13 friends in south-west London’s Bushy Park which took place on October 2, 2004. He was struggling with his mental health after the breakdown of his first marriage and was having a difficult time at work as a software engineer.
He could not run the first Parkrun himself because he had tripped over his
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