Parcourses – Where have they gone?

Do you know what a parcourse is? Funnily enough, when I came across one a few weeks ago around the edges of a college campus, I thought how neat. Then I followed the course around and wondered why we didn’t have more of them. So I did some research and here’s what I found out: The parcourse is a running course with exercise stations. They were the brain child of a Swiss architect named Erwin Weckemann. He designe dan exercise course with 20 wood and metal exercise stations scattered at varying intervals along a dirt jogging trail. The idea was … Continue reading