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# World’s shortest fun run returning for new record attempt at Princes Park in Burntwood
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/worlds-shortest-fun-run-returning-for-new-record-attempt-at-princes-park-in-burntwood/
- Published: 2016-03-28T19:33:09.000Z
- Updated: 2016-03-28T19:33:09.000Z
- Description: The world’s shortest fun run is returning to Burntwood.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 20:42, News

The world’s shortest fun run is returning to Burntwood.

[![Princes Park in Burntwood](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e3/90/e390c3da-0866-4d2a-8ffe-ca4999d7ce1c/content/images/lichfieldlive-co-uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/photo.jpg)](//lichfieldlive.co.uk/2016/03/28/worlds-shortest-fun-run-returning-for-new-record-attempt-at-princes-park-in-burntwood/photo-11/)

Princes Park in Burntwood

Princes Park, off Church Road and Farewell Lane, will host the event on May 2.

A previous fun run took place around the park in 2013\. But a bid to have it named as the smallest park in the world [was scuppered by Mill Ends Park](//lichfieldlive.co.uk/2013/04/08/worlds-smallest-park-record-challenged-as-burntwood-landmark-bids-to-win-title/) in the USA.

Now organisers KP Events are aiming to break a world record by having between 500 and 1,000 people taking part.

[![Competitors conga their way round the world's shortest fun run course](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e3/90/e390c3da-0866-4d2a-8ffe-ca4999d7ce1c/content/images/lichfieldlive-co-uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/kpwsfr3conga.jpg)](//lichfieldlive.co.uk/2016/03/28/worlds-shortest-fun-run-returning-for-new-record-attempt-at-princes-park-in-burntwood/kpwsfr3conga/)

Competitors conga their way round the world’s shortest fun run course

They say it will take each ‘athlete’ around 25 seconds – or 55 strides – to get around the course.

Kevin Wilson, from KP Events, said: “Princes Park is a great attraction for the area and I thought it was the world’s smallest park. but that honour is taken up by a grassed traffic island on a California freeway!

“Princes Park is the UK’s smallest park so this little strip of land would have another honour so we decided to launch a Guinness World record attempt to try and get between 500 and 1000 people to run or walk around it.

“Not only will participants become record-holders but they can also raise money for our favourite charity, the We Love Lichfield Fund, which in only its first two years raised over £150,000 for local projects.”

The fun run – which starts at 10.30am on May 2 – comes the day after the Lichfield Half Marathon.

For more details, visit [the KP Events website](http://www.kpevents.net/4589/event-2nd-may-2016-the-worlds-shortest-fun-run-world-record-attempt-in-burntwood?ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk).