Parkrun's decision to restart their events - which were suspended worldwide in March due to the coronavirus - is done on a countrywide basis.

That's a dose of good and bad news for the people of Bathurst.

On the positive side, it means that Australia's events have a strong chance of starting well before other countries due to the way the nation has handled the spread of the epidemic.

However, it means events can't be re-opened by region or state, and that really makes parkrun participants live by the phrase 'We're all in this together'.

Bathurst parkrun event director Jenn Arnold said there's unfortunately no date in sight for the event's return.

"Until the entire country is ready to open up in terms of public gatherings of the right size, we won't be able to run," she said.

"There are parkruns where they're averaging between 600 and 700 people, so until we're ready to open up the country to the point where gathering of that size can happen then parkrun won't let us run any events in Australia."

Such a measure means there's no chance Bathurst can run an event even with a participant limit.

Arnold said the decision is understandable.

"Parkrun tourism is such a big thing," she said.

"If people got wind, for example, that Bathurst parkrun got the go-ahead because we average around 250 to 280 people then you'll be guaranteed that we'd have tonnes of parkrun tourists coming up from Sydney and swelling our numbers.

"Even if it were ruled we could have up to 500 people at a sporting event that still wouldn't be enough for parkrun to open up Australia."

Arnold takes heart in the fact that Australia is still well positioned to get their Saturday parkrun events back up and running before anyone else.

"We're hot favourites. It's a tight race between Australia and New Zealand to see who can open up first," she laughed.

"I can imagine in a lot of European countries they will still be quite a while of restarting, but given how well Australians have adhered to the stay-at-home requests we've put ourselves in a great position to get back to normality sooner."

No changes have had to be made yet to October's Mount Panorama Punish.

Arnold, who is also an event organiser for the punish, said the team are monitoring the situation.

"It's too early to make a call on what will happen ... but everything's going in a positive direction," she said.

"If anything, we may have to restrict our numbers further."