A bright sunny day after the one before at Wendover Woods for Florence Park Junior Parkrun Event #207. A plethora of volunteers meant that hi-vis vests were all scooped up yet again! I armed myself with the tokens (both sets just in case) and set off for the finish after taking some quick snaps - none of myself yet again. It turned out the double token set wasn't ambitious, since we squeezed past 99 and ended on 103 runners this morning! Lots of smiling faces and thank yous upon receiving tokens which was delightful. Some of the team stayed after outside in the sunlight for token sorting and a chit chat before departing, ready to do it all again next week!

Wendover Woods - home to the Gruffalo, Stick Man, several well marked walks and runs and, to date, my favorite parkrun.

A gorgeous one lap course through the woods, with a stinker of a hill in the middle, this parkrun was glorious! We were very lucky with the weather - blue skies and sunshine all the way, and there was an excellent ratio of dogs to runners, including our Poppy.

As usual we finished up our trip with a coffee and a chat - mainly plotting and planning our next runs and day dreaming about property in France or Croatia!

Welcome to Emma! Thanks for coming to your first (official) Goodgym session!

Dinton Pastures next month, can't wait!

We usually take the opportunity of the darker winter months to gradually work our way around the food bank giving it a thorough clean. We haven't been able to fit in with the food bank schedule for a couple of months, but with ITV due to film there tomorrow, tonight the diary was cleared for us to do an emergency clean.

We swept, we mopped, we wiped, we dusted. We sorted expired food, we threw out an unmentionable amount of black bananas, we even scraped food off the walls. Within an hour the whole place was looking much more camera ready.

Welcome to GoodGym James!

On Wednesday we did our own mini Morse plog around Oxford.

Taking inspiration from the locations used in Inspector Morse films we set off to visit the sites of significance in central Oxford and Jericho, litter picking as we went.

From the Oxford police station (sadly, no Morse cut out in the windows) to the Phoenix Picturehouse we ran and walked our way across the city, amassing 2 sacks of litter and covering 3.75 miles.

Favourite sightings: The Oxford Story Museum telephone box (definitely worth a detour down Pembroke Street), and the murals on Canal Street.

Run Directing at Florence Park Junior Parkrun #205. Managed to courier all the equipment from the locker to bench in 1 trip solo (but forgot the finish funnel!) Such a full roster and even more volunteers on the day - things we love to see! I even had to hand out extra tailwalker vests as we ran out of the yellow ones. A very smooth parkrun with all green results for the 73 finishers and tokens returned at the end like clockwork. As always, a huge thank you to the volunteer team for making my role easy.

It's our Birthday!

To celebrate GoodGym Oxford being 6 years old a bevy of GoodGymers got together at County Hall. Of course we had to include a Good Deed in our birthday celebrations (no Wednesday is complete without one), so we packaged up 3 boxes of old trainers to send to JogOn for repurposing and recycling. These had been collected up from friends, family and colleagues over the previous few weeks, saving them from going to landfill.

With 26 GoodGymers in attendance that task was complete in record time, leaving us the rest of the evening to chat over drinks and nibbles, reminiscing about the past 6 years and speculating about what the future might bring.

Our 6 year Good Deed count is 8038. Happy Birthday to Us!