This morning was mine and Callum's first mission in Woking, supporting the wonderful work of the All Aboard team in Brookwood. We got stuck in, building the tracks with the team, letting our creative brains chug along. It was very inspiring to see the children enjoying the team's work, in a space where they can relax and express themselves. This is such important work, bravo!

Annual Martian Race 👽

It was that time of the year again for the Woking Martian Race. It was not as hot as it has been previous years but still a very warm day. Today there were plenty of events going on with most GoodGym members either taking part in the race and volunteering as marshals.☀️

James unfortunately could not be at this years events as he was doing the Richmond 1OK and then straight after heading to Kingston for the Southern Athletics League event 🏃🏼‍♂️.

Wayne arrived at the event village early as he pulled out of the race due to not being 💯% so decided to volunteer as a marshal. Wayne had to be at the event for 07:30 for a safety briefing as well as picking up his high viz, instructions on how to get to his marshal spot as well as a goodie bag from the sponsors 😄. Wayne also helped some of the local vendors with setting up their stalls. Wayne was at checkpoint 29 which was quite close the event village and in the shaded woodland 🌳area of the common ☀️. Wayne had enough time to go and find his spot and come back to see his fellow goddgymers.

First to arrive was Annewith her beaming smile she was rearing to go, Annehas been getting her regular runs in the week in preparation for her tackling the 10k route 🏃‍♀️.

Next to arrive where the Jacksons. Katie & Phil had signed up to do the 10k and have been training really hard for it especially Katie. Shortly after Kirsty, Adam, & Alys arrived.

Alys was doing the 5k while Adam who is currently nursing an injury decided to do the 10k along with Kirsty who was running for the first time in Months after her injury they both decided to run together same as last year ❤️

Nadia & Andy arrived they were originally part of the cheering squad but decided to sign up t do the 5k which was great.It was fantastic to see so many local running clubs as well as local organisations that Woking GG have helped over the years. There was plenty of support for everyone from all over the course 😇

First to go were the kids who were doing 2k it was great to see many young faces from the junior park run that Woking GG have an active role.This was followed by the 21k, which was then followed by the 10k and finally the 5k.🏃🏼‍♂️

Wayne had to head off to his post which was checkpoint 27.The first GG Runner that Wayne saw was Nadia & Andy. Shortly after Phil came towards Wayne Phil got extra shouts of support as he is Wayne favourite 🤣. Wayne had to wait a while before he saw the next GG member and it was the lovely Katie always smiling and looking fresh as a daisy 💨.

There was another wait about 15mins before Wayne saw Alys all in Red, with her tutu and GG Cap laughing and smiling away 🏃‍♀️. In the distance Wayne saw a red shirt and it was Anne and went to see her but noticed that Anne had her hand wrapped up due to her falling a few times and cutting her palm as well a bruising her arm, but Anne being tough as old boots continued with her run (Superwomen)

Shortly after in the distance Wayne heard a familiar laugh it was Kirsty & Adamcome through the clearing in the tree’s, both of them doing incredibly well considering their injuries.🌎

It was now coming up to 3 hours and Karl the tail runner appeared with the final runner. We all ran back together and cheered the final runner across the finishing line.

Everyone did so well and once again plenty of money was raised for local charities 🏆

After the event some members headed home while a few headed into town for a well deserved lunch.😄

Fantastic work everyone see you all next year.

👽👽 This morning was the annual Martain race at Horsel Common 👽 and due toWaynenot being 100% fit he decided to give up his time and be a Mashal and support fellow goodgym runners as well as others around the course.

Wayne was at Marshal point 27 which was in the woodlands and 2k from the finishing line it war a nice shaded area of the course which helped 😀

It was so good seeing so many happy smiley faces running even though the weather was very warm 🌞 Wayne was very excited to see the goodgym gang go past and made extra noise cheers when they did.

St Johns The Baptist Church

This afternoon Wayne and Adam did a rear Friday afternoon task at the Local church in West Byfleet.

The boys helped with setting up for the Summer fair 😊 which will be held on the church grounds tomorrow morning.

Task 1 - The boys had to go up a spiral narrow staircase up into the loft of the church and bring down some cases of wine which was tricky with the narrow steps but very carefully it was accomplished

Task 2 - Above the loft there was another loft 😱 from which they had to bring down 3 big gazebo's also very tricky navigating the spiral staircase but working together they managed it.

Task 3 - We had to go down to the basement deep under the church where the furniture was stored to bring up 20 fold out tables, just going down the basement steps was like a scene from a horror movie, and to be greeted by a enormous spider web when the door was opened was was sort of expected 🕷 but with the help of fellow church members the task was completed.

Task 4 - The boys helped unload cars of the stall holders and bring in all their boxes and merchandise that were being sold at the fair. The stall holders were very grateful and were really interested about us and Goodgym 👼

Task 5 - Was to set up 12 small tables with 20 chairs in the hall where all the food and refreshments were going to be. The boys made light work of this.😁

We will all catch up on Sunday at the Martian Race

Great work done under warm weather with Katie, Anne, Wayne join me ( Agathe) to help the RSPCA centre cutting brambles around one of the dogs' compound.

Glad to hear Anne spent a lovely time seeing family in France while Wayne is looking forward to going on holiday in Dubai in August, and our Katie is soon going to be a mother!

Anne and Agathe ended up walking a bit afterwards talking in frogs' language and debating about Molière! More seriously, we saw at least 7 rabbits or hares - as they were quite big - running around in the field, 3 horses, lots of birds and a magnificient doe jumping around like she was escaping a lion!! (it was just Anne and I, remember!)

Everyone is looking forward to running this Sunday at the Martian Race. I won’t be attending though but I wish you a merry Christm…(oops not yet!) Martian Race.Don’t forget to wear sunscreen as it’s going to be roasting!! :D

Woking junior parkrun – Event #308:

☀️ Woking junior parkrun #308 A sunny, dry morning brought perfect conditions for our young runners, and they delivered some fantastic performances!

🏃‍♂️ 100 boys took part, with the fastest finishing in an impressive 7:09.

🏃‍♀️ 90 girls joined the fun, with the quickest crossing the line in 7:20.

🎉 A whopping 94 personal bests were earned – great effort, juniors!

🙌 30 brilliant volunteers made the magic happen, including 6 GoodGym heroes: – James was up early for the course check 🦺 – Adam welcomed our first timers and cheered from the marshal point 👋 – Karen, Anne, and Phil kept everyone smiling on the course 🌟 – Katie kept her cool on the stopwatch ⏱️

Thanks to everyone who helped make it another special Sunday morning! 💙