It was the annual We Run Ealing/GoodGym Ealing collection of old running shoes at Gunnersbury parkrun. Our combined volunteers were on hand to make sure shoes were tied together and thrown into our sack. But that was not enough, our team also ran the parkrun and volunteered with barcode scanning.

Thanks to the generosity of our a local man with a van, the shoes are now on their way to Jog On, bound for a new purpose. The ones that can salvaged will be passed on to runners around the world who can't afford decent shoes. The rest will be broken down and recycled - a right result!

It takes two (teams of GoodGym Ealing people) to make a dream come true - the dream of the streets of Ealing free from the signs of an amazing community half marathon. And by the time our teams had finished, indeed, there were no signs! They were all unclipped and packed neatly away in some of those big blue bags that look a bit like the ones from a famous Scandinavian superstore. Ealing - where the streets have no signs, ahaaa...til next year's Ealing half marathon!

A double header for the GoodGym Ealing team today. After helping out at Southall parkrun, we gathered with other parkrunners/volunteers/We Run Ealing and headed down to Parkside Yards Green Quarter. Our team had collect unwanted running kit to donate to the wonderful Open Southall creative hub as part of Ealing Climate Week. Our old kit will be turned into twine and re-purposed as rugs and mats for local people.

And parkrunners get 20% discount on coffee at Southall Coffee House - that's what they call a win-win!

These last few months the Ealing Mile route has taken our runners and park users past something akin to an excavation site as drainage issues were worked on. But today, Lammas Park is beautiful again!

And it didn't rain!

We're back in October as September is the big one - the Ealing Half Marathon!

Our lone GoodGymer Harvey cycled across sunny Ealing to help out at the monthly Ealing Mile. There was course checking (especially important with so much work going on in the park), direction arrow chalking and marshaling on the agenda. With younger runners at school, this was an opportunity for the, ahem, more mature runners to make an impact! And they did, of course.

A warm day unfolded for this month's Ealing Mile organised by We Run Ealing. But that also made it a lovely day to help out! 27 runners ran the mile course round our regular park route.