Juno and I spent an hour or so picking up litter in Longsight and Birchfields Park. Collected 2 full sacks mostly of Miami Crispy takeaway waste, drinks bottles and cans, and several dummies.

Update: picked up another couple of bags in Longsight on Sunday morning too

After dropping Juno home, I ran to Fletcher Moss park to give the 1st timers briefing and marshal at Old Bedians rugby club (#5) for event number 240. 416 runners and walkers completed the 5 km course.

Before the canoe litter pick, I helped with some of the set up and barcode scanned at Fletcher Moss parkrun event #239.

435 runners and walkers completed the 5 km course on a clear but nippy Saturday spring morning. Managed to get a run there and across to Burnage afterwards.

Approximately 475 runners, joggers, and walkers completed the 5 km course at Fletcher Moss this morning. Juno and I ran the course to check for any puddles or fallen branches/trees (thankfully there were none) and helped with the set up and marshal at Mount Fletcher (more of a slope than a mountain or hill...).

It was warm and sunny so we had bumper numbers with ~475 with the finish funnel tailing back out past the finish line! We helped a bit with barcode scanning and clearing up at the end before the run home.

On St David's Day, Juno and I ran down to Fletcher Moss to help with the set up, marshal, and clear up at event #237. Around 400 runners and walkers completed the 5 km course on the clear and frosty morning.

402 participants completed the 5 km course this morning for event #236. We had 23 doing their FIRST EVER parkrun. We had visitors from North Lincolnshire who provided some interesting facts about the history of Fletcher Moss. 16 volunteers enabled the event to take place with a bumper crowd of Duke of Edinburgh volunteers helping with the timekeeping, barcode scanning, and handing out tokens.

The weather felt much more spring-like and there were no issues with the parkrun. After packing away and processing the results, I made my way to Ardwick for my next mission.

We were back at Fletcher Moss parkrun this morning for event #234. Following the flooding over new year, it was the first parkrun since 28th December!

336 participants completed the 5 km course. Just 13 willing volunteers helped out but the skeleton crew managed to navigate the branches and mud successfully.

Parkrun relies on voluntary help and facilitating these events is a great way to spend a Saturday morning.