A solid turnout for the latest parkrun takeover, with at least three GoodGymers getting the subconscious memo to wear their black t-shirts in honour of the latest album from The Cure - everyone’s favourite frothy sunshine-merchant band.

A wide range of roles undertaken: set-up, marshal, parkwalker and run report, so from end to end. Never mind Friday, it’s Saturday we’re in love!

Five GoodGymers ventured into a sunny Wardown Park for our monthly stint volunteering at Luton Wardown Parkrun. Two of us joined the set up crew and three of us marshalled (including on the prestige position at the top of the hill). A nice autumnal morning and a positive start to the weekend!

Our monthly commitment to support Luton Wardown Parkrun, was as strong as ever this morning. 9 of Luton Goodgyms finest supported across a wide range of volunteering tasks, Gail helped the set up team early doors before the rest of the team turned up and then went on to run 🏃‍♀️ 👍🏻. Whilst the rest of us helped out with Marshal duties and Park walking 🚶‍♀️. Big shout out to Pam who stuck with one of the visually impaired attendees, making sure he got to the finish safely. 😀 Well done today team. fantastic effort by all.

Early risers aided by Gail and Sam having set up and checked the course, the morning sun then warmed the multitude of runners and volunteers arriving for parkrun number 401. A supercharged and eye-catching splash of red Goodgym t-shirts formed as we assembled for marshall, scanning, parkwalk and timekeeping duties along with some dual role GG volunteer-and-run superstars. A happy team and a healthy contribution to a successful parkrun.

This months Park Run takeover, was given a little bit of extra sparkle ✨️ as Dani and Duncan not only came to help with set up, as part of the takeover, but they also both achieved to milestone of running their 50th Park Run. Gail and Sam joined them to get the event set up, an early start thats not for everyone, but they always do a fantastic job. Martin was marshalling and enjoyed cheering 👏 on all the runners 🏃‍♂️ as they passed him in the delightful April sunshine 🌞. After finishing their milestone run, Dani and Duncan 🎃 walked round the whole course again to share brownies with all the marshal's. Well done team on another successful takeover and well done to Milestone duo on the achievement.

Five GoodGymers took on a dozen volunteer roles between them on a busy Parkrun morning. With last week’s deluge thankfully behind us the park was sunny, dry and teeming with happy parkrunners.

Small in number but highly visible, between us we helped set up the course, checked it was safe, briefed a huge crowd of first timers, marshalled the run, scanned barcodes and managed the finish funnel. Once everything was done we helped to close the event down, packed up the trolley and returned it to the boathouse ready for another week.