We love junior parkrun, and today was especially lovely as we had lots of juniors getting involved in volunteering - the adult volunteers and GoodGymmers Karen, Maurice, Claire and Nigel were just there in support roles!

Juniors carried out the following roles for us today: pre-event setup, announcing milestones, Run Director, giving out the wristbands, leading the warm-up, helping with the warm-up, timekeeping, barcode scanning, giving out finish tokens, tailwalking and sorting the finish tokens! Its great to be able to support all the juniors taking part and the volunteers of the future.

Two GoodGymmers helped to make the magic happen at junior parkrun this week - well done Emily for being a marshal, and well done Maurice for being a timekeeper. 97 children (and lots of parents) got to take part in junior parkrun thanks to the wonderful volunteers. That's a huge attendance, no doubt due to the lovely warm weather!

Yes, you read that right ... the sun put in an appearance at junior parkrun this week! Hooray!

83 juniors crossed the finish line, supported by lots of parents either running with them or cheering them on - what a fantastic atmosphere! We even welcomed an international visitor from Finland too!

Nigel and Mark were both marshals on the finishing straight, cheering the juniors on to the end, while Maurice and Claire were marshals around the course with the juniors passing them twice on their 2km run, walk or skip, and Karen was waiting for them at the finish line as a timekeeper. junior parkrun is such a lovely event for all the family, and just as rewarding for the volunteers too. Well done everyone!

There was a fair bit of nervousness about whether junior parkrun would have to be cancelled yet again due to weather - just how many storms have we had this winter?! - but when the forecasted strong winds stayed as a strong breeze, we were good to go!

It was lovely to have Mark join us on a Sunday morning, and between the GoodGym team we undertook the folloing roles: volunteer coordinator ~ run director ~ barcode scanning ~ 4 marshall points ~ post event close down ~ results processing ~ photographer ~ social media. A great morning's work helping young people to be active!

The temperature might have been cold but a spell of junior parkrun volunteering was certainly heartwarming! And we got to celebrate a birthday with obligatory cake!

Karen, Maurice and Nigel all volunteered this week - Karen meeting and greeting volunteers before being a marshal on the course, Nigel meeting and greeting first timers before also being a marshal on the course, and Maurice being the all-important timekeeper. Then everyone pitched in to help pit everything away and leaving the park as we found it, before retreating to the cafe to warm up and eat cake :)

Two GoodGymmers donned the hi-vis and helped put on another successful junior parkrun event, this time for 86 juniors! Well done Claire and Maurice! Your tailwalking, marshalling and event close-down efforts were really appreciated by all the juniors, parents and the parkrun team.