74 juniors and their parents were able to get their Sunday morning fix of walking, running and skipping thanks to the amazing volunteers, including our very own Maurice, Mark, Emily and Nigel!

Emily and Nigel were marshals around the course, Mark led the course set up team, and Maurice had the all-important tailwalker job which turned into a bit of an interval training session! Maurice joined Emily and Nigel with packing everything away before retreating to the cafe for tea & coffee and a good catch-up.

Its name is junior parkrun – a free, weekly 2k event for 4-14 year-olds and their families every Sunday morning. That first Sunday morning in April 2010 saw nine children and a group of parents and volunteers quietly walk, jog, run, skip and laugh along a 2k route in London's Bushy Park. 15 years on and there are now 469 Junior Parkruns across The UK, Ireland and Australia. There have been a total of 6,401,778 finishers across 115,666 events where an amazing 156,853 Volunteers have given up their time to help support. Today enjoying the sunshine were Wendy, Maurice and myself where we enjoyed watching 98 local children making their way around the 2km course. We had 31 personal bests but also 9 first timers which is brilliant. Lovely to see all the family and friends supporting each other in the beautiful Queens Park. Luckily, Karen is back next week so quality report writer will return as well as someone who takes better photos than Mark. Karen was too busy today teaching Stanley the Parkrun dog bad habits.

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!

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!