What a way to start 2025! 323 parkrunners and 30 volunteers - including 7 GoodGymmers - all leapt out of bed to join this special parkrun. This week the 7 Goodgymmers carried out the following roles: event set up, volunteer coordinator, first timers welcome, timekeeper, barcode scanner, number checker, course close down, token sorting, and the all important roles - participants! Why else are we all here?! Another lovely morning with lovely people, well done everyone.

What do you do in that bit between Christmas and New Year where no one knows what day it is, and you are fed up of eating? Volunteer at junior parkrun of course! Thats what six GoodGym members did - they gathered in Queens Park and made the junior parkrun magic happen!

Claire, Emily, Maurice, Mark, Nigel and Karen carried out lots of roles - Run Director, event set up, course check, volunteer coordinator, first timers welcome, warm up leader, timekeeper, barcode scanning, marshal, and results processing. Phew! Thats a long list and a huge contribution from GoodGym. Well done everyone!

Its the most wonderful time of the year! It seems everyone came out for parkrun on Christmas Day in Crewe this year, with 525 festive runners, walkers, Santas, elves, a penguin and a dinosaur!

GoodGym played some very important roles in making this wonderful event happen - Karen as Run Director with the safety brief, Nigel on set-up, Mark (dressed as a penguin, of course) and Marjo welcoming people to Crewe for the first time with the all-important welcome briefing, Nigel timekeeping (and that was a BUSY job!), Nigel, Karen and Maurice on course close-down, and at the end Maurice, Emily, Nigel and Karen all part of the token-sorting team. Karen's volunteering extended into the afternoon with results processing and updating social media.

Merry Christmas everyone!

It was a mild morning at junior parkrun this week, with Claire tailwalking and encouraging juniors to run and walk, Emily dishing out the high-fives, Karen cheering and Maurice timekeeping. 59 juniors took part, some with their grown-ups - a great way to burn off some energy in the run up to Christmas!

It was a lovely evening having a jolly festive catch up with lovely friends.

Good food, great company and lovely laughs at Crewe's buzzing market hall! It really was a lovely evening chatting and catching up with good friends.

Hope we can do it again before next Christmas!

Have a wonderful Christmas one and all! ❤

Nicola xxx