Early bird GoodGymers were out in force today, with 9 around the course on the day of Maki's - Chikako's daughter's - last Junior parkrun as her birthday is coming soon. They'll both still be at Acton Juniors in the future, volunteering to help the event that they've enjoyed attending for years.

Most of today's marshals were GoodGymers, with Max, Maria, Steph, Michelle and Sevan helping the children and adults navigate the course and cheering them up and down the hills. Kash experienced the hills herself as the tailwalker, playing a key role in getting a couple of less enthusiastic children to the finish line and Chikako was the VI Guide for the last time (for now).

In the funnel, Ariane dished out the finish tokens and Alan was a late substitute to the timekeeper role. As it turned out, Alan saved the day (in a small way), by recording the finish times of the runners more accurately than the other timekeeper, meaning that all 65 finishers were correctly logged.

Chilly Sunday morning but sunny and 5 Goodgymers were up early and were all on time at Ealing Broadway Station to meet up and have small warm up done by me, Steph Ducat before heading to Acton Junior park run. Was Sevan going to run with poles? It looked like walking/running poles, but in fact he had 2 litter pickers that he was going to use later in the day. Kash, Sevan and Steph Ducat run regularly together and we know our pace. Today we had Maria who came from GG Hounslow to run back from where she walked in the morning. Max joined us too. After the warm up, Steph Ducat led the group and asked if 6:00/km was fine with everyone as we had roughly 3km to run. The fantastic 5 set off through the streets of Ealing to Acton Junior parkrun. The pace was good for everyone and we reached the funnel of the parkrun in no time and we were bang on to the predicted pace Steph Ducat set as goal.(See photo) We all reached the park and all had a good chat during the run. We are all pumped up to cheer the children in the park.