Four fantastic GoodGymmers helped 23 youngsters complete their junior parkrun this morning!

A warm welcome back to Marek, alongside seasoned regulars Nick, Rue and Sooz.

Rue and Marek took on the dream team timekeeper and finish tokens, while Nick handled his usual turning point position with finesse and Sooz stepped up to tailwalker.

There were two incredible milestones today: 100 Parkruns for Julia and Edith!

All packed up by 9:30 and our Sundays were off to a wholesome start.

A brilliant GoodGym team as always. Join us next week?

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Mr T was still trying to shake off his "flu", so was a little under the weather this afternoon, but he'd enjoyed a few more good results with the turf accountants which had brightened his mood immensely, albeit his "high point" of the week had been a race at the Goodwood Festival where his pick had been beaten by a 150-1 outsider...as he said to me "you would have heard me laughing all the way over in Bethnal Green!!".

No outside bets with this week's basket filling - a wander down to M&S for soup, Tesco for beefburgers and trusty Lidl for the rest - he even had a few carrots left over from last week's shop, so I got those to take home to improve my eyesight.

When I arrived this morning, Ms D was struggling (and frustrated) with one her hearing aids, which had stopped working, so alongside the shopping list (and a letter to post) she asked if I'd mind dropping into Specsavers to see if they could fix it - not a problem I said once she'd explained where it was on the Edgware Road. Thankfully it proved to be an easy and reasonably quick fix, and armed with the aid (and new batteries), I headed to the aisles to successfully complete the rest of today's task, and even avoid the rain showers on the way back.

Unlike the Hitchcock film, the journey from start to finish of this particular mission is always largely uneventful (and very pleasant in the sunshine), but I've now realised I've yet to retrace my exact route northwest from the pharmacy on any of the times that I've done it so far - fortunately I do end up at the right door at the other end - and as always Miss S was very grateful for today's on time delivery.