A grey morning brightened up with dazzling hi-vis Junior Parkrun volunteer jackets! The kids huffed, puffed and laughed their way around the 2 laps.

The Goodgymers were stationed around the course making sure the kids were safe, happy and encouraged - whether they were after a PB, they were first-timers or just chatting to friends!

Huge thanks to the Parkrun Directors and regular volunteers for such a lovely FREE Sunday warm up!

6 GoodGymers, plus a couple of junior assistants, helped to Marshal the Colchester Junior Park Run on Sunday. The core team that run the event were very relieved to have had our help as they were anticipating having to cancel the event before they knew we were coming.

We clapped and cheered and made sure everyone was safe and knew where they were going.

Look out for another JPR marshaling opportunity coming your way in a couple of months!

p.s. I did try to find a good pun for the title, but even with a google search of "pun for marshaling a run" I still didn't come up with one. I did however stumble across the following wise words of running advice/motivation:

"Remember, the second most important thing to choosing the right shoe is choosing the left one." - Unknown

"Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed." - Charles Schulz

6 GoodGymers, plus a couple of juniors, turned out on a glorious autmun morning to help keep safe and cheer on 86 runners, and it must have worked - there were 23 new PBs amongst them!

A cool spring morning means wrap, get moving and wrap up again - then get coffee at our favourite Patch!

Bravo!

It was a blustery March Parkrun at Colchester Castle Park, where runners conquered four hills looping around the ancient castle and for some runners there were personal milestones (or kilometer-stones if you prefer metric!). Which sounds better? 1,000,000 metres or1000kilometres? Some memorable runs include running at 7.30am at Singapore Parkruns, climbing sand-dunes in Weymouth and running with loads of Goodgymers at Shindigs...but of course more recently shuffling around with a buggy!

Running in a Goodgym T-shirt is super motivating too...I will look forward to all the Goodgym and Parkrun achievements to come by our squad.

Today six Goodgymers came together for some board games and some chatter about Goodgym in 2024.

It was great to see Tiffany back and to hear everyone's ideas for Goodgym moving forward...but equally nice to see the sneakier side of the Goodgymers during the games that Frazer chose and explained.