Sadly the author was unable to volunteer today due to on-call rotas. On the plus side this meant a chance to actually run in the event and I have to say the quality of volunteers was truly exceptional today.

No surprise there of course, GG Bristol had taken on many of the volunteer roles today in support of our run director Mel . So we had a marvellous multitude of marshals - with Laura and Zdeni both taking part in their very first parkrun - a most excellent team of time keepers in Fi and Abi (lovely to see you back Abi - hope the exam results turn out well :)) and Richard B as a brilliant bar code scanner.

Special mention to Andy who still made it today after waking up this morning to find no pedals on his bike. But the volunteer spotlight today shines most brightly on Julie who was tail runner and completed her 50th parkrun in the process. Congratulations Julie - and thanks for the flapjack!