I was volunteering at Cardiff junior parkrun today, in the roles of First Timers Welcome and Barcode Scanning. Cardiff Junior parkrun is a favourite destination for GoodGym Cardiff and the Vale.

First Timers Welcome is a role I've done before, and as a Run Director for Cardiff Junior parkrun I should be quite good at it, and remember basic things, like which side of the course the runners should run on.

Yet, if it wasn't for a regular grownup attending the First Timers Welcome as their younger junior was running for the first time, I might have sent several new runners off in the wrong direction, which is the right-hand side. Cardiff Junior parkrun is a keep-left course. I was wrong, telling them to be on the right. It was early in the morning, and I hadn't had any coffee, and as you can tell from the wordplay, it can be confusing.

Barcode Scanning went well, and all six of us were very much needed. That's because today Cardiff Junior parkrun broke its previous record for attendance. We now have a new course attendance record of 265 junior parkrunners.