Spring had sprung at Fulbourn Hospital parkrun this morning, with the daffodils out and the sun shining 🌷

Caroline was marshaling and cheered 140 runners and walkers round the course, including Catherine, who then helped with post-event pack down.

Over the other side of the world, Harriet was adding another flag to her collection running parkrun in Japan! 🇯🇵

For today's session we combined fitness, business and pleasure with our leaflet delivery and monthly social!

Catherine, Beth and Caroline met first and caught up during for a gentle 4km run (made to a round number!), jogging across town to meet Michele 🏃‍♀️

The foursome then set off with leaflets promoting Arthur Rank Hospice's 'Star Shine Night Walk', pinning on supermarket notice boards and dropping off in pubs around town 🔦

We made sure to end at the fantastic Free Press pub for our March monthly social, where we bought an array of crisps as an extra treat to accompany our drinks. The jalapeño & dill divided the crowd, but we all kept going back for more! 🍻

A HUGE shout-out to Michele on her 10th good deed with Goodgym - congratulations! Here's to the next 10 🙌 🎉

Goodgym Cambridge were back at parkrun this morning, supporting all the runners and walkers starting their weekends right! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

Caroline headed to a very foggy Brook Leys to marshal, while Harriet led the charge at Fulbourn Hospital as volunteer coordinator. Between them, they cheered on 560 participants! 🙌

By the end of the event, the mist had lifted and the sun came out - just in time for the cycle home ☀️

For our latest litter pick, Caroline, Harriet, Ilse and Michele met to tidy the area near the Coldhams Sainsbury's.

With Caroline arriving fashionably late (not my fault!) and making the most of her pannier space to transport the gear across town, the others got a headstart on catching up. We kitted up in our hi-vis, took our traditional group selfie and got to work scouring for litter. Alongside a glass bottle that we recycled, our most unexpected find was a flatscreen TV! We tried our best with the pickers but will have to leave that one to the council 😛

Excitingly, we were approached by someone pleased to see us and keen to litter-pick, so we may even have a new GoodGym recruit! 🤞

For this morning's task 3 goodgymers put on our gardening gloves to help Abbey People at the community centre garden.

The aim was to dig a large wildflower bed which would be fed by a rainwater planter.

It was lovely to welcome Alice for her first goodgym good deed and to see Sunethra back for her second good deed.

We dug up a lot of soil, from which grass then had to be removed. This was used to add to the raised beds. It was great to see how good the soil was, judging by the abundance of earthworms we encountered. Wildflower seeds were then sown which will provide some great colour and wildlife habitat in the future.

The whole experience was very enjoyable, especially as it was so sunny

Another beautiful morning for volunteering at Milton Country parkrun ☀️

We have really lucked out with the weather at Milton recently, and being set in the country park, it certainly boosts the mood. It also meant a lot less mud for everyone!

I was marshalling today, and alongside cheering, had the important role of ensuring everyone turned right towards the finish funnel on the 3rd lap.

Congratulations to all 271 runners and walkers, especially those reaching PBs and milestones (there were lots!). Extra kudos to the person running in a boot on crutches and absolutely flying round!

We'll be back for more next month 🙌