AJ attended at the famous Red Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado to volunteer at a 5k on behalf of the American Lung 🫁 Association. It was a pre-dawn and rather chilly start at the registration / bib pick up desk but once the sun appeared things warmed up quickly. The event was very well organised and had about 1500 participants.

pecan pies cornbread more bread

all things to sort through, with lovely supervisor Adam.

Sadly GG regular AJ had to depart these shores for a little while, but it didn't take her long before she found a project to help out with:

We Don't Waste

We Don’t Waste works to reduce hunger and food waste in the Denver area by recovering quality, unused food from the food industry and delivering it to nonprofit partners, such as food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, schools and daycare programs, and more.

Sharing the Goodgym love across the pond, AJ dove right in to help out with this great organisation.

A windy morning meant a series of parkruns were cancelled, but the course at Valentines Park stood up to the weather - it was on!

I think it doesn't need mentioning what task Ed got assigned - Marshalling the car park entrance for the 202nd time?

Linda was initially busy sorting out unlocking the toilet block before reverting back to usual patient saint and walk with R.

After helping setting up the funnel and being told i'd scan, then Marshall, then scan, then tokens, I ended up having to dash to get to my marshalling location. Some of the geese were clearly not fussed about people, not giving an inch while strolling about, but no incidents nor upset birdsong!

Plogging is pretty standard for the GGR crew, with the topic of conversations varying widely.

This time round it felt quite seasonal... with the subject of what to do when finding a dead boy while litter picking kicking things off. Short version: does it count as an additional task sorting out a body?

2x two bags of litter left for the council to pick up, with some broken street lights to report as well.

A very productive session this morning to spruce up the planters at Hainault station:

• Sharon was in charge of a big job of picking out the rubbish and cigarette butts and also sweeping someone's attempt at 'help' (someone scooped out a lot of cigarette butts out of the planters onto the floor underneath!). Sharon also topped up the fresh soil and got rid of some of the dried out weeds. great job!
• I was in charge of the full watering and filling of the water reservoirs, it was definitely a workout and by the end my arms were in pain!

great good deed on Sunday morning! Next step is to get some fresh autumn flowers to brighten up the planters.