Despite the threat of rain, 125 children (including 13 first timers) turned out for today's junior parkrun, with Karen, Laura & Alys making up three of the volunteer team. Karen has recently fractured her foot, but still turned out boot 'n' all!

Today's run director Jennifer managed to get the attention of everyone attending with the help of a megaphone, and some lucky junior parkrunners even got to use it whilst listing rules. A few wristbands were given out, and a special shout out to Rhiannon who has been attending Woking junior parkrun since 2017 running her last junior parkrun as she turns 15 next week!

Karen & Laura were out marshalling, whilst Alys handed out finish tokens. It's a task that's always made a bit trickier due to a few parents not listening to the rules about the finish funnel, so we had a couple of younger kids and a parent manage to slip through.

The rain timed itself perfectly with the start of the run, but it didn't stop 38 children getting a PB and volunteers managed to keep a smile on their faces thanks to umbrellas & rainjackets.

We volunteer at junior parkrun whenever it's on, so please do come and join us if you have a free hour on a Sunday morning.

Friday was 🛣 😇's night.

As part of a team of 3 Street Angels volunteers, we hit the streets of Woking looking for revellers needing help.

We covered 12 kms, met a few grateful people who had been "saved" previously by Street Angels and a homeless person who was very hungry and delighted when we came back with fish fingers and a hot cup of tea. We also picked up about 30 cans and bottles left on the pavement or flower beds.

The weather forecast advised us to get ready for a storm at 2:00 am; fortunately, the heaven did not open when we were out.

All in all, the atmosphere was calm, the revellers happy and two of the venues closed earlier than usual. We walked back to base just after 3:00 am and called it a night!

I went along to help Mary and Helen from Woking Environment Action at the Incredible Edible site on Ryder’s Way. After a quick litter pick we cleared pockets of soil to add native wildflower seed to enrich the meadow area and increase habitat for pollinators. It was a soggy start but we soon dried out after the rain cleared up. The garden is lovely and open for all to get involved in food growing. See https://www.instagram.com/wokingenvironmentaction?igsh=Yjc5YmFqcmR5eXF6 for more details

*Alpine Loop Hill Training 🏃‍♀️ *

Big welcome to Robert who attended his first GG session, and what a session to attend 🤣

A superb turn out from Woking GoodGym for a hill training session. I'm sure we would have changed our minds if we knew what we had in store. Wayne told us there were only a few hills but I counted at least 27. Up was hard going in the warm evening and on the gravel but going down was even worse😩 . There was a lot more walking than running, at least from me, but I think we were all glad to take a break to avoid the army trucks doing their driving training 🚚. We happily welcomed Robert to his first session with us and what a one to pick! Thank you to Anne for caring for everyone on the downhill 🗻sections and go Wayne for not getting us lost. Nadia did a great job with the warm up, safety briefing and keeping everyone together. 🪾 Well done to Katie, Alys, Melanie, Julie and Andy too for conquering the hills in good spirits. 🌳The company certainly made the hills more bearable. Lastly, a thank you to Julie for the puns in the report title.

Junior Park Run

On this sunny morning 4 Goodgymer's gave up their time to carry out various volunteering roles at the junior park run.

Wayne & Melanie were marshals out on the course cheering and supporting the runners around the 2k course. James as well as being a marshal also made sure the course was safe to run around before the run began. Adam was one of the official timekeepers.

It was also Adam 400th good deed, what an amazing milestone achievement 🎉

It was great seeing Adam who has recently started running again after injury 😊

In total this morning there were 130 runners with the fastest time being an impressive 06:30. There were also 36 PB's fantastic running by everyone. 👍

All Aboard Club

This mornings All Aboard session in Brookwood was the last one until September 😒

Wayne & Anne met Richard and the rest of the volunteers at the community hall to set up the last session of the term 😊

Todays train track looked amazing as it was the last one the imagination and creativity came flooding out amongst all the volunteers 🚂

Anne ran to the task doing a total of 8k run 🏃‍♀️

Further volunteering opportunities for All Aboard Club will resume from September 😊😊