Volunteered for the event set up at today’s Homewood Parkrun. Arriving about an hour before the start, I met with three other volunteers to set out cones, ribbons 🎗️, posts and signs 🪧. The great thing about Homewood Parkrun is the scenery filled with beautiful trees so this set up/course check was a delightful warm up! As always, so many friendly faces and nice social chat before the event. Also bumped into Julie but we forgot to take a photo! We both ran and talked about how good we felt at achieving something at the start of our day. Happy running all!

...Have you any litter? Yes, sir, yes, sir, three bags full!

A big thank you to the 9 runners for this fun rhyme that perfectly sums up our evening! On a crisp January evening, Anne, Adam, Alys, Claire, Katie, Kirsty, Jack, Nadia and Julie gathered at the Leisure Centre for a warm-up before heading over to Barnsbury. There, we collected three full bags of litter from the pavements and verges, all while enjoying great conversation and camaraderie.

A special shout-out to Jack from GoodGym Head Office, who joined us as part of his January Challenge to visit as many regional sessions as possible. Once the litter pick was complete, and after a passing motorist kindly thanked us for our efforts, Anne led us on a quick uphill run. Nadia impressively demonstrated a fantastic burst of speed, leaving the rest of us in the dust!

We returned to the starting point feeling much warmer than when we began. A huge thank you to all who participated, your efforts made a real difference to our streets. We hope to see you at the next task!

Six Goodgymers braved the cold crisp weather this morning to volunteer at Woking Junior Parkrun. There was a great turnout in general with many other volunteers and children getting together for this excellent weekly event. Wayne and Nadia were having a chat then quickly joined by Anne, Katie, Adam and Alys.

We had just enough time for a little catch up discussing our cold weather ventures and what our plans were for the day. ☀️

Our volunteers were well spread out today covering many roles like marshalling, timekeeping, and barcode scanning. 🦺⏱️

After joining the expert children doing the warmup demonstration and congratulating some milestone wristbands, we all headed to the start line.

A quick countdown and start and we were well on the way cheering the children as they went along, also encouraged by their parents and guardians. 📣 No sooner had we started we saw the tail walkers coming in to finish. 🏁

Just goes to show how a little goes along way and taking care of health from a young age is a great thing. We have a task coming up this week again braving the elements and we will hopefully find more tasks to organise in the coming weeks.

Well done, everybody. Until next time! 👋🏼

Worked with Horsell Common Preservation Society to preserve the healthland on Horsell Common by removing birch and pine saplings. This allows the heathland to grow which is important for the nesting of rare and endangered bird species 🐦‍⬛, as well as preserving the habitat for other animals. 💚

Stunning winter scenery ❄️

St John's Of The Baptist Church ⛪️

This morning it was -6 🥶 but that did not stop Woking GG Members Anne, Katie, Kirsty, Julie, & Nadia get out of bed scrape their windscreens and head to do the Brooklands Park Run 🏃🏼‍♂️ followed by this mornings task at the church clearing the clogged hoppers and gullies 🍁

Wayne was planning to do the park run as well but unfortunately could not make it and instead was going to meet the girls at the church ⛪️

Even though it was so cold there was a good turn out at the Park Run, with many familiar faces 😄

Anne completed the 5k as the fastest in her age group category 👏🏻

Katie has been back out running after a short spell of illness and today got one of her PB 5K time 👍🏻

Nadia who has really committed to her running schedule over the last few months did a GG PB completing the run under 30mins 🏃🏼‍♂️💨

Julie has recently started to do more park runs also finished in an amazing time 😄

Kirsty also completed the park run in a great time, could have been even better but being the caring and kind soul she is stopped while running to help a young runner tie his laces as his fingers were frozen ❤️

A fantastic achievement by all the GG Girls on this bitterly cold morning, and all deserved a hot beverage straight after ☕️

Once the girls had finished and fueled up they joined Wayne at the church. Wayne had black bags ready and together we all walked around the perimeter of the church to clear the drains and gullies of the clogged leaves.

Once completed we had to moved all the black bags of leaves from a previous task to another location as a skip was due to come next week where they will be disposed.

In no time we had finished, Nadia was excited to be heading straight to Aldi to explore the middle aisles 🤣 while everyone else headed home to warm up.

Depending on the weather this coming Wednesdays task may change to a training session look out for updates. 😀

Have a great rest of the weekend and stay warm 🥰

From a previous fundraiser I have done with the Music for All charity I had a bunch of leaflets which I distributed promoting the charity and the musical benefits it brings. 🎵🎶🎤🎸🎹