Today's chilly London Fields junior parkrun had the support of 6 well-wrapped GoodGymmers to help bring 35 youngsters from start to finish line.

Rue took the role of Run Director today and started the kids off with an incredible Haka to warm up and get motivated for today's epic run. The children (and adults!) got into the spirit and had fun with it - with Rue making special note to respect the Māori roots of the ceremonial dance.

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John, Nick and Jess took on key marshal positions around the course to keep our youngster running safely in the right direction. Sooz managed some precision timekeeping, and Louise (who had already run to parkrun!) bravely took on the role of Tailwalker. This week that required a lot of running, to pick up late comers and catch up with the tail of the course. A lot of kms picked up for Louise's January Challenge pledge!!

A big GoodGym welcome to Jess who came to her first session this morning - and headed on to the FUNDAY SUNDAY task straight after. Well done Jess!

Come along next week and join Rue again to enjoy some wholesome volunteering fun on a Sunday morning.

On a very wet and cold morning a group of intrepid Good Gymers, JO, john, Louise, and Nick, joined the London Fields Junior Parkrun core team to set up and marshal a quickly improvised wet weather route. Thankfully no one's spirits were dampened by the rain as lots of enthusiastic juniors put in epic performances to both run and orienteer around the course. With customary zeal the parkrun GoodGym combo made swift work of packing up in record time so we could all dash off somewhere warm and dry.

Storms over the weekend have seen lots of parkruns cancelled and in truth we thought carefully about the conditions for todays run, but agreed that if you were ok with getting wet and muddy, and perhaps prepared to skate a bit too, we could press on. Although they were few in number the hardy souls who turned up put in impressive efforts. I say hats off to the amazing children who braved the strong winds, rain, and mud to take part in todays parkrun. The juniors were undiminished by storm Durragh. We did not hang around with the warm up - a quick run through of Dingle Dangle Scarecrow, but we made sure there was time to congratulate Emmie on her 22nd parkrun and joining the illustrious Marathon Milestone Club in receiving her green wristband; Jack too was super impressive as we cheered him in receiving his grey wristband marking his 100th parkrun (actually it was his 101st!) Although it was no day for PB’s on the course the volunteers certainly attempted a record as the fastest tidy away once the runners were all in. All packed away Mas and I sheltered in the park keepers hut to process the results and that was it for another week. I hope all the runners had a well deserved cup of hot chocolate when they got home. As for me a a toasted crumpet with strawberry jam and a slice of cheese was just what I needed whilst I dried out.

GoodGymmers Simon, Sarah, and Sooz helped 32 junior parkrunners complete a 2km run round London Fields.

The team was joined by a wonderful bunch of volunteers from ON Running to marshal positions all around the 2 lap course and support the youngsters to achieve an incredible 6 personal bests this morning!

Sarah took up her usual spot under the big tree, and Simon took on the important role of timekeeper - making sure that every young runner received a time for their run, and can measure their success week on week.

Join us for the next GoodGym volunteer session at London Fields next week with Run Director, Rue.

There were almost more volunteers than runners at junior parkrun this morning thanks to last night's storm putting a dampener on festivities!

Simon brought with him an entire crew of taskers to support a speedy group of sporting superstars as they pelted around the course at London Fields, navigating the Hackney Carnival floats and stands.

One of our quickest ever parkruns, despite the wet ground underfoot, and all was wrapped up within 45 minutes, with a bunch of big smiles from all the children as they crossed the finish line.

What a day, the excitement was building for the Hackney Half even at 8:30 when I arrived to help set up for the parkrun. I caught up with Mas, and was so pleased that @sooz was on her mobile as we negotiated lost keys at London Fields Lido, eventually we were able to access our kit and start the set up - me to rush around putting up the markers (with a lot of help from Sammy, and for Maz to do the finish funnel and corral the runners ready for the warm up. We were also grateful to be able to get some watching parents to join in with marshalling and other tasks. The warm up is always a lot of fun, then we got set. I gave the countdown and pressed start timer, they were off - I never tire of the joyful sight of lots of littlies going full gas across the field. Quite soon they had settled into their paces and were putting in impressive performances on the two lap course. The conditions were perfect and the little lad visiting from Perth in Scotland produced an incredible effort to secure first place. Taking my time keeping duties seriously I ran between the cheering corner and the finishing funnel to give a hero’s welcome to everyone who crossed the line. They really were super impressive. By 9:30 it was all done and packed away - bish, bash, bosh! until next time...