The cold and wet didn't deter all the festive runners. Doug and I had the task of first setting up a small water station (should've been a tea hut today!). Then we were directing 10k runners right, shortly followed by 5k runners to the left. Once that was done it got more complicated for a little while as we tried to work out who was coming back to turn to the finish and who was halfway (10k runners).

We met the Grinch too!

We got lots of thank yous and gave up our marshal points about half an hour after we'd lost feeling in our hands and toes!

Happy Christmas everyone 🎄🎅🙂

A busy night for Goodgym Portsmouth this evening as we had 2 group runs taking place. A huge welcome to Doug who joined us this evening for his first group run to North End Baptist church. Make sure you give him a cheer. Katie, Doug and Jo ran up to the church from our meeting point and we met Tony there who had cycled. The church has a Christmas Fete and show on this weekend and we were asked to help clean up the outside of the church by pulling up all the weeds and clearing away any rubbish that had been dropped. The outside looked a lot cleaner and tidier once we'd finished. Although there weren't many of us the job didn't take too long and we were soon wrapping up warm and running back home.

Remember next week is our last group run until the new year, you can sign up here. We do have a lot of community missions going on over the festive period which you can see here.