Woking junior parkrun 205 on a sunny Sunday morning.

106 children took part in the Woking junior parkrun 205 and 5 GoodGymers: Anne, Eddie, Lauren, Richard and Victoria made their way to Woking Park to help this week’s run director: our very own James.

While warming up one of the young runners fell and grazed his knee. Anne distracted him while his Mum used her first aid skills to clean up the wound. All ended well and the little boy enthusiastically completed the 2 kms. He did not get a PB (because of his injury) but there is always the next time...

6 children were given a milestone wristband for their brilliant distance achievements. It is quite impressive to realise that little boys/girls not 10 yet have run more parkrun than some of us!

It felt like spring and the children seemed to fly past the marshals. 21 got a PB!

James, now better his injury, had run 11 kms with Rich A before preparing the course with Rich and Victoria Davis. Anne had managed 5 kms. Lauren, our session photographer, is training for the Brighton 10 Kms with her friend Tanya who volunteered today too. Eddie ran after helping this 205th session.

This Wednesday we will meet at 6pm at the Run Company to go plogging with them. We hope to see you there as the saying goes: the more, the merrier!

Have a great running week.

James, Adam and Lauren drove over to Dorking to help out with the event.

There was a 2k race for children, and 10k and 10 mile races for adults.

Lots of people were running with their dogs and there was a great atmosphere.

While it was still light, Lauren and James went off to buy bananas and sweets while Adam got involved in setting everything up.

James helped with registering the participants to their foot pods while Adam and Lauren went off to take position at their marshal spots.

Eddie travelled separately to get there and helped with final setup preparations and a challenging marshal spot where the runners would end up passing him twice along the route.

James was sent at the last minute to marshal spot 2, to guide the runners to go up the hill, and then followed the last runner collecting all the signs and reflective ribbons along the way.

After a few hours we all met back near the start to grab coffee and teas before heading back to the car where Lauren produced the chocolate cakes she had bought for the squad.

It's fair to say that supporting this event was difficult and challenging but we were equal to the task.

It was great to get back home and relax in a hot bath afterwards.

’Twas the last junior parkrun before Christmas, when all through Woking park

33 runners were ready to go for the morning’s lark,

Some were sporting festive hats, It was clear their parents had put them in that.


The children were at the start line ready to run;

Looking forward to today’s fun. A group of volunteers including Eddie, Rich, Victoria, Alys, James and Anne all in high vis; Really did look quite the biz.

Out on the grass, Terry-Anne shouted ‘go!’; And they sprang from the start line with a mighty heave-ho,

Away like a flash; parkrunners and parkwalkers made a Santa like dash.

It was a rather overcast and chilly Sunday junior parkrun morning at Woking park.

There always seems to be a smaller turnout this time of year - perhaps due to the fact that it’s December, perhaps due to seasonal sniffles going around keeping people under the blankets at home.

52 kids still turned out for today’s parkrun and spirits were high, there were even a couple of Santa hats spotted on the course.

Four of the 32 volunteers were representing Woking Goodgym: Adam, Rich, Victoria and myself. Victoria, Adam and I all marshaled at various points around the course, whilst Rich had the role of timekeeper.

A stalk on Strava revealed that Adam and non-Goodgym Rich had completed an 8 mile run before arriving for their volunteer shift.

The run briefing revealed that Goodgym Rich and non-GoodGym Rich had both reached their 100 volunteer milestone - what an achievement!

Junior parkrun is back next week, shortly followed by the Woking & Sam Beare Hospice Festive Fun Run which we spread the word about on Wednesday’s group run.

This morning 4 GG members carried out volunteering duties at the junior park run.

Wayne was on barcode scanning duties, Richard was one of the official time keepers while Anne & Eddie were out on the course carrying out Marshall duties cheering and motivating the runners around the 2k course.

Regular volunteers James & Adam could not join us today as they were taking part in the ASICS 10k up in town, good luck to them and I’m sure we will hear all about it next week….🏃🏼‍♂️💨

On this sunny morning 98 runners took part. With the 1st finisher finishing in an amazing 7:32. There were also an incredible 24 PB’s. Week on week many of these young runners are achieving PB’s which is great to see.

After such a great running from everyone many got a well deserved ice cream from Mr Carlos our regular ice cream van man 🍦, its never to early for an ice cream. 😋

This coming Wednesday we will be running along the canal to Brockhill care home carrying out some gardening duties. It will be a beautiful evening be sure to sign up.

This evening James, Wayne, & Eddie assisted a local running club No Sweat Running Community in their couch to 5k running programme 🏃🏼‍♂️.

It was a beautiful evening ☀️and was great meeting some amazing people today was week 5 of the running programme which consisted of 5 mins of running and 3 mins of recovery this being done 3 times.

The effort from everyone was superb even Rocket the dog 🐶 was enjoying the exercise and treats from Big Rich.

After the session we all had a warm down and a good natter about everyones efforts and discussed next weeks session.