For today's community mission, 3 goodgymers headed to Arbury for a litter pick. Caroline, Eva and Harriet put on their layers and met up to help clean up a community courtyard with lots of shops. The biggest culprits were the cigarette butts, and the team used the fiddly job to practice their picker skills! 🚬🪏

During the task, the group rotated roles and took turns to either pick or hold the rubbish bag. Forgetting to bring the hoops that help, Caroline accidentally made bag-holding a more important role! Plenty of chats about upcoming holidays and homemade knitwear were an added bonus 🧣🧤

🙌 Town and Gown 10k, what a day!

It was Cambridge GoodGym's first time volunteering at an organised run, and it was brilliant fun. Working alongside the MDUK team, we were in charge of the finish line water station. The best place to be to congratulate runners and enjoy the great atmosphere 🎶

Having arrived early, we fuelled up on croissants and set to work laying out and filling over 1000 cups of water. We established a very efficient system working as a strong GoodGym team 💪

Later in the morning we mixed it up a bit and stacked up boards of cups to take out to runners, catering style. They were very grateful, and it was motivating speaking with runners who had just crossed the finish line.

Well done team and congratulations to all the runners 🎉

From start to finish, we had Storeys Field parkrun covered!

Caroline had an early start to help with the set up, Michele and I were motivating runners and walkers as marshals (it was especially fun to cheer Caroline as she smashed a fantastic run 💪), and Eva was supporting at the finish line. A real team effort 🙌 All topped off with post-task coffee and pastries. Perfect.

A huge welcome to (Michele) who joined us for her first good deed with GoodGym and her first parkrun! 🎉

High drama at parkrun this week with a newbie parkrunner slipping out of the finish funnel for another 85m in pursuit of a PB. Thankfully, we had a great group of GoodGymers helping to keep things running smoothly! We were doing a bit of everything today - as well as managing the finish funnel, Eva and Nick were marshalling and Alexandra was tail walking. Brilliant to have so many of us working with other parkrun volunteers.

Congrats to all parkrunners who battled the humidity, and we look forward to getting back to Storeys Field soon!