At Woking Junior parkrun this morning, a spectacular 197 runners charged across the 2 km course, supported by 35 volunteers, five of whom resembled the outpatient clinic of Woking Community Hospital. Not a single member of the Goodgym contingent actually ran before putting on their high-vis vests. What they lacked in functional limbs, however, they more than made up for in pure enthusiasm.

🏆 The Milestone Man • Wayne (The 300-Deed Legend): The undisputed star of the morning, Wayne hit a monumental milestone by celebrating his 300th good deed! How did he mark this legendary achievement? By hobbling onto the field in the middle of recovering from a knee operation. Wayne proved that you don't need two working joints to be an absolute community hero. 300 deeds down, and not even a surgeon's scalpel could keep him away!

🏥 The Walking Wounded Cheer Squad The rest of the team appeared less like a running club and more like a post-op recovery ward:

• Karen (The Holiday Survivor): Freshly back from her holidays, Karen brought home the ultimate, non-refundable souvenir: an arm completely encased in plaster. While casually waiting for her upcoming surgery, she used her one good arm to point children in the right direction with maximum enthusiasm.

• Adam (The Crutch Cruiser): Deciding that standard walking was far too mainstream, Adam spent the morning ambling gracefully on crutches. Fresh off the back of foot surgery, he proved that you don't need to put your foot down to stand up for your community.

• Luan (The Comeback Kid): Luan, as the only member not actively bound by plaster, stitches, or crutches, is bravely starting again to run; although "starting" was wisely deferred until after her marshaling duties.

• Anne (The Visionary): Anne brought a totally fresh perspective to marshaling. Having just undergone a cataract operation, she was out there spotting corner-cutting juniors with brand-new bionic vision.

Despite the squad having fewer fully functioning legs than a standard camera tripod, the team directed, cheered, and clapped with world-class enthusiasm. Fun was firmly had by all, proving once and for all that you don't actually need to run to make a Goodgym mission an absolute, roaring success!

Warm congratulations again to Wayne for his 300th Goodgym good deed!

Last night, the GoodGym crew assembled to celebrate Nadia and Andy officially tying the knot 👰🤵🎉.

Huge shout-out to Anne for booking the Grand Taj 🍛🔥. A few people couldn't make it, but honestly? More poppadoms for the rest of us 🤤.

When Wayne and Kirsty rocked up, Nadia, Andy Anne, Luan, and Caterina were already huddled together around what looked suspiciously like the round banishing table from The Traitors 👀🗡️ (more plotting on that in a second).

Before any Faithfuls got voted out, two massive towers of poppadoms landed, complete with a mountain of pickles and chutney to dive into 🫓🧅. Rebecca arrived fresh from the daily grind 💼🏃‍♀️, closely followed by Alys and her husband Dan.

The drinks flowed: beers 🍺, soft drinks 🥤, and one absolute legend who casually ordered an entire bottle of wine just for themselves 🍷👀 (my lips are sealed, but you know who you are).

Between ordering starters and devouring mains, we got the full wedding lowdown 💒💖. Plot twist: it was ALSO Alys and Dan’s 1-year wedding anniversary! 🥳 How has it been a year already?! Time flies when you’re not getting murdered at night ⏳😱.

Naturally, the chat spiralled into Celebrity Traitors 🏰 cloak mode activated! Superfan Dan led the inquest, with everyone passionately defending why they’d be criminal masterminds on the show 🕵️‍♂️🎭. Dan dropped a hot tip that there's now an immersive Traitors experience in town... so yes, consider that fully pencilled in as the next GoodGym team-building exercise (trust nobody) 🤫🔪.

Top-tier food 🍛, hilarious chat 🗣️, and 10/10 vibes all round 👌.

Next stop on the calendar: the Christmas party, with Alys taking the reins! 🎄🎅 Get your party hats ready! 🥳🍻

Nadia led the 3k run to Knaphill School via the canal with some quick exercises to start, I myself (Luan) followed along, thankfully Nadia had the route planned. It was a really sunny day today but with a nice breeze so the run was pleasant! Once we reached the school we continued from the work GoodGym had done the day before, I ventured up the ladder to paint some honey at the top of the building and Stephanie joined to help paint some of the flowers and bees. We managed to get quite a lot of painting done, but as we were running back another 3k stayed for about one hour. Stephanie stayed behind to help continue painting! Personally, I was quite happy with the run and have some weight to lose so was grateful for the training. What a great way to start the day on a Sunday, get the endorphins pumping!

Last night, six members of GoodGym Woking went on a plogging mission near to the Hoe Valley.

Adam, our designated photographer, Julie, who is thinking about training as a Run Leader, Karen who has now completed 40 good deeds, Kirsty whose enthusiasm for GoodGym knows no bounds, Luan who is determined to join our tasks and missions more often and Anne, armed with Woking Council's litter pickers eagerly joined forces to fill up three enormous bags of rubbish.

Our plogging was met by local people expressing their gratitude, which boosted our spirits! We also appreciated completing this task in the daylight and without feeling cold or wet! Let's agree that this second plogging session was a (rubbishy) success.

Yesterday, Anne and Harriet started to prepare the work to paint a beautiful mural “The Hive” on the wall of one of the school buildings. Vikki, the volunteer who organises the work for the school, was not sure whether teachers and/or parents would be able to come and help with the painting. Well, you just had to ask GoodGym: the response was fantastic!

This morning, from 9:00, seven GoodGymers from Woking: Agathe, Harriet, Kirsty Luan, Melanie, Stephanie and Anne, made their way to one of Knaphill schools. They were responding enthusiastically to the cry for help thrown at them yesterday.

Armed with bright coloured paints, brushes of different sizes and clear instructions from Vikki, we all went to task. We enjoyed the relaxing atmosphere and the opportunity to catchup with each other’s news after the summer while some of us could show their incredible artistic talent.

There is still more work to do, but today’s results are very promising! I believe there was a mention of adding some butterflies, ladybirds and dragonflies… which are the names of the different classes.

Vikki’s leadership is exceptional and GG Woking has already promised to come back to finish the mural, paint the other walls of the Hive. We will also give a hand to Mark, Vikki’s husband, who is preparing the foundations for a summer house, on the field. It will be used by the PTA and the Football clubs. Muscles will be required to put the summer house up and more painting will be involved then too!

Thank you GG Girls for today’s un-bee-lievably rewarding mission!