What a way to start 2025! 323 parkrunners and 30 volunteers - including 7 GoodGymmers - all leapt out of bed to join this special parkrun. This week the 7 Goodgymmers carried out the following roles: event set up, volunteer coordinator, first timers welcome, timekeeper, barcode scanner, number checker, course close down, token sorting, and the all important roles - participants! Why else are we all here?! Another lovely morning with lovely people, well done everyone.

Six GoodGymmers brought the sparkle to Crewe parkrun on a dreary damp Saturday between Christmas and New Year. Karen, Nicola, Maurice, Mark, Marjo and Nigel all volunteered, covering numerous roles: volunteer coordinator, returning rescued signs from the last parkrun (thank you Maurice!) , course set-up, barcode scanning, timekeeping, tidying away the kit ready for next week, helping an injured runner, sorting the tokens, and social media. Every part was greatly appreciated by the 325 participants.

Its the most wonderful time of the year! It seems everyone came out for parkrun on Christmas Day in Crewe this year, with 525 festive runners, walkers, Santas, elves, a penguin and a dinosaur!

GoodGym played some very important roles in making this wonderful event happen - Karen as Run Director with the safety brief, Nigel on set-up, Mark (dressed as a penguin, of course) and Marjo welcoming people to Crewe for the first time with the all-important welcome briefing, Nigel timekeeping (and that was a BUSY job!), Nigel, Karen and Maurice on course close-down, and at the end Maurice, Emily, Nigel and Karen all part of the token-sorting team. Karen's volunteering extended into the afternoon with results processing and updating social media.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Another lovely uplifting morning at junior parkrun! The skies might have been grey but nothing could bring down our mood as we enabled 78 juniors to run, jog, skip and walk the 2km route.

We carried out a whole range of roles today - Mark on event set up, course check, chief sweeper, superb warm up leader with one of our juniors as his assistant, handing out finish tokens, and event close down. Claire as tailwalker, kept company by one of our chatty juniors! Marjo as a marshal giving out high-5s. Nigel on course set up, course check supervising Mark on his sweeping duties, marshal and event close down. Karen as Run Director, volunteer coordinator, number checker and results processor. All in the space of an hour! Great job everyone!

I think its fair to say that we made an impact at Crewe Parkrun today!! Between the 5 of us: Karen, Kat, Marjo, Nigel & Mark we managed to cover 11 different roles!! We all take great pride in helping out at our weekly parkruns, especially in our lovely Queens Park and today was no exception - the sun was shining and it was a wonderful morning to be out and enjoying being with other parkrunners.

Well done everyone ❤

5 People covered 11 different roles:

Run Director Event set up Course check First timers welcome Parkwalker Timekeeper Close down Token sorting Results processor Report writer Photographer

A lovely morning was spent supporting our lovely Crewe parkrun. Between us all, we took on various roles (some of us even doubled up!!) including:

Run Director Pre-event Setup Volunteer Coordinator Timekeepers Barcode Scanners Token Sorters

We all love being involved with parkrun and its always nice to catch up with each other and have a bit of banter too!

It was lovely to catch up with you all. Thanks for being awesome as always ❤

See you soon!

Lots of love Nicola Xxx

PS - Sorry that I didn't manage to get everyone on the photo :(