This morning we helped the recently launched South Norwood Country Park

Early this morning we headed over to the beautiful South Norwood Country Park to help at the local parkrun. This was only its 11th run and needed a little help with volunteer numbers. These runs can only happen when enough people help out with the many tasks needed to ensure a fun and safe event. So if you do enjoy taking part don’t forget to take your turn!

Six of us met up with Jules who was Run Director for the first time and we were issued our attractive luminous yellow bibs and allocated tasks which included setting up the course and keeping our fingers crossed that we didn’t get the directions wrong and turn it into a 10k! We also marshaled and joined the tail runner for some of the last lap. Heather and Swazi also managed to squeeze in the run too! Special mention has to go to Jules for her amazing piece of poetry – who knew a safety briefing could be done in rhyme!

After all the runners were back safely we regrouped and the consensus was that since some had joined in parkrun a fitness session wasn’t needed we had a chat about GoodGym and all the ways to get involved – so hopefully some new Tuesday evening runners and Mission and Coach runners too.

The Starter sessions are to introduce new runners to GoodGym and give them a chance to see what we do and also to tell them about Coach run and Missions. So we were happy to welcome Heather and Swazi to the GoodGym crew where they were able to chat to the regular runners – it was great to meet you all and hope to see you again soon.

This Tuesday’s run will be to Birdhurst Community Gardens – so sign up here

We’ve also got another two Starter sessions this month. Hopefully one next Sunday although it’s to be confirmed and a definite run on Saturday 30th of September.