This morning we ran 5km just for the fun of it

This morning GoodGym runners met at Lloyd Park to take part in what is billed as the toughest parkrun in London. Let us know if you think it is. We had local GoodGym Croydon runners as well as some from Hackney, Lewisham, Bromley and a few other London locations that I didn’t write down! It was lovely to see you all.

It was a bit of a grey, damp and windy morning but that didn’t stop the GoodGym posse from proudly displaying their short-sleeved red t-shirts to all and sundry. Ivo was handed the megaphone just before the run and promoted GoodGym to the assembled runners – 240 in total – and then with the other runners headed off along the “undulating” course.

After the run some of the GoodGym crew worked the bar code scanning queue and handed out leaflets and spread the GoodGym word. Hopefully we will have sparked some interest in the runners. I also cunningly volunteered to write the parkrun report so there may well be a few mentions of GoodGym slipped in there. Thanks also go to Dom’s dad, Chris, for volunteering to take photos of the runners and I’ll be posting as many as possible. I’ll also look into having them posted on the Flickr account for Lloyd parkrun.

To warm up we headed into the Parklife café who have been very supportive of our recent runs with their retweeting, space for our leaflets and the video running on their big screen with the YouTube “Speed Volunteering” clip.

Thank you to everybody who turned up today and I hope you had a wonderful morning.