A sunny morning for a junior parkrun - the perfect way for 88 juniors to burn off some energy from all the Easter eggs!

Nigel and Karen represented GoodGym today at junior parkrun - taking in several roles between them - run director, course set up, greeting and thanking all the volunteers with easter eggs, chocolate marshal, finish token support, event close down, communications, results processing and token sorting!

It was a lovely evening spent with the loveliest people on a task that was really rewarding.

Before we started the task, Karen, Rachel, Nigel, Maurice & Nicola set off for a walk which took us through some lovely woodland where we met some very friendly dogs, saw the odd squirrel and chatted all things Easter (mainly chocolate eggs!) . We walked 2.5 miles in total and that was before we set to work with our very physical task!

Tonight, the aim was to clear 2 overgrown footpaths near to the bus stop in Haslington It has been left to get overgrown for some years - to the point of not even realising there was even a pavement there!

We all set about the task with shovels, hoes, cutters and brushes and soon had the path cleared. It was definitely one of our more physical tasks but also one of our more rewarding ones too. The transformation was quite remarkable!

Well done everyone. A super successful task! You're all amazing Hope the backs aren't aching too much today!

Lots of love Nicola xxx

74 juniors and their parents were able to get their Sunday morning fix of walking, running and skipping thanks to the amazing volunteers, including our very own Maurice, Mark, Emily and Nigel!

Emily and Nigel were marshals around the course, Mark led the course set up team, and Maurice had the all-important tailwalker job which turned into a bit of an interval training session! Maurice joined Emily and Nigel with packing everything away before retreating to the cafe for tea & coffee and a good catch-up.

We were joined by a very special guest as part of the GoodGym / parkrun team this week - Stanley the very cute daschund! Stanley had just returned from his holiday in Norfolk where he'd been enjoying walks on the beach, seeing the seals, long walks, coffees and ice cream - but it was just as lovely for him to be in our favourite park!

Stanley joined Nicola (run director, event set up, course check, and results processor), Karen (timekeeper, volunteer coordinator and communications person), Mark (parkwalker), and Nigel (tailwalker and event close down) . 359 people walked and ran at parkrun this week, made possible by the amazing team of volunteers.