It was great to be back with the gang last night supporting Motherwell with their amazing charity. It felt like a long time since we’d last been together so it was nice to catch up with everyone again.

We were delighted to see you back for a second installment of Goodgym Rachel and really glad that the litter pick last time didn't put you off completely!!

Tonight‘s task was sorting out school uniform! Always a challenge, as there’s so much of it! It’s great to see so many people donating to such a great cause and it’s a great resource which serves the community so so well. Helps the environment too! Win win!!

Great to be back with you all, and looking forward to the next task!

Have a great weekend and see you all soon.

Lots of love Nicola xxx

PS - huge apologies to you Nigel for forgetting to give you your cream egg!! And I still can’t get over the fact that the rest of you don’t like them!!! What?!!!

Two GoodGymmers donned the hi-vis and helped put on another successful junior parkrun event, this time for 86 juniors! Well done Claire and Maurice! Your tailwalking, marshalling and event close-down efforts were really appreciated by all the juniors, parents and the parkrun team.

After last week's cancellation and last minute change of event, it was good to be back in the park with Crewe parkrun. Four GoodGymmers helped to bring the event together - Nicola on event set up (in between catching up with everyone in the park, including Colin the dog!) then barcode scanning, Nigel on course check and timekeeper, Karen as Run Director and results processor, and Mark on first timers welcome as well as grabbing the microphone to embarrass Karen (only joking! not embarrassed at all!) and announcing that today was her 350th time volunteering with parkrun! Wow!

Four GoodGymmers sported their warmest clothes for a fun but chilly morning at junior parkrun. A last minute change meant Karen finally got to wear the tailwalker tail - nearly 4 years after the event started! A little run was needed on the second lap to catch up with the children as one of the juniors decided they didn't want to finish so dropped out, that certainly helped to warm up! Marshalling the course were Maurice, Claire and Nigel, and everyone pitched in to close the event down ready for next week. Great work everyone!

Our superstar GoodGymmer Maurice racked up his 200th volunteering session at junior parkrun today - that is a top, top achievement! Amazing Maurice!

To reach 200 he has been a timekeeper 93 times, marshal 57, token sorting 27, giving out finish tokens 11, many weeks helping with putting all the equipment away, and today he increased his tailwalker tally to 14!

Tailwalker is an important role at parkrun to make sure no one comes last, and at juniors to keep the children safe. its always a but unpredictable at junior parkrun - will it be slow or fast? - today Maurice had to put a sprint on!

Well done Maurice and thank you for all you do for GoodGym and for parkrun. 72 juniors were physically active today thanks in part to your contribution.

Three GoodGymmers were up and ready fir volunteering at Crewe parkrun this morning, but early morning low temperatures resulting in ice stopped play in the park. Not to be defeated, Maurice, Karen and Nigel headed off to Trentham Gardens parkrun, and swiftly volunteered to help there instead! After a lovely parkwalk around the lake and Italian Gardens, the three spent 1.5 hours sorting around 870 tokens back into order ready for next week's event. The Run Director was incredibly grateful for the help, and it was nice still to be able to volunteer!