It was great to be back out with the gang again this week after a few weeks off for Christmas!

We were delighted to welcome Rachel, who joined us for the first time tonight. We hope you had a great evening Rachel and enjoyed your first GoodGym litter pick! We hope the cold weather and some grim bits of rubbish didn’t put you off and that you’ll come and join us again soon :)

Karen, Nigel, Rachel, Maurice and Nicola collected probably one of our biggest hauls ever! A whopping 10 full bags of rubbish collected from just a small area of the town - and we could’ve kept going and collected a lot more!!

We rounded up the evening with a nice brew, beer and snacks at Hops Bar where we made it our duty to educate Rachel about parkrun, lol! I’m not sure we’ve done enough to recruit her though (just kidding Rachel!).

We definitely made a difference to the streets of Crewe tonight and it was nice to hear a few car horns beep in appreciation too!

Have a great week everyone. You're all amazing ❤

Lots of love Nicola xxx

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.

What do you do in that bit between Christmas and New Year where no one knows what day it is, and you are fed up of eating? Volunteer at junior parkrun of course! Thats what six GoodGym members did - they gathered in Queens Park and made the junior parkrun magic happen!

Claire, Emily, Maurice, Mark, Nigel and Karen carried out lots of roles - Run Director, event set up, course check, volunteer coordinator, first timers welcome, warm up leader, timekeeper, barcode scanning, marshal, and results processing. Phew! Thats a long list and a huge contribution from GoodGym. 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!

Maurice and Nicola had a fabulous evening out with The Round Table and Santa collecting for local charities.

It was wonderful to be back out with Santa this year! It’s definitely one of the highlights of our year! We love it!!

The evening was brilliantly organised with Sam directing each of us to the houses we were to knock at. We even had a pit stop with gorgeous hotdogs and chocolates! How lucky were we!!

It was so lovely watching the children get so excited to see Santa and seeing their eyes light up as he passed by on his sleigh. Santa was very friendly and took time to chat and have photos with his adoring public ;-)

The weather was even kind to us too. It was a dry, mild night so made the evening perfect.

Thanks for having us Santa! See you again next year!

xxx