What a beautiful sunny day for a spot of jogging at London Fields!

Nearly 40 youngsters turned out for this week’s run supported by 3 GoodGymmers amongst the regular parkrun volunteers.

After a speedy setup, Rue expertly took on the role of Run Director, leading all the young runners through the warm up - with a little help from our junior volunteers doing their Duke of Edinburgh award. There were also 2 half marathon milestones to celebrate!

Sarah set up camp under her usual tree, bringing all the necessary support and high-fives to get our regular and new runners around the course. Sooz steered the children safely round as this week’s tailwalker.

Another fine week complete - thanks to all our volunteers. See you next week: https://www.goodgym.org/v3/sessions/london-fields-junior-parkrun-volunteering-before-hackney-half

Another glorious weekend - the blossom is still out and so was the sun. @nicholas and I arrived early to set up and having done so became a bit nervous that no one would show up, but in classic parkrun fashion just before 9 am we had a bumper crowd of juniors and lots of first timers too. Nicholas and I were grateful to the DoE volunteers, first time volunteer Marjon, and the various parents that were dragooned to enable the event to happen. RD Rue opened the event by welcoming the 46 juniors (I think that must be a bumper turn out) especially the 14 first timers. Well done everyone!

The warm up with Joel was next with jogging on the spot, bum kicked, star jumps, and arm stretches. Then we made our way to the start line. As they prepared to run, a few miles away in Greenwich the elite runners were doing the same for the London Marathon. 3, 2, 1, GO.

The amazing juniors ran, jogged and walked round, there were so many personal records it was hard to keep track.

Well done to the all the juniors for turning up and having a go - you are amazing. Next week’s junior parkrun is on 4th May - Star Wars Day! I wonder how many Wookies will come along?

Another fantastic junior parkrun at London Fields—and an extra special one for Easter Sunday!

Not knowing how many juniors might turn up, I took a guess at how many Easter eggs to bring. Luckily, Mas and Helen had the same idea, and between us, there were eggs galore as a sweet treat for all the finishers.

Thanks as always to the ever-dependable @nickMoore—everything was set up in no time. After a quick Hackney Haka warm-up, they were off! And what a brilliant performance from everyone. It was especially inspiring to see so many of our younger runners completing the course—truly amazing efforts all round.

Let’s do it all again next week!

15 runners came down to London Fields today and it was a smashing day for beating records and setting personal bests.

Nicolas and Sarah once again set up the course, ensuring that no youngster would get lost en route, whilst Nick and Sooz prepared the start and finishing straight.

Sooz gave the runners briefing and welcomed today's newcomers, and handed over the warm up to our young Duke of Edinburgh volunteers.

It was a fast course today, with the action wrapped up in 20 minutes and a speedy task putting everything away.

Once again a big thanks to GoodGym - the event couldn't run without you!

This week, 2 GoodGymmers joined the London Fields volunteer squad, to make up a merry band of hi-vis heroes glinting in the bright sunshine!

Nicolas set up the course whilst Sooz got the start and finish line prepared, and put up the flag.

Three youth volunteers doing their Duke of Edinburgh award took the 28 kids (and their grown ups!) through the warm up and there was time to celebrate Kit’s half marathon achievement too.

Sooz took role of Run Director and Nicolas took up position under “Sarah’s tree”, and the kids were off.

There were 6 new personal best times today, helped by some supportive volunteers at marshal points from start to finish.

Another task well done.

Another glorious morning greeted us at the Fields today, and the clock change didn't seem to have caught anyone out, as we had 33 enthusiastic runners (plus their coaches/cheerleaders) and a full team of volunteers made up of GoodGymmers (Simon, Nicolas and Nick), DofE participants and a small group from On Running whom Simon had clearly persuaded that spending a Sunday morning volunteering at junior parkrun was the best decision they'd make all day.

After a well drilled warmup led by Run Director Mas, with a little help from one or two of the younger runners, everyone was keen to get going in the morning sunshine - a quick last minute course check and we were good to go. Simon, on timekeeping duty, counted down and before he'd got to "1" the field was already sprinting away from the line, leaving Nick (on tailwalking duty) with quite a task to catch up. It wasn't long before the lead runners were reaching the far ends of the course where Nicolas, positioned at what is known as "Sarah's Corner", was on marshalling duty and ready to cheer the runners as they passed him by.

It was a very close finish for the leading positions - only a second separated the first 3 as they all made a sprint for the line in the home straight - and not too long after that the final runners (chased by the tailwalking fox...) reached the finish funnel - 9 PBs were achieved on the course today, reflective of the great effort put in by all those who ran. A quick pack up of all the equipment, tokens sorted, hi viz all returned, and event #313 was complete. See you next week for more fun at the Fields!