This morning, Sam and Dani met the rest of the set-up crew down at the boathouse in Wardown Park. With set up complete, we were joined by Martin who was volunteering as a marshall and we snapped a photo of the 3 of us. This was Martins first visit to Parkrun since reaching the 500 milestone, so his new T-shirt was on display, we got a pic before he had to don his volunteer his vis! All in all, today was a job well done. It would be great to have a few more sign ups for the next Parkrun takeover on Saturday 14th June. Save the date!

Wardown Parkrun was the venue for todays task, with a team of 6 Goodgymers attending this months GG Parkrun takeover. Covering various volunteer tasks from set up to Parkwalker and of course Marshaling (who did their own takeover at the top of the hill). An optional extra for the Parkwalker was a pretty pink paddle that was held proudly in the air all the way round the course. Well done everyone, great effort today 👏 👍🏻 💪

Eight goodgymers supported over 340 parkrunners on perhaps the most glorious Saturday morning of the year so far.

Set-up, marshalling, timekeeping, barcode scanning and close-down roles were filled by Goodgym Luton. No hopping around to keep warm, sunglasses needed, lovely!

Spring’s a coming!

5 Luton Goodgymers got up nice and early to support the Wardown Parkrun this week. Doing various role, from Set up to marshalling and even enjoying a Saturday morning stroll as official Park walkers. The Marshall were really encouraging and that made it a really nice event this week. Great effort team 👏

The final Goodgym parkrun takeover of January 2025 saw 8 Goodgymers assist a whopping total of 333 parkrunners to have a fun, safe run jog or walk in the winter sunshine.

Cricketing superstition dictates that when the batting side reaches a Nelson score (111, 222 etc) everyone in the dressing room should lift their feet off the floor, lest a wicket should fall. We couldn’t know during the event that the total number of runners would be a Nelson, but now that we do, and we’re all safely back in the warm, it’s probably best to put our feet up to be on the safe side…

4 Goodgymers made their way to Wardown Parkrun for another stint supporting the event.

Much warmer this week at a balmy 3 degrees (!!!) Sam kicked things off with the course setup, ran the event, then finished off with the course closedown 👏👏👏

Pam took on park walking duties (and photographer) while Dani and Duncan were posted at the far end of the course to cheer and encourage all of the runners/walkers.

A welcome return to "dog bin corner" brought Dunc's Dog Bin Disco to the masses with some pumping tunes to keep the blood flowing!🕺💃🎧

(I've used one of Den's photos...hope that's ok)