Sean Coxhead Inspiring Individual Award 2024 Trophy Presenation 🏆

This evening Woking GG celebrated all that is good and wonderful about our Anne 😇

Woking GG had reserved a VIP section at the Sovereign's and it was great to see such a good turn out. All our fantastic crew Adam, James, Wayne, Katie, Alys, Agathe, Maya, Rebecca, Kirsty, Lauren, Julie, Nadia, Luan, Caterina, & Sally Anne who was back in town for a few weeks as she was on uni break (Was great to see Sally Anne) and a lovely surprise for Anne 😄 it was also great to see Phil who joined us to celebrate Anne.

Anne has been with Woking GG from the very beginning she was there at the launch night back in 2016. She has seen many faces come and go but Anne has remained that constant face encouraging, supporting showing kindness to all that have joined. Her dedication and commitment has been amazing and it shows with over 300 good deeds and still going strong ❤️

Anne has taken on the roles as task force and now run leader, and continues to help others with organizing hill training sessions as well as tasks within the community.

Woking GG are very lucky to have her, Anne in her speech tonight dedicated her award to all her goodgym crew who she said also deserved the award but in our eyes Anne is a worthy winner of this amazing award as she also has all the attributes that amazing Sean had ❤️

Getting into the swing of things, I headed out for for an early warm up by stretching the legs before getting to the leisure center. As I got there a bit early, I went straight into the leisure center and grabbed an espresso to energise for the session ahead. Once I finished the caffeine boosting drink and went out to see who had arrived, Anne was happily waiting there as Alys and Katie arrived. We were all catching up with who we all were at Nadia arrived, saying she still felt a bit jet-lagged!! Anne started us on a warm up, with nice arm rotations to warm the shoulders up and then we moved into the ankles and legs. She clarified our session while we were all still warming up, saying a good warm up around the park as we had towards the hill of Ashwood Road. We all put our lights on and took a gentle run, the long way around the park so that we could all warm up well before reaching Ashwood Road. Once there we discussed the interval session where a 250 meter distance run up the road to where an off-junction is and then back down. So agreeing to run up and down six times covering around 3km would be a really good session. We started at our own pace so it wasn't long before we started spreading out, passing each other going up and coming down. Having a recovery time of 1 to 2 minutes depending on the effort people were running at it want to long before we could all take it easy completing the six reps. To ensure a good recovery we all took a nice slow run back to the park. Making sure we were all clearing any lactic acid that may have built up. Doing some lunges and then doing heel touches together with heels to bums we were all feeling much more relaxed. Wishing everyone good luck and to have fun on tomorrow's task at Woking food bank.

Adam, Alys, James, Katie, Wayne and Anne met in Woking Park on this warm Sunday morning.

It felt as if spring has definitively arrived. Even the 170 young runners had spring in their steps. The tail walker approached the finish line within 23 minutes! This was great for the GG members who were going straight after marshalling to another community mission to plant trees. (See Wayne’s report).

22 children ran in Woking for the first time, I am sure they will be back and, there were 48 PBs. It was great to see so many smiles and enthusiasm.

This week, you might want to join us for a training session on Wednesday or help cleaning the foodbank at the Light House or even do some gardening in West Byfleet on Saturday. All the information is on our website.

Happy running in the (nearly) spring!

Another Sunday morning, another junior parkrun!

Despite it being -1 outside, 126 children and their adults turned out to Woking park for their weekly run & walk.

The sun was shining though - bringing smiles to faces and making it feel like Spring is finally on its way!

Alys, Wayne, James & Adam all took on marshalling roles today. We loved cheering on all the children as they made their way around the park.

A massive congratulations to fellow volunteer Vicky for an incredible 500 volunteering stints at parkrun which she achieved this weekend! She got a big round of applause from the crowd, and a bunch of flowers from the director team.

We'll be there again next Sunday, why not sign up? Junior parkrun is cancelled at Woking on 16th March due to the Surrey Half taking place.