Using one of Ed's legendary Marshalling phrases for the report title to celebrate his 200th parkrun volunteer session. 🥳

Originally reluctantly dragged to his first parkrun in July 2019 (by Linda in the hope he might take up running) Ed opted to volunteer and was immediately hooked. Soon his enthusiasm and witty encouraging phrases became legendary among not only the parkrun community but spread to other local running groups.

With Ed proudly taking up his usual post as car park marshal the rest of us were scattered around the course taking on a variety of jobs, marshaling, VI walker, timekeeping, token giver and bar-code scanning. The Run Director bigged up Eds achievement during the briefing instructing runners to cheer him back as he cheered them on the way round- which I am reliably informed they did.

We came together at the end, with some of us assisting with the close down before settling in a corner of the children's playground for a cup of something and a bite to eat. Sadly Colin couldn't make it this week but sent his stand in Wiggles instead 🐛

How lovely that so many GGR members were available for a midweek morning session at Frenford Food Bank. With Kathryn, Peter, Jenny and Julia taking a break from their usual jobs and regulars Ed, Linda and AJ, seven of us got stuck into the packing lists for 57 food parcels to help local families. Then the phone kept ringing with local helpers offering to come along and it ended up with 14 of us. We were getting on so well we even had time for a little break midway for a cup of tea and a treat in honour of our Eds birthday today. Rested and refreshed we ploughed on finishing the job in good time for lunch. 🥳🥳🥳