First GoodGym report from me Luan; and first mission marshalling at Jnr parkrun. It was also the first time marshalling with GoodGym for Karen who has been on a similar amount of missions to myself, we are the newbies of GoodGym. We had both arrived at the bandstand early to find John setting up, and were able to chat for a while.

When the other two girls arrived (Nadia and Katie) from GoodGym it turned out to be an all girl group, as you can see from the photo. I think it would have been a bit much if we had burst into song, but we looked the part! Karen and I managed to secure a marshal spot each from the map and a radio. I had brought my own high vis jacket and Karen got one from John which had Jnr Parkrun written on it.

The Woking Jnr Parkrun held an award ceremony at the bandstand, one of the children had run the length of a marathon whilst on the parkrun (Katie whispered that it wasn’t something that was independent to the parkrun group), amazed we all clapped and cheered! There were a number of children who received awards…

Then the start of the run, we all made our way to our positions. All that was left was to cheer. I couldn’t think of anything else but ‘well done’, ‘keep going’, ‘good luck guys’, well done everyone’ and ’almost there’, the parents were really lovely and commented thanks marshal. The children and parents were great runners, some of them were so tiny and young. Luckily it wasn’t raining but there was quite a chill in this winter weather.

The tail end marshals let us know when the last runners had passed our positions and we were to return to the bandstand.

It was a lovely event, I can’t believe how well everyone did to run 2k around the park. So well organised and such great spirit all round!