This morning twelve of us, including first timersFiona & Daisy, volunteered at Junior parkrun and not only earned ourselves a Goodgym good deed we got a parkrun volunteering cred too! Gulit free parkrunning for a couple of months and twelve extra good deeds towards our total for the January challenge!

We met in a deserted Hove Park at 8.30am where we were assigned our roles by regular Goodgymmer Roy, who was wearing his parkrun Run Director hat today. I got to do the warm up, Helena was tail walker, Michael was Fun Manager (ok funnel!) and everybody else was doing the essential role of marshalling and cheer leading as the 127 four to fourteen year olds completed the 2km course. Roy explained that the junior parkrun needs more marshalls than the regular parkrun so they often struggle to get enough volunteers so our help was really appreciated. All parkruns need volunteers to ensure they go ahead week after week and volunteering at the junior event means you don’t even have to give up your own Saturday parkrun. A win, win situation!

Once we'd cheered and high fived the juniors to the finish line we took on the 2km course ourselves and followed it up with a short fitness session making use of the outdoor gym equipment in the park. , Rosemary impressed us all by banging out several pull ups, whilst most of us struggled to just hang on to the pull up bar!

By the time we’d finished our session the deserted park we’d met in at 8,30am had transformed to a hive of activity including boot campers, tennis players, dog walkers and footballers showing what a great resource our city parks are.

Hope to see you on Tuesday for our next group run helping out in Hanove and Elm Grove ward.