GoodGym Ealing's regular visit to Pitshanger Junior parkrun coincided with a recent increase in the number of runners. Usually, they see a peak right before the Ealing Half Marathon at the end of September and, more importantly for the Junior parkrunners, the Ealing Mini Mile. Last week, there were still 97 runners and this week, only 1 shy of the ton at 99 participants

Ninety-nine runners on a grey morning with an storm due to hit at any moment was pretty impressive. The volunteers were made of tough stuff too, with an abundance of marshals around the course. Steph and Kash were 2 of those marshals, while Sevan had nabbed Kash's usual role as a barcode scanner.

Nothing too unusual happened, apart from Kash spotting a fleet fox taking part, or at least a fox tail rushing past her. Whether they were a fox or not, they needed to have a parkrun barcode if they wanted their time to be recorded by Sevan. Talking of recording times, Sevan delayed submitting them while token sorting, hoping that runner number 100 would appear. He then set off to get a coffee without uploading his results 🤦. Cue a bit of panic and running back to try and find the run director.