On Saturday 23rd February GoodGymmers from all over London descended on Finsbury Parkrun, including 15 pacing, marshalling, and bar-code scanning volunteers!

As well as locals from Islington and Barnet (local-ish?) we had tourists from lots of other GoodGym areas – including south of the river – which was lovely to see. As well as our 15 volunteers, there were also lots of GoodGym runners out there to enjoy the morning’s run – great to see all you lot too!

We filled a decent number of parkrun volunteer spots and it was ace to see a sea of GoodGym red around the park.

Finsbury parkrun isn’t your standard parkrun though – it’s got a rather large hill halfway round, which can really mess with your pace. With that in mind, everyone pacing did well to come in v. close to times. Well done to the runners!

We’re all about that pace, ‘bout that pace

• I paced 20 mins coming in at 19:57 (a sterling effort if I do say so, etc. etc.)
• Vic paced 22 mins coming in at 21:51
• Damian paced 25 mins in 25:03
• Steve paced 27 mins in 26:25
• Frances paced 30 mins in 29:59 (near-perfect!)
• Kike paced 33 mins in 32:58 (amazing!)
• Vicki and Charlotte paced people to 38 ½ mins

No trouble! A good few people running said we’d help get them to PBs – and we managed to spread the GoodGym word to a few more runners. The parkrun results show lots of PBs around the times we paced. Feel proud!

All credits also to our excellent marshals and barcode scanners who actually make parkrun possible. Great work. Parkrun is an amazing free thing we should all try to give back to every once in a while – why not volunteer at your local parkrun soon? There will almost always be a spot for you to do something!

*Title credit to Steve, who pointed out that for those pacing, this morning’s 5k technically made up: a GoodGym good deed, a parkun volunteering credit, and another parkrun. Notch up those numbers!