LITTER-ally the biggest ever Gunnersbury Parkrun!

On Saturday 5th January GoodGym descended on Gunnersbury Parkrun with 32 of us turning up to volunteer, run and plog our way to a fantastic start to the new year!

As well as regulars from Ealing and Hounslow we had tourists from lots of other GoodGym areas which was lovely to see. We also had 4 brand new GoodGym members join us so a big welcome to Sarb, Andre, Chris and Alasdair!

Cheers to the volunteers!

We filled most of the volunteer spots for parkrun and it was great to see all the red GoodGym t-shirts out in the park across various roles. We had scanners, marshals, time keepers and token sorters as well as pacers, a tail walker and runners over the whole field! A massive thank you to everyone who helped out, almost everyone who ran also helped with either the set up or break down too so it really was a team volunteering effort!

Well done to the runners!

• Graham was first GoodGymer home and 2nd overall with a new course PB of 17:48
• Callum bagged a new PB and his first sub 20!
• Remy scored herself a new PB of 26:47

It's all about the pace

• James paced 22 minutes coming in at 22:10
• Andy paced 23 minutes perfectly and came in at 22:55
• Sarah paced a great sub 25 in 24:42
• Michael paced a speedy sub 26 in 25:32
• Paul had those looking to do sub 28 following him round and he came in at a perfect 27:56

Pacing is not an easy task and everyone did great!

It's never BIN bigger...

After a record attendance at Gunnersbury parkrun (626 in total!) it was time for the main event... Plogging! We all chipped in to help pack up the parkrun equipment and then assembled to arm ourselves with bin loops, pickers and gloves and split into groups across the park to help clean up any litter we could find. The woods lining the paths seemed to be the worst affected areas so we all did a bit of rambling around and in some cases crawling under shrubbery to get those pesky cans out!

We split everything into recyclable and rubbish so that it could be taken to the right bins after we were done and luckily most of what we found ended up in recycling!

We agreed to meet back at the nice warm cafe where everyone ditched the equipment in favour of a well earned hot beverage before parting ways, I can't think of a better way to spend a Saturday morning!

Thank you to everyone for coming along!