*Junior Park Run *

This mornings junior park run was the 1st of 2026 🏃‍♂️ and what a great turn out it was despite the cold weather.

Wayne arrived first after doing his normal Sunday 10k run followed by Adam & James.

The boys were out on the 2k course cheering the young runners around. In total there were 117 runners who took part with the fastest time being a fantastic 07:47 😀. There were also 17 PB's great running by everyone.

It was definitely a damp park run this morning, although still surprisingly mild for December. The children arrived in true dramatic fashion at the very last minute, at one point it genuinely looked as though the marshals were going to outnumber the runners by a considerable margin. The combination of wet weather and festive commitments also clearly took its toll on attendance.

Wayne, Anne (sadly minus her tutu thanks to the rain), Adam and Karen were out on the course volunteering and managed a quick catch-up about Wednesday’s very enjoyable Christmas meal at Zizzi’s — clearly a highlight of the week!

Despite the drizzle and the soggy course most children bravely completed the two-laps. One can only assume that kids, parents and volunteers then made a swift and determined retreat in search of warmth, dryness and a well-earned hot drink.

Woking GG Xmas Meal 🎅🏽

Goodgym Woking members got together for a Xmas meal last night at Zizzi's 🍕.

What a great turn out last night was it was fantastic to see so many turn up to celebrate a great year together as Woking GG.

Firstly big thank you to Nadia who organised the venue 👏🏻.

Karen arrived first as she was already in town helping out at another local charity 😇 followed by Wayne. The table setting was impressive full of Crackers and decorations 🎗. Adam then arrived without his crutches which was great to see, still not back to 💯 but recovering well. Adam was telling us about his house move last weekend and how grateful he was to his fellow goodgymers who assisted his 😄 Caterina arrived shortly after looking very glam and sparkly ❈. Karen was telling us about her up and coming trip to India 🇮🇳 traveling around for a month just after Xmas, sounds amazing. As the conversation was flowing Kirsty & Bryan arrived followed by Melanie he had come straight from work. Stephanie arrived followed by Julie everyone was looking very festive 🎄. Just behind Anne arrived wearing her GG Shirt as well as her red tutu ❤️ Nadia & Andy arrived followed by Alys who had brough us all little choco treats ❤️. And finally Rebecca arrived straight off the train. It was great hearing about Rebecca 1/2 marathon that she did in New York 🗽 few weekends ago.

Now that everyone had arrived we could order food and drink. Plenty of food was ordered from Pizza's to Risotto's To Pasta dishes everything looked and tasted great.

All in all it was a great night celebrating a great year with fantastic people. ❤️

The weather was dry this morning for Woking junior parkrun, but hooo, how chilly!

Woking Goodgymers came in force to cheer the young runners who sped the two laps round the park. Adam (and his Mum), Alys, Anne, Luan, Nadia and Wayne met at the Bandstand before taking up various positions to marshal. All of us, with a varied degree of enthusiasm, took part in the warm-up. Adam was excused because if his broken foot though.

The first runner to cross the line did it in 7:29 and the 120th runner's time was 21:16. There were 24 PB and 9 ran the route for the first time.

Will we see you on Thursday evening at the Foodbank when we will do our monthly deep clean? In the meantime, happy running to you all.