Ahead of the main event, the Northolt 10k, the regular Sunday Northala Fields junior parkrun still went ahead - of course! The rain clouds parted and the sun came shining through, but there was a lot of people milling around ahead of the 10k. The junior route needed to be kept clear to let the juniors have a fair crack at their run. One of our GoodGym runners was there for the 10k but volunteered to help with crowd control. This was greatly assisted by standing near a man with a megaphone!

Despite a small posse of cyclists arriving to rack their bikes and a takeaway delivery rider in a hurry taking a short cut, all passed off uneventfully - ahead of the full event! Well done junior parkrunners for another one ticked off!

A few Goodgym members committed to clean up local green spaces and streets in the month of October well done for your efforts shall we do it again for November. Check out photos and stories

October is the month of beer festivals and also a scary month as monsters come out!!Yes OktoberFest seems to be in the air as a lot of cans around the streets of the borough. Monsters too are around but in various forms. Gabriela and Simon were not scared of the Pickled Onion Monster Munch : bagged it straight away along with some other items found on the streets of Ealing. Steph Ducat has a few usual spots which give of the main roads like Burbage Close or should it be called Garbage Close as seems that always loads of litter in that area. Harvey spot is Hanwell - litter monsters are also present there not only at Halloween.