We certainly enjoyed the best part of the day at Eastney juniors this morning - the rain stayed away until all the little munchkins had finished their runs.

Aoife kept an eye on the whole course whilst she tail-walked with Aida, whilst Judy, Sam and Katie helped keep runners on course at some of the marshal spots. Dave showed his time-keeping expertise, whilst I did what I do best - making lots of noise as the Run Director. Always one for modesty, I even gave myself a shout-out for my 250th parkrun volunteer this morning.

Go GoodGym!!

Busy week of collecting tubs and taking them to local Greene King pubs to be recycled.

After warming up with a coffee after parkrun, we headed out along the lake path to see what we could clear.

Inspired by my socks, we introduced Andy and Nene to some exclusive Pompey vocabulary - there was talk of dinlos, squinnying and chufty badges, amongst some other slightly ruder expressions! We then moved on to languages, and Andy impressed us with his Welsh!

We didn't find many of the usual litter pick bingo finds, but Dave did find a delightful bow tie! There was also some death-defying stunts to retrieve litter from the reeds - fortunately nobody added a cold-water swim to their morning.

Team GG headed out to Lakeside today to help and partake in parkrun.

We had people in the car park, marshaling and dancing. Some say to entertain the arriving runners, others say to try and increase their temperatures from below zero.

The course was a mix of pink and red as we headed out and marshalled and cheered.

Jen also added to the good doing by shouting out "Pole!!!" and "Keep Left!" to ensure all runners were safe. She continued this in the queue for pistol run coffee by bellowing out names of orders as the staff made them.