At Woking Junior parkrun this morning, a spectacular 197 runners charged across the 2 km course, supported by 35 volunteers, five of whom resembled the outpatient clinic of Woking Community Hospital. Not a single member of the Goodgym contingent actually ran before putting on their high-vis vests. What they lacked in functional limbs, however, they more than made up for in pure enthusiasm.

🏆 The Milestone Man • Wayne (The 300-Deed Legend): The undisputed star of the morning, Wayne hit a monumental milestone by celebrating his 300th good deed! How did he mark this legendary achievement? By hobbling onto the field in the middle of recovering from a knee operation. Wayne proved that you don't need two working joints to be an absolute community hero. 300 deeds down, and not even a surgeon's scalpel could keep him away!

🏥 The Walking Wounded Cheer Squad The rest of the team appeared less like a running club and more like a post-op recovery ward:

• Karen (The Holiday Survivor): Freshly back from her holidays, Karen brought home the ultimate, non-refundable souvenir: an arm completely encased in plaster. While casually waiting for her upcoming surgery, she used her one good arm to point children in the right direction with maximum enthusiasm.

• Adam (The Crutch Cruiser): Deciding that standard walking was far too mainstream, Adam spent the morning ambling gracefully on crutches. Fresh off the back of foot surgery, he proved that you don't need to put your foot down to stand up for your community.

• Luan (The Comeback Kid): Luan, as the only member not actively bound by plaster, stitches, or crutches, is bravely starting again to run; although "starting" was wisely deferred until after her marshaling duties.

• Anne (The Visionary): Anne brought a totally fresh perspective to marshaling. Having just undergone a cataract operation, she was out there spotting corner-cutting juniors with brand-new bionic vision.

Despite the squad having fewer fully functioning legs than a standard camera tripod, the team directed, cheered, and clapped with world-class enthusiasm. Fun was firmly had by all, proving once and for all that you don't actually need to run to make a Goodgym mission an absolute, roaring success!

Warm congratulations again to Wayne for his 300th Goodgym good deed!

Move over, DIY SOS—the Woking Wolves dream team is in town! That clubhouse is coming together so fast it might actually be ready before England wins a penalty shootout. ⚽💨

Here is how the morning’s task went down:

• The Power Couple: Me and a nail gun. A match made in carpentry heaven. 🔫🔨

• The Safety First Move: Ryan scaling the roof like a structural superhero while i decided my knee preferred to stay on solid planet Earth. 🧗‍♂️🦵

• The 2mm Perfectionists: Painstakingly spacing those slats for "expansion." If the wood stretches, you’re covered. If it shrinks, we blame Ryan. 📐🤔

• The Real MVP: Vikki arriving with the ultimate construction fuel—hot tea and biscuits. Absolute legendary status achieved. 🫖🍪

A few more weeks of this and the Wolves will have a headquarters so grand it'll put Premier League VIP lounges to shame. Keep hammering away! 🐺✨

Last night, the GoodGym crew assembled to celebrate Nadia and Andy officially tying the knot 👰🤵🎉.

Huge shout-out to Anne for booking the Grand Taj 🍛🔥. A few people couldn't make it, but honestly? More poppadoms for the rest of us 🤤.

When Wayne and Kirsty rocked up, Nadia, Andy Anne, Luan, and Caterina were already huddled together around what looked suspiciously like the round banishing table from The Traitors 👀🗡️ (more plotting on that in a second).

Before any Faithfuls got voted out, two massive towers of poppadoms landed, complete with a mountain of pickles and chutney to dive into 🫓🧅. Rebecca arrived fresh from the daily grind 💼🏃‍♀️, closely followed by Alys and her husband Dan.

The drinks flowed: beers 🍺, soft drinks 🥤, and one absolute legend who casually ordered an entire bottle of wine just for themselves 🍷👀 (my lips are sealed, but you know who you are).

Between ordering starters and devouring mains, we got the full wedding lowdown 💒💖. Plot twist: it was ALSO Alys and Dan’s 1-year wedding anniversary! 🥳 How has it been a year already?! Time flies when you’re not getting murdered at night ⏳😱.

Naturally, the chat spiralled into Celebrity Traitors 🏰 cloak mode activated! Superfan Dan led the inquest, with everyone passionately defending why they’d be criminal masterminds on the show 🕵️‍♂️🎭. Dan dropped a hot tip that there's now an immersive Traitors experience in town... so yes, consider that fully pencilled in as the next GoodGym team-building exercise (trust nobody) 🤫🔪.

Top-tier food 🍛, hilarious chat 🗣️, and 10/10 vibes all round 👌.

Next stop on the calendar: the Christmas party, with Alys taking the reins! 🎄🎅 Get your party hats ready! 🥳🍻

Woking Junior Park Run

This morning Wayne Anne, James Nadia & Olalekan got up early to carry out various volunteering roles at the junior parkrun, proving that heroes don't always wear capes—sometimes they just wear bright neon vests and look slightly sleepy! 🦸‍♂️🏃‍♂️

The early morning mist couldn't dampen the high spirits (or the excessive high-fiving) at today's junior parkrun! Five heroic volunteers dragged themselves out of bed to swap sleeping in for spreading joy, and the results were legendary.

Wayne​ was feeling less pain in his knee after surgery, sporting a little spring in his step that made him look like a rogue Tigger on the course. He was out there as a marshal, cheering and encouraging the young runners with the intensity of a football manager whose job depends on this match! 📣🦵

Anne​ was in full, operatic voice 🗣️, offering words of encouragement that could be heard three subdivisions away, and James 🐕 took on the role of tail walker, which is a polite way of saying he spent his morning successfully herding a flock of energetic children to the finish line without losing anyone 🏁.

Olalekan ⏱️ played the most stressful role of all: official timekeeper. With fingers poised like a Western gunslinger, Ola clocked those impressive speeds without missing a single beat 🤠🔫.

Nadia 👧🎒 brought her niece along for her debut parkrun—earning her VIP cheers from the GoodGym marshals—and then stayed behind to achieve legendary cleanup status. She hunted down every last cone, masterfully folded the high-vis bibs, and safely rounded up all the walkie-talkies. 📻 Cones, capes, and cleanup—she did it all!

It was a brilliant morning of community spirit, and plenty of high-fives, and perfectly clocked personal bests! 🎉🙌