It was a glorious sunny morning in Pitshanger Park - but very cold. I marshalled at junior parkrun and cheered on 72 youngsters around the course. Parts of it were very muddy and there were a lot of puddles. It’s great seeing all the runners pass especially the really young ones. What a great way to start a Sunday morning

Maria , Steph Ducat and Harveyarrived early as ran to the park, so helped setup the course, mainly around the roundabout. we out signs up and Harvey did a course check. Alan arrived and joined the crew. While we were waiting for the children, a small girl arrived with her special necklace....a princess necklace which was going to help her with her running. Apparently she would not come without it : so we had a princess on the course.Maria then did the warm up: well done!! Joannaand the others were marshalling around the course which saw roughly 50 finish the course on a sunny chilly morning.

Maria and Steph Ducat met at Ealing Broadway Station to run Acton Junior parkrun. Nice chatty and easy pace 3km run to the park. Warmed up to help setup and then cheer the children on their run.

Wet Saturday and 2 Goodgymers did not let Mrs R down : Harvey who had already completed 2 community missions earlier in the day joined Steph Ducat who made his way after another Mo Run Half Marathon in Richmond. Mrs R was not at home, but she was on her ring bell and Mr R opened the door to us. Mrs R is a regular for Steph and her husband remembered me as been here a few times for either the front or back garden. He thought we would not come due to the weather, but we all know that doesn't stop Goodgymers. Told him we wouldn't get anything done if we avoided the rain. Their cat followed me but not to the outdoors : was it too wet? Today was to weed and do some plant/tree trimming which we whizzed through together. Got rid of the weed in the different flower plants, in the grass and on the slabs. Also trimmed the tree on the side as looked spiky again. Green bin 3/4 full!! Good news it didn't pore down during the mission, but the cat still stayed in and was litter-ly supervising us. What a cat-itude!Or was he looking at the fish in the pond?

It was the annual We Run Ealing/GoodGym Ealing collection of old running shoes at Gunnersbury parkrun. Our combined volunteers were on hand to make sure shoes were tied together and thrown into our sack. But that was not enough, our team also ran the parkrun and volunteered with barcode scanning.

Thanks to the generosity of our a local man with a van, the shoes are now on their way to Jog On, bound for a new purpose. The ones that can salvaged will be passed on to runners around the world who can't afford decent shoes. The rest will be broken down and recycled - a right result!

A Monday night out in South Ealing, walking past the Grange Primary School and Olive Road, brought two bags of litter collected on the way.