Four fantastic GoodGymmers helped 23 youngsters complete their junior parkrun this morning!

A warm welcome back to Marek, alongside seasoned regulars Nick, Rue and Sooz.

Rue and Marek took on the dream team timekeeper and finish tokens, while Nick handled his usual turning point position with finesse and Sooz stepped up to tailwalker.

There were two incredible milestones today: 100 Parkruns for Julia and Edith!

All packed up by 9:30 and our Sundays were off to a wholesome start.

A brilliant GoodGym team as always. Join us next week?

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Volunteered at Hackney Night Shelter

Another week, and another tree watering innovation - the two way hose splitter, allowing two hoses to be attached to the tap at the same time and fill up the water canisters double quick!

Today's priority was watering the slightly older young trees (planted 4 years ago). Although more established, these are showing signs of dehydradtion and struggle against the warm weather.

Next, the team focussed on the very young saplings planted last winter in the more sheltered areas. Although these young trees are more sheltered from the sun, they are also more sheltered from the rain and suffering more than some trees in other parts of the common.

It was lovely to have Nuredin join the team for his first ever GoodGym task.

We'll be back next week for another round of drinks for the trees.

Volunteered at Hackney Night Shelter

On a summer’s Monday evening, seven GoodGymers headed to Traid in Dalston to assist with preparation for their summer sale.

Splitting up across shop floor and stock, the team tackled cages of donations by hanging them up on rails to be sorted while the upstairs crew neatly reorganised garments into colour order.

We had a great time helping Traid out and catching up with each other. A special welcome to newcomers John and a welcome back to Richard after a number of years!

We’ll be back at Traid over the coming weeks so keep your eyes peeled for more.

Another blue sky morning at the Fields, with 31 juniors taking on the 2km challenge (along with a few of their coaches...), including 5 first timers who were made to feel very welcome by the crowd.

Sooz, as today's Run Director enthusiastically led the warm up with a mix of knee lifts, star jumps and stretches, and then it was time to gather at the start line. Nick, on timekeeping duty counted down to go, and they were off up to the first turning point and onto the course.

Just over 8 minutes (!) later, the leaders were sprinting down the finishing straight, and it was great to see everyone cheering and high fiving all the runners as they headed to the finish funnel - 3 PBs today, which was a great effort in the sunshine.

Initially we thought we'd "mislaid" a few of the finish tokens when we did the usual post race sort out, but eventually from various directions, runners (or adults) sheepishly appeared with one or more tokens in hand, and it seems we have a full set ready again for more fun next week.