Michael and Flo were out and about at Cardiff Junior parkrun again. Flo was Run Director for the 5th time, and had assigned Michael as start and finish set up, along with the unofficial role of 'Emotional Support Goodgymer'.

Luckily, there were no incidents or issues. 136 juniors took part, with 14 first-timers, 31 new PB times, one tourist from Andover, and five milestone wristband achievements.

Cardiff Junior parkrun celebrated their 400th event today! There were 185 finishers, 17 of whom ran for the first time here. 48 juniors achieved a new personal best time, and 10 juniors achieved milestone wristband achievements.

I headed down to Cardiff Junior parkrun for the 9AM start for volunteers. A local school was doing a 'takeover event', and there was an incredible amount of volunteers arriving on time (this is rare, and I include myself as one of those frequently tardy volunteers!).

I was marshalling the coveted 'Cowbell' spot, with three other volunteers. Cowbell is noisy and demanding, with runners potentially coming from three different sides in two different directions at any point. Cowbell needs to be set up with a strategic cone arrangement.

Only there was one problem.

The 'Cowbell' cone bag was missing. It was later to be found behind a box in a volunteers garage, but right now the four of us were debating what to do.

One volunteer was able to borrow five cones from another part of the course, though this was still woefully inadequate. In the end, I was a 'human cone' blocking off the one part of the path runners don't need to go on. I did a very good job as a human cone. You could say I was outstanding in my field...

After all the runners had finished, a parent came over seeking help with trying to find their two juniors barcodes. Between myself and another volunteer, we were able to find the junior barcodes through a popular but unofficial parkrun mobile app. We then had to go diving through the token bucket to find the two juniors finishing tokens.

Even if we hadn't gone to these great lengths to record these two results, Cardiff Junior parkrun would still have ended up with a new course record breaking amount of finishers. 262!

The previous course record was in the low 220s. 262 was unexpected, but appreciated.

On a drizzly day, 8 goodgymers made their way to help the future generations of runners at junior Parkrun.

And this week our regular Flo was in fact Race Director.

Event number 377, 101 runners (it didn't seem like that many until scannign at the end) and a goos 28 volunteers.

Another wonderful Sunday in the park, even with some rain.

Another Sunday morning, and this means it's time for Juniour Parkrun.

Croeso

Welcome to our 'tourist' Harvey, good to have you at another community mission with Cardiff. Nic, lovely to see you with us again.

Flo doing a grand job on 'Cowbell Corner', Photo evidence provided!

Michael and Emma donning their tails and heading out to walk the route.

A nice 143 runners today, and the fastest 7m 51s.

Another lovely morning.

Four hearty goodgymers got together on a Sunday morning, it was a good varied selection of roles today from timekeeping, funnel management, cheering to tokens. A little chilly but worth it as those happy faces finished with some great effort.

A nice 135 little ones today completing the course. Plenty more this month so why not take a look at another Sunday if you can.....