3 GoodGymers were out helping parkruns across Cambridge this morning.

Over at Coldham's Common, Scott was setting up the the most beautifully symmetrical finish funnel, which saw 438 finishers through it! I was on barcode scanning and had a lovely morning chatting with finishers and sharing some encouragement where needed.

The volunteers were abuzz as they realised a new course record had been set this morning, an astonishing 14:55 🤯

Over at Fulbourn Hospital, Harriet was timekeeping, seeing 165 people across the finish line 🙌

We're heading to Milton Country parkrun next week, if you fancy joining us. Sign up here

Perfectly timed thick fog made for an atmospheric Halloween parkrun this morning 👻

Harriet and I were at Fulbourn Hospital parkrun, which is set in the hospital grounds and felt very eerie. Harriet was volunteer coordinator and I was marshalling. There were frightfully good fancy dress outfits on the course today including the brilliant tail walkers dressed as dinosaurs (with very large tails).

Well done to all those who took part today, you were fangtastic 🦇

Congratulations Harriet on your 100 parkrun volunteer milestone 🎉 You are an integral part of the Fulbourn parkrun team making great things happen 🙌 We celebrated with cake, naturally, all homemade by Harriet and absolutely delicious!

Special mention also to Caroline, who reached her 50 parkrun milestone while park walking with her mum earlier this month 💛 A solid achievement, well done 💪

Another weekend, another set of parkrun volunteering credits.

This week Scott was at Brook Leys enjoying a run followed by very efficient token sorting with many hands making light work of the 350 finishing tokens.

Over at Fulbourn, I was making a much less elegant job of token sorting, opting for post-run comfort over parcticalities. There was, however, organisation in the chaos and in a short time all 150 tokens were sorted and packed away. I also arrived early doors to help with set-up. My first time doing this at Fulbourn and I've never asked so many questions about cones. We erred on the side of caution and used every cone available to mark the course and some rather large rabbit holes - it ended up looking like a race track in places (very much a run not a race).

Harriet took the lead as run director at Fulbourn, delivering an excellent briefing and overseeing another successful event! 🎉

In our most novel parkrun tourism to date, Caroline was running a vineyard parkrun and enjoyed some very crisp post-run refreshments.

Well done to all volunteers and finishers today 🙌

GoodGymers were out supporting parkrun across the city again this week.

Scott was topping and tailing Coldham's Common parkrun with good deeds by helping with set up and token sorting. In the middle, despite a faulty watch, he managed to smash yet another PB 🙌 What a morning!

Over in Fulbourn, Harriet was gaining another volunteer credit by supporting Fulbourn hospital parkrun with token sorting. The parkrun 100 volunteer milestone is in sight!

We go again next week at Brook Leys and Fulbourn.

GoodGymers where out in force this morning making events happen North and South of the the city.

Up in Northstowe, Becky and I were supporting Cambridge Acorn Project at Northstowe Running Festival by managing a water station on the half marathon route. We took a lovely cycle from Cambridge arriving with plenty of time to fill 100s of cups of water and master the fiddly job of setting up the rubbish sacks.

We had a great time handing out water and cheering on runners who were doing a fantastic job! The rain held off for a while, but about 2 hours in, it started pouring, with the cups filling themselves. Water, water everywhere (and a drop to share) 🌧️

We took cover while the worst passed and had even more respect for runners persevering in those difficult conditions. 💪

After a swift clear up, we headed to a local cafe to warm up with a much needed cup of tea ☕

Further south, Harriet and Caroline were reunited at Fulbourn Hospital parkrun, and were joined by Jacob to make a volunteer dream team. All went smoothly with Harriet as Run Director, supported by Jacob on timekeeping and Caroline on number checking. This new role for Caroline meant a new parkrun challenge badge 🎉 Aligning perfectly, there was plenty of cake to enjoy from parkrunner milestone celebrations. Yum!

Shout out to Scott who was representing GoodGym and in charge of pre-course checks at Coldham's Common parkrun last week when the sun was still shining ☀️

Two Goodgymers volunteered at Fulbourn Hospital Parkrun. Catherine did a great job cheering on runners while marshalling. She then joined me and another volunteer to help with post run closedown, collecting up all the cones used to mark the course and rabbit holes. What a heroine! We rewarded ourselves with a nice hot drink and cheese scone and a chat with some of the other parkrunners. It was a lovely way to spend the morning.