This months Park Run takeover, was given a little bit of extra sparkle ✨️ as Dani and Duncan not only came to help with set up, as part of the takeover, but they also both achieved to milestone of running their 50th Park Run. Gail and Sam joined them to get the event set up, an early start thats not for everyone, but they always do a fantastic job. Martin was marshalling and enjoyed cheering 👏 on all the runners 🏃‍♂️ as they passed him in the delightful April sunshine 🌞. After finishing their milestone run, Dani and Duncan 🎃 walked round the whole course again to share brownies with all the marshal's. Well done team on another successful takeover and well done to Milestone duo on the achievement.

Five GoodGymers took on a dozen volunteer roles between them on a busy Parkrun morning. With last week’s deluge thankfully behind us the park was sunny, dry and teeming with happy parkrunners.

Small in number but highly visible, between us we helped set up the course, checked it was safe, briefed a huge crowd of first timers, marshalled the run, scanned barcodes and managed the finish funnel. Once everything was done we helped to close the event down, packed up the trolley and returned it to the boathouse ready for another week.

A lovely morning for a Goodgym takeover at Luton Wardown Parkrun. As ever, a variety of roles were undertaken - beginning with setup. The early shift found that a damp night had brought lots of worms out on to the course. Not a tough hazard - unless you're a worm... After tens of the little fellas had been safely moved back onto the grass (and all the signs and cones and stuff were in place) things were ready to go. More Goodgymers arrived to marshal, scan barcodes and tail-walk ensuring that 350+ fellow runners enjoyed another fantastic morning in our beautiful park. Back next month!

A strong turnout on a cold morning for our first Parkrun takeover of 2024. It may have been cold but the GoodGym January challenge is heating up. We’re racking up the good deeds and the miles! Big momentum for the second half of the month!

GoodGym takeover week! A moderately damp day saw a much-reduced field of Parkrunners and a small but busy team of GoodGymers take to the park. We set up the course, marshalled, welcomed newbies and handed out finish tokens to the hardy souls who successfully ran through the puddles and up the hill (four times!) Tea and cake afterwards made it all better.

A mega turnout made this a GoodGym takeover worthy of the name. We covered set-up, marshalling, timekeeping (with no alarms!) finish tokens and barcode scanning. A beautiful late autumn day in the park, 230+ runners and a sociable cuppa in the clubhouse to follow. What could be better?