Southsea parkrun

38 GoodGymers have supported Southsea parkrun with 14 tasks.


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Dave MooreJane
Jen StonehamYvonne HawleyLaura WellsSinéad McCarthy

Perplexing Potterings

Saturday 20th January

Written by Dave Moore

We had a variety of jobs to cover at Parkrun this morning.

Jane and Laura left us early to head onto the course to take up marshalling points. Vicki and Sinéad had a lovely walk together and were the GG photography team. Yvonne was ensuring each runner got their correct time, and wondered if a cattle prob and electric finish funnel would make people behave! And Jen and Dave were up and at them early (much to the formers annoyance) to complete course setup before taking on the timers duties. Maybe the extra time in bed would've been beneficial as Jen counted in an extra 23 runners compared to Daves spot on timekeeping. But didn't beat the record of 30 additional runners that have been counted at a previous run!

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JaneSamantha BelfrageTracey DeanLaura WellsVal CameronKatie London

2024 is off with a Bagpipe!

Monday 1st January

Written by Jen Stoneham

GoodGym Portsmouth were out en masse to get our January Challenge off to a flying start this morning.

We covered a range of roles at Southsea parkrun, from handing out finish tokens to barcode scanning and marshalling to token sorting. We also saw a few other GoodGymers out logging some kilometres, so we are now on the leaderboard for both distance and deeds this year.

We were also treated to a special performance of Auld Lang Syne on the bagpipes by Pompey running royalty Dan Del Piccolo.

Happy New Year, GoodGym!!

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Sunshine after the rain at Southsea Park Run!

Saturday 28th October 2023

Written by Sinéad McCarthy

Took S to Southsea Park Run. . Luckily the weather stayed dry!

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Judy KnappKatie Carew-RobinsonCatherineWilsonJo KitchingTony Hewett

Wind-based puns are a breeze to make up... 🤪

Saturday 25th March 2023

Written by Jen Stoneham

It was a rather blustery morning down at Southsea parkrun today, but eight hardy GoodGymmers braved the cold and the wind to lend a hand.

Katie and Dave were our early birds, out completing the course check and setting up ahead of the event.

Catherine and Judy (who definitely wasn't late!) took up marshalling positions along the prom, whilst Tony was out on the course supporting and pacing for friend of GoodGym, S.

Back at the start line, Jo, Wilson and myself made up half of the barcode scanning team, enjoying small talk from the runners. There were definitely mixed feelings about the weather this morning!

Thank you to everyone who came down, RD Stephen was super grateful for all our efforts this morning.

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AoifeEllieGeorgina ParrottWilsonMeghanJo Cooke

Southsea parkrun marshalling

Saturday 28th January 2023

Written by Jo Kitching

A calm, sunny and crisp Saturday was perfect to help out at Southsea parkrun this morning. A huge congratulations to Wilson who made it to 200 good deeds today and a massive welcome to Georgina and Meghan who joined us for their first Goodgym community mission. Make sure you give them both a cheer. We all had a mixture of tasks this morning, Jo north was there early to assist with the pre event setup and then allocated to bar code scanning. Meghan and Georgina were the turn point so unfortunately we didn’t get much of a chance to talk but hopefully we can do that on other missions and group runs. Aoife was a very keen and eager bar code scanner making sure everyone knew where we were. Sinéad was handing out the tokens to the finishers and there was large number today due to the nice weather so was very busy. Dr Jo, India and Judy were marshalling along the prom and then assisted with the token sorting alongside Wilson who ran and then helped to sort the tokens. Ellie was parkrun walker and post event close down and asked if we fancied a dip in the sea afterwards with her. Sadly a lot of us had other plans that didn’t involve going into the freezing sea. We’re nearing towards the end of the January challenge and we still have a few community missions listed for the rest of the month. Have a look here for what is going on.

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Blown away by parkrun

Saturday 7th January 2023

Written by Katie Carew-Robinson (she/her)

On a very blustery day we had GG representatives at all the Portsmouth parkruns.

Katie was at Lakeside doing finish tokens (very cold hands) Aoife was scanning at Great Salterns in the mud Tony was at Southsea tailwalking and trying to resist the string seafront gusts of wind. Ellie was tail walking at Havant

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