The 400th Acton junior parkrun (big celebration, woohoo!) brought 94 little finishers and some GoodGym legends as well!

Maria and Steph looked fresh and energetic, not indicating at all they'd just walked an overnight marathon, The Shine Walk! Congratulations both! If completing the race in 6h 19min itself wasn't enough of a feat (it was!), then how about reporting to junior parkrun duty in the morning to help set up the course? Some of you may call it craziness, we call it dedication!

Maria, with a shiny diamond still left in her hair from the race's glittery outfit, directed children into the funnel, and Steph gave the first timers a warm welcome and briefing, and then marshaled near the funnel.

Alan and Kash were the gatekeepers - marshaling at the South and North gates. Kash dealt with an emergency shoelace fix for a boy whose mum apparently hadn't heard of double knots.

It was quite a gap between the supersonic two leading girls and the tail walker, so the marshals enjoyed more time in the gentle autumn sunshine until the brand new fluffy fox tail has passed them. What a fantastic morning was it, finished with a chat over coffee!

Between Friday the 18th and Sunday the 21st, Goodgymers were spotted at different areas near water to take samples and test the water quality.Freshwater watch : checking the Nitrate and phosphate levels. Goodgymers having a sample day :

• Maria sampling Thames water near Kew Bridge
• Alan was at Gunnersbury Pond
• Sevan on the canal nor far from Elthorne Park
• Steph Ducat was on the Grand Union Canal between Southall and Hayes

Phospate levels pretty all the same for all and the nitrate levels with slight variants of pink but no signs of pollution at the areas sampled. No one ended up in the water - all nice and dry and having a sample day.