Cambridge Half 2026

We had a blast supporting the Cambridge Half on Sunday!

Welcome to Tatiana who joined for her first GoodGym task 💪

It is our first year with GoodGym representation both on the course and behind the scenes. Kate, Sadiya and Catherine were in the bag storage tent, helping manage runner's bags and Tatiana was managing runners in the starting pens before switching to handing out medals and tote bags at the finish line. From start to finish, we had logistics covered.

It's hard to describe exactly what 15,000 bags in a marquee looks like, but the picture gives a good idea. We played a game of Where's Wally (Catherine) in amongst the sea of backpacks. It was an early start and surprisingly stressful at times, requiring military precision to stack bags and eagle eyes to spot race numbers at a distance. Teamwork really was key and the highlight of the morning was meeting like-minded volunteers and sharing tales of races gone by (followed closely by the free gelato 🍦) .

As always with Cambridge Half, the atmosphere was amazing and it was a privilege to hear runners motivations for taking part and their experiences of the race. Despite having only 50m of elevation overall, there were a lot of comments about the incline out to Granchester; a hill by Cambridge standards.

All in all, a great day and here's to 2027!

This morning, we headed to Coldham's Common parkrun to support their runners and walkers 🙌

Caroline was assigned to the marshal post on the hill and had a great time cheering on all the participants tackling one of Cambridge's few elevation changes. Meanwhile, Catherine very impressively took on a pacer role to guide runners around the course in the time they needed 🏃‍♀️

Everyone was in great spirits and there was a lot of chatter about tomorrow's half marathon in town. Best of luck to all attendees today taking on that challenge too! 💪

For tonight's group run we joined Running Events Cambridgeshire for the final session of their training plan ahead of the Cambridge Half Marathon on Saturday.

Caroline and I met to run to the meeting point, giving plenty of time to question the number of layers. It turned out to be a rather lovely evening, but we weren't feeling quite brave enough to shake the jackets, and had to settle for hoping that the run would have similar benefits to hot yoga.

After a briefing and a warm up, we headed on a casual 5k along the river and around Midsummer Common and Jesus Green, two of Cambridge's lovely green spaces. Also the location of the Cambridge Half Marathon event village, so we had a sneak peek at the set up. It was motivational to run with others and meet more of the Cambridge running community.

Once back, we enjoyed a much-needed beer and got to planning. We have had our first mission listed in Cambridge (🎉) which is very exciting, so we agreed the plan for supporting Mrs A and discussed details of an upcoming community mission being led by Caroline. Having reached out to a number of community organisations earlier this year, many are now coming back to request our support. We used the time to think about what our support could look like and how to grow these connections. Exciting sessions ahead!

Wishing everyone running the Cambridge Half on Sunday a great race 🙌