What a vibe at Brighton Marathon events!

Well done all Brighton GoodGymers, we are all amazing! ♥️ 💚What Good we do truly matters 💚♥️

Huge shoutout to all Brighton GoodGymers at the Brighton Marathon Events, especially to the new GoodGymers Angela, Lilian, Delia, returning Amaryllis and superstar David!

❤️💚🦸‍♀️ On Saturday, GoodGym parkrunners Nicola, Sarah and others, Stefania, Richard, David, escorted the superheroes at The Miles event. Running The Mile with the little superheroes was an absolute blast— it really brought out my inner child!

On Sunday, we had 13 GoodGym runners smashing their personal goals and pushing for new PBs on the marathon, trail marathon or 10K. Meanwhile, another 15 GoodGymers stepped up as 'Event Activators' or as ‘Plogging’ legends, forming the ultimate Brighton Marathon Events’ community volunteering support crew.

The GoodGym Official Plogging Team 2 run, walked and litter picked for 10K in a relay with other Green Runners on the marathon route from km 11.3 to km 24.1 while doing a green community mission - litter picking!

For the 2026 Brighton Marathon weekend, a few dedicated Green "Plogging Teams", organised by The Green Runners + Leave No Trace Brighton, actively "plog-ed" (jogged and picked up litter) along the 42-km Brighton marathon’s route. This was a first time ever initiative during a major running event in UK aimed to remove dropped gel sachets, cups, and other waste, following a successful 5K community plogging event held in February 2026 to promote environmental sustainability.

Together, the Official Plogging Team of Brighton Marathon Events cleared a staggering (estimated) 22,000 gel wrappers – demonstrating that a joint community action can move the change for our planet! The 2 full bags collected from team 2 were put in a black wheelie bin on the route due to being too heavy to carry back. The 4 bags at the end (video) were about 30kg each. 💪 Those bags were no joke to drag, but what an incredible effort for a Greener race! 🙃🤪😯

♥️💚GO GoodGym Brighton! Get Fit, Do Good...Move to Change! 💚♥️

This week, a hard-as-nails GoodGym contingent made their way to the Brighton Community Workshop in Kemptown, billed on its website as a "collective garden shed", a kind of tool nirvana bursting at the seams with everything from nut drivers to ratchets. An organisational task was on the table, for the team to bring order to chaos, to metaphorically extract the spanners from the works.

The team were welcomed by Pete Ranson, director of the workshop (and also recognised by some as director of the East Brighton parkrun), who quickly mapped out the evening's assignments. One group was to rationalise onto various shelves different lengths of wood so that visitors to the workshop could easily be offered the sweet spot size they would need for their respective DIY projects. The other group were focused on categorising into tupperware containers a impressive variety of screws, nuts and other tighteners/ fasteners, as well as many other miscellaneous items, including alum keys, picture hooks, and a 22cm ruler.

Going at it hammer and tongs, the GoodGym gang soon recognised that the task required mental acuity as well as physical agility, but as usual rose to the challenge and the workshop was duly transformed. There remained plenty of potential for a sequel visit however with much still to sort, and Pete offered some a quick tour down to the cellar, revealing further boxes and vertiginous piles of items to be catalogued.

The Brighton Community Workshop & Tool Library opened in Kemptown in 2022, following a previous iteration as part of Revaluit in Old Steine, and offers a creative space for crafting and building, skills workshops (including regular arts and crafts sessions) plus an expansive tool library that functions like a book library. As the session wound to a close, and the team filtered out to clink glasses at a social at the Sidewinder, Pete outlined the workshop's aims to empower people with skills and to promote a circular economy of sharing, reusing, repairing and recycling. He added that in 2020 man-made mass began to exceed overall biomass in the world. Humans are making a lot of undue waste, he was saying, and that's a point that needs drilling home.

What a great organisation for first comers Ellie and Harry. Welcome to Goodgym Brighton!