Our yearly task, helping the Christmas for CAMHS charity with their paper chain project.

We met as usual at the Glassworks, then headed out for our run. Tonight, different to usual, we were doing the task at the Glassworks where we had a table booked.

Michael had started the cutting process earlier in the day, cutting 20cm strips of wrapping paper. The team were given the page of jokes and the bag of pens, whilst Michael started to cut the smaller strips.

And the work started, who could complete the most?

It was a crazy time of writing as onlookers started to ask what we were doing. And in hardly any time our task came to an end.

Everyone stayed to take part in the Christmas Charity quiz, raising money for Macmillan cancer support.

A great night, and we will return to usual next week as we run to Samye.

Well done to Flo for completing 33 on her own.

Smashed It

On Sunday 16th November, I was back volunteering with Cardiff juniors parkrun. It seemed like any other Sunday, what could go wrong?

One of the storage containers for the parkrun kit, a literal black box rather than an orange recording device found in airplanes, was missing.

This meant we had no lanyards, or tail walker vests, and maybe some other things. But these were the notable absences.

Without a lanyard, the barcode scanners would not have the Event QR Code needed to upload the results at the end. I was a barcode scanner. As a run director, I also had access to the Event QR Code through the management system. This meant I could help the other barcode scanners. But, I couldn't help myself. I would have to find one of the other run directors, have them access the management system, to use their Event QR Code. Luckily this wasn't an issue.

All in all a successful event, showing that we could adapt to challenges.

You'll all be pleased to know that the black box was located by the next event on 23rd November.

Michael and Flo were at Cardiff junior parkrun on Sunday for a spooky special. Flo was marshalling at the playground, and Michael was barcode scanning.

Without the help of Michael, Fiona and Flo, Cardiff junior parkrun would have been in dire straits on Sunday.

It was all thanks to the wonderful volunteers who came forward to help out at Cardiff junior parkrun event # 462 on Sunday. ❤️🦺🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦺❤️

There was one junior earning their Ultra/50 wristband, and two juniors earning their half marathon wristbands. Well done all! 👏🏼💪🏻👏🏼💪🏻👏🏼💪🏻

Here are some more numbers from the day. Two of the run directors got some pretty impressive volunteer stats, 250 volunteer credit and 200 volunteer credits. Finally, one of the regular volunteers achieved her 150th volunteer credit. 😮🏅😮🏆😮🏅😮

There were 138 juniors taking part, 26 of those were first timers, and 32 achieved a new PB time. Awesome! ⏱️🆕️⏱️🆕️⏱️