The rain clouds held back, just as Wilson had forecast!

A big welcome to Eva on her first task. She got stuck in and helped clean up the exercise area, give the drains a good tickle, make some of the kennels shine, and fetched the sandpaper and paint to spruce up the benches and cable drum - truly a tail-wagging transformation.

Our reward? Play time with the dogs! Tails wagged , toys were fetched and hearts melted. Samantha took it one step further and helped clean a little hippo's ears! Cuteness overload!

We did this litter pick in two parts, first we cleared the litter that had been exposed by the bramble-cutting where Wilson found a tennis ball with their name on it and Samantha found Steve hiding in a box!

After a brief pit stop we cleared lots of litter from the hedges on the way to the kennels. We filled a big bag but had to leave lots behind for a future visit.

It was real Goodgym teamwork with Sinéad cheering the runners on, Samantha and Jane scanning their barcodes and Dave sorting the finish tokens, after running round the course.

We cheered the runner who wore a sash to celebrate her 200th parkrun at the 222nd Great Salterns very muddy parkrun. She ran with her sisters who were dressed in tutus - luckily they didn't go as far as to wear ballet shoes!

We also gave a big cheer to all the dogs taking part!

More photos to follow!

Laura and I clocked off and dashed out to clean up this pocket park. As it's so small, a regular half hour clean up is all that's needed to keep it looking nice.

We didn't find any clothes, but did pick up a clothes hanger and wondered how that ended up there.

Well, that was a very wet junior parkrun! There was a time when it looked like volunteers were going to outnumber the runners, but in the end 25 4 - 14 year olds completed the very soggy 2km course. Thank you so much for dedicating your morning in such rubbish conditions!