A trio of GoodGym folk were on hand to help out at the Ealing Mile, a monthly race organised by the good people at We Run Ealing/Ealing Half Marathon. They registered runners, marshaled and cheered!

The conditions were ideal - blue sky, a bit chilly - as the 23 runners of all ages circumnavigated Lammas Park.

The runners have a break in January to over indulge! See you again in 2026.

It was the annual We Run Ealing/GoodGym Ealing collection of old running shoes at Gunnersbury parkrun. Our combined volunteers were on hand to make sure shoes were tied together and thrown into our sack. But that was not enough, our team also ran the parkrun and volunteered with barcode scanning.

Thanks to the generosity of our a local man with a van, the shoes are now on their way to Jog On, bound for a new purpose. The ones that can salvaged will be passed on to runners around the world who can't afford decent shoes. The rest will be broken down and recycled - a right result!

No demon running here, just some older friends and some newer friends chatting on and having a smile! This was the second special collaboration social stations run for GoodGym Ealing and We Run Ealing. This time the aim was no more than run to every station with Ealing in the name!

The first one, Ealing Broadway, was easy - we all met there! And what a turn out! We more or less stuck together and completed a big loop. Even a last minute drizzle didn't dampen our spirits.

We will return, not with the the thin white duke (a link to the obscure title of this report), but with another round of Acton and Ealing station runs next year!

A warm day unfolded for this month's Ealing Mile organised by We Run Ealing. But that also made it a lovely day to help out! 27 runners ran the mile course round our regular park route.