Woking Junior Park Run

Congratulations to Kirsty on completing her 100th GoodGym task! 🎉

Despite facing running setbacks over the last 12 months, her commitment and dedication have brought her back to both running and volunteering. Your official milestone T-shirt with wings is flying its way to you, Kirsty—just try not to actually airborne-launch during your next sprint! 🦅❤️

Kirsty met Wayne at the leisure centre for a gentle 4k run, finishing at the bandstand before volunteering duties began.🏃🏼‍♂️🏃‍♀️

Volunteer Attendance & Catch-Ups It was an excellent turnout of GoodGym members this morning, providing a great opportunity to catch up:

Rich: Regular volunteer present at the event.

Adam: Arrived shortly after the pre-run

Olalekan: Returned to volunteer after some time away.

Alys: Emerged from the vortex of work and married life. Verdict: Still alive, still awesome.

Anne: Arrived a few minutes later, wearing designer sunglasses.

The junior parkrun saw fantastic participation and strong performances across the board:

Total Runners: 179 participants took part this morning.

Fastest Time: An impressive 07:47.

*Personal Bests: *42 runners achieved a new PB.

Thank you to all the volunteers and runners who made this milestone morning a success 😄

GoodGym x Move10 - Garden Tidy

Community Fridge -

🥪 The Great Sandwich Heist: Zoe's First Run & Andy’s Three-Course Carb-Fest

A massive GoodGym welcome to Zoe, who survived her very first group run! It’s the first of many missions, provided she wasn't completely scared off by our post-run catering habits.

The Journey (And the Wedding Gossip)

The squad—Nadia, Andy Julie, Wayne, Kirsty and Zoe—convened at the Winston Churchill School gates. Kirsty clocked a cheeky 2k from home just to show off, while Anne skipped the running part and met us at the site as she currentlt can not run 🏃🏼‍♂️

After Run Leader Nadia gave Zoe the breakdown of the route, we set off on a 2.5k tour of Knaphill’s finest hills. The calves were burning, but the distractions were elite: we got to hear all about Nadia and Andy’s wedding and honeymoon, complete with a mid-run slideshow of the wedding pictures.

The Battle of the Bedding

We arrived at the Knaphill Community Fridge perfectly timed with a massive food delivery. Jules appeared with a wheelbarrow full of tools, and we were assigned our mission: total annihilation of the weeds and dead flowers around the church and food bank tent.

Wayne went rogue at one end with the strimmer. 🤣

The rest of the crew armed themselves with rakes and scissors.

Andy inherited a temperamental leaf blower that was clinging to 1% battery life, yet somehow managed to blow the paths clean through sheer willpower.

Two giant green bins were packed to the brim in record time.

The Legend of the Three-Course Sandwich

Then came the grand finale. To thank us, Jules offered us crates of surplus supermarket sandwiches. While most people took a polite token snack, Andy saw an absolute buffet. 🥪

Andy successfully curated a full three-course meal out of targeted carbohydrate acquisition:

The Starter: A breakfast sandwich. 🥪

The Main: A lunch sandwich. 🥪

The Dessert: A steak dinner sandwich (because nothing says dessert like beef).

He was, unsurprisingly, the happiest lad in Surrey.😄

Jules kindly provided bags so we didn't drop the haul, and the group had the distinct pleasure of jogging back to the school loaded down with a bakery’s worth of bread. Massive props to Zoe for fitting right in, and hats off to Andy appetite! 😄

Today Goodgym Woking helped again with the painting project at Knaphill Lower School. Kirsty, her 🐕 Rocket 🚀 and Katie ran 5km to the task. Anne walked an impressive 13km along the canal. Wayne managed to get a workout in and ran over 6km to join the task. Great effort from all Goodgymers 👍

The Hive building is already looking much brighter than it was. Wayne was up high, painting the wall magnolia which really freshened it up. Anne and Kirsty did a wonderful job painting the tree and flowers. Katie started the outlines on the tufts of grass and founded that it needed a lot of concentration! There is still more to do and there is another opportunity to help next weekend.