After a upper body warm up session, 3 of the GoodGymers at Pitshanger Junior parkrun this morning arrived with fast beating hearts and warm fingers and toes. That was good as winter wasn't coming, it had already arrived overnight with the cold Pitshanger wind sweeping through the park.

To keep warm, Gaby ran to her marshal post, while Kash, Maria and Sevan had more easy going roles. Kash was tailwalking for the second parkrun in a row, Maria barcode scanned and Sevan was cheering runners over the line and trying to record their times correctly. That was challenging as waves of children finished in quick succession. The first finisher was rapid too as she entered the funnel in under 7 minutes!

At the back, there was a relay taking place. Not with the runners, but the boy's support crew. As Kash passed marshal posts on the the final lap, the would be 120th finisher upgraded his granny for his mum who'd been volunteering as marshal number 2. The team effort of granny, mum, Kash and later Gaby too helped him make it to the finish line and get to a nice round number of finishers.