JPR Fun in the Sun

On a grey Sunday morning heading to Woking park to help with Woking junior parkrun, I saw the start line neatly placed on the field where the kids will be staying from in a short while. As I am getting closer to the bandstand the crowd was small but still growing. I met up with the other GoodGymers Katie and Melanie who were getting the high-vis vests on, ready to take their position as marshals. I was going to be at the finish line helping to scan the finishers times. As the announcements started with the course conditions and the rules were being, given the crowd started to grow. And once the warm-up crew started with their gorilla stamps, their high knees the whole crowd bounced around rhythmically until the big count down from 10 to 1 happened to signal everyone to head to the start line. Once at the start line everyone waited for the run to start and then the sun came out just in time for the start. With everyone in position the children happily made their way from the field onto the path in quick time. It wasn't long before the first finishers came through and I had to quickly start to scan the tokens from the first finishers. Before long, the tokens that were coming through quickly going from token 10s and 20s all the way up to 108 finishers! After the last runner finished and all the tokens were scanned, we submitted the results and helped clear up, already for next week.