Speediness is next to godliness

Sevan was optimistic when he promoted today's task at Acton Junior parkrun as "a hot August date 😎". Looking out of the window this morning, he had either made the weather match the listing or gotten lucky as it was shaping up to be a beautiful day 🤔

Following the morning's social run, led by Harvey, 4 GoodGymers and 2 Run Ealing runners arrived early enough to help set up the course, hanging Caution Runners signs around the park. Soon others arrived and took up their roles, including a run director visiting from Middlesbrough for the weekend who Joanna knew . On hearing from Joanna that Mike (of parkrunner app fame) is a local GoodGym member, he blurted out

"Michael Clayton, he's my God!" - Ian

While Ian's God wasn't present this morning, there was great representation around the course with Harvey, Kash, Steph and Alan cheering the children round the course as marshals. A special shout out to Belinda too, who took on a marshal role as her first good deed 👏! Around the funnel, Michelle, Joanna and Tom were barcode scanning, while Sevan was a timekeeper alongside Ian, the disciple.

Due to the school holidays, the number of runners was low today at 28. No one was reluctant to be there though and every one of them put in an amazing sprint to the line.

If this sounds like fun, come and join us next month. We can't promise good weather, but if we wish hard enough, who knows...