Despite the overnight snow, 3 hardy Goodgymers braved the plummeting temperatures to help in the fight against plastic.

With minimal fuss, we coolly ran the 3-ish km to Merseyway Workshop and Plastic Shed. Caitlin, despite a sniffly cold and a wild swim in the morning, was overjoyed by our arrival to finish off the mountain of bags. Numb with excitement (or cold) we crisply sorted the bags by colour, managing to get through the remaining bag collection. The background of music and pottery was an ideal backdrop to the busy sorting.

Plastic waste is snow joke and we were happy to help, open to a future invitation to help out the community group.

I volunteered as a Parkwalker at Macclesfield parkrun event #264 where there were 250 parkrunners.

Yesterday saw the return of the annual Manchester 24 Hour Run Against Homelessness. 🏃‍♀️

Between us, we completed a total of 17 laps and 85 km (not including run commutes!). 🎉

Hannah and Simone kicked things off with a walking lap to check out the route. 😍

Over the course of the evening, Hannah, Ben, Laura and Mai then volunteered as run leaders for specific laps – some of us taking on speedy 27.5 minute pacing and others demonstrating the important role of tail runner! 😊

A big shout out to Simone who stayed for the entire evening and cheered us on whilst soaking up the atmosphere! ❤️

It was great to bump into long-lost Goodgymer Pete and have a catch-up! 🏃

8pm was our scheduled GoodGym slot and we chatted our way round the course, completing the second and third laps for some and drawing our evening to a close. 🏃‍♂️

Ben continued with a couple of volunteer run leader slots before returning with Juno 🐶 in the morning to complete a further 3 laps – taking his total to 7! 🙌

Event #228 at Fletcher Moss parkrun went by relatively smoothly. 421 runners and walkers completed the 5 km course on a pleasant November morning.

Even the early morning Robin was happy enough to help out by the funnel while having its fill of worms.

Big thank you to the 17 volunteers who helped the event happen

Big Goodgym Stockport welcome to Natalie and Fred!

On a banger of an evening, 6 Goodgym firecrackers met at Life Leisure to run the ~3 km to Merseyway shopping centre, and specifically to Plastic Shed.

After the uphill run through Edgeley, on yet another home Stockport County FC game night, we were sparkling with perspiration and eager to put the Catherine Wheels in motion to sort through some plastic bottle tops... little did we know that we were needed for a much more en-lightening task.

Hidden away in yet another hidy hole, where nearly 1 million sorted lids are also stored, was a mountain of plastic bags 5 feet high with other soft plastic that had been donated over the years. Our task was to separate them into colours and remove any unwanted plastic that their equipment would struggle with.

Over an hour and 10 min later, we broke the back of the pile of plastic, leaving only embers of shredded plastic at the end. The task really ignited our desire to reduce plastic use and we have a good idea of the most popular bread brands in the area - Warburton's Danish White coming in top place.

We may be back soon! Keep an eye on their Instagram too for more pics of the task.

I volunteered as a barcode scanner at Burnage parkrun for event #557. There were 238 runners and 23 volunteers this week.