Two GoodGymers showed up on an icy day to help the locals pull litter from under the ice! James managed to run all his way from Park Run and back in order to improve this local area... leaving Elle feeling very guilty about her tiny commute to the litter picking meet-up point... she promises to make up for it in miles tomorrow!

It was a chilly and icy one today and despite many parkruns being cancelled, York still went ahead.

A few regulars were away doing round Sheffield, run but we still had a good crew of goodgym volunteers ranging from pacers and funnel managers to marshalls and the special job for today of guarding a patch of ice.

We had new person Emily signed up but we weren't sure who you were to say hello! Hope to see you soon

Our GG New Year's resolution to run further, work harder is paying off this Friday. Five women plus Parkie, Rachel worked flat out to clear two areas of leaves, barrow them to bins and turn the leaf mulch. They avoided disaster on black ice, and kept warm with the upper body workouts, sweeping, lifting, barrowing and digging the soggy leaves. Baby Dylan played his part very well, sleeping through the leaf blower and laughter! Great job team! Onwards an upwards to the next task...

Six goodgymer's met on a tropical (suprisingly not freezing but very much still cold) Friday lunchtime to help save the hedge at Rowntree Park from the dreaded brambles and invasive trees that are trying to take it over.

After 45 minutes of some serious hedge fighting, bramble breaking, tree sawing and generally just attacking whatever we could find, we had succeeded to turn the hedge from an eye-sore into a thing of beauty! With only the one accident where Claire had her own eye-sore after getting something stuck inside it. Lucy had pointed out that us four-eyes glasses wearers were the winners for once!

Then it was back to work (or Friday fun).

Another January Challenge good deed ticked off!

We took to Chapelfields to help clear up some of the litter that has accumalated there. Due to the ice, a lot of the rubbish was welded into the ground. However we managed to clean up 5 bags worth on one street, and will definitely be back there.

Winner for strangest litter goes to Claire and her massive lego!

Quite a party at Planet Food this week :)