Age UK ran their first 'Race the Boat' event in York. This was an over 50's race organised by our very own Carl Wain which entailed a race down the river to beat a York Boat. GG were invited to help with running this first event, hopefully in view of future races!

Mitch led a warm up before the boat gave three bellows of the horn. Time for the race to start! Our marshall's Charlotte, Dom and James were already in position, as well as our trusty timekeepers Rebecca, David and James, and finally Laura was prepped for time conversion and certificate writing.

After 20 minutes or so, and a smooth operation, the race was finished, with lots of happy runners excited to do it again next year.

Well done Carl, it was an amazing event.

Two Goodgymers twirled around Southlands community Church tidying chairs, tables and sweeping the floor after the mighty space that is Planet Food brought joy and full bellies to the people of York, all through surplus food, stellar volunteers and community spirit. What a pleasure!

After the setting up task, me and Leanne headed to parkrun to celebrate Bab's 250th parkrun (and get a slice of the chocolate brownie she had baked). Pete was also at parkrun and blitzed it before cycling to the task.

A bumper turnout of six awesome goodgymers made for an unusually relaxing clothes swap. Lots of fun was had and Leonie got her second task in 😁

An early start after this task moved from Friday nights to Saturday mornings but the same military precision from the crack GG crew.

Great to see Issy who managed to squeeze this one in before her hockey match.

I arrived just about on time (!) to find that our expert team of book sorters had already made a great start with setting up the Tang Hall Library book sale. Cecile took advantage of a secret past in the book trade to bring order to the table - great to have you at Goodgym for the first time! It was also the first book sorting task for Becky, so with Rebecca the four of us had everything set up in no time at all, ready for the library to raise more valuable funds.

An invite from Middlethorpe Hall led to 8 GoodGymers standing on the driveway waiting to cheer Kevin Sinfeld as he ran past on his way to Bishopthorpe Palace. With GoodGym banner aloft we cheered with gusto as Kevin and his entourage passed by. He waved and gave us a thumbs up as he passed so we then dispersed but still in awe of just what Kevin has and is achieving. (More pics to follow)