5 Runners Jockeyed for position on the leafleting run for the Warwick Grand National powered by humans, after a quick news flash, a quick warm-up, a quick dash, things at last slowed to a more expected pace where we stopped to organise the streets to be leafleted.

Ably managed by the Little Lady Becky, the four men split into teams to go through gate, past fence and up paths to deliver the leaflets.

Our final challenge was to finish our 4 week block of sprint challenges with a friendly high five run, in pairs running in opposite directions around the block to catch each other. Some ground was gained by the underdogs on leg 2 and they hung on for the last run.

The weather kept dry for this, the Final Furlong in the TriFector of Challenges running from Pug Noir, next week we will be back to meeting at the chubbier sibling, The Fat Pug to do more good for the communities.

We finished the evening with a little drink and a cup of tea for Becky.

We welcomed two new runners this evening at The Fat Pug, who had laid on the fire for us, think they were attempting to sabatage our run.

Our warm up today consisted of lots of running drills to get our speedy legs warmed up, high knees, lunges and strides were part of the game followed by a short warm up run to the park for "Beat the clock". Using our pretend track at the park the aim of the game is to run for a set amount of time, then recovery before trying to beat the distance on the next round. Tremendous effort this evening from everyone and especially Gavin who stormed round keeping up for a lap with the "intense" guys.

Our task this evening was a final in the trilogy and our chance to get the medal. There were more de ribboning of medals, a few "hurdles" to remove and a lot of rubbish to shift.

Massive thanks from Kids Run Free and Raceways for all the hard effort was passed on from Martine.

Once the car was full it was short jog back to base.

Well done to our New runners this evening and a welcome return to Fiona.

The fantastic four took part in our first Start Session of 2020

Welcome to Kate on her first GoodGym run this evening

Our challenge was very much “Shelf”awareness as we had to take apart all the racking for Marathon Kids.

We believed in our”shelves” and even managed to pack down 4 out 5 of them, using the power of the "thor" hammer - stilts in our case.

Our route home included a little mini sprint up the hill.

A great little into to GoodGym.

We have another starter session on sunday 26th meeting at The Saxon Mill.

Sweat, blood and tears were all involved this evening.

A small, but perfectly formed group of runners, including a welcome back to Tim, on his second run turned up on a chilly but dry evening.

Following a warm up of Snake we ran through the streets of Leamington Spa, the back runner sprinting ahead of the snake to form the head, before the tail runner sprinted forwards, and so on until we hit the lights. ITs the first time the group has been so silent, concentrating on the runners around them.

Once we arrived at the task, there were many stairs to climb - again.... Our high knees were getting a good workout this evening.

It was an evening of games, pacman (or pack man with everyone carrying the boxes) Iain played Tetris loading the van, and Becky making some running commentries to keep everyone going.

There was a lot of sweat with the constant climbing of 8 flights of stairs, and some tears and blood when a box decided to bite a GoodGymer. He was very brave and didn't make a scene at all......

Once the van was full, we did a gentle job back to base, where hill repeats were in order.... Just a couple due to the workout on the stairs, with Ragu and James topping the leader board, being superheros and taking on an extra repeat - they needed to get those KM's in for the January challenge.

Once back to base, a lot of stretches to ease out the legs and arms from all the lifting and stair running.

Great session this week, with some real improvements on everyones hill running.

See you all next time...

We had a fantastic turn out this evening with two new members and some returners after the Christmas break.

This evenings run was a repeat of last week, so following a warm up of windmill arms and stomping feet and some light jogging we jogged into the night.

Our little group is growing and it was lovely seeing us spreading out down the road whilst chatting to each other. Once at the park we were split into three groups for a fun sprint and recovery game. Once lined up we had a demo from Iain in sprinting and recovery jogging, with our elbows pointed, our heads up high and with a slight lean forward each member of the team took it in turns to sprint to each lamp post - with a recovery jog back. With a little pep talk, everyone was sent off on one last sprint to the furthest lamp post with driving elbows and cheek to cheek ringing in their ears.

Our task this evening was to return to Kids Run Free, to move the junk to the trunk (of the car), split the medals for recycling, repeat a stake out and actually get the stakes in coloured order. There was also a few butts to empty (water butts - so rude) we even put the flags up, to check they were in one piece and we got some sweat on sorting out the sweaters.

At one point we nearly packed a GoodGymer in the car, but luckily he was rescued.

We had a short run back with a few loop backers - the January challenge seems to be inspiring some extra running this week.

With a little cool down Becky filled us in on all the good deeds coming up.

Welcome to Fiona and Graham on their first GoodGym run and a massive congratulations to our first Task Force member Gavin. Also well done to James and Iain for completing their 10th run this evening.

If you've always wanted to come but you're worried about managing the running then join us on Thursday 16th January at The Fat Pug for our starter session. Easy peasy I promise....

The night was dark, and the rain had already begun, but 11 GoodGymers still turned up to ****sort the junk from the trunk...

Following a warm up including elbowing the people behind us in tesco, kneeing the people in front of us and having a temper tantrum - promise these are drills and no one was harmed in tesco or any other local shops in our warmup.

We turned away from Leamington to loop round past the park for some games. Due to the monsoon coming in we did our fitness before the session. Rising Damp ensued during the game due to the downpour. A fun game of Turtles began, the aim in teams is to flip your turtles (cones - no turtles were harmed we promise) onto their backs or onto their tummies. Lots of sprints and shouting encouragement - ok Becky shouted a lot, a winner was announced. To make it fair we mixed the game up and another (same) winner was announced. In true GoodGym style it was agreed that it looked more like a draw...

Luckily for us the Park we were stationed by the police which coincidentally was by the building we needed. So we **Stepped up to help Kids Run Free - literally 6 flights of stairs.

Our task involved helping clear the junk, create recycling piles and check equipment for the big move. We didn't find any **Trunks but we found lots of elephants - three boxes to be precise (medals that needed to be spilt from ribbon to recycle)

There was a Stake Out on the top floor - sorting the stakes for the kids runs into packs.

And the Rubbish team - who were the opposite and very good, sorting an amazing amount of stuff to be recycled, or organised with labels to be used again.

Having moved all the recycling to another room there was some lying down on the job for a quick photo.

Emerging from the office we had a quick dash home including using those high knees to avoid the puddles.

Massive welcome to new runner Maeve on her first GoodGym run with us.

If this sounds like fun then join us next week as we return for Part Two at Kids Run Free. Please bring some puns as these **will soon wear thin on the next round.