On a rather mild October night it was great to welcome Rob to GoodGym for the first time. Rob was one of the walkers, so we decided to all walk together the 1.2k to the canal to complete our litter pick.

Before we had hardly started the litter pick Eve found her green drinks bottle she'd lost when cycling along the cobbles on the canal at the weekend! As you can see she was pretty pleased to find it!

That was a great start to the task. We followed this up by clearing plenty of litter along the walls of the canal.

Once done, Rob walked back to catch his bus, whilst Eve, James and Jonny did a 4k run along the canal, through Millenium Point and up the hills back through the city centre.,

Tonight, James, Jonny and Eve headed to the canal to pick some litter.

Not long after setting off down to the canal the heavens opened to give us a bit of a soaking. After sheltering under a tree for 5 minutes or so we carried on picking the now rather soggy litter.

Once done we walked up to Aston Lock to drop the bags off before heading back to 1000 Trades to drop the litter picks off then finishing our run off by running down to New Street station.

This evening was a an evening of firsts, with our first task in Kings Norton and we also welcomed Helen to her first GoodGym task, welcome Helen!

We set off from our meeting point at Bournville Station and heading down the canal towards Kings Norton. This evening we collected 2 big bags of rubbish from around the station, to make sure its prepped for the new railway line due to open later this year (hopefully!). Following a quick diversion to the shelter of the station to hide from the rain, we finished up our litter picking, dropped the bags off and ran back towards Bournville via Cotteridge Park.

Great job everyone!

Tonight, on a somewhat nippy night, Jonny, Amy and Anna headed to the canal to do a litter pick.

We ran down to the canal, before filling one big bag full of rubbish. Anna and Jonny using the litter pickers and Amy carrying the bag.

Once done we had a quick picture, then we were all more than happy to get running, it's a great way to warm up!

We ran a slightly different way back through the city, arriving at 1000 Trades, having done a nice 3k or so :)

This week we had a slight change to the plan and instead migrated south to Stirchley for the evening for a litter pick. Laura and Morwenna really pulled eachother along with some grueling picking, the highlight being part of the soul of a shoe (hence the pun!).

After the pick, we went for a gentle 4km run around to get warm before heading back to base for a well earned refreshment.

Tonight we were joined by Mayu for the first time who is a student from India.

Laura led the way to the canal. We were going to a specific spot which was covered in rubbish. We filled two bags of rubbish and really made a difference to the area.

Once done we ran into the city centre, around the cathedral square, then dropped down to St Paul's square and back to 1k Trades, for a good 5k in total.