We welcomed Anne to her first GoodGym run tonight with a "Captain's Table" warm up game including some impressive pirate impressions from Rosie. Maxine showed us her new watch (thanks Primeday!) and Sarah, having the same watch and an IT background, was unable to answer the syncing question! Alex was modeling her nice new red T-shirt.

After plenty of deck scrubbing we headed up the road to the Naomi House shop. We arrived at the exact same time as the walkers, it's almost like we plan these things!

We haven't been up to the shop on a Wednesday for two whole months and the donations pen was full so we had plenty to get on with. There were some lovely fancy dress outfits this evening as well as a vintage St Micheal carrier bag with an outfit that wouldn't have looked out of place in Dallas or Dynasty. Sam unearthed a mankini among the donations - I wonder who will buy that!

Angela found some wings but that wasn't how she broke the ceiling... that was when we were filling up the "sorted" pen and it went very high, not knowing her own strength she threw a bag on top of the pile and cracked a ceiling tile in the process! Oops.

We stayed a bit over our time tonight so it was a quick run back, stretch outside the centre and then room emptying!

Don't forget there's an opportunity for good deeds on Saturday morning and Saturday afternoon this weekend. Next week we're off to St Swithun's school - could be painting or gardening so don't wear your best kit!

On another beautiful summer's evening we gathered together to head off to Great Salterns for a litter pick. Sarah decided that tonight would be a good night to wear shorts from that team down the road - she was lucky not to be lynched (ha ha)!

Other than that social faux pas, there was a celebratory air as we had 3 runners achieving milestones - tonight was my 100th good deed and both Rachel and Maura managed to get to 50 good deeds over the weekend. Maura got to wear the cap this week as hers was registered first, Rachel gets to be the epitome of style next week!

We welcomed Alex back for her second run, hope your legs aren't too achy this week! We were also glad to see that John had taken on board Maura's top tip from a couple of week's ago and he had remembered to put his lip gloss in his zip up pocket!

After a game of stuck in the dance (thanks to Ben from Cardiff for that gem!) we headed off for our litter pick. Once at the industrial estate the opportunity for a McPee couldn't be missed.... We then split into 4 teams to clean various parts of Great Salterns and along Burrfields Road where people like to throw rubbish out of their cars - including pants!! Why do we always find pants? There was a KFC cap and suitcase included in our haul tonight as well as a toy car (the first thing we found). We also noticed a lot of blackberries on the bushes and Vicki came up with the great idea of a GoodGym foraging night followed by a bake off style get together where we all cook something using our foraged food... Watch the website for a date for that one!

After we'd filled 4 big bags with litter and 3 trugs with recycling we had a relay style fitness session on the field then took Toni down some paths she'd never seen before as we headed back to Fratton, dropping the recycling in Judy's green bin along the way.

On the run home we decided that our run on 31st July should also include a long overdue curry get together as a celebration of all the new T-shirts in recent months and also to carb load Louisa before she heads off to Malaysia to represent Team UK in the World Tchoukball Championships!

In other news, we are still looking for volunteers to help out on Saturday 20th July with either the Baffins Fun Day set up or the pack up or both! Don't let Angela do it all on her own :(

Next week we're off to sort donations at Naomi House, always a fun task, a short run with a walking option too - see you then!

We were treated to a perfect summer evening for our group run this week, full of sunshine. A warm welcome to Alex and Angura who joined us for their first runs this evening. Give them a cheer on their profiles!

We met off base, at Hilsea Lido, and headed out for a quick run around Hilsea Lines in our pace groups, enjoying some of our very local trails.

Maura shared a lesson in running glamour: "You need pockets in your leggings for lip gloss, because you never know!"

When we finished our loop, we arrived back at the Lido and were tasked with watering some new plants that have been planted and touching up the paintwork. Kat was happy touching up the bottom.

After all the hard work, some of the group took on swimming some lengths in the pool to cool off as the sun set and Katie was kind enough to come prepared with a box of mugs and selection of tea and biscuits!