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.

Hooray! It was the first dry GoodGym Brum of 2020! Yep, slightly cold, but none of the wet stuff!

Tonight we welcomed Cherry and Andy from the recently started GG Warwick. It was great to meet you both and I hope you enjoyed the run. Fiona did the back marker job and we got going armed with oranges and bananas. We also had cards detailing SIFA Fireside’s facilities to give out to the homeless. We ran around the city centre, giving out our goodies and having a chat with the homeless.

Once we were literally ‘fruitless’ we headed to St Paul’s Square for a circuit workout. The group started off with press ups on the benches, Ben doing a great job. Next was squat jumps, Cherry showed some great form. Next was high knees running, Andy putting in a great knee drive, then finally it was some heart racing tuck jumps, Rahul put in some great effort on these. Then that wasn’t quite it, the group finished off with the leg trembling wall squat, for a whole 75 seconds!

Thankfully after all that there was only a few minutes of running to do back to 1000 Trades.

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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....