Blimey!! A chilly morning in Bath for our starter session to st Phillips and st James church in Odd Down to paint the railings at The Manna House youth centre. A short run for The trusty four today of 1.5k.

Big shout out to Matt who joined us from GG Bristol but not before running from Bristol to Bath, doing the Bath skyline park run and then hot footing it to us ready for group run, think he was relieved this was super short today. I think it's safe to say he loves to run or Dave let him down. Rosie also ran across after Parkrun and Sophie was happy to finally be able to join us for a short run, although she did run back home after.

Andy was waiting to greet us at the task with everything needed to get the job done, so after a session of raised press-ups to get those arms nicely prepared we got to it, giving the railings a coat of Hammerite. I have to say it was absolutely freezing despite its sheltered location, so as you can imagine we worked at lightning speed and got the job done in 45 minutes. We were rewarded with TEA and BISCUITS and I can safely say a certain person didn't eat them all today. We have photographic proof of the one that got away.

I think we were all eager to get into the warm, so took the very short dash back to base. The biggest challenge ... The Pun and Not the Run.

Thank you! lovely people for coming along this morning.

During today's starter session, 4 amazing goodgymmers ran 2km and helped out at Christ the Saviour Parish Church!

It was rather a grey day but that didn't stop Angel and Hannah from coming along for their first ever session! Amazing work ladies!

We started with a (very!) short jog next door to CSP Church where we were greeted with a smile from Tracey and we got to work. We helped take down their beautiful, real Christmas trees! And, Christmas trees being Christmas trees, taking off the lights was a mission in detangling and team work! We had the lovely Tracey and a couple more helpers from the church too and in no time we had removed all baubles and were deadlifting the trees outside...you folks are strong! This also involved some skilled manoeuvring to get it in and out of the doors but hey, all in a days work for team Ealing!

And then it was on to the running!! We headed off to Walpole park, quite a glorious park with a good 0.8mile/1.3km loop to run around. We did a good slow warm up before starting a run-walk programme taking a minute to run and minute to rest each time. This is such a good way of training for all levels to increase your running fitness and distance.

Then, after a quick photo op it was back to Bodyline Studio for some stretches and a nice cool down. It was an amazing morning and it was so great to meet such lovely people who are so keen to get back into their running! Keep up the great work ladies and see you very soon!! Sign up to the next starter session here.