First - massive props to Charlie for coming up with the name of the run tonight.

Second - massive apologies because it's wrong!!!

Here's what went down:

40 (not 39) amazing souls met up at Vivo gym to go for a lovely run to help clear some space at a garden which will become allotments for the community. I counted 39 but then someone else must have slipped in, or I just cannot count any higher than 39 because I've not needed to apart from once before.

Why so many people? Well we had absolutely perfect weather for running - a slight chill in the air to keep you from overheating, a beautiful clear sky with no hint of rain at all, the clocks have changed so we had daylight all the way through the run. All of these elements combined to make the ideal run, but for one slight fly in the ointment; our contact was not at the run location! EEK!

We were lucky that there was a gardener there, a chap called Ian but who I called Tim for over half an hour (sorry Ian). He sorted us out with tasks and tools, and we stuck in.

There was a lot to do so it was handy that we had so many people to chip in. There was a massive amount of ground to clear with only a few tools to do it with, so most people were on their hands and knees weeding away. We also had people taming blackberries, picking up the large amount of litter that was in the garden, and others were tidying up after the weeders. All in all, we got a heck of a lot done in a very short time.

After 30 minutes of intensive gardening, we ran away and headed to the Bear Pit where the massive running horde split in to two mini-hordes, or hordlets, if you will. One bunch did one legged lunges off the low wall, and the other ran up and around the Bear Pit (which is effectively the middle of a roundabout made presentable with the beginnings of a garden and various benches and stuff. There were no bears though). Then they switched, and repeated the drill, then all posed beautifully for a group photo, and we were almost done.

All that remained was to head back to Vivo and stretch, and of course give ourselves a hearty pat on the back for a job well done.

Will we get 40 people again? I really hope so, but perhaps later in the year when the weather is EVEN better, we could get a few more? YOU can make it happen!

A smaller than usual group missing several regular do-gooders assembled at Roll For The

Soul on a beautiful but very warm Saturday morning for a run to the East Bristol Foodbank

in Lawrence Hill.

Led by the inexperienced duo of David H and David G and welcoming newcomer Ann for her

first GG outing our intrepid eight headed off on a familiar route over Castle Green towards

the Bristol to Bath cycle path before veering off under the St Phillips Causeway to the Big

Yellow Storage unit in Lawrence Hill where the Food Bank is situated. Here we met the

wonderful Andy and Brenda who were able to allocate tasks to what turned out to be an

almost ideal number of enthusiastic GoodGymers.

These included weighing crates of various different foodstuffs, and cracking on with packing,

unpacking, stacking, unstacking and re-stacking of crates and shelves. The crate task suitably

smashed in true GoodGym fashion we bid adieu to a crateful Andy and Brenda and headed

off on our merry way (almost) back the way we came, with enough time for a relay race

around the bandstand in Castle Park followed by some press ups before heading back to Roll

For The Soul for as many stretches as we could remember.

Crate Job gang!

P.S Pru here! Great job from Team David, thanks for stepping in to make sure the run went ahead! Thanks chaps!