HILL HATH NO FURY tonight at Goodgym Bath for 13 keen runners chomping at the bit to RUN FOR THE HILLS, more precisely a 8k trip up to Odd Down cycle circuit to seal the floors in the bike store. This is a great place where people of all abilities can come and take a variety of bikes out around the circuit.

Lovely to see some new faces tonight along with the trusty regulars, so a warm welcome to Alice and Jon joining us tonight before headcount.

We used the start of tonight's run to warm up with a nice steady pace before making a 4k assent to Odd Down playing fields, no hill reps required on this run but boy we do love a Hill in Bath. Our host Felix was there to greet us in the cycle store and quickly had team 1 clearing the middle cage whilst team 3 mixed the glue 7-1 and team 2 the sweepers stuck in the middle, the challenge was to seal the floor to protect and control the dust, it's an extremely well used space for a variety of groups, some bikes are specially adapted providing an invaluable service to people with disabilities. After all inclusion is extremely important.

The group worker wonders in the 30 minutes given to complete this task, DIDN'T THEY DO WELL (if you don't get it, it's because your too young) Group photo in the bag before heading back down that even more lovely hill to the leisure centre for a nice little stretch and reminder to bring you ID along to the next group run if you wish to be paired up or go on missions.

Thanks joe for leading whilst Steph back marked and Joe for tonight's fab pun and everyone else for coming along and being totally awesome as always.

A reminder to bring an unwanted coat/jumper or blanket/sleeping bag or anything to keep the rough sleepers warm on the streets of Bath https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/coats-for-the-homeless We also have a Saturday starter sessions for the next two weeks.

It may be getting dark but we had 15 fabulous Goodgym runners lighting up the streets of Bath tonight for our #runandtalk starter session for mental health awareness day and the task destination was Royal Victoria Park play area and skate park, the task was to rake and bag up as many leaves as possible.

Two super new guys tonight so a warm welcome to Jonathan and Kieron... welcome!!

A lot of chatting tonight during warm up especially from the TERRIBLE TWINS ( you know who you are) but great to hear so much banter even though It meant I had to shout a bit louder, it's all good therapy. The headcount went smoothly.

The group swept through the city centre with the lovely Ellen backmarking tonight . A quick stop off in Kingsmead square for some upper body work before the final straight along to the park where Lucy and Steve were waiting to join us after their run from the other direction.

It took a bit of organising to get the groups of three into position along the perimeter railings armed with rakes and bags with the aim to fill as many black bags as possible in 30 minutes. In total we FILLED 18 BAGS although we lost count of the winning teams total, so we'll have to call it a draw.

A last minute dash over to the skate park for some rich pickings from the conker tree before a rather dark group photo was order of the evening. There was 5 minutes of playtime at their own risk, it's all good exercise after all, before we bid farewell to Jonathan, Steve,Lucy and Ellen who were running off in the other direction.

Just enough time left with Pascale backmarking to #runandtalk all the way back to base for a stretch out and a few announcements Rosie and Emily have earned their Black T shirts with 50 good deeds and well done! to Pascale who ran the York marathon at the weekend.

A reminder please that we have 6 isolated older people waiting to be coaches, so if your DBS checked and done your coach runner training get in touch with Emily@goodgym.org and she'll get things rolling .

Don't forget to sign for our Birthday Party ... whoop!! https://www.goodgym.org/parties/goodgym-bath-s-1st-birthday

Thank you again everyone... Amazing as always!!

A drizzly start for our 18 Bath Goodgym runners tonight for a 5k run up to a community orchard on the Bear flat to cut back the willow so it can be used to make waffle fencing.

Great to see so many new faces tonight so welcome to Anna, Zoe, Dominic and Sophie and to our very own Task force Emily back from her well earned summer break from university.

Warm up and that all important headcount (without a hitch) out of the way with. Emily kindly back marking tonight. It was time to head on up that hill towards the south side of Bath and the flat known as THE BEAR FLAT and our task destination in the community orchard.

Our host was there to greet us armed with secateurs and various tools ready for a bounty of tasks for tonight's group, so splitting into 6 groups with Anna and team learning the art of weaving willow into an arbour. Rosie and Jaxx clearing conquers and debris from the entrance. Mark sawing branches from the over hanging tree whilst Emily and Sophie (our civil engineers) put up a coat hook in the shed. Mim and Meg blackberry picking on site and Steve bagged up more bark chips for Anne's team to manoeuvre across the site. Dominic taking on the challenge of removing wood stumps with a tool I have forgotten the name of (age thing) oops!!

I have to say it was a challenge trying to locate them all to get those all important photos before darkness descended upon us and it was time for a group photo before the run back down to the leisure centre for our stretches.

Thank you Rosie for tonight's pun. Your all such a great bunch to spend a fun Tuesday evening with...its Brilliant!!

A few social drinks tonight to follow For end of month.