Sian, Ben, Maimoona and Laura ran a 4.4km loop around Cheadle, stopping to deliver some donations to a local foodback collection and whilst discovering a new route which links up two key points in the local area!

It was great to see Sian back running only 8 weeks postpartum!

With Manchester finally thawing out after the cold snap, a few of us met up in St Peter's Square.

Sophie and Peter had already arranged a donation for Don't Walk Past for the Friday evening (11th Jan) outreach to give out sleeping bags and warm clothing for local homeless in the cold weather. Ben managed to provide some hats and gloves nearby this week. We will likely arrange more collections through the year!

On top of the donations, we had more local GoodGymers complete their document check for their DBS, so they are able to carry out nearby missions that get triaged towards GoodGym as a group that can help. It would be great to have more people mission verified to help out with this!

There were also some trainers to be recycled so a JogOn package was prepared to send for refurbishment and reuse, or for shredding and recycling of materials. A great way to help the circular economy of sportswear!

Peter and I completed a loop of the city centre for a nice evening jog.

Happy New Year! Welcome to Niamh who joined us for the first time. It was great to meet you and hope to see you for another GoodGym session soon!

With flooding, snow, ice, and freezing rain threatening around the Greater Manchester area, 3 plucky GoodGymers wrapped up to varying degrees (not sure about Ben wearing shorts...) to pick up any discarded litter in the central Manchester area.

We met outside Manchester Central Library, next to the now unlit giant Santa, before winding our way past Princess St to Chorlton Street before taking on an array of litter on the path between Manchester Piccadilly train station and the O2 Apollo. We managed to fill 5 litter sacks and found a large, broken umbrella to report back to Keep MCR Tidy for collection, before taking a final picture and a questionable selfie.