A fab bank holiday turnout of 21 GoodGym Yorkies, saw us tackle a variety of tasks at the Wild Things Forest School. With Ed being injured tonight's group run was a Tristan Takeover special and he got the crew warmed up with some running drills after we'd given a cheer for those who completed the Bluebell Trail 10 miler at the weekend.

After the short run out to the task we met Emma from Wild Things who gave us an overview of tonight's activities, including painting a shed, putting down some chicken wire around the pond, taking some old timber to the skip, cleaning a massive tent and cutting back some plants. We then split into our various groups and got to work

Martin had already got stuck into dismantling one of the outdoor kitchen areas before we arrived, so the rest of the group were playing catch up and the site was very quickly a hive of activity! There was action everywhere you looked, with scrubbing, painting, hammering and chopping all going on.

Over at the pond, Cara was doing an excellent job of supervising Paul and Steve's chicken wire laying. Whilst the shed painting crew found the conditions challenging with some inferior paint and, according to Jane, Bab's interesting techniques! Before too long the various tasks drew to a close and it was time for Tristan's fitness session.

The group was split into 4 teams and were then pitted against each other in a series of shuttles runs. It was a simple enough start with regular sprints, but soon got more challenging with high knees, skipping (Tristan's personal fave!) and eventually a conga line.

Big thanks to Tristan for leading a fab session. Don't forget next week's session will be a group ride rather than run (although we will still have a running group but it's a good 5km each way)

We joined local residents to help them stay on top of the spring growth in the community garden. David weeded the bed ready for planting the squash and courgette plants that have been growing on windowsills for the past month. Becca trimmed the grass around the edges of the long bed and weeded the long bed along with Cara. Laura searched for brambles to evict as well as weeding. After an hour the garden looked a lot tidier and the vegetable plants were all in their new homes in the raised beds.

On a balmy spring evening 6 GoodGymmers and Fergie descended on arguably North Yorkshire's finest traffic island for a spot of maintenance.

After Maeve had given out instructions to each of us individually, we got to work pulling out the thistles and other undesirable weedy type things. Once the bulk of the weeds were gone we then helped Maeve spread a bit of bark chip around and even got to work bashing a few metal rods into the ground so they were no longer poking out and capable of skewering someone's foot!

Before heading home we had a quick tidy up and posed for the obligatory group photo

we'll be back later next month when the weeds will no doubt have returned!