13 ran to Moulsham mill to help in the interact garden.

Back to a bakers dozen

It seems our most common number of runners has been 13 for a little while but that seems to be lucky for us and we have been getting loads of work done. For this session we needed all of us to get the work done on time.

We welcomed newbie Lizzie to the crew and set off on the 1k run to the interact garden. It's always a good session at interact and Susie had a variety of tasks for us to do this time.

After a briefing we split into groups and began work. Some of us moving broken branches provided by Storm Doris and others putting rubbish into the skip. There was some heavy lifting to be done and Richard seemed to have everything in order stacking concrete slabs passed over the fence. We added more heavy concrete blocks to the pile and soon had most of the tasks complete.

just a little digging left to do

There was a little more to do, with a large amount of earth to be moved. There was the option of digging a pond or digging the path down 10 inches, which we decided was the best option. After a short discussion about how deep that was we began digging and loosening the soil with forks. it appeared at first that we were making it higher rather than deeper but once the soil was loosened it was easy to move with the 2 wheel barrows.

The soil was used to fill the concrete pipes that were being used as planters and we managed to fill the biggest one before it was time to head back. Susie provided tea and biscuits for us and we voted on a slightly longer run home, with Gerry leading some lamp post intervals on the way.

All done and a reminder it's pacer day and Chelmsford Parkrun this week so lets see if we can go get some pb's!

Also check out the facebook page to see details of the social. This friday!

sign up to next weeks task Here

see you there!

11 paint some more at the ideas hub then run to the hills!

those nice people at the ideas hub, the ones who let us use the room for free, put up even more panels for us to paint! how nice of them! We were soon working hard and brought brushes to add to the rollers provided so we could get in to the corners and edges. We top coated some we had painted previously and did the cutting in on some others. Some of the new panels were also given a healthy coat of white paint.

art work display

The panels we are painting are not just to make the hub look good but will be used to display art work from local artists and photographers. It also allows them to open the upper floor so they can use the space to overflow the coffee shop.

The paining done it's off for a run

Once we had run out of paint again we decided to check out the new art work on the underpass at waterhouse lane. The murals include a runner at Parkrun and is on the route! Also on the route is a nice (subjective!) hill so we "ran to the hills" before warming up on the flat and then having a hills relay!

A slight split in distances, left team tactics important, but despite a tactical race a logistics error left the race called as a draw!

A well judged effort by all and we ran back together with a pause under the viaduct before our stretch and debrief.

Don't forget to sign up for next weeks task at the interact charity [Here}(https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/if-you-have-not-been-to-goodgym-do-this-one)

And keep up with news on the Goodgym Chelmsford facebook page! news on the social coming soon!

see you next week.

11 painted the ideas hub and ran around the city

We met in the ideas hub to complete our work on painting the panels around the walls and around the stairs. this should be the last session for a while as we have run out of paint! But we have done an awesome job with only a few small edges to complete the job.

• Painting by numbers *3 sessions at the Ideas hub *5 pots of paint *11 goodgym painters (ok 10 and me!) *18 wooden panels

After a clean up we set off on a loop around the city with the group splitting into two as we headed to BBC Essex, once reunited we ran across to Waterhouse lane and a few speedy chaps set off on another extra loop whilst the rest of us ran back through the park.

A quick stretch and we chatted about the news, hopefully see a few of the crew at Parkrun on Saturday, and i iwll try to update the facebook page on the social!

A big shout out to Lucy who brought Thomas along so gets a pair of red laces, and to Jack who was painting almost as fast as he can run!