Welcome to our new runners Victoria, Tamasine, Cathryn. Great to have you along with us!

17 runners went to Ark T in Temple Cowley. We delivered a no Sugar poster to Wild Honey Health food shop on the way for Good Food Oxford!

We picked litter, dug up weeds, swept sand back into their sandpit and moved their toys back to the mud kitchen!

Feeling like Champs We then went to BeauChamp street to play another round of King of the hill.. Any opportunity for a hill session!! ;).

We also had a bit of time to split into Caterpillars , Team A for Angus and Team B for Ben (with support from Trev and Julia) who split our bumper group up to have a go at leading a wiggly caterpillar around Florence Park. Thanks also to Sarah for running back to get the litter pickers Trev left!! We all made it home just before another massive storm broke.. eeek! At least we have 2 caterpillars and a whole load of loo roll, beans, pasta and hand sanitizer!

A final little video for you

Here is us celebrating Julias Fab new #BLACKGG50Tshirt!! who will be next? could it be you?... celebrating Julia's Black 50 Tshirt dance!

Welcome to Cassy, our new runner this evening!

12 Runners went to the Oxford Hub! on the way we put up posters for Good Food Oxford to raise awareness about healthy amounts of sugar!

We called at cafes and supermarkets.. we attempted to put posters in fast food places where people buy sugary drink and also heath food shops!

Team Julia and Team Ben split and went different ways from Little Clarendon street into Jericho and towards the city center. They put up the posters and also posted leaflets for Oxford HUB's new home to residents!

Team Emma stayed at the hub, to mop floors, wipe mirrors, clean tables, and break down boxes... and eat chocolate (don't tell the anti-sweets brigade!)!

On the way home we successfully posted in the Library and in a Sainsbury's (the poster is the same colour as their advertising!)

There were a few Jumping Jack Star Jumps outside Carfax tower and I think we all felt balanced that we had burnt the fat we had eaten, and had avoided getting any extra illnesses by washing our hands thoroughly while singing Happy Birthday GoodGym twice (around 20 seconds) and only sneezing into our armpits!

Have a great week!

Today’s group run began with a mini good deed, as a few early bird GoodGymers helped to move a stage at East Oxford Community Centre (our GoodGym home). We are always on duty!

The main task for the evening was to deliver leaflets around Iffley village promoting Cosy Homes Oxfordshire. Cosy Homes is a home retrofit initiative supported by the Low Carbon Hub. Their services would benefit many of the houses in Iffley, which can be old, draughty and expensive to heat. Our group of intrepid runners split up to deliver as many leaflets as we could, while getting major house envy and planning which one we would buy if we ever won the lottery! We regrouped at the foot of Abberbury Road (…aka The Big Hill). We ran up to the top in a sort of leaflet-delivering relay, and delivered all the leaflets with time to spare, which meant…

…there was time for some games! The first game was “Lamp posts” (not its official name, but it’s what I’m calling it!). In a test of our running, jogging and counting skills, the game involved jogging down the hill for a certain number of lamp posts, then sprinting back up to the top, with the number of lamp posts increasing each time. The second game was “King of the Hill”. Ben was duly crowned King, and claims his prize of getting a mention in this run report. (Better than a medal, wouldn’t you say?)

After the games...

After the games it was time to head back to base, with of course a couple of stops for star jumps along the way! (Or were they jumping jacks? Please refer to Sarah for clarification!)

On the home straight Trev caught the eye of some quite saucily dressed young men (students in women’s underwear… and nothing else), when they encouraged him with shouts of “Go on, Mo Farah!” We also sometimes struggle to tell the difference 😉

Finally, a warm welcome to Katie, and a big thank you to Sarah for the title of this report 😊

Welcome to our new runners Henry Ellie.

Another well sized group of 17 GoodGymers came to finish our January 2020 challenges! over all the GoodGyms we beat our target of 8,000 Good Deeds this month :)

..so many in fact we split into a whole collection of bike related tasks, breaking spokes, painting signs, testing handlebars with magnets! cleaning grease and grime with cloths... making new cloths to clean grease and grime...

We ran past the oldest pub in Oxford and through the newest shopping center..

We did star jumps and stretches and Trev and Henry went to the Mad Hatter afterwards to continue the GG post run pub crawl..

Well done to Angus who wore his Garland of Joy with pride through the whole session! He can now join Taskforce and join the growing team of GGers who do more.. want to join up? do 10 runs and just read the online training doc.. easy!

Much fun was had, enjoy you bikes! see you next week