After an eggstremely wet Easter in Norwich, we still turned out to burn some of the chocolate off. In fact by the time we set off it was probably the nicest weather we'd had over the last 4 days.

We had a new runner in Charlie, he may have randomly stumbled across us at The Forum but we persuaded him to join us for the evening :-)

Big shout out to Helen for completing 10 GoodGym deeds. Her sister Catherine opted to be back runner.

It was also great to see Rob Riley make an appearance after relocating to London and smashing out loads of deeds at different GoodGym's there. He also completed a Half marathon on Friday in a whopping 1 hr 42 mins!!!

After a warm up we headed on the short run to Grapes Hill Community Garden. Jobs in store were: shifting soil from a compost heap, turning over soil in a flower, moving compost bins and a litter pick.

Our star guest was a little Robin that kept checking in on how everyone was doing.

On the way back we ran via Chapelfield Gardens and finished up with a 12-minute fitness session.

Next week we're off to Hayden Court.

After a long winter we finally had daylight at the start of our run... roll on summer!

It was great to welcome Neil on his 1st GoodGym experience.

Well done to Hayley on doing the Wymondham 20-miler on Sunday.

Although she wasn't there tonight, a massive well done to Bek for doing her 1st ever Half Marathon yesterday... not bad considering she only started running about 6 months ago!

Also, some land marks tonight as Tom, Chloe, Sarah & Darren have now each done 10 GoodGym deeds!!!

A thank you to Elizabeth for being back runner tonight.

We had a rare indoor task tonight as we visited the Oxfam charity shop to sort through their book donations. There was a criteria sheet for which books can be kept and which ones had to be recycled... we were interested to hear what the definition of a 'dirty' book is.

Tom and Sarah took charge of the conveyor belt to take the recyclable books downstairs. However much they were tempted, they did refrain from taking a ride down it!

Alex was a little concerned he wasn't allowed in as there was a sign on the door saying 'No Studs Allowed' ... but then his head go bigger so he probably couldn't fit in anyway ;-)

The GoodGym-ers got so much done in 45 minutes (which equates to about 18 hours of volunteering time) and this makes a huge difference to charities like Oxfam who purely rely on volunteers.

On the way back we stopped to have a photo taken in front of a newly erected show piece outside the NUA.

Next week we are having an Easter Monday run to Grapes Hill Community Garden. This is the location of our very 1st Group Run in Norwich.

After last week's epic fitness session I was pleased to see most had returned tonight... meaning it couldn't have been as awful as they were making out ;-)

A big GoodGym welcome to Daisy who was on her 1st outing with us.

It was Sarah's 30th Birthday (apologies for thinking you were 40) so the plan was to head to brick pizza after the run... see where the pun came from! Sarah wore balloons on her head the whole evening.

Bill & Katy saved the day by collecting my GoodGym bag on their way as I'd left it at home... Bill was also at bit late as he decided to run up Gas Hill before tonight's session, the man is inspiring!

Tonight we were off to Silver Road Community Centre. Due to some slight change of plans we were going to be doing weeding... and there was a good lot for us to do. On the way we stopped for some squats, push-ups and step-ups.

Julie met us there with tools at the ready and the weeding started.

We did have to say RIP to a little snail didn't we Helen.

After 30 minutes of hard grafting we collected all the weeds in and put the tools back.

We had a bit of spare time and had to work up an appetite for the pizza so we went back via a longer route and Grapes Hill... but not before we did 3 rounds of 10x wall step-ups and 10x tricep dips.

Yet again it was a fantastic turnout with a bunch of awesome people who worked hard and earned their pizza and my god was it a good pizza! Next time I will try and remember to read all of the options as Alex's pizza made me feel very jealous.

Next week we're off to John Drake House.

Tonight we had our 1st indoor task at GoodGym Norwich and it was a very special one as we were heading to the Norwich Food Bank to date sort items.

Another fantastic turn out again and a big welcome to new runners Elizabeth, Tim, Poppy, Sophia, Graham, Tom & Calum. Although it was your 1st GoodGym experience, it felt like you settled in straight away and a big thank you to the other runners for making you feel at home.

Those of us that were able to make it to Catton Parkrun on Saturday bragged about our amazing breakfast at Cafe Brittania.

Dan decided to run in jeans this evening #lad and apparently my running bottoms caused a few topics to discuss... oops!

Laura and Carl were devoted back runners.

Simon had his docs checked so he can be DBS verified to go on our Coach and Mission runs.

It was nice route of just over 2 miles to The Norwich Foodbank, which saw us running down Grapes Hill (so yes it meant we had to run back up it at the end) and up the start of Bowthorpe Road... plus a few push-ups along the way.

We arrived at the task and was greeted by Pat who talked a little about what The Norwich Foodbank does and then explained what needed doing.

The GoodGym-ers split into 2 groups and one were date sorting beans and the other date sorting soup... it was like a Soup vs Bean war.

As I was going round doing a live Facebook feed and trying not to wind people up haha, Pat and myself were amazed how quickly everyone was working, so much that Pat had to find other food items for them to sort. In fact everyone did a great job that after about 25 minutes or so there was nothing left to sort!

Bill then tried to negotiate if he could donate some of his ever growing fresh produce (vegetables) to the organisation.

So we then headed back to The Forum with a mixed paced run back with a couple of re grouping spots. The stretch of Dereham Road I let the group loose and go at their own speed. Then it was tackling Grapes Hill again, which everyone smashed.

This week, Bill & Katy had some French beans and peppers to dish out to the group - it really is kind of you.

I think upon reflection of the task we did tonight, it does make you realise how fortunate a lot of us are to have food on the table, especially when Pat explained the situation of some people that is completely out of their control.

Please sign up to next week's task.

Tonight we welcomed Good Gym Ipswich Trainer Ian who was leading the session in preparation for their launch next Monday.

There was me thinking I'd get the night off but everyone else was like "you can join in tonight then".

We had 2 new runners so Richard and Henry were welcomed to the group.

Ian continued with the rest of the intro and then took us through a warm-up.

Catherine, Samantha and Michelle chose to be back runners.

We then headed off to Sprowston Community Hub, which consisted of a nice 5km+ run in 28 degress heat.

A couple of regrouping occasions on the way saw us doing some wall push-ups... and yes I did join in that too :-)

Once we arrived at the the hub, Task Owner Mike talked through what jobs he had for us, which were 1) Sawing off branches from the Leylandii 2) Shovelling soil into wheelbarrows to unload on flower beds 3) Hoeing the soil on the flower beds.

Everyone split into different groups for the task with Laura being the only hoe-er... there was only one hoe to use.

Ian set the task time for 30 minutes and everyone got hard at work.

It was definitely an evening for Innuendos but I won't go into that!

After 30 minutes of hard work, we collected the tools in, Katy handed out biscuits to everyone and we got ready for the journey back.

Just before we got to The Forum we finished the session with a 100-meter (or so) sprint up Gentleman's Walk.

A massive thanks to Ian for coming along and leading the session and I'm sure he'll make GoodGym very successful in Ipswich.

You can sign up to our next week's run here.