This Friday morning Jason and I (Helen) made our way to Leeds Baby Bank to help them with their mammoth task of relocating their entire store to a new location. Moving moses baskets and nappies would have been the easy option, but we were assigned the more strenuous job of dismantling the wooden storage units. Luckily Jason came armed with his power tools and I played to my strengths of holding the nails and keeping away from the hammer. Jason had a fantastic workout and I avoided injury so job done! Three units dismantled and cups of tea all round. We're very keen to assist with the re-assembly in the new facility and to see if we can remember which bit goes where!

It was great to get the gang back together tonight! 11 GoodGymers ran 2.5K to the Community Street at Quarry Place to continue with a variety of tasks.

We got a good workout in, moving several heavy planters down the street and into the van. We also continued to build the planter in the bin store, we lined and moved some other planters and then the remaining few of us finished off with some litter picking, filling 3 bags full of rubbish! Jason got to play with a drill again which we all know he enjoys and Fay was a trooper picking litter in a whole street by herself.

I had to laugh at Kat who thought the January challenge was for a whole year, so her target might be slightly unachievable in one month... you have 15 days left Kat, so you might need to run all day, every day to make that target!

What a productive evening! We then ran another 2.5K back to Heart. Thanks to Helen for leading another great run.

Leeds GoodGym has a session at Woodhouse Moor on Saturday 4th January. Unable the make that, I ran the 09:00 New Year’s Day 25 furlong at York (York 5km parkrun) and volunteered to scan barcodes instead. 588 runners were faced with some big puddles on the course. One ankle deep for about 30 metres - twice. Getting wet was inevitable, so everyone trotted through without any shrieking or trying to avoid the water. The finish line soon came up after one and a half laps of York Racecourse. I gave the horse a little whip, but he didn’t respond too well due to carrying a few Christmas pounds and a cold. I grabbed a coat and began scanning just in time for the rush of finishers. GoodGym York were there, but I wasn’t quick enough to sign up to their session. A nice way to start the New Year, and hopefully a contribution to the January challenge.

More puddle than track but that didn't hold back GG York volunteers who paced, kept time, scanned barcodes, funnel managed and checked finish numbers for the first good deed of the year!

588 parkrunners got their feel good start to the year thanks to our volunteers!