Guided people in the testing centre and gave out stress ball and pens!

Helped with the car park and test and trace

Helped at salt hill wiping chairs and allocating people to nurses Lucky enough to get vaccinated

Helped at testing centre directing public

All of you

It been a heck of a year. We had a great start to 2020 with our epic Get Berkshire Active Award back in February (that was probably our last big night out for most of us!)

Despite everything that 2020 has thrown at us, we still managed an awesome 1108 Good Deeds (to put this into perspective in 2019 our total was 836!).

A huge thank you and well done to everyone in this ‘party’ as its been your ongoing contributions that has helped us achieve this. So here is the breakdown of our awesomeness:-

• Group Runs – 11
• Wellbeing calls – 205
• Community Missions – 153
• Coach calls – 49
• Missions to older and vulnerable residents – 50
• Quizzes – 6
• Fitness training sessions – 17

Follow the leader

Everyone wants to be on the leaderboard right (except when it involves the C word! - which will not be mentioned in this report)

So, here are our top 5 Mission Team:

• Sara with 21
• Sut with 15
• Chris with 9
• Pam with 6
• Jen with 2

Our highest Good Deeders Team:

• Manjit with 189
• Sut with 134
• Emily with 104
• Sara with 103
• Jenny with 80

Finally Going the distance amongst us were:

• Chris with 1627km
• Ricky with 1469km
• Manjit with 1267km
• Joseph with 883 km and
• Pam with 798 km

Reward with Awards

I can't buy you all a drink (maybe in 2021!), however I would like to say thank you in my own way to everyone who has attended a few sessions in 2020 (apologies to those not included – just means we need you back in 2021!)

In no particular order, the Awards for:

• Best Terra-ble Pun goes to Jen for all her hard work in setting up this amazing task
• Best Newcomer Male goes to Joseph (200km and counting for January?)
• Best Newcomer Female goes to Jess - look forward to having you join us in more tasks in 2021
• Best Run-Away Award goes to Ricky – now your first marathon is over we expect you back to do good!
• Best ‘Dressed’ Award goes to Sutyee for all her efforts with Thames Hospice and for just being a superstar with your good deeds
• Best Buggy Runner Award goes to Chrissy – hope to see you more in 2021?
• Best Cat Woman Award goes to Emily – well done on your epic number of good deeds and for always supporting Slough despite living in Ealing
• Best Shovel It Just a Little Bit Award goes to Gauri – you were such a good seed at the allotment tasks
• Best ‘Not all Superhero’s wear Cape’s Award’ goes to Harsha for all her amazing efforts in saving the planet, for keeping us in check on our fitness sessions and for giving us burpees!
• Best Garden Lapper Award can only go to our Jean for her epic efforts during lockdown 1
• Best Picker Award goes to Jenny on keeping our town clean with the awesome number of solo litter picks she's done
• Best Raking It In Award goes to Kam – again, Kam was just the thicket we needed to plough through those beds and getting them ready
• Best Talkin’ Allot Award goes to Keira for always keeping us entertained
• Best Boatyard Award goes to Roisin for getting Jamie's yard into ship shape
• Best Barrel of Laughs Award goes to Meera for just being Meera!
• Best Teaching is Antz Award goes to Naomi for being a core member of the Wednesday team helping Antz Kids
• Best Happy Monday Award goes to Nisha for the sheer volume of wellbeing calls she has made every Monday
• Best Walker Award goes to Pam - I have high expectations for January Pam!
• Best Reporter Award can only go to Sandy for the brilliant reports and puns she’s written
• Best Run-Mummy-Run Award goes to Ruth whose return to running has been like a pro
• Best Mission Possible Award has to go to Sara for the sheer number of missions she’s done!
• Best Trollied Award goes to Chris who always managed to find the tesco trolley!

Cheers to 2020 and lets look to the future and what 2021 brings (can't be any worse than 2020!).

We hope to return to Group Runs at some point, however, to keep the January spirit alive we have our January Challenge (you all know I like to win, so don’t be shy…sign up…every KM count

https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/january-km-s-challenge

Thank you once again for all you have done for #TeamGGSlough in 2020.

Well done to all our members on doing all or even some of this 28 day lockdown fitness.

I know Harsha smashed the burpees as well as using some exercises in her 'home schooling' PE zoom lessons with her youngests year group who are home isolating at the moment.

Brendar and Nisha have been out every Sunday talking n walking along the Long Walk in Windsor.

Jen has been smashing those push ups and walks as well as the rest of the exercises.

Sut has been back on the mat thrashing the exercises!

A huge well done to you all. If you want an action photo shot added to this report, just whatapp it through to me (07718 905 286)

Another lockdown another challenge! With the tasks for this month being postponed, we wanted to keep the momentum of ‘feeling good’ going, so we had two fitness challenges for our members to get involved in. One was a daily, 28 day long fitness session and the other was….our 12 hour challenge, with a ‘ruler’ theme.

Rules and Regulations

Now we are not a team who flaunt the rules, in fact, I even made Harsha check that we would not be trespassing in certain areas before I agreed to her crazy route!

We know we can only be in two’s, we know that we need to keep a good distance – the general rule of measure is 2 meters. We know that running/fitness takes us to our Happy Place

So with a 12 hour challenge from 6am till 5pm and an hour slot of your choice – the plan had been formulated and 24 Goodgymers were keen to go the distance!

She Rocks…I Rule (06:00)

First up on the ungodly hour of 6am were Harsha and I. This seemed like such a great idea until 5:15am on Sunday when the alarm went off! The last time either of us were up at this time was for a race (remember them?)..

Boy was it dark in Iver this morning! We started on Wood Lane which literally had no street lighting and headed towards Langley Park and then into Black Park.

Such an eerie awesome experience! One we definitely want to do again.

Our National Measure (07:00)

So Sutyee had requested the 7am slot around 2 weeks ago. Keen and eager to get a nice run in around Black Park. But our national measure had forgotten to check hubby’s work schedule and can you believe it..he was on an early shift!

So Sut did 30 mins off indoor exercise and 30 mins of exercise in her front garden!

She was joined in the 7am slot by our good neighbour Sara from GG Windsor and Maidenhead who did her slot around Wargrave in Maidenhead.

Ricky has an inch or two on Nit (08:00)

Over to the likely lads now with Ricky and Nital taking on the 8am slot.

Just to ensure good measure, Ricky had an extra extra long ruler which ensured they kept the to minimum 2 meter distance! And not only did these guys run for an hour, they actually completed a half marathon distance by running for just over 2 hours! Nit’s longest distance ever! Well done guys

I draw the line at… (09:00)

Out at 9 were Nisha and Brendar. Even though Nisha is part of two run groups, she actually draws the line at running….and did a long walk along the Long Walk in Windsor with Brendar.

Anna on the other hand, ran her hour and managed a super ruler video clip too.

Bend the Rules (10:00)

In Slough we do bend the rules every now and then! So when Keira and Chrissy asked if they could go out on Saturday instead at 10am, I wasn’t going to say no to two teachers! I know the rules!

Another rule breaker Ciaran asked if he could do his over various days (actually he didn’t…I volunteered him to do it over a few days due to his ankle injury…the things I do for you (bruv!)

Also getting fit at 10 were Gauri and Roisin with Devina . Well done to Team 10. Clearly a popular time of day.

That’s the spirit (11:00)

Emily, our original ruler, who now lives in Ealing did her 1 hour stint there. Not having a ruler in the flat, Emily improvised with a spirit level (you don’t have a ruler but you have a spirit level?)…you rule Emily.

Generuley (12:00)

Kam was up next with a lunch time eggstrava gansa… Kam can knock a good distance in an hour generally so we had high expectations today.

Cant measure up to…(13:00)

It was now Pam's turn and given Pam’s daily activities on Strava, we really cant measure up to her. She can out walk us all.

The lengths we go to…(14:00)

Jen was getting her hour in whilst doing her walk to Sainsbury – Living well for less is always a great mission to have, so tying in two activities in one is a foot in the right direction.

Inching their way forward (15:00)

So close now! Jess and Naomi had this slot, each one covering a certain distance in their respective areas. They still had the light on their side in the Evening Golden Hour.

Can’t measure up to you (16:00)

Our penultimate pair were Sandy and Ruth. They were going down memory lane and hit Salt Hill Park for their hour of run fun and chat. They officially fell into Evening Civil Twilight!

And the ruler of the day is…(17:00)

Sara

Sara did an 8 hour shift at work, before finishing off our 12 hours of fun with the 5pm slot! Well done Sara.

And that’s a wrap! Thank you so much to everyone who got involved in this challenge and a special thank you for all our themed ‘ruler’ photos and videos… You guys really do RULE!

Watch this space for a December Santa Dash!

Signing off The Supreme Ruler Manjit