A hardy 27 runners ran on a freezing cold evening to help out at Holgate Community Garden.

We had two brand new runners with us, give some big cheers to Mitchell and Andrew for rocking our their first ever GoodGym in sub-zero temperatures.

We also need some massive cheers for Lisa and Paul who both ran half marathon PBs yesterday at Brighton Half and Harewood House Half respectively. Not only that but we had a solid GoodGym showing at Snake Lane 10 too, with Leanne, Becky, Tim, Nick and Paul Kelly running their socks off!

We split into three groups for our run. A longer group, a shorter group and a walking group. The shorter group arrived at the task first to be met by Jules, and were delighted to find a huge array of tools at their disposal. The task was to completely clear a neglected patch of all the weeds and overgrown stuff which was well bedded in. Once the area was cleared and dug over, it was going to be used to create a small edible garden for the local community, containing fruit trees.

Around the patch were also four broken concrete bollards. Another part of the task was to locate/dig up the broken tops and match each top to it's broken base to see if they could be fixed.

The walking group were not far behind; they arrived to tiny squeals of excitement as somebody had discovered that we had been given brand new, still packaged loppers. It's the small things that make GoodGymers happy.

They're new! So sharp!

By the time the long run group arrived (fresh from some bonus hill reps on Windmill Rise) all the easy chopping back had been done. It was time to fork. Forking and digging up the roots was hard graft. We found all sorts in there; an old crow bar, a squash ball and what we thought were potatoes but were reliably informed by Jules, were in fact quince, relics from the last time the patch had been used.

Shelley and Amy were trying to make themselves look busy so I set them the challenge of compressing the plant matter down to make more space in the rubble sacks. This resulted in Shelley doing lunges inside one of the bags, which made me very happy. After this they took on the borders of the area, doing an excellent job of sweeping and clearing all the grassy weeds from the edges.

The first time I've ever lunged in a bag!

We finished up by matching the bollard tops to their broken bases, and running all the tools back to storage before a 10 minute round of Cones of Joy to get nice and warm again. Emma was making up her own exercises and it was a few stations in before I realised she was just basically doing a lot of press ups. With that resolved, it was madness as everyone did their best exercises in the dark. The cones did work and everybody seemed particularly joyful as we made our way back to base.

On a drizzly February eve, a crowd of 31 GG Yorkies gathered for a 4km run to do some good.

We gave some cheers to our new runners, Sister Meyers and Sister Gjjikaj, and kicked off our session with a Ceilidh Dance warm up which was freshly inspired from Friday's social.

On arrival at Clarence Gardens we were met by the lovely Kristina who explained that our task was to clear all the leaves and debris from the small trench around the bowling green. We also needed to clear as many leaves and twigs as we could from the bowling green itself, but without making holes or damaging it.

Before any task could begin, we presented Ellie with the Cape of Good Deeds to wear for the remainder of the evening to celebrate her reaching 50 good deeds! Make sure you give her a massive cheer, she's our top Good Deeder of the month thus far.

Unfortunately, the key for the gate was not on the set Kristina had, so our first challenge of the task was to carefully scale the fence. Barbara managed to get herself stuck with one leg on either side whilst long-legged Huw just stepped over. Tim - for the first time ever - made a non-dangerous suggestion of using the wheelbarrow as a step which was actually fairly effective.

With everyone safely into the bowling green (except Tim, who was on wheelbarrow duty on the outside), the leaf collecting began. Tens of green bags were filled with leaves and twigs which were scooped out of the trenches and picked carefully off the green. We tried to step gently as we could to minimise any damage to the grass, especially as it was so wet.

It's like we're on a covert treasure hunt - Leanne, who was creeping around in the dark collecting twigs

There was a bit of squealing as some people mistook worms for twigs, what with it being quite dark and everything.

In the final few minutes, people were scrabbling for the last few twigs and psyching themselves up for the climb back over the fence. Ellie had gone crazy with the cape and decided to climb in a tiny tree, we weren't entirely sure why but she enjoyed it so really that's all that matters.

After our run back, we finished up with a Winter Olympics themed fitness session which was a HIIT workout containing some of the following exercises:

• Ski jumps
• Ice skaters
• Downhill ski position

..and ended with a few slow motion lunges where we pretended we were curling. It was all very much exactly like the Winter Olympics. We had a good stretch out and refueled like true athletes on Ellie's celebratory brownies too.

GG Yorkies tackled 2 tasks on opposite sides of the city!

After welcoming two new runners to the gang, we did a lungey warm up and the sub-team of five speedy pants runners headed up by Paul and Nick, headed off on a 13km epic to deliver leaflets for OCAY in the Acomb area.

The rest of us ran to Heworth Holme to continue our massive project to create a new footpath. Last week, a small crew had helped out with finishing the border planks and lining the path with weed guard. Our task tonight was to start filling the path with stone from the enormous pile which had been dumped nearby.

The stone was heavy, both to dig and to carry around in wheelbarrows, so everyone took turns with the different jobs. One of the riskiest bits of the task was getting under the barrier/hurdle where the path met the pavement, Barbara did an amazing job of safeguarding everybody's heads and helping to lift the wheelbarrows over the lip as they scurried back and forth.

Under the liner, the ground was still very soft and it wasn't long before we had created a little trench. The only answer was to fill the wheelbarrows with fewer stones on each run which slowed progress. Still, the flow kept going with only a few lulls of waiting for wheelbarrows to return.

If you're waiting, try a power lunge!

There was a fair amount of obligatory lunge posing and overhead spade presses in between bouts of digging and wheelbarrowing. Ellie enjoyed standing atop the pile and loosening off the stones too.

Over in Acomb, new runner Nicky wasn't fazed by the hard run out but had discovered how bristly some letterboxes can be.

Couldn't believe how much it hurt my hands, had to put my gloves on to push them through!

Nick and Paul were highly organised with their leaflet dropping and kept the group working hard to deliver as many leaflets as possible. Fortunately on this occasion, nobody was scuppered by dogs or dodgy gates.

With 30m of path completed, our work at Heworth Holme was done for the evening and we had a gentle run back before completing a workout comprising:

• Star jumps
• Lateral lunges
• Lateral leaps
• Spotty dogs
• Prisoner forward lunges
• Two-footed leaps

....with all that leaping it was only Paul Kelly who leapt almost into the window and Jenna who jumped so hard she made herself fall over - true dedication that.

The leaflet crew arrived back sweaty and knackered after their massive run and scoffed some Jelly Babies before heading to the pub for a well earned beverage.

We continued our work at Heworth Holme to create the new footpath.

At one end we finished staking in the border planks and stapling the weed guard liner all the way along.

At the other end we carried on digging and levelling the path, removing all the roots.

Now it is ready for limestone to go on during our Monday group run!