Subzero temperatures tonight at Goodgym Bath For our fabulous 14 and made of tough stuff runners for a 7k run out to The Nest Project to help sort children's clothes so they can easily distributed to families in the city.

Warm up and headcount out of the way quickly this evening as we have a lot of ground to cover in a short space of time, plus we were all blooming freezing so good to get going. The run out was flat and fulfilling with a few chances to regroup with some functional fitness on route.

Our host Pip was waiting to greet us and soon had us organised sorting through boxes of donated children's clothes and folding and organising them into gender and age group so they can be easily distributed to families along with children's equipment for the very young. A second group cleaned toys downstairs so they are ready to hand out. There was a lot of cooing in the room, I believe some of the team were getting broody for the rest It was light relief to be indoors for this 30 minute task.

We always make enough time to catch a group photo before leaving and thanking our hosts for allowing us to come along and do some good in our community, so everyone please spread the word if you know anyone that might benefit from some children's clothes or equipment.

The run back was a flat but fast one with the front runners looping to keep the group close and to ensure we arrived back at the leisure centre in good time for a well earned stretch out and vote on tonight's pun.

Thanks to Mary for back marking and to Rosie for tonight's pun. Yet another fun evening with a fabulous group of people, it's what makes the world go around.

Remember to bring you ID along for Emily or myself to check if your wishing to get paired up or join us on missions.

A wonderful autumnal evening in Bath and an ever ready Dirty Dozen runners and a relatively flat 5k run to Oldfield Baptist church toddler group to clean toys ready for the new term.

A catch up on everything that's been going on from races to Goodgym news and general chit chat before our warm up this evening . Well done to Jonathan who ran a 10 miler in Battersea at the weekend coming first in his age group.

The run out sweeping (not literally) our way along the lower Bristol road to Oldfield park and task destination Oldfield Baptist church.

Our host tonight was Liz and the sight before us was like a scene from TOY STORY, maybe minus WOODY or was he lurking somewhere? The answer to that was a Gert Big NO, our task was to get the toys nice and clean. Splitting into teams with two groups wiping down toys with anti bac spray. Sam and Steve were hard at it in the kitchen washing their blocks off in the dish steriliser. Lucy seemed very interested in the pink Barbie phone whilst Kieron was waving his magic wand whilst holding a handbag... enough said. Jon was frantically trying to find all the eggs for the carton... a case of EggCD and Pascale was road testing the pink trike.

A very excited Liz as the group made light work of tonight's task. 30 minutes up and a chance for

THE GOODGYM TODDLER GROUP

To strike a pose on stage with their musical instruments.. SHAKE RATTLE AND RUN before saying farewell and cruising back to the leisure centre.

Thanks to Rosie for backmarking Thanks Lucy for tonight pun

A big push on Document checking So if your waiting to get paired up bring your documents down to a DBS party or group run

Birthday party next week so please let us know if your coming https://www.goodgym.org/parties/goodgym-bath-s-1st-birthday

It may be getting dark but we had 15 fabulous Goodgym runners lighting up the streets of Bath tonight for our #runandtalk starter session for mental health awareness day and the task destination was Royal Victoria Park play area and skate park, the task was to rake and bag up as many leaves as possible.

Two super new guys tonight so a warm welcome to Jonathan and Kieron... welcome!!

A lot of chatting tonight during warm up especially from the TERRIBLE TWINS ( you know who you are) but great to hear so much banter even though It meant I had to shout a bit louder, it's all good therapy. The headcount went smoothly.

The group swept through the city centre with the lovely Ellen backmarking tonight . A quick stop off in Kingsmead square for some upper body work before the final straight along to the park where Lucy and Steve were waiting to join us after their run from the other direction.

It took a bit of organising to get the groups of three into position along the perimeter railings armed with rakes and bags with the aim to fill as many black bags as possible in 30 minutes. In total we FILLED 18 BAGS although we lost count of the winning teams total, so we'll have to call it a draw.

A last minute dash over to the skate park for some rich pickings from the conker tree before a rather dark group photo was order of the evening. There was 5 minutes of playtime at their own risk, it's all good exercise after all, before we bid farewell to Jonathan, Steve,Lucy and Ellen who were running off in the other direction.

Just enough time left with Pascale backmarking to #runandtalk all the way back to base for a stretch out and a few announcements Rosie and Emily have earned their Black T shirts with 50 good deeds and well done! to Pascale who ran the York marathon at the weekend.

A reminder please that we have 6 isolated older people waiting to be coaches, so if your DBS checked and done your coach runner training get in touch with Emily@goodgym.org and she'll get things rolling .

Don't forget to sign for our Birthday Party ... whoop!! https://www.goodgym.org/parties/goodgym-bath-s-1st-birthday

Thank you again everyone... Amazing as always!!