*🛠️ Woking Wolves Construction Log: Operation "Clubhouse Foundations *

The Squad: Wayne, Kirsty, Stephanie, Anne & Mark, and a collection of brave football coaches.

The Mission: Turn a massive pile of wood into a functional outdoor clubhouse without losing any fingers.

Fresh off painting a mural at the Hive, 🐝 the team arrived at the school football field feeling optimistic. That optimism was immediately tested by the discovery that the perimeter wooden slats—the absolute most critical parts for step one—were located precisely at the bottom of a massive, structural pile of equipment. Because of course they were.😤

A rigorous, unplanned weightlifting session ensued. Everything on top was meticulously relocated to a new pile, proving that the best way to build a clubhouse is to move the same objects back and forth at least three times.

With the parts finally removed from the pile, the pieces were laid out on the foundations. The actual construction officially began, soundtracked by the sweet, sweet buzzing of power tools in the morning sun.☀️

Wayne immediately claimed one of the drills and went to town creating holes and driving screws. To ensure maximum efficiency, Wayne successfully executed the "Double-Vision Technique"—keeping one eye on the screws and the other eye on the live football match happening nearby. Multi-tasking at its finest. 🤣

Recognising true dedication (and perhaps a bit of heavy lifting fatigue), Mark kindly provided Wayne with a luxury VIP lounge chair to rest his leg. Wayne (then transitioned smoothly into the role of Chief Construction Overseer, providing crucial moral support while sitting down.

The Verdict: The foundations are down, the screws are in, and nobody accidentally glued themselves to the wood. We have many weeks of building left to go, but the Woking Wolves officially have a base of operations.

"Will this mural ever actually bee finished?" we found ourselves wondering today, as we returned, paintbrushes in hand to The Hive at Knaphill Lower School for another installment of what is beecoming GoodGym Woking's Forth Bridge. The answer is, possibly. One day, but it is unlikely we will bee alive to see it!

In the glorious September sunshine the worker bees buzzed around with their brushes beeing busy painting around railings, crouching on concrete, edging the artwork and trying hard not to paint on the metal bits. You have to bee determined and persuasive to coax the cream paint into the very textured surface. Worker bee Wayne declared it "therapy" the other GoodGymers could not bee convinced into agreeing with him.

Wayne started outlining the artwork, before moving across to join the second mission at the same location arranged at the same time for Wolves Disability Football Club, Admirable effort following his knee surgery earlier this week, he should bee resting? Anne ran/walked 7.5km to join the task, and Stephanie surprised us all by appearing and immediately began working on outlining the mural.

And, or course, Rocket walked to the mission with Kirsty to continue his honorary membership role of providing not-so-strict canine oversight, preferring to get in the way, collect strokes and generally looking cute. A vital role.

Another lovely morning of sunshine and easy company where we contributed towards improving the school environment for local children. We will bee there next week and every week until Queen Bee Vikki is satisfied that the mural is finished. This particular colony isn't going into retirement anytime soon.

To bee continued! *photos by the real Queen Bee Anne and Wayne

Woking Junior Park Run

Congratulations to Kirsty on completing her 100th GoodGym task! 🎉

Despite facing running setbacks over the last 12 months, her commitment and dedication have brought her back to both running and volunteering. Your official milestone T-shirt with wings is flying its way to you, Kirsty—just try not to actually airborne-launch during your next sprint! 🦅❤️

Kirsty met Wayne at the leisure centre for a gentle 4k run, finishing at the bandstand before volunteering duties began.🏃🏼‍♂️🏃‍♀️

Volunteer Attendance & Catch-Ups It was an excellent turnout of GoodGym members this morning, providing a great opportunity to catch up:

Rich: Regular volunteer present at the event.

Adam: Arrived shortly after the pre-run

Olalekan: Returned to volunteer after some time away.

Alys: Emerged from the vortex of work and married life. Verdict: Still alive, still awesome.

Anne: Arrived a few minutes later, wearing designer sunglasses.

The junior parkrun saw fantastic participation and strong performances across the board:

Total Runners: 179 participants took part this morning.

Fastest Time: An impressive 07:47.

*Personal Bests: *42 runners achieved a new PB.

Thank you to all the volunteers and runners who made this milestone morning a success 😄

Today Goodgym Woking helped again with the painting project at Knaphill Lower School. Kirsty, her 🐕 Rocket 🚀 and Katie walked to the task. Kirsty has been running a lot recently to get ready for a 10km race later this month. She is also nearly at 100 Goodgym tasks 👍

Kirsty had the task of painting the pebbledash magnolia and Katie painted the area by the steps white. Both tasks needed patience and concentration. The Hive building is coming along well, it's looking so much brighter and more cheerful for the children and staff who use it. There may be future sessions set up to continue this work and finish the painting.

GoodGym x Move10 - Garden Tidy

Community Fridge -

🥪 The Great Sandwich Heist: Zoe's First Run & Andy’s Three-Course Carb-Fest

A massive GoodGym welcome to Zoe, who survived her very first group run! It’s the first of many missions, provided she wasn't completely scared off by our post-run catering habits.

The Journey (And the Wedding Gossip)

The squad—Nadia, Andy Julie, Wayne, Kirsty and Zoe—convened at the Winston Churchill School gates. Kirsty clocked a cheeky 2k from home just to show off, while Anne skipped the running part and met us at the site as she currentlt can not run 🏃🏼‍♂️

After Run Leader Nadia gave Zoe the breakdown of the route, we set off on a 2.5k tour of Knaphill’s finest hills. The calves were burning, but the distractions were elite: we got to hear all about Nadia and Andy’s wedding and honeymoon, complete with a mid-run slideshow of the wedding pictures.

The Battle of the Bedding

We arrived at the Knaphill Community Fridge perfectly timed with a massive food delivery. Jules appeared with a wheelbarrow full of tools, and we were assigned our mission: total annihilation of the weeds and dead flowers around the church and food bank tent.

Wayne went rogue at one end with the strimmer. 🤣

The rest of the crew armed themselves with rakes and scissors.

Andy inherited a temperamental leaf blower that was clinging to 1% battery life, yet somehow managed to blow the paths clean through sheer willpower.

Two giant green bins were packed to the brim in record time.

The Legend of the Three-Course Sandwich

Then came the grand finale. To thank us, Jules offered us crates of surplus supermarket sandwiches. While most people took a polite token snack, Andy saw an absolute buffet. 🥪

Andy successfully curated a full three-course meal out of targeted carbohydrate acquisition:

The Starter: A breakfast sandwich. 🥪

The Main: A lunch sandwich. 🥪

The Dessert: A steak dinner sandwich (because nothing says dessert like beef).

He was, unsurprisingly, the happiest lad in Surrey.😄

Jules kindly provided bags so we didn't drop the haul, and the group had the distinct pleasure of jogging back to the school loaded down with a bakery’s worth of bread. Massive props to Zoe for fitting right in, and hats off to Andy appetite! 😄