A big Brighton Goodgym welcome to Clare & Daniel joining us for the first time tonight, its great to have you along and we hope we’ll see you again. It was also good to see Madeleine back after a few months off. Welcome back!

And a huge Brighton Goodgym Congratulations to Sherman who has reached the amazing milestone of 50 good deeds. That’s a fantastic achievement and he now joins a select club of only a few Brighton Goodgymmers to have reached the magic 50! We look forward to seeing you in your black t-shirt next week! And I wonder who will be next?!

Just a a short run to our task tonight where we met David from the St James’s Community Action Team. They have received some funding from Pride in the Community to refresh some large raised beds at the bottom of Upper Rock Gardens, but before they replant them, they needed some soil improver added to get the new plants off to the best start. So armed with shovels, spades and forks our task was to shift and shovel a half tonne of muck into the raised beds. As it was a small working area we split into 2 groups with one group working whilst the other ran around the block before swapping over. After about 20 minutes we’d got the job done, leaving the beds ready for planting, I look forward to seeing how they look in a few days once they've been planted up.

With plenty of time for a fitness session we headed to Dorset Gardens for a session all about agility and plyometrics. First we took on the Illinois agility test, designed to bring out those nimble, sprightly and fast feet as you negotiated some tight turns and weaved your way through a course of cones.

Next we had a series of plyometric relay races jumping and hopping over cones, which produced some nail biting photo finishes between the 2 evenly matched teams. Plyometrics are great exercises for runners, anything with small, light hops and jumps is fantastic for strengthening muscles and tendons and helping you develop a spring in your step to get those feet moving quickly when you run.

Hopefully see some of you at our monthly parkrun meet up this Saturday where we will need maximum spring in our step to get us up that lovely big hill. Breakfast at The Bevy after!

What a lovely evening to get fit whilst doing good! Summer was still in the air after a sweltering bank holiday and the chat on the run was mostly about how we enjoyed the heatwave over the Easter weekend.

After a shortish run we arrived at Morley Court in Wellington Road where we were met by regular task provider Cllr David, fresh from celebrating a significant birthday over the weekend, where he unfortunately sustained a knee injury pogoing to Anarchy in the UK!! Way to go Cllr David, we wish you a speedy recovery!!

Cllr David took two pairs of runners (Tabitha & Lucy and David & Katie) off to apply the top coat of paint to graffiti in a couple of locations we covered up last week. On returning to the group Katie looked like a seasoned Goodgymmer as her brand new GG t-shirt is now suitably paint spattered after just one outing!

Back at Morley Court residents John & Madeleine set us to work on pulling up enormous amounts of ivy that has completely taken over the beds edging the communal garden. Using a variety of tools including rakes, secateurs & loppers we lopped, chopped, tugged & pulled that ivy, it was a right battle to get it clear. Pulling is a great workout for the upper back muscles which are so important for a good posture in life and in running so this was a great physical task for us.The long term plan is to clear the beds and plant them with something a bit more colourful, apparently there is a little girl who lives in the block who is already a keen gardener and would like a bit more space to express her green fingers.

Just time for a partner workout on the Level using our partners as resistance, support and motivation to complete a variety of exercises to double tick the getting fit box. See you all next week, happy running!