With a community mission in town cancelled owing to rain the Stirchley crew headed down to the pub to assist Amy in relabelling leaflets for the market. There was a misprint and instead of throwing them away we would just cover the mistake with stickers!

Rich was straight on it with his technique of getting all the stickers on the tips of his fingers while the rest of the crew put them on.

As if this wasn't enough there was also a pub quiz happening which we of course entered as "Sticky Situation" as our team name.

The results? We came 5th in the quiz and corrected 717 leaflets! Ready for us to deliver later in the year

Tonight was the first GoodGym Run club session. This will be a monthly session involving a structured running session generally involving some form of interval training followed by a litter pick.

Eve and Morwenna did the running session, led by Jonny who was on his bike.

Eve and Morwenna ran down to Millenium Point as a warm up and then it was straight into a fartlek session. This is a swedish term meaning 'to play with speed'. This basically means it's unstructured interval training. The session was 2 x 8 minute fartlek blocks with a 2 minute rest between sets. The efforts ranged from fast 20 second sprints, up to a more sustained 1 minute effort. The efforts were interspersed with 'easy running' recoveries. Both Morwenna and Eve pushed hard and were especially nippy on the 20 second efforts, catching Jonny by surprise at one point as he led the way on his bike.

Once done the 'warm down' was an uphill slog back to 1000 Trades.

Back at base we met Miriam who'd come for the litter pick. We collected our equipment and off we went to do our 'do good' bit. We found a pineapple skin, hence the pun I couldn't think of!

Once done we had a picture before heading back to 1000 Trades, were Morwenna, Eve and Miriam stopped for a drink and Jonny used the last of the light to bike home.

Making the most of the daylight, Rich and Miriam did a 7k run to the mission where we were met with Laura who had cycled 10k from work. The real work out then when we met Amy and began leafleting ~300 houses to inform them about the market!

The fab four then enjoyed a drink and a catch up in the pub afterwards.

Our wonderful Amy is taking on more responsibility at the Stirchley Community Market and so she led us all in a team building task setting up a market stall to see how many pieces we had!!

Laura and Sofeen had put up the stall before so quickly took to assembling the pieces and showing us what to do. It felt like an escape room or crystal maze puzzle!! With Laura's memory and a sort of helpful photo Amy had - we managed to get it together! Abigail and Chris were excellent organisers, getting the pieces ready and coming up with solutions.

The hardest part of the day was putting the heavy metal pieces back quietly while a class was in session in the community centre! We also kept having the door closed on us. Quite the team building experience.

Srinivas joined us in Stirchley for the first time and did amazingly on our 3k run. Hope to see you again!!

Shout out to Veronika who cycled to the mission and then did a run with us! Duathlon vibes.