This week we headed back to ROCK ST to rock on with some litter picking of the area.

We met Karen to get bagged up and grab some pickers and got straight to it!

It really is starting to get cold out there now, so we kept it moving and thankfully were heading uphill to keep the internal radiator on.

After a good session on Rock Street we headed back down the hill to drop bags, grab a photo and return our equipment to Karen.

A great session once again and always lovely to support Karen with the constant efforts she puts in to keep the area clean and litter free.

Until next time, happy running! :)

Tonights task had us heading to Rock Street to meet Karen from Pitsmoor Pickers and some friends to help clear Rock St which can get littered up!

Once we found Karen who was already picking away, we got tooled up with bags, pickers and hoops and headed up hill on either side of the road, picking as we went.

Karen was on cans, so we collected seperate piles of these to be recycling in the future and cashed in to pay for other litter picking equipment.

At the end of the session Rachel very kindly offered us all some treats that were left over from her 100th Park Run celebrations at the weekend. They were DELICIOUS and very much appreciated, thank you again Rachel!

Until next time, happy running! :)

3 women ran to Pittsmoor. Met up with Karen and her friendly and helpful volunteers. There was fly tipping. sleeping bag and loads of cans, bottles and more rubbish. We found 2 pairs of shades , both in good working order for us to pose.

We met with the lovely Pitsmoor Pickers to strengthen their own numbers and fight the ongoing local battle against litter.

It was great to have local neighbours come out to thank us and see how they could get involved.

There were a few hot spots where people seemed to have essentially fly tipped a load of stuff, so it was good to get rid of these.

In a short space of time we collected a lot of rubbish that Karen will report for the council to come and collect.

Until next time, happy running! :)

We were back to help our good friends at Pitsmoor Pickers last night at a hot spot for litter bugs and fly tippers!

We met Rachel at the task who was putting in some extra mileage before the group run! TOP work Rachel!

On arrival we gave a wave to Malcolm who was busy with his customized rake and bucket, doing a very efficient litter collection.

We grabbed bags, hoops and pickers and got straight to work, separating cans from other rubbish so these can be collected, recycled and funds put back into the picking group for future equipment.

After a good session the patch of road was looking soooooo much better than before, with larger items also being left for the council to collect.

TOP work team!

3 Goodgymmers ran to Pittsmoor and met up with Danielle and 2 more Pittsmoor volunteers. We split into 2 teams. The 3 Goodgymmers collected litter and a bag full of cans on the main road where the Takeaways and Restaurants were. We were greeted by the locals and wishing us 'Hapoy Eid'. Some even started to help us filling our litter bags and praised us for doing a good deed. It was a nice. sunny evening and we chatted to some of the locals. It was a pleasant task.

On a lovely Sheffield eve we headed out to meet Karen Malone and two other keen Pitsmoor Pickers in a new area of town to our usual spot to get picking!

Tom was the can man for the eve, collecting as many cans as possible to be recycled and cashed in for money that goes back into equipment for the Pitsmoor Pickers.

Amongst items found were individual shoes, suspicious coloured liquids in bottles, the all now common catering sized N02 dispensors.

It was great to be in a new area and to meet some new pickers!

Until next time, happy running! :)

Five fitness fanatics frolicked frenetically to meet Karen and her other volunteer at Stanley Field near Neepsend. We were aiding the Pitsmoor Pickers to pluck lots of trash from the wooded embankment down by the side of the road.

On the way to meet Karen we were having a bet about what colour her hair would be on this occasion... nobody guessed red, and that's what it turned out to be! Appropriate for a visit from red thunder.

Karen distributed pickers, hoops and bags and sent everyone on their merry ways.

We worked our way through the dark, dank woods, blitzing the leaf litter of litter!

Some interesting finds of the evening were several large gas canisters (which Karen takes to a specialist recycling company), 75 drinks cans (which are exchanged for money that is used to buy equipment), cannabis growing equipment, a couple of substantial flat-screen televisions, and a shelving unit.

After 45 minutes of plucking we gathered up all of the bags and bigger bits. We left them in a pile by the side of the road where Karen had arranged for them to be picked up by the council. Before we left we took the opportunity to get a group photo of ourselves looking happy with our haul.

When we arrived back at the showroom there was one final special surprise for the volunteers... the 'Sally up' challenge, this time utilizing it for squats. The premise of the challenge is to perform the downward action of the exercise every time the song says 'bring Sally down' and the upward action only when 'bring Sally up' is sang. This results in lots of reps and varying lengths of time holding stress positions. Everyone loves it!

After this we stretched off all the key muscle groups used throughout the evening's exertions and parted ways.