Here's what we got up to at this week's Monday Rainy Run.

A big welcome to Dominic (Hannah's other half) and Mark on their 1st GoodGym encounter.

Kathryn and Hannah were completing their 10th good deeds, well done to both of you!

With it being an outdoor task, it was looking grim with the rain belting down. We began with a new style warm-up (after not being allowed to do inside The Forum this week :-|) and then we set off on the short 1.5km trot down to the Norwich Train Station, with Katy kindly being backrunner.

Sue and her amazing team of volunteers met at the Norwich Train Station gardens with an array of spades and forks (puns will be coming up soon). The job we had was to dig up deep rose bushes and the only way to do this was to fork them deep to get the end result we wanted.

As the area wasn't large enough for 26 GoodGymers, I decided we'd fork in pairs so one person would fork while the other ran a loop around Riverside then tagged their buddy and they swap over. This format happened to make it one of our most physical tasks we've had as everyone was both running and forking all evening. By the end of it we were all gleaming and a little wet, from the rain.

After nearly an hour of hard work, we headed back and stopped of in the Xmas tunnel of love for some colourful photos.

As you can imagine, there were plenty of borderline puns for the title of this run report but we voted on Jonathan's more clean cut version.

I had a personal thank you from Sue and her team for what a great job everyone had done at the task so well done everyone.

Next week we are heading to the Norwich Food Bank again to Make Xmas Boxes.

We've been making a real impact on tackling loneliness recently with our Group Runs by giving some time and company to groups of older people. Now the clocks have gone back and nights are longer, this is the time of year people feel most lonely so what better way to overcome that by having a sing-a-long with a bunch of out-of-tune GoodGymers haha.

Rosalind was taking part in her 1st GoodGym encounter so a big welcome!

Being Halloween week, we had an array of masks on show this week, to be taken off so not to scare the older people on our arrival!

We had a 5.5km each-way distance to run this week, one of our longer ones but we don't mind when it's for such a good cause and we've developed a very close relationship with Redmayne View over the last year and a half. This is evident as each time we come along there is more and more residents coming down to join in. There must have been at least 50 of us in total. It was also nice to see several staff members joining in too.

There was a whole list of songs we belted out until our hearts were content, most noticeably with hits such as 'Summer Holiday' and 'Sweet Caroline'.

Another very rewarding task completed before the long run back to The Forum.

Next week we're back to outdoors when we visit Eaton Park.