This weekend, is was our turn to do a takeover at Sloughbottom parkrun.

7 GoodGymmers were there to help out, with Sinead being Run Director.

Myself and Woody were on finish tokens, Emily was tail walker while Kathryn, Rose and Simon filled marshal points.

It was a very chilly was gorgeous morning with exactly 200 finishers, most of whom received a GoodGym flyer after they crossed the finish line.

Everyone was up bright and early on Sunday morning despite England's historic victory.

We assembled for the marshal briefing and then made our way to our stations. Susanna was on barcode scanning duty, whilst Rob , Liz and Sinead were marshals.

join us next week for some more parkrun fun.

Six runners gathered on a balmy early mid summer evening at Eaton Park by the bandstand. Whilst we gathered and chatted we were privy to a soothing gospel choir practicing in the background.

We welcomed new runner Sussana on her first run.

The task was to deliver information in the form of a poster to households to advertise online support services for their community. After recieving instructions from Steve, we embarked on our mission and struck off across Eaton Park.

It was a hot sunny evening and quite difficult to run so we went around as a group delivering our public service broadcast information. Lots of people were out and about so it was nice to engage with the local community and there were lots of smiles.

We had a successful mission - the only hiccup when we realised one of the roads was located in Pensylvania, USA. We considered running dowen to Heathrow to catch a flight but then decided against it as we thought Steve would probably not be impressed.

After we finally found the missing Norvic Drive (meant getting a bit lost!!) we completed our task delivery and ran/walked back to the bandstand to cycle home.

Well done everyone who took part!!

A visit to Norwich Foodbank is always a very rewarding task and for this we had a whopping 36 GoodGymers come out to attend... in the rain yet again!

A big welcome to 3 new runners in Esther, Jess and Andrew, I hope you all enjoyed your 1st GoodGym experience :-)

A thank you to Bill and Elizabeth for being back runners.

After a warm-up that included (everyone's favourite) Bear Crawls, we set out on the soggy 3km outward journey. As there were so many of us (and you all know how much I love Health & Safety...) I put everyone in pairs so that one person can be in the warehouse while the other does a running loop, then they swap over. So as well as doing good, everyone got to run a little further than they expected to ;-)

Keith, the warehouse manager, had a mixture of things for us to do, which included: date sorting tins of beans, sorting out 2020 food items, weighing crates of new items, sorting Xmas items, sorting nappies, preparing Xmas boxes, sorting coffee/tea/hot chocolate items as well as some other jobs.

After 40 minutes of doing these tasks and running in between, we set off on our way back.

Helping with Norwich Foodbank for Christmas hampers

If you'd like to help the foodbank with their donations for the Xmas boxes, they're in need of the following items:

• Tins/cartons of tomatoes
• Tinned vegetables
• Long-life fruit juice
• UHT Milk
• Pasta sauce
• Rice pudding/custard
• Instant mash
• Tinned fruit
• Tea
• Tinned meat
• Tinned fish
• Christmas treats - chocolate/sweets/crisps etc

If you bring them along to Goodgym on a Monday night, we'll collate any items together and make sure they get to the foodbank. If you can do this by the end of November this will help with distribution in time for Christmas!

Reminder of the following:

Parkour Social Jump is this Wednesday.

GoodGym Norwich Xmas Meal is on Wednesday 11th December.

If you want to join the Secret Santa you need to sign up by lunchtime today!

Next week's Group Run is a Games Night @ The Hamlet Adult's Centre.

Running on a wet Monday night appears to be regular thing now... could someone please send some better weather otherwise I'll be writing Santa a letter early this year.

Ben was taking part in his 1st GoodGym experience this evening so a big welcome!

Jonathan was taking part in his 10th good deed and Brad (aka our poster boy) his 50th good deed!*

Another long run this week as we had an 11km round trip to Aslake Community Growers in Sprowston. Mike greeted us with an array of tasks including, planting lettuce, potting up strawberry pots, digging and then some more challenging tasks of putting together some trellises for those with woodwork skills! It gave a nice variety to most of the general gardening tasks that we do. I even witnessed Elliott using a drill.

With it being a long task, we only had 30 minutes there but with over 30 of us a lot got done in a short time and we helped out this great group who supply their produce to the local community.

Just a short report this week and next Monday we're visiting Violet Elvin Court for some games and leaf clearing.

As it was a very short task tonight, we all walked as a group as me and Katy are still recovering from injuries. There would still be time for some running later on though.

We welcomed 3 new GoodGymers this week so a shout out to Marcus, Bryony and Elizabeth!

The main task tonight was to do some cutting back of the overgrown hedges and weeding at The Hamlet Adults Centre. There was also a smaller task opposite at Your Own Place CIC where 3 people were painting, we were sure to do a rendition of Adeles's Hello through out the evening.

Hello from the other side

On arrival, Stephen, Elizabeth H and Bryony went with Rebecca at YOPC to do the painting while the rest of us met Jayne to assemble the team with tools to cut back the overgrown bushes ;-) hedges and do some weeding.

As usual, before the blink of an eye, the team of GoodGymers had organised themselves into the different jobs and the demolition job began. So much so that we ran out of bin bags... twice! Luckily Jayne had a good stock and kept bringing us more out.

You'll have to look at the photos to appreciate the sheer amount of foliage. The place was transformed!

Once the painters had finished they came and joined us to finish off the task.

On the way back we stopped in Chapelfield Gardens for a sprint session before finishing with some stretches at The Forum.

Thank you to Mel for helping with taking photos.

You're probably still wondering what the pun is referring to... could it be related to the giant, albeit intimidating marrow I'm holding during the stretches? Or the size of the space the foliage bags have taken up? Or just the size of the GoodGym Norwich group? You'll never know (but can probably guess) what it refers to.

Next week we're on a much longer run (6km each-way!) as we visit Barley Court Care Home, which will celebrate 10 years of GoodGym!