Another chilly evening saw a good group of 11 goodgymers meet up to get active and do good.

Tonight, we were jogging and walking over to St. James Community Centre, next to the very beautifully gothic Church. It was a short distance of just under 2km each way, but welcomed on the way back to warm up after the task. Our task, as the numbers were good, to help edge the lawn, sweep up leaves from the public path, remove the larger weed growth in between the paving slabs and then came the burning.....man

As the joggers and runners arrived first they were given first choice, Dylan and Rosie took up the flame throwers (well not quite, health and safety and all that!), Darren was on edge with the trusty spade, Martin and Will went out into the darkness to sweep up the leaves, Sophie, Llion, Catherine, Flo and Neda got on with removing the weeds from the slabs.

It was 30 minutes of cold, hard work, whilst the strange Tesla car flashing it's light at us, let us know that it had nearly achieved consciousness.....Michael did not like this particular car, nor did they trust it!

Moving on, photos galore and a good chat as we all caught up with the weeks gone by, and it was soon time to down tools and head home.

On our final group task for the year, we took to the chilly streets of Cardiff and ran, jogged, walked and cycled to our friends at Cwtch Together. Michael was all festive with lights twinkling through his goodgym top,

you're welcome people of Cardiff

The goodgym speaker was also along for the run, finding it's new place fitted to the goodgym bag, the playlist had been found already and was ready to go as soon as we arrived at the task.

Lot's of chatting along the way as we discussed our festive plans, we were also heading for food afterwards so they was also chats about food......mmmmmmmm

The task tonight was helping to clear the grounds, the storm at the weekend had cleared all leaves from the trees - at Cwtch and in the park next door. As soon as the leaves were seen our playful members couldn't help but kick through them.

Michael went inside to get bags, gloves and a light, the speaker was turned on and the Christmas hits started playing as we all got to work. People were collecting leaves into bags, bins and sweeping more into piles. It was like a task that wouldn't end, not to be put off we kept on going with a song along the way and soon the pathway and side of the building were clear and could be seen again.

we totaled 14 bags and 2 bins of leaves in all, thats a lot of bare trees! A quick group photo and it was time to head back for food, Michael decided to keep the tunes going as we made our way for food, spreading the cheer as they went.

We take a well deserved 2 weeks off now, returning for the ever anticipated January Challenge.

See you all soon.