Third time lucky! This was our 3rd time over in stockport to deliver leaflets, this time we were working with socially yours again to promote the friendship groups to help with isolation and help make friendships in the community.

As ever we started off at Lifeleisure Grandcentral, meeting at the usual 6.30pm. We had a fabulous 12 runners join in, we started with a warm up and light jog before setting off back to Cheadle. On this visit we met Natalie from socially your at a closer start location, so the run was slightly shorter which gave us longer to post and promote, and that we did.

But as we waited for Natalie it gave a perfect 5 minute slot to get some intervals in, and wow the speed of the goodgymers was faaaaaassssst, well done!

This was definitely 3rd time lucky with the leaflets, as there was no rain to soggy the leaflets, and we got our routine down to perfection, which meant we delivered every single leaflet, which means we are adding a bigger impact, so fingers crossed we get lots of people to join socially yours! Ill keep you posted……….get it!? (made me laugh anyway)

After posting ALL the leaflets, we ran back at a lovely pace, with a little speed as we had our second social. We were celebrating our 10th week of Goodgym in Stockport and all the amazing tasks we have achieved as a team so far. We also had a cheers to the awesome David for completing 52 good deeds, how amazing, I gave him a little gift to celebrate, and we all wait in anticipation for photographs…….

Id also like to say a massive well done to Anne Goldsbrough for completing 10 group runs, you can now become a part of the task force! And thanks for always being a positive part of the team and being my technical adviser…..

Welcome to Amy and Lorna for joining us! And I still cant believe it was your 1st ever outdoor run, what a epic achievement.

Last thing to mention, at our social we discussed the next social, our, dare I mention the word CHRISTMAS??? So keep your eyes peeled for date and location.

Until next week crew, happy running!

Lisa x

Fair-weather runner?? O dear last night might not have been the best night for you to come along as sunny stockport had its first winter down pour of ice rain just in time for our task!

But that didn't put off the Goodgym Stockport Crew, 15 of us met up at the usual location, starting with a little intro and warm up to get us pumped!

We ran a short distance to our location of the Wellspring homeless Centre Stockport. As I collected the leaflets, I left the crew to do some fitness work, which obviously they all loved?! Who doesn't like squats/star jumps and lunges?

After collecting the flyers from the lovely Dora from wellspring we distributed them out between us, and set off to Reddish to post the flyers.

As we hit Reddish, the rain hit us! It started to ice rain, but we kept on running………………….. we got through a huge amount of flyers, posting into lots of letterboxes to help promote the wellsprings winter “Rucksack” campaign.

The campaign is to promote the rucksack project on Dec 2nd. The Centre is asking people to donate a rucksack including:

1 x rucksack 1 x fleece/jumper 2 x undies 1 x sleeping bag 1 x hat/scarf/gloves 2 x socks 1 x flask 1 x tin beans/soup etc

The run last night was extremely humbling, as some of us were grumbling about the weather and the cold rain, however we got to go home and be warm when our run was finished, the point of this project is that this isn’t the case for many people in the Stockport area, so get involved people, do your bit.

We posted the flyers, but you can do the same by popping down the the Wellspring Centre:

The Wellspring, Harvey street, Stockport, SK1 1DY. 0161 4776344. www.thewellspring.co.uk

The above Rucksack donation shared between a few people really isn’t much, and today especially being halloween got me thinking of how much we spend on daft things like plastic skeletons, how about we all buy one skeleton less and get a item for the rucksack project, and encourage all you friends and family to do the same so we can all make a small difference!

On a lighter note……..Well done all of us for making it to week 10, its gone so fast, and its been so amazing and I'm looking forward to it continuing and getting more good stuff done.

Also welcome to our 4 new runners last night, Jemma, Sally, Stephen and Steven (sounds like a Ednid Blyton title) Thanks for joining us on such a wet evening and pulling your socks up.

A gentle reminder to wrap in more layers as it gets colder, and think about be able to be seen in the dark.

Last thing from me, the social has now been changed to this coming Tues (6th Nov) just a little drink and chat after next weeks run.

Happy running folks, Lisa x