On a beautifully warm and sunny evening in York - a big bunch of runners turned out to help with lots of different tasks!

Amongst them was a GoodGym tourist, Clare from Lewisham, so let's make sure we give her a big ol' Yorkshire cheer for joining us. We also need to give some massive cheers to Nick, who ran the 55 mile ultra, Race to the King, at the weekend. Nick very sensibly volunteered to be our walking back marker and give his legs a bit of a well-earned rest.

Leanne, Tim and Lizzie each led out a flyering team allocated to a different zone. Our challenge was to deliver 1500 leaflets to the South Bank/Fishergate area advertising the Millennium Field Summer Fair. Each leader had to photographically memorise their zones from the master map and had nothing but a piece of paper listing the streets they needed to flyer but they were unfazed by the challenge.

The rest of us ran to Rowntree Park to meet Beki and Rosemary. Our jobs were:

• To clear/wheelbarrow 3 x 1 tonne sacks of soil and deliver to trenches in the playpark
• To bag up a big pile of green waste into sacks
• Plant begonias in raised beds (which we dug in a few weeks ago)

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• The technical challenge of undoing an access gate using a sprocket set.

With 35 minutes on the clock, the challenge begun. Wheelbarrows of soil were swiftly loaded and waited outside the fence whilst Paul Kelly and Debs battled the technical challenge. There was talk of team lifting the heavy barrows over but we decided to be safe (and patient) instead.

Over at the big pile of stuff, one bag was filled quickly and Huw, Helen and Carl were busy breaking down as much as possible whilst Tristan was sent off on a sack-finding mission. He succeeded and the team were able to continue their excellent work.

Lizzie's flyering team were first back, with the other teams not far behind. As they all arrived back, runners were diverted to digging, wheelbarrowing, sack-filling and begonia planting. Beki was running back and forth like a proper GoodGymer, checking what was happening and making sure we were filling all the right holes.

With everyone back, the pace picked up and we cleared all the soil with five minutes to spare; just enough time for everyone to do lots of good stamping to bed it in.

Cones of Joy!

What better way to celebrate a good deed than with a brilliant fitness session?! Max hadn't fully understood what was happening and had managed to sneak off and get his very own cone of joy in the shape of a massive ice cream, but he did manage to demonstrate sit ups whilst holding it, which was very impressive.

Everyone else paired off and mentally prepared for the challenge ahead. Beki - who is now officially an honourary GG Yorkie, even joined in to make up even numbers. 25 stations of fitness. 15 minutes. Best stations included:

• Crab kicks (yes, Nick, crabs do kick like that!)
• Laying down cycling
• The cheering cone
• The dancing cone (may have to be renamed 'the rave cone')
• Sit down/Stand up

There were serious things like squats and lunges too, and everyone enjoyed a bit of sleeping lions before we composed ourselves for a big group piccie and a gentle run/walk back.

Next week is another double tasker - long or short, you decide!

A fantastic 50 GG Yorkies came along for a huge task to help Tang Hall Smart!

It was brilliant to welcome along so many first timers to the run tonight, and a big shout out to Amanda who rallied the troops from her own Monday night running group to help us out, we love a bit of collaboration.

With Leanne leading the way, we headed over to the Burnholme Community Hub and were welcomed by the extremely well-prepared Sue Williamson, Founder of this incredible community company. Sue told us a little bit about all the amazing things they are doing before showing us all the stuff we needed to move. Furniture, tables, computers, amps and more, it all needed moving from the old building to the new, fancy purpose-built building which was just next door.

If the sticker is red, it has to go upstairs. If the sticker is blue, it also has to go upstairs.

Everybody desperately tried to find something with a yellow or green sticker and soon a swarm of good was making it's way across the bit of wasteland in between the old and new site. Over at the new Hub, Al and other Tang Hall Smart folk were on hand to make sure all the kit ended up in the right room.

We were all delighted to see Sean, who was our official GG photographer for the evening. For those that don't know, Sean has been a keen GG Yorkie and mission runner from the beginning, but has recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. You can read his story here. It's brilliant to have you back Sean!

As you can see from Sean's fabulous photos, some of the equipment was particularly large, with filing cabinets, a piano and a huge photocopier in the mix.

I think you shouldn't carry the piano up the stairs - Becky, very sensible

A few of our runners got distracted doing a spot of filming with Abigail from BBC York, but she was getting them to lunge so I didn't mind and let them crack on with it.

In an unbelievable 25 minutes, everything was moved, way ahead of schedule! It is really mind-blowing what you can achieve with a bit of people power.

With all that time to spare, we had a great little percussion session and made beautiful GoodGym music (or a truly terrible din..) with Laurence on the drums and Sue on the sax. There were also jumping squats and lunges, obviously.

With all our good done, we completed mini running drills to get our legs fired up for the 3km run back to base.

Thirty minutes before our group run was due to start, the heavens opened. A torrential downpour that struck fear into the heart of many a GG Yorkie. Despite that, a super 27 Yorkies turned out to help with two graveyard tasks.

We welcomed along three brand new runners to the team, so give some hearty cheers to Jesse, Fiona and Elder Chand!

TEAM DICK TURPIN

I delegated the lead out run to Catherine and Lucy, it turns out Lucy can navigate anywhere if it's near a Wetherspoons. We arrived at George St, where the infamous Dick Turpin is apparently buried , and Iain greeted us with a huge pile of woodchip to top up the perimeter path.

Before that though, Ellie B had to clear up some confusion from a passer-by.

Where's GoodGym? Does it have a sauna?

With 40 minutes on the clock it was an all-action affair, with wheelbarrows of woodchip shuttling back and forth. Once the bark was all shifted, we did a bit of fast feet to bed it in properly, with new runner Jesse, doing all sorts of fancy footwork.

The path was done in no time at all so we focused our energy on edging the rest of the gravestones and having a good old tidy-up before celebrating our good deed with a fitness session at Clifford's Tower.

STEP REPS!!

The challenge involved doing a set of exercises between rounds of step reps, all 55 steps of the tower.

• Elevated lunges
• Quick steps
• Side Steps
• Split squats
• Box jumps
• Descending squat jumps

We even finished off with a run back along the bar walls.

TEAM ACOMB (written by TIm)

There was electricity in the air as an intrepid 15 headed up the "hill" to Acomb. The sky trembled with excitement as I stepped up to the plate to assist Run Leader Leanne to lead out the long group. The hardy 15 had already braved thunder, lightning and deluge so nothing was going to stop us getting to St Stephens Church and cracking on with the task. Well, nothing except going the wrong way anyway, but luckily Katie was ready to leap to my aid and assure me that I was going the right way!

The lovely Stephen and John met us in the graveyard and quickly set us up with some awesome tasks. Firstly the legendary Norweigian tourist Are (on his last GoodGym with us!) and Huw got to work clearing the overgrown bark path around the graveyard whilst Katie and Mitch jumped in and started lopping off overhanging branches and holly.

A fearsome unit moved in and got to work trimming the grass and removing turf from around the World War 1 graves that the church are looking to restore. Meanwhile Lizzie, Ali and Elders Chand and Minnich got stuck in bagging up woodchips for donation to local gardens!

After protests (mainly from Mitch) of: "Tim do some actual work!" And "Tim you are not the boss of me!" We were all relieved to see the arrival of half a job Paul Anderson who proceeded to immediately spill a bag of carefully packed woodchips.

Before we knew it, time was up. Invigorated by our amazing task and thankful hosts we decided the hill at Acomb Green wasn't tough enough, so we headed over to the renowned "steepest hill in York" at Windmill Rise for some epic hill reps!

Tim we are going to put all the running watches on you and make you do the hill reps for everyone! - BadGym Becky

Back at base, the teams gathered back together for a stretch and we reminded everyone to sign up for next week's massive task. See you next week!