Doing good is not locked down! Caring for our communities is not locked down!

9 nimble GoodGymers took on this Community Mission, together but apart. A team effort, completed solo.

Well, not quite solo. Some of the team worked with people in their bubble, while Mat and Tim enjoyed a socially-distanced outdoor meet-up. There were also doggos involved with Pauline's two pups assisting her litterpick in a local woodland and my own Penny-Flo "helping" Emma and I in L8, (although she probably thought it was the worst walkies ever!).

Jo and Roz headed to the lovely Calderstones Park, while Becky S.. took on an area of Sefton Park and Lark Lane. Will got his housemates involved to clean up their local area.

Emma and I spent an hour within 1km of our house, collecting 2 giant sacks of litter. This included counting 24 disposable face masks and heaps of disposal gloves. While wearing masks is super important, disposing of them properly (or better still, wearing a reusable one) is also important. PPE seems to be the most popular litter these days :(

Matthew and Tim managed to collect six bags worth of rubbish from near where Tim lives. If you were to multiply that by every area of open land and street in the country, how much litter have we dropped in this country? All we can do is what we can do and despite lockdown, 9 GoodGymers made a small difference to the streets and parks of Liverpool.

Well done everyone! Still a dream team, despite these challenging circumstances.

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If there was a soggy run badge, this week's team would be awarded it and then some. Only the brave (or the bonkers!) turned up this week for an outdoor task in the pouring rain.

We are desperate for Spring to begin here in Liverpool with even some of our most dedicated regulars in hibernation last night (no shame, I probably wouldn't have run if I didn't have to!!!) sick to the teeth of running through stormy weather. Happily a team of 7 runners did appear through the clouds to bring a little sunshine into my Monday evening. Three of the lads even had bare legs and one had bare arms; they are the toughest of the tough!!!

Our task was to promote the cultural activities at the Liverpool Irish Centre, posting flyers through letter boxes in nearby streets. This was made extra difficult with the bad weather and also the huge size of the leaflets given to us! So we started the night by folding the leaflets and wrapping them in bin liners. We then did a gentle warm-up still inside our Hope Street Hotel base.

Once we hit the road, the team made quick work of the 2.5km run. Soon they were busy leafleting up and down a long terraced street. And within 10 minutes, the 125+ leaflets had been delivered.

Shout out to Baptiste and Molly who are busy fighting student elections yet still joined us for a soggy fun. Good luck El Presidente - you've got our vote!

Given that it was still raining, I let the team off a fitness session and instead gave them some good form tips to think about on the run back to base. With our lovely upright postures and avoiding heel-striking, plus the downhill slope back, we made it to Hope Street in no time.

Seriously well done tonight team, you are absolute stars! Fingers crossed for nice weather next week but even so, it is a short run and an indoor task so get signing up here. And for extra Brownie points, please join the Community Mission on Saturday evening here.

Stay warm!

Another cold, dark night and another trip to our beloved Bombed Out Church with a super 16 runners getting fit while doing good this week.

Following a quick run around the back streets of the Georgian Quarter we were greeted by centre Director Ambrose at the gate of St Luke's. After a history of the Bombed Out Church pop quiz, which we dismally failed in spite of the number of times we've helped the project, Ambrose put us to work. The first task, one we've done before more times than I can count, was to move the very heavy pews. This time however, it could be our last. We repositioned the pews outside of the church where they will sit for the foreseeable future with chairs being hired for summer events. We'll miss the 10-people bench lift though, right? Right?!

Next up was some more lifting and shifting, with giant paint pots being carried from the tower room to the crypt and sandbags hiked from outside and down to the crypt. Finally, the original clock pendulum which proved to be very, very heavy indeed needed carefully and slowly moving into the crypt. There was some excellent team work throughout, and as we know, team work makes the dream work.

A big shout out to newbie Vera who joined us for the first time and worked really hard at the task and the fitness session - nice one Vera, do come and run with us again soon.

We were also really happy to welcome another not so new newbie, as we were joined by Clodagh who we work with at the Liverpool Irish Centre. This was Clodagh's first time "on the otherside" and she did a fab job! You're welcome to run with us any time :)

It was also great to have Pete visiting from GoodGym Stockport. Take our greetings back to our North West GG neighbours.

Some of the team had a mini adventure, climbing the narrow staircase up the bell tower while those of us who prefer to keep our feet on the ground, enjoyed an impromptu fitness session of squats, lunges and skiing.

After waving goodbye to Ambrose, we climbed back up the hill and hit the stairs at the Met Cathedral, getting our blood pumping and our heart rates nice and high as we climbed the 56 steps on repeat as many times as we could in 3 minutes.

A huge shout out to our Sam who clocked his 100th good deed today. Having hit 50 in November, it could be a new record for the second half of the century. Sam, you are a local legend and we applaud you!

Finally a shout and a see you soon to Effie. She will be running with the team next week (and clocking her 50th good deed) but I will be away then. After that, she'd heading off to join GoodGym Lambeth and moving down to That London. Effie, you have been a brilliant team player, a wonderfully organised Task Force member and an all-round good egg. You will be missed.

Well done to everyone on completing tasks that are impossible/would take hours for the tiny team at the Bombed Out Church to complete. Great work team!

Next week I'm off on my jollies but John will be looking after you and the team will be helping at a foodbank sorting centre. Support John and sign-up here.

P.S. Kudos to Jo for this week's title pun.

P.P.S. My phone crashed and I clearly didn't know how to use the camera on Emma's phone so apologies for the blurry pictures this week!!!!