Another week has raced by and before you know it we are all stood there once again in The Sloop in our Goodgym T-Shirts!

Spring is definitely on its way as we actually all arrived with some daylight still with us - in hopefulness we set off down the park to hope we could do some warm up and runs there but by 6.30pm it was back to darkness and street lights.

It was great to welcome Sue tonight - Sue has been part of the running community for many years as a volunteer, leader and runner and is currently getting back to a bit of running. Sue came tonight as it was advertised as a walk option so great we can have you! We will continue as Poole Goodgym to advertise if there is a walking option available (depending on task location) and hope we can appeal to more people to join this group who can head to the task as a walk option directly.

We headed over to the Park in the hope of circuits around the cricket pitch but there were rumours of a big, deep puddle and not enough light to see around it so we took a little run through the park, using lampposts as speed increases as we went.

Back onto the roads and only a short run to the local school that is bright and airy inside. Ocean Academy is a relatively new school and a new place for us all to go.

We were met by Nikki, a TA from the school who had contacted us a number of weeks ago having seen our library move around at St Mary's. The instructions were pretty simple, shelves of books to be put into sections as set out already by Nikki (Animals, Science, Arts and Crafts and so on!). These books are then to be placed in different shelves opposite. Meanwhile those shelves had a bunch of fiction books to move off and onto the old shelves but keeping the alphabetical order (Got that?!). It was into 2 groups of 5 and the move started. For the first 15 minutes there was many questions of 'which section for the book on the queen' and 'is this animal section or a science book' and so on. Fortunately Nikki knew what she wanted and the books were piled high in the just about correct sections! There was a few Laurel and Hardy moments where Goodgym T-Shirts were going around in circles with piles of A quick wipe of the shelves and it a time to fill them up again.

Sue and Tim we appropriately stuck on the 'S' and 'T' authors in the corner whilst Nicola and Jane worked on the 'W' clan! Nicola was last seen walking around asking what section the Queen reference book went into...who knows where both Nikki and Queen ended up! Andrew meanwhile was last seen with a skeleton feeling unwell - not as unwell as the skeleton we hope!

Suddenly the task came together and it was all finished and all books away! Time for a few pics and onto the Constitution Hill. Nikki thanked us all as a group for the work as it has saved her many hours sorting through the books and using her time for this so great to make a difference to a local school!
I am delighted to say it was a lovely hill to run up! I will remember that one in the future - some lovely little ups in it! What goes up must come down and so it was down North Road back to the Sloop all before 8pm so time for a stretch!

Well done to Sarah who still ran the long way around with us back to the Sloop before heading back out again towards home despite not running for a few weeks.

Robert had last night joined the new group Run, Talk, Run that is set up to support mental health, encouraging runners to talk and keep fit. We really support this at Goodgym so we wish the group well and hope many of the runners will also consider coming to Goodgym in the future.

Next week we look forward to a change of task with our first hosting of a social!