It's heading into the midst of dark, cold February. Christmas festival feelings are long gone, Spring seems so far away and a few of us are still holding tightly onto Covid and Christmas Bellies!

So as the 3 of us met in the large car park, we all had that feeling of actually we'd prefer a sofa, hot cuppa and maybe even a biscuit. Earlier we even tried to consider if we needed to run? Was it going to be awful weather? Were we injured? Did we need to rest our legs?

We'd agreed that we'd do something after our task as it was all about activity, even if that was a gentle 1 mile around block.

Now don't worry, this lethargic, unmotivated feeling passed pretty quickly. We aired how we felt (no harm in that) before grabbing our tools and heading into the community garden to set up our lights. We were here and were going to tackle whatever was needed!

We had planters to clear of old Broccoli 🥦 that needed a weed, turn over and clear.

As there was only 3 of us, we worked together chatting about family and life events. Our lights soon were dying so we finished up 2 beds, and cleared it into compost bins.

After a quick toilet stop at Ferndown Leisure Centre we headed onto the quiet, bungalow strewn roads of Ferndown for a loop.

It was peaceful so we ran in the roads, chatting about how important our own communities are to us, be that our family, Goodgym community or other. Yet until we built these communities, we didn't realise how important they would be to us! We also had some gratitude for where we are and all we have in our little worlds we can easily forget.

Many of us are doing 1 second every day currently, taking a snapshot or 1 sec video of something each day that makes us happy and uploading it. Queue us all having a go at a 1 sec video to add to todays journal! (Check out 1se). Thanks to fella member Trish who inspired us to do this!

We ran over 2 miles and can honestly say its like we were different humans at the end. Energised (although still ready for a cuppa), we felt calmer and a sense of unity as well as gratitude for being able to do this.

Goodgym 1 Unmotivated Lethargy 0

Thank you Elizabeth and Becky for a fab evening!

I end this report with a reminder of how lucky we really are: https://youtu.be/PJAgPF5FNTQ