While the Balloon Fiesta was cancelled due to the weather, 11 hardy GoodGymers met in the high winds and crazy rain showers this morning to run to do good. We jealously waved goodbye to Chris in the warm and dry ordering his porridge and started our long straight line run up to Bishopsworth to help Creative Workspace.

Having conquered easily conquered the hill and the rain even easing off a little, 5.5km later we arrived at the community centre where it was happy chaos for their Family Fun Day. After clambering over some small people to retrieve our equipment, we set to work in the woodland area.

Blown away

This space used to be incredibly overgrown and has therefore was covered in lots of tiny bits of litter and broken glass. As it is a space for children to play, the charity wanted it cleared of this to make it safe. We scoured the area then set to work weeding the surrounding tarmac and taking the nettles out of the green space. Vale hammered their bunting back into place so it was looking glorious once more.

Forty minutes later we had 4 full bin bags of litter and weeds. With amazing smells wafting from the Creative Workspace cafe it was hard to tear ourselves away, but we took a break for it in another slightly-less-rainy patch and headed on our more-downhill-than-uphill-but-still-actually-quite-a-lot-of-uphill route back.

Vale told us that she used to think that people running in the rain were crazy and now she has turned into one of them. We returned to Mud Dock very soggy and got even more soaked while doing our stretches, but wallowed in the fact that we could now enjoy the warm and dry even more.