Keep up the good work!!

Actual quote, shouted at us by men on a motorbike tonight!

Let's start tonight with three massive cheers for Paul who came along to his first ever Group Run tonight despite a last minute change of task. Kudos Paul, we hope to have you along every week. You did a brilliant job!

Our Group Run tonight was subject to a last-minute change but we didn't mind too much, we were looking forward to finishing the leaflet drop for Scope charity shop in Byker that we started in May. This regular task for us allows us to spread the brilliant work that the volunteers at Scope do, and at the moment is our only task in the Byker area. We love charging across town and over the Byker bridge!

The usual celebrations started the evening, four marathon runners were back looking remarkably fresh! Well done Nick, Abi, Dan and Rachel on 26.2 miles of awesomeness. We also celebrated a GoodGym parkrun sandwich that included Faye, Jon, Andrew and Dan on Saturday, and a parkrunathon that I completed on Saturday with Paul. We did 8.5 parkruns in a day for marathon distance and it was epic. A few people asked me for the fundraising link for our challenge tonight, so here it is: We warmed up with our traffic game then set off to Byker.

I'd estimate we had around 450 leaflets to distribute tonight so we got cracking straight away. Emma and Kate were asked about GoodGym on the way so they managed to do some promotion for us at the same time as Scope, Katy got herself our first ever letterbox nip injury (didn't I say this would happen one day?!) and Dan saved someone's night as they had left their front door keys in the door. There really should be a GoodGym badge for extra good deeds whilst doing a good deed! We are never short of drama.

Ross and Katy were first back but it wasn't long before we were all back at our meeting point by the church. Andrew had some great photos to share (one of them NSFRR- not safe for Run Reports- involving a dead pigeon) and evidence they'd even spread the word of Scope to a local cat. Meowsome!

A vote took place for the fitness session and it was almost unanimous that we would do The Equaliser: two groups heading back to base with a 4 minute head start for Team Chill with me, charged down by Team Speedy with Evan. I'm blaming the unfavourable traffic lights and pedestrian crossings for the fact they caught us before the end of New Bridge Street. SIGH. Well done to you all, it was epic.

No community missions this weekend, but we have a great NEW TASK for our Group Run next Monday, so get involved if you can and lend a hand to help the West End Refugee service.

Have a great week with lots of walking, running and doing good things.

Anji x