Happy New Year & Welcome Happy New Year Everyone! Great to be back with you all in this new decade. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas & New Year. A huge welcome to our first-time runners this evening, Angela, Alison, Karen & Nigel. We really enjoyed running with you tonight and hope you had a great evening and will come back for more (wearing your fab GoodGym T-shirt of course!).

Kudos Well done to everyone for all their running efforts over the festive period. Great to see so many of you clocking up runs on your Strava and a special shout out to anyone that got out of their PJs and did a Christmas Day or New Year parkrun – I think there’s too many of you to mention but you certainly put me to shame!

Thank You Thank you to Barry & Pam for always volunteering for the role of back markers and thank you to Dan and Sophie for being route navigators whilst in that maze of an estate! I think I would still be there now if it hadn’t been for your fab navigation skills! Thank you to Karen for organising the leaflets for us and to Nigel for humping said leaflets in his rucksack!!

The Main Event Lovely to be back in our cosy meeting room with 18 eager GoodGymer’s, Abba and cookies to kick off the first task of 2020 (I did wonder whether the cookies wouldn’t go down well after the Christmas indulgence, but my team did not disappoint and we made light work of them!). We headed out to the square for our team warm up - cone relay with outward sprint and hop back to the change-over. I’d like to say there was a clear winner but to be fair, it was a dead heat! I’m certain there will be some differing opinions on that though… ;-)

Tonight’s task was delivering leaflets in the local area to raise awareness of fuel poverty and how the charity ‘Green Doctor’ can help people who find themselves in this awful situation. We ran to our starting location -which wasn’t far, and I found myself thinking I’d have to extend our route home… Absolutely not necessary as this amazing bunch surpassed all my expectations!!! I have to be honest; I was expecting everyone to walk as they delivered the leaflets – but nobody did!! Everyone ran their way around the estate, making light work of the leafleting and getting bags more exercise at the same time! Mind you, it may have had something to do with the element of competition that I added in….. two teams, simple challenge – first team to finish wins OR, team who delivers the most leaflets overall…..

HOWEVER…

We never quite got to the point of finding out as one of our regular runners, Barry took a bit of a nasty tumble. We were all worried about him but once he’d composed himself, we knew he was ok because the jokes recommenced! Still, a visit to A&E was in order as he wasn’t a pretty sight (sorry Barry) and we wanted to make sure he was ok. Honestly, the lengths some people will go to to get out of leafleting! (just kidding!). Barry has been in touch this morning and he’s ok. They’re not sure whether his nose is broken so he has to go back to the hospital in a few days. He also asked me to pass on his thanks to you all for your care and support. We are currently looking into the purchase of a bulk roll of bubblewrap and a crash helmet for future runs!!

We wish you a speedy recovery Barry because GoodGym Crewe simply won’t be the same without you!

Don’t Forget We have our Booster Session this Saturday. It would be great to see lots of you there! All the details are on the website and you register in the normal way.

Have a great week everyone! Stay Safe!

Lots of Love, Nicola xxx

PS - love the picture of Rose and Jordan You look like Angels that have been beamed down from heaven! ;-)