The British summer is still on a roll….. glorious sun, warm evenings, just lovely. Yes, it’s a tad hot for running but we can still use our legs – and tonight we chose to use them for walking – and lots of it!

7 Goodgym lovelies arrived at the task (brownie points for Maurice who walked to the task too!) raring to go. As it was so hot, we took a democratic vote and asked who wanted to run and who wanted to walk. Nobody voted to run (phew!!!), so we set off on our walk. We weren’t far from our beloved park, so we headed in that direction, chatting as we went. It was so warm that we even had to cross the road to get into the shade (we're usually chasing the sun in this country, not the shade!!). We headed into the park and decided to take the reverse of our parkrun course. It was lovely to wander round the lake (although I won’t lie, it was a bit niffy tonight - must be the heat!!) and take in all the lovely scenery. We enjoyed the local wildlife too – we saw a rabbit and squirrels along the path this evening – they were lovely. We do love our park!

Back at the task, we collected our leaflets from the Motherwell office and set to work. There were 7 of us tonight, so we knew we had a good chance of getting all the leaflets delivered... 500 in total! So off we set… armed with leaflets and a rough idea of where we were going to deliver them. There’s not really an awful lot to say about leafleting… other than it’s lots of walking, lots of letterboxes and the occasional overprotective guard dog! Luckily, we didn’t meet any feisty dogs tonight and all our fingers remain in tact!

We covered just short of 4 miles (in addition to our walk beforehand) and got all leaflets delivered with the exception of about 25. We’d have loved to have got them all done but we'd already gone well over time and I didn’t dare to push it too much!

When we’d finished, we headed over to the local pub, The Woodside, where we enjoyed a well earned drink, a few bags of crisps and a good chat. The drinks were refreshing and the company was as lovely as ever.

A very productive night, despite the heat! We hope that Motherwell get lots of traffic at their uniform exchange as a result of the leaflets.

Amazing work everyone! We literally did go the extra mile tonight!

Have a fantastic week and see you very soon!

Love & hugs always Nicola Xxx

PS - Goodgym is still my favourite way to spend a Wednesday night!