Woohoo - another smashing social and you guys were out in force again as a whopping 53 of you joined me for a fantastic 'Birthday Edition' social. Thanks so much to all of you!

We had cake, lots of new faces - nice to Richmond represented for the first time and as ever Beth shipped herself in all the way from Worthing again!

Anyway, to the report:

Heroes

• For another month our very own Northern Powerhouse topped the good deeds table - with 19 it's Egg Cameron!

• For the rest of the results check out the attached picture!

• We had an amazing 11 get their black t-shirts and 4 (Helena, Egg, David, Alex got their wings with a huge 100 Good Deeds! One final shout out to Judy Reid who hit 200 good deeds in September!

• Congrats to GG Wandsworth who had 28 new runners in September!

• GG Bristol went big and had 241 attendances in September - smashed it!

News

• We had our penultimate Big Six race of the year at the New Forest Races - some stellar performances and twenty-six of you went along - fantastic!

• GG Ipswich launched, Woking is coming in October and we've got even more in the pipeline for 2018!

• Looking forward we've got the last of the Big Six races in Oxford and later in October we will be picking the Big Six for 2018, the cross-country season kicks off for those of you in GG Race Team! Get signed up if you want to get involved!

Guest Speaker

• Massive thanks to Sean Delaney for telling about his journey to becoming a World Record Holder and for enlivening his talk by bringing along part of the costume that earnt him that record! A great story and great to see the support he has got in GG Lewisham as well as from Stephen Corry with whom he couldn't've done the race and got that record! Brilliant story! As promised please find more information on the record attempt here and please please donate if you can here!

...and as ever the most important part of the GoodGym Social it is the... ** International Pun of the Month** with 36 of 95 votes...

"I shear you baby, shaping that arch" from GG Haringey!

That's GG Haringey's first #IPOM winner and a great entry it was. Thank you to all that voted on the night and the many of you who voted online too! Thanks for taking part!

Right that is it from me! Thank you all for coming, you keep me smiling every month and thanks again to all of those coming for the first time - i know it must be a bit scary but hopefully you are enjoying it and benefiting from meeting us regulars too!

Next month is the last social of the year (Christmas party excepted), please join us as we head east and are hosted by the awesome GG Newham - all the details here!

Pritesh!

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