Hip hip hooray, it was Nick's 50th good deed today!

I was immediately suspicious that he had waited for a longer run distance and poor weather to get best use out of the cloak, but it actually turned out quite warm! We salute you Nick for being one of our super-speedy runners and always smiley! Nick's favourite ever good deed was just a few weeks ago where he experienced the perfect combo of painting and pugs at Recyke Y Bike. We also welcomed two brilliant new GoodGymers to the family tonight: massive huge hello and welcome to Monica and Libbie who experienced their first ever GoodGym runs tonight and did such a great job. A quick catch up and a rock/paper/scissors warm up and we were ready to go.

The path of any GoodGym trainer never runs smooth so we had to do some team work to accommodate a task cancellation which occured while I was away working in France last week. Big cheers to Charlotte for sourcing a task for us to do instead and meeting us at the start point with the leaflets tonight. I was a little worried the jump in distance might put people off so I was delighted with the turn out.

Off to Jesmond we went!

Tonight's task had been done as a Community Mission previously and the task owners were so super grateful that they asked for our help again- perfect! Delivering the autumn newsletter is a great way of helping Jesmond Library to spread the word of their work in the local community, and remind people that they are there. We were able to split into groups of 3s and 5s to cover an area of five streets to deliver all 200 leaflets in one go.. I heard things got a bit competitive between Katy and Sam as they battled to get to more houses in the last few streets! They may be small but they are fierce!

We split up for two run-home options tonight with a steady run option with me or a speedy one with Paul, and we all met up again just before the city centre where spontaneous applause erupted.

OH MY GOSH IT'S GOODGYM!

The Community Mission this weekend looks a little sparse! If you are able to lend a hand at Elswick Park on Sunday afternoon do pop along to help with some shrub removal. We are back next week with a return visit to the fantastic Newcastle Eagles Community Gardens so come along to run or walk and do good things. There's a great area for our fitness session too!

Hope to see you then,

Anji x