12 runners went to help our local NHS hospital (Wexham Park Hospital) for our final good deed for 2018. Wexham Park Hospital is a firm favourite of ours so it was only fitting for this to be our final group run for this year. A huge thank you to Ciaran from Active Slough for being our back marker this evening.

5 bags of rubbish picked and swept. The competitive spirit was blooming today with Darren and Ricky claiming to have the biggest and Chrissy, Sut and Ciaran claiming to have the dirtiest…and Michelle, Ruth and Sandy having the prettiest….BAGS of course! Tools down (or not so…Sorry Ricky.. No tool too big tonight) we managed a clean getaway to get back to base in time for a few well deserved drinks and cakes.

It’s been an epic 5 months! We have achieved so much in what feels like a blink of an eye:

• 21 Group Runs
• Run 100km
• 310 runner volunteers in total
• 9, 300 hours of voluntary work
• Helped 11 Community Groups/Charities

It’s fair to say that we’ve had an impact on the community groups and charities in Slough

We’ve cleaned, litter picked, painted, wrapped, swept, waxed, dug, cut back brambles, decorated halls and leaflet dropped

And all this….thanks to you…our GoodGym runners

Having used up every pun there possibly is over the past 5 months, I will have to do some serious research in my punopedia to find some more over the festive period.. I will puncil some down and be punstopable in 2019

So in my Goodgym style, here is the final run report for 2018

We’re leaving together

But still it’s farewell (just for 2 weeks mind!)

And maybe you’ll come back (I hope so!)

To Salt Hill, who can tell?

I guess there is no one to blame (well maybe GG central for giving us 2 weeks off)

We’re leaving Goodgym (leaving Goodgym)

Will things ever be the same again?

It’s the final countdown

The final countdown

Oh

We’re heading for Christmas (Christmas)

And still we stand tall

‘Cause maybe the in-laws have seen us (seen us)

And welcome us all, yeah

With so many presents to go

And things to be bought (to be bought)

I’m sure that we’ll all miss Manjit…..no?

It’s the final countdown

The final countdown

The final countdown

The final countdown

(Ok, you can stop signing now)

We have so much planned for 2019. January is going to be a busy month so I hope you are all up for the challenges The first challenge is to just keep in some kind of healthy, co-ordinated state over the holiday period although pundamentally to just have pun and enjoy yourselves

Then, to come back to GoodGym with a spring in your step

Our main challenge is to have 90 runners over the course of the month on our Group Runs/Community Missions/Mission tasks

And…to run a total of 450km…so get your trainers on, activate Strava and get running

We also have a couple of Saturday tasks on in January. One is to help Ryvers Primary School with their learning garden and the other is a take-over of Upton Court Park’s Park Run

Please do have a look online to see all of the January runs

So that leaves me now to sign off for 2 weeks and wish you all a wonderful Christmas break.

But I can’t finish off this report this evening without saying a massive thank you to Sut, Chrissy and Keira (apologies if I’ve missed anyone else)…for my AMAZING card and cake! I really wasn’t expecting that and am blown away at the effort you guys made… You all make a very enjoyable job even more enjoyable!

Happy Holidays Manjit xxx