February is here, and new crop of GoodGymers have sprung up this evening. We welcomed our** regular runners, some brand new runners, some **"returning from holiday runners" (who failed to bring the Australian sun back with them) and some Good Gym tourists this evening.

Following a little warm up where helicopter arms were put to the test, and temper tantrum feet were completed we had a steady run down to the canal.

The aim of the game was to cover a section of canal each and bring the biggest crop of litter... Using bridges and big shopping supermarkets, (cheap ones, and even cheaper ones - the shops that is), as markers, the GoodGymers set off.....

With one team deciding to go all Apprentice style and add a time penalty to the other team, they returned with 4 minutes spare and haul of three bags. Team 2 scrapped in exactly on time, with a little trot to the finish.... Its amazing how close one bridge feels when you normally run to it, but walking back dragging a pushchair, buggy and two bags of litter makes it suddenly seem a long way.

The highlight of the evening was the little romantic tale that team 2 had with their forensic dig a bottle of wine, a perfectly fine wine glass, and a pregnancy test - trainer Becky now has her eyes on a little "Best find yet" goodgym competition.

Our return run was a slightly shorter one but it also finished with some non gut wrenching hill repeats there was a request to make them non gut wrenching.....

Some of the team even did an extra little repeat for fun.

We really enjoyed meeting so many new faces tonight and hope to see you back soon. Thanks to Alex and Huw for coming along as Good Gym tourists, and of course its always nice to see returning runners..

Hope to see you all next week.

(note to everyone shout** HEADCOUNT **at Becky.)