We love having new people join our group so tonight we were very happy to welcome Steffania along for her first Goodgym group run.

In other news the PB klaxon was sounded for Roy and Tabitha for their parkruns at our monthly meet up at Hove Park on Saturday. Well done to both! Roy is also on the core team for the recently launched juniors parkrun at Hove Park on a Sunday morning so if you find yourself with a free Sunday morning pop down and lend a hand as I’m sure they are always looking for volunteers.

Just a short run to our task where we were met by the lovely, welcoming and super enthusiastic Jo from the Brighton & Hove Food Partnership who do so much to promote healthy, sustainable eating practices in the city. And one of the ways they do this is to run free courses at their community kitchen for people with dementia, low incomes, learning disabilities and mental health issues.

Our task tonight was cleaning the top of the extractor hoods, the ovens and the outside windows which we achieved in no time at all leaving plenty of time for Jo to tell us about the paid courses they offer to support their community work. You can learn to cook (and eat) delicious Moroccan , Indian or Thai food or learn about fermentation or heritage wheats all for the price of a good night out. Now that’s my idea of a good night out!!

With a short run and a short task that left plenty of time for a big fitness session so we headed to the i-360 to focus on our knee drive. First we did some drills where we drove our knees upwards in a stationary position imagining we might be kneeing someone we’re not too keen on in the whatnots! We then progressed the drill to include a backward arm drive at the same time, thus simultaneously kneeing Trump in the whatnots and elbowing Boris Johnson in the sternum.

(The political views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the membership of, or the organisation of good gym although I wasn’t hearing a whole lot of disagreement at the time! Goodgym in no way endorses violence to any person of any political persuasion even if they are power hungry, egomaniacs intent on destroying the world as we know it!)

We then put our knee drive into practice on some short, sharp hill sprints and lo and behold you were all transformed into speedy, running pros. Amazing!!

See you next week for some running and do gooding in the Hanover area with Cllr David Gibson.