DOING GOOD

Fireworks & hills galore on last nights leaflet drop task in Mackworth!

We were back where we did our second ever group run, supporting the Direct Help & Advice charity (DHA) with one of their community managed libraries. From glossing to flyering, we're the heroes to help them out!

Last night we were tasked with delivering leaflets about volunteering opportunities to the local residents to see if we could rally up some desperately needed support. Volunteers support the running of the library, from sorting books, to answering any queries from the public & so our efforts were highly appreciated by the DHA team.

As usual - to add in some fun, friendly competition - we broke into teams for this flyering task. In highly mature fashion we split into boys vs girls & we were off! The boys won by a very, very, very small margin (not bitter at all) with the girls hot on their heels! We delivered our leaflets in super-record time; the pre-folding of the flyers ready for letterbox posting definitely helped.

WHILST GETTING FIT

The run to Mackworth library where we began our flyering mission was just under two miles, with quite a bit of incline, certainly getting our heart rates up! Once on the estate, we tackled a few more hills delivering the leaflets in a flash of red tees & then for good measure, an Ant Middleton inspired hill sprint session... because, why not?

Thanks to my experience at the weekend of being beasted for eight hours by the SAS man himself at his Mind over Muscle day camp, I was feeling generous & wanted to share some of the love with GoodGym, you lucky lot! We found a lovely short, sharp hill, broke into three teams & set up our stations: Runner 1 in each team (at max effort) runs up the hill & back down, while Runner 2 holds the squat position & Runner 3 jogs on the spot. Once Runner 1 is back, the roles switch. If our heart rates weren't already up, they were after a few rounds of this game, mixing up the exercises with lunges & star jumps for good measure.

Oh what fun we had! Smiles resumed once we took a breather to eat some Haribos & watch a few of sky sparklers. Then it was a down-hill (pretty much) run back to the Jurys Inn. Phew.

MENTIONS

Thanks to Sam for being an ace back-marker, we never would have noticed your pins were sore on those hill sprints! Congratulations to Sid on his second GoodGym run; we're glad you returned after the Pumpkin saga. And happy holidays to Katherine & Mark who will be sunning it up for a few weeks. As always, thanks to everyone for pulling yourselves away from the radiator (a good deed in itself as Alice accurately pointed out) & making awesome things happen with GG Derby - GO TEAM!

THE C WORD

I won't say it... but if you'd like to come along to our festive fuddle on the 17th December after the last group run of 2019 (eeek!) please sign up here so I can get a price for nibbles / drinks (it'll be in the region of £8-£10pp.) Thanks!

UP NEXT

We're gardening again! Headtorches / lights required for this one to illuminate the night GG style. The run will be approximately 7km total. Sign up here to be part of the coolest crowd in town!

Big loves x