#givingTuesday, the antidote to the rampant consumerism of Black Friday, is all about devoting a day to giving to charity, through donations or actions. Of course every Tuesday is a #givingTuesday when you run with Brighton Goodgym but this week it’s good to know we have the rest of the world along for the ride!

in the 76 group runs we’ve had since Brighton Goodgym launched back in July 17 its amazing how few we’ve had where we’ve had any rain. It’s like we had so much rain for our first ever task we’ve been given a free pass of fine weather for our weekly Tuesday run. But into each life a little rain must fall and tonight it was our turn. Numbers were unsurprisingly a little down as a result but once we got started the rain was actually nice and refreshing and as luck would have it we had an indoor task!

But before we set off we welcomed Sitara along for her first group run and congratulated Michael & Amro on completing a mission this weekend. I’ve had a head’s up from head office that the mission booking system will be changing soon to make it easier so watch this space!

After a nice undulating 2km run through town we arrived at our task destination of St Luke’s Church. Like many churches this is so much more than a church with lots of community groups using the space including the Real Junk Food Project. The church also does a big Sunday cook up once a month to feed the homeless, recently feeding 75 people in one day. So the church kitchen is very well used in need of some Goodgym deep cleaning. We tackled the fronts & insides of the cupboards, the extractor hood, the bin, the fridge, the walls & floors as well as the three toilet cubicles. On #giving Tuesday we certainly gave the church a good clean! Nipun & Damian also sorted out a box of about 5 partially used First Aid Kits to make them into 3 complete ones.

Task complete we headed back out into the not as bad as you think its going to be rain and squeezed in a couple of speedy 400m reps before heading back to base.

It’s a busy week for Brighton Goodgym next week with our usual weekly run on Tuesday, Christmas party on Thursday, and parkrun meet up Preston Park on Saturday.

And I finally figured out a way of sharing Nipun's Xmas party flyer with you all! Thanks Nipun!!