21 spirightly runners met at Colchester Leisure World from 6:45pm for a 7pm kick-off.

Goodgym run leader, Tav, started by delivering the running news for the week. Goodgymers, Ian and Hannah completed the Bromley 10k, with Hannah achieving a PB! Meanwhile Goodgymers Tav, Ella and Faye were at Brighton Marathon, all completed 10ks and then cheered on the marathoners!

Saturday 27th April sees the Goodgym and GB Bootcamp takeover for Parkrun, a list of volunteers has now been submitted but all are welcome to come along and help on the day.

With everyone updated on the weeks news, we set off for our task including a warm up as we went. We started with high knees and butt kicks straight out of leisure world working our way up to a side step. The warm up got even more creative as we left Castle park and we had a group flossing session followed by tricep dips in the subway.

We picked up another goodgymer on our way, taking us to 21! (Great number, and also my age now and for any foreseeable birthdays)

We arrived at Worsnop House where the residents were happy to see us and cups of tea were offered without hesitation. Although being the conscientious lot we are, we were eager to get on with the task in hand. Unfortunately, the tools required for the task were locked up and with no-one around with the keys we were left tool-less.

However, we didn’t let that stop us! Being not only conscientious but resourceful we set about doing the best we could with some black bin bags and a couple of brooms, paths were swept and any rubbish cleared away. Job done.

Seeing as we made light work of that, we headed over to the Old Rec, to complete a Junior Park run (2k, 2 laps). We managed to do about a 1/3 of the course given most of us are least double the age of the junior runners, I don’t think we did too badly!

Goodgymers then set off back to Leisure World for a stretching session and then homeward bound having improved their fitness with a 7km run.