There are literally hundreds of spots in Huddersfield GoodGym can collect litter from, but one of our favourites is the Snow Island River Walkway. Working in partnership with Greenstreams who are responsible for the installing a new footpath on Snow Island, GoodGym Huddersfield have committed to keeping this section of the Riverside Way neat and tidy. Apparently with the autumn influx of new students has also come an influx of rubbish to the area, so black sacks in hand the GoodGym crew were out once again collecting cans, picking up crisp packets and harvesting all manner of horribleness in an effort to make the area look presentable again.

Snow Island is only a short run from the Stadium so we were soon on with the task (which is just as well as there were only 3 of us last night- if you are free on a Tuesday evening we could really do with a few more GoodGymmers at the mo!). Not only did we get the Riverside Way cleared but we managed to pick litter in quite a few others bits of the neighbourhood too. As usual with a litter pick, one or two people asked what we were doing, but despite invitations no one seemed keen on joining in. One gentleman suggested that picking litter was the Council’s job....I resisted the temptation to point out that if would need to be anybody’s job if we were all just a little bit tidier!

Anyway on a still, warm autumn night we quite enjoyed make the place a little prettier and collected a total of four black bags....not a bad effort for just three of us, thanks to Kati Law and Wendy Redmile for joining me.

On the run home Kati persuaded us to take a sneak look inside the University’s new and very impressive Art and Architecture Building. Named after the Yorkshire artist Barbara Hepworth it features an impressive flight of steps inside, which I was desperate to run up and down. But we resisted the temptation, thinking such behaviour might be frowned upon by University Security. So instead we contented ourselves with an interval circuit on the steps by the canal outside the building, before the final slightly weary run back to the Stadium.