Welcome to Divya for their first GoodGym outing. Hope to see you at another session in the future!

This Spring Bank Holiday, we hastily organised a walk, with May being the GM Walking Festival and also National Walking Month to encourage people to walk or wheel during the month.

This time, we covered Route 2 of Manchester's Green Trail, starting from Clayton Park through:

• Clayton Vale and along some of the River Medlock
• Around Brookdale Park
• Along Rochdale canal (and the many numbered and named locks)
• Looping through Moston Vale
• Meandering through Broadhurst Park
• Encountering Boggart Hole Clough

There were lots of green spaces, trees, waterways, and parks to cover and we managed it in around 2 h 40 min for the ~13 km route, with plenty of time for some chit-chat along the way.

On the way, we passed GM Police HQ, Clayton House, and several Metrolink stations (although not one near the end of the route). Juno found a decent football. I have since discovered that a "Clough" is a narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge. Who knew.

We'll try to arrange semi-regular walks at weekends or bank holidays in different parts of Manchester so keep an eye out for those.