This evening’s task was our first one with The Royal British Legion in Cippenham and we were down to paint their fence in some nice shade of harvest brown

The Royal British Legion aim to promote and fund-raisers for the Legion and have a number of upcoming events including a That That tribute group! It only takes a minute so have a look at their facebook page for more details. They have an amazing use of space for members/non-members to hire too at very reasonable rates too! Next social maybe?

https://www.facebook.com/cippenham.legion/

We welcomed a new runner today, Luke. Hope you enjoyed the session and well done for your initiation test at the end – pleased to tell you that you passed! After we did our welcome brief and warm up we headed out the 2.5km distance to Cippenham to do our fence painting task. Thank you to Ricky and Sut Yee for back marking this evening.

Sitting on the fence?

Loving the lighter and milder evenings. For those of you still sitting on the fence about joining us, maybe it’s time to brush off the cobwebs on those trainers and give us a go?

We really are a welcoming group and welcome runners of all abilities. One of the regular runners always volunteers to back mark so no-one is ever running alone at the back.

The great thing about all of the Goodgym tasks we do is that you really do feel good afterwards. Our run distances vary to cater for all runners and the tasks we do for the local community groups do make you leave with a smile on your face.

The Other Side

On arrival we were greeted by our task owners Tracy, Bridget and Paul. They gave us the roll down on the task which was to basically paint a really long fence. The paint had kindly been donated by Akzo Nobel so all The Royal British Legion needed were helpful hands to do the job.

Luckily, before we really got stuck in..Brigit kindly informed us we were on the wrong side of the fence..it was the other side that needed painting!

Got it Covered

Gloves donned, paint pots at the ready and off we went…to the right side!

Painting is very therapeutic…and its when we have a task like this that I see the challenge the runners set themselves… Sara and Ruth were literally not leaving tonight until the panels they were working on were painted!

Harry and Alistair…well actually just Alistair got more paint on his clothes than he did on the fence.

Super speedy Sut Yee worked her inner Ninja skills and used two brushes at the same time!

That’s how we roll

In 40 minutes we had the task done…well actually, it wasn’t as we still had 6 panels to go (we will be returning next Monday to finish these off).

One runner did have the gaul to ask me why I don’t get involved in the tasks….I told him not to take that tone with me…lucky no fence was taken

Easter Monday - Earn those Eggs!

Next week is a Bank holiday however we will still be running/doing good. We will in fact be returning to finish off these fence panels…there might be an egg or two at the session next week

https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/painting-fence-vs-fitness-session-with-litter-pick

She told me to walk this way…

On Monday 29th April we will be offering a walk option as well as our standard run option. The distance will be 2km and we will be going from our base location at Salt Hill Park to The Jubilee River Riverside Centre for an environmental clean-up task

Please do come and join us if running is not your thing but you want to experience the Goodgym good deed task

https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/jubilee-river-spruce-up

Aroo! I am Spartan!

Fancy a day of being Tarzan? Rolling around in mud? Climbing 10ft high obstacles? Crawling under wire nets? Great! Well then come and join a group of us who will soon be signing up to the Spartan Windsor Sprint Race (5km with 20 Obstacles). It’s on Sunday 6th October in the Bagshot area. We have a 20% discount code! Email me to confirm your place.

Have a great Easter everyone. If anyone is around on Friday, then please come and join me and other Goodgymers/Run With Active Slough runners for our annual Easter Egg Trail in Upton Court Park at 10am