Goodbye red hello black

The next time you see Beth, she might be wearing black instead of red. She completed 50 good deeds with GoodGym and has earn't her black t-shirt. Give her a nod when you next see her

On a calm balmy evening in GoodGym Worthing we celebrated Beth 50th good deed since we launched in March. It was an epic evening of limelight that Beth gladly shared with her tennis hero Rafa who won the China open on the same day as Beth completed her first half marathon in Oxford yesterday. (I promised Beth a Rafa mention!)

Not A'llot of puns tonight

It was great to meet new member Edward who popped down to have his documents checked prior to, hopefully,joining us on a Monday group run together with being paired for a coach run to support a lonely and isolated older person.

Following this the regular team rocked up, Sue, Anna, Duncan ,Gill, Belinda with Beth narrowly missing the start but as if by magic arriving at the task before us!

After some GG and parkrun catch up chat the group fell into a relaxed warm up combined with some inpromptu fitness efforts up and down the steps at Jacobs Ladder over the railway. It all (almost)went 'tits up' when Anna almost took a tumble and I managed to catch her (cough cough! )

A'llot of weed in Worthing

Our task tonight was our first visit to Haynes road allotments. This is a small community garden that local residents help look after and enjoy. It was a lovely surprise to be met by park ranger Anthony. We are so delighted that you can make Mondays now.

Anthony had been busy strimming earlier in the day so we had plenty of grass (weed) to tidy up together with clearing some extremely resilient bindweed and ivy.

G-Grass class

The team worked with great energy tonight helped by the ranger truck lights and all our head torches. The 'A' nna team comprising of Beth, Gill and of course Anna concentrated of tugs of war with the bind weed. The 'B'elinda team comprising of Duncan , Sue and funnily enough Belinda were 'raking it in' again with some unusual findings in the form of Freddie frog and copious cans of empty beer cans ( No people or animals were harmed in this task ! )

Bags were brimming, brushes brushed and compost composted . Just another nights work for the GG team!

Turn all the lights on - Code red

Switching the head torches to red flashing we set off for a slightly longer run stopping off at Broadwater Green for a quick fitness session which was an extended effort working on pace endurance together with some strength squats and jumping jacks.

Twitten in ths stars

We abandoned the main roads, turned the head torches from red to white light and took a steady route home down the dark and mysterious twittens. Duncan took a speedy extended route back impressively beating us back to base. We blame the traffic holdups....

Have one's cake and eat it too

Surprise surprises all round ! We surprised Beth and she surprised me

In recognition of Beths 50th task we presented her with a photo collage of a selection of memories from GG Worthing. In return Beth had baked personalised gluten free cup cakes with jelly tots and coffee icing in honour of me getting 1 year older this week ! Can you see the messsage on the cakes ? You may need to rotate it to crack the code!

Tonight was all about 'The Beth'

Beth is one of the most kind ,courageous, crazy,fun,committed, creative and energetic people I have met .

Congratulations on your 50 good deeds! Heres to celebrating the 100!

3 cheers for Beth!!!

See you all next week team

Big GG love

Julia x