17 GoodGym runners showed up this evening to help out at Chapter Arts Centre! With the opportunity to help out such an incredible organisation, this was a task everyone was looking forward to.

Everyone arrived prompt for the run at 6.15pm, and then at 6.30pm the evening’s exciting run commenced. We headed to the downstairs of Yr Hen Lyfrgell to do our warm up, which consisted of jogging on the spot, and butt kicks. Ben then had the wonderful idea of including running up and down the steps in the building as part of the warm up. We had a new runner to GoodGym this week, a HUGE and INCREDIBLY LOUD cheer to KIERA!.... WELCOME :) – It’s lovely to have you join us. We love it when new people come and join in - We hope we didn't scare you off and we see you again :)

Warmed up and feeling incredible, it was time to begin our run. On our way to Chapter Arts Centre we stopped off at Bute Park where we did sprint drills (By popular request!). The fitness session consisted of 10 minutes of sprint, recover and repeat as many times as possible in the timeframe.

After 10 minutes the fitness session was over - to the delight of many! we had a group photo on what looked like a sacrificial stone and then made our way to Chapter Arts Centre!

WELCOME TO CHAPTER ARTS CENTRE

We were greeted with the warmest reception by Jennifer from Chapter Arts. Jennifer told us all about Chapter Arts Centre and explained what our task was that evening. The task was to stuff letters into envelopes; this was to help with the fundraising efforts of Chapter who are dependent on generous donations to help stay open. We split into 4 teams of 4 and competed against one another to see which team could fold and stuff the most letters into envelopes in half an hour.

The teams were called:

• First past the post – Charlotte, Alice, Amy and Rachel
• Folding, stuffing, sticking with love – Lucy, Sophie, Fiona and Sue
• Stuffing it – Keira, Mikey, Adam and Martin
• Barbara – Emma, Aimee, Ellen and Katie

Thank you so much GoodGym for your incredible efforts

Jennifer thank us all for 30 minutes of non-stop envelope stuffing. It was so much fun and everyone enjoyed; Mikey was in his element.

Run Home :)

We then ran back to Yr Hen Lyfrgell where we then did our warm down and went to the Glassworks pub for drinkypoos.

This weeks winner of the RunPunStiltskin award goes to Ellen and Su. Wooooo! Well done for coming up with such an incredible Pun for the run! Please hand back the award next week so it can be passed on to the next winner!

Remember there is an extra run in Penarth this week to help out at Marie Curie. Get signed up to the run by clicking here Join in next Tuesday’s GoodGym run by clicking here