Runners turned up from all directions to clear a very root-filled raised bed in Corlett Court

In amongst those runners was new runner Vicky, who had joined the (very unofficial) GoodGym Cycle Club crew for ride, transitioned into run gear and joined the madness. I say madness because Digby the dog decided to come on this community mission and has insisted on fartlek training on the way there, chucking in occasional sprints without any warning.

Our original plan had been to clear three raised beds, but I had seriously under-estimated the size and amount of work involved, so our new plan was to fully clear just one.

The bed was covered in a carpet of weeds and ivy, and some kind of awful plant with roots everywhere! Interspersed in the weed mayhem were various herbs, which were to try and keep. There was sage, rosemary, thyme and even a bay tree.

Ste and Lindsay rolled up a huge rug of weeds and found themselves desperately trying to squeeze it into bin bags whilst nearly everyone else was picking away trying to ensure all those pesky little roots were up. There was a brief moment where the sky opened and a few runners took cover in a little doorway, but luckily that didn't last for long enough to scupper our progress.

Some of our group will be heading back to Corlett Court on Monday's (longer) run to tackle another one of the raised beds, so get signed up if you fancy getting involved.

I'll leave you with news that Digby ran me right into a bush on the way home. Lovely.

20 fantastic GG Yorkies came to do good at the community garden on the site of Better York.

Sandwiched between York High School and Energise is a great little community garden which is used by several groups including the York Autism Hub. Many of the areas had become quite overgrown with some dangerous overhanging brambles and loads of weeds and nettles. The pathway through the space is also going be used as the run route on an upcoming family triathlon, so it needed widening and all the encroaching branches cut back.

We'd managed to recruit a bonus runner on the way to the task; Ste had just come back from a very quick run and was totally out of breath, we asked if he wanted to come along to GoodGym and he couldn't speak to say no so just joined us. We also had new runner, Sophie, along with us for the first time - give 'em both a big Yorkshire cheer.

Chris - the Community Sport Manager - was super-organised and had prepped all the tools ready for us, as well as laying out an amazing circuit for our post-task bootcamp sesh. One team grabbed loppers and started slashing back overgrown brambles, another team started digging over the vegetable planters and the rest headed to the far end to start cutting back the footpath and scrubbing off grime from the benches. Check out the before and after pictures to see how good it all looked!

We made a gargantuan pile of debris and cuttings, then Amanda and Michal pegged it over to finish scrubbing the last couple of benches. A good job done.

Bootcamp!!!

We completed a massive circuit including:

• agility ladder exercises
• tyre jumps
• hurdle jumps
• many other jumps
• lunges and squats
• loads of planking exercises
• VIPR presses
• other amazing stuff like laying down cycling and can-can kicks

Everyone did an outstanding job and we finished with an agility ladder bunny hop-off where 'Fast Feet Griff' and 'Mighty Springing Mitch' led the field.

Join us on Monday for a 6km run to finish the footpath at Heworth Holme - sign up here.

A fantastic 50 GG Yorkies came along for a huge task to help Tang Hall Smart!

It was brilliant to welcome along so many first timers to the run tonight, and a big shout out to Amanda who rallied the troops from her own Monday night running group to help us out, we love a bit of collaboration.

With Leanne leading the way, we headed over to the Burnholme Community Hub and were welcomed by the extremely well-prepared Sue Williamson, Founder of this incredible community company. Sue told us a little bit about all the amazing things they are doing before showing us all the stuff we needed to move. Furniture, tables, computers, amps and more, it all needed moving from the old building to the new, fancy purpose-built building which was just next door.

If the sticker is red, it has to go upstairs. If the sticker is blue, it also has to go upstairs.

Everybody desperately tried to find something with a yellow or green sticker and soon a swarm of good was making it's way across the bit of wasteland in between the old and new site. Over at the new Hub, Al and other Tang Hall Smart folk were on hand to make sure all the kit ended up in the right room.

We were all delighted to see Sean, who was our official GG photographer for the evening. For those that don't know, Sean has been a keen GG Yorkie and mission runner from the beginning, but has recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. You can read his story here. It's brilliant to have you back Sean!

As you can see from Sean's fabulous photos, some of the equipment was particularly large, with filing cabinets, a piano and a huge photocopier in the mix.

I think you shouldn't carry the piano up the stairs - Becky, very sensible

A few of our runners got distracted doing a spot of filming with Abigail from BBC York, but she was getting them to lunge so I didn't mind and let them crack on with it.

In an unbelievable 25 minutes, everything was moved, way ahead of schedule! It is really mind-blowing what you can achieve with a bit of people power.

With all that time to spare, we had a great little percussion session and made beautiful GoodGym music (or a truly terrible din..) with Laurence on the drums and Sue on the sax. There were also jumping squats and lunges, obviously.

With all our good done, we completed mini running drills to get our legs fired up for the 3km run back to base.