13 people ran 4km to donate clothing items to Suited for Success followed by our first GoodGym Brum Social

Fortunately after this mornings autumnal weather it had largely dried up by this evening and although rather windy it wasn’t a bad night for a run. It was good to welcome Owen to tonight’s run who Amy kindly brought along.

Sack race

Once back markers and front markers were sorted, we were on our way to Suited for Success, with sacks full of donations. It was just a short run down there and we were warmly greeted by the team. We had various photos followed by a tour of the premises. Then we were on our way again.

burn up

On the way back we joined the canal, once arriving at Brindley Place, we did a bit of squatting and lunging and then split into two groups, for the last ¾ of a mile stretch along the canal. one group going slightly faster. I lead the fast group, well I say lead until Neal put in some great work burning up the towpath virtually Mo Farah esk! Owen also put a great shift in. The other group weren’t far behind putting in great effort all the way back. We then took a steady run back to 1000 Trades, ready for the exciting bit…….

Social

Once back we had our first GoodGym social, it’s was great to see everyone involved. I left at 8.45pm with still plenty of the group there, so if you do end up down Broad Street, please do send me the pictures, I will be more than happy to add them to the run report! Especially if you have any of Garry throwing some shapes on the dance floor!

Next week we will be out doing good again, it would be great if you could join us sign up here.

15 people ran 5km to do a litter pick on our adopted part of the canal

On a Mediterranean esk evening in Brum we said a very warm (literally) welcome to Abbie, Amy and Tom who came on a group run for the first time! Tom possibly for the last time as well, as he’s moving to China next week, but what a great send off, being part of a GoodGym group run 😉 So after gathering our ‘litter picking’ equipment we were on our way.

What a load of rubbish

Once down on the canal we all went to one specific spot which gets full of empty cans. We spent 15 minutes clearing the area and then walked with the bags up to Aston Lock collecting a bit more rubbish on the way. In total we had 20 bags of rubbish! Top work guys!

Interval session

On our way back we did a lung busting interval session. This involved 2 sets of 4 efforts, with a longer recovery between the sets. Everyone worked hard. Neal led the way again, Andrew put in a great shift and Amy and Abbie did a great job of their first interval sess! Once done, as if that wasn’t enough we had a steady run back to St Paul’s square were everyone did four sets of 40 second wall squats. This was a great team effort on what would be rather ‘mashed’ legs by this point!

Once done and everyone exhausted it was time for a gentle run back to base, for a nice stretch. Next week we will be out doing good again, it would be great if you could join us sign up here.