This week we welcomed newbie Stefano on his first session with GoodGym 👋 before leading the way off to the Bushmead Community Hub where we were asked to prepare the front garden area for nature-friendly planting by the Wildlife Trust.

An area previously occupied by a large bush has been cleared and woodchipped but we had to relocate the woodchip around the existing planting and turn the exposed ground over ready for some easy planting by other volunteers later this week.

We had a great bunch of GoodGymers chatting merrily while working hard at getting this task done in good time. Enjoying the benefit of daylight for the first time on a group run this year we did a great job.

All that remained was a run back into town, with a quick stop in the park for a round of exercises from the fitness dice 🎲 🎲.

The rolls of the dice gave us the following:

90s of push-ups 90s of crunches 30s of squats and another 30s of push-ups to finish off the session.

Stefano you did great and it was a pleasure having you join us!

Four of the GoodGym Luton team headed out to the Ferndale Leisure Gardens, where things are getting ready for the new growing season and new tenants to come in and try their hand growing some veggies.

Many of the plots have been without tenants for a while and the accumulated junk of previous tenants needs clearing out to make nice clear plots for new tenants.

So we were pulling out the rotten old wood from past beds and structures, metal cold frames, plastics of all sorts to leave nothing but bare earth. All this junk was sorted and stacked for removal to the recycling centre but we didn't get through it all so we will return to have another go at it. It's amazing how much junk there is, even after our huge effort to clear these plots last year!