This week we had a treat in store in the form of an inside task!

GORGEOUS GARETH and the lovely team at REGATHER had organised an inside painting task to give their box packing room a fresh lick!

We headed off from our base of the Showroom Cinema toward Reagther with a small group walking who left a little earlier lead by SENSATIONAL CHEF and able rambler SUPER SIONED.

Arriving at pretty much bang on the same time and meeting some additional runners at REGATHER we got a brief from G-UNIT from the stepladders to get us underway.

We split into two (or arguably 4) teams to split the group and allow some space to work on the inside of the building. The rest of us headed round the corner to a perfectly structured circle within a circle for some face to face fitness.

We split into two teams with each member of the team sprinting around the outside circle whilst the rest of the team did exercises in the middle, once back into the inside circle they tagged a team member and the inner circle changed to a new exercise. Rinse and repeat until all had a go and we had a victorious team, followed by a head to head Street Fighter inspired team photo to finish before heading back and swapping over with the other runners.

Exercises on the inside of the circle included;

• Step Ups
• Box Jumps
• Squats
• Lunges

We downed brushes and headed to the front of REGATHER for a group photo thanks to REGATHER'S RACHEL and then headed back toward the Showroom with a few little loops for good measure.

And this weeks Pun Prize goes to...........

CLEVER KIM for the below words;

Roll on Monday! No Pollock-ing about! Manet members of GoodGym (Van) Gogh and Turner old (War-)hol of a room into a work of art for one of our McKee partners. What Dahli-ngs. Definitely Ernst is the beers back at Showroom

With the Jan Challenge complete, February commenced and luckily without any ice underfoot.

This week we welcomed 2 new runner into the GG flock. Big woop hola and cheers for;

• Jack Collier
• Laurence Alexander

Hope you enjoyed your run and see you back next week!

This week we were back off to the Durham Ox which was in need of another bit of GG love as the section of the National Cycle Network had become leafy and littered so once we met with SUSTRANS SIMON and got tooled up we got straight to work;

• Litter picking
• Cutting back
• Sweeping
• Moving big rocks
• Shoveling mud and leaves

We also had a crack team of 4 Red Hot GG Peppers who headed 'Under the Bridge' to give the special treatment to another nearby bit of NCN.

The GG crew certainly brushed up nicely and left the path good enough to eat off, well nearly...

Overheard this week;

Don't talk to him, he's a cyclepath...

On route back to base after a quick group photo we made some stops for some FANTASTIC FITNESS which this week included:

• Suicide sprints (uphill)
• Step Up's
• Box Jump's
• Group Squats
• Group Squat Jumps
• Group Front Lunge's
• Group Rear Lunges
• Static Sprints
• Steel City Stair Sprint
• A lot of stairs....

After a bit of a stretch off and hearing news of the Jan challenge results, last weeks good deeds and whats upcoming we headed in for liquid refreshment and chats.

Until next week, happy running! :)