Hang onto your leaves -No sign of hurricane Maria in Worthing

On a calm and brightish (?! ) evening in Sunny Worthing 6 trusty GoodGym runners met at Spalshpoint Lesiure Centre for a (not so quick) catch up on weekly news and general chat. We almost forgot about the running and task ahead :)

It was lovely to welcome Sue (https://www.goodgym.org/runners/sue-c2e8c2a1-bcc6-48f6-ac03-ab9b55ab6a66) back proudly wearing her new GoodGym tee shirt with the additional super power of the the additional logo on the back. It looked so good that we ( well I ) all have t shirt envy now.

Brownies and fish and chips

The group headed off for a warm up around the pier and found a food theme going on. A group of girl brownies were enjoying a delightful dinner of fish and chips. What a typically lovely seaside scene that was!

Ranger of the lost park

Food forgotten it was time to arrive at the seafront Denton gardens for part 2 of the tidy up on the east bed just next to the mini golf. A warm welcome awaited us from our park ranger Keith who was , as ever , raring to get started and experience yet more 'pun fun'

Power ranger and his A team

Once again the team worked hard under the careful supervsion and wit and humour of Keith next to the golf . Gill managed to improvise another tool to work with. Sue was far from weedy pulling out some monsters ! Beth found a power ball to assist her ranging .Nick went crazy when he found an orange golf ball and Belinda was spotted warming up her bicep muscles in preparation for our Good Gym social next Monday by raising a discarded bottle of cider- organically sourced but not gluten free !

We didn't realise that we were making memories - we just knew we were having fun

The group headed off for a speed of light trip down memory lane revisiting and remembering previous tasks. There was anchor gardens ( not a dolphin to be seen ) Windsor lawns ( quite a royal feeling ) the residents garden ( the rockery and rolling task ) and Teville gate ( Now you see it soon you won't )

Fitness Spirit

With our new '' team buddy '' leader and GoodGym time traveller ,Beth, the runners did some great sprint efforts with every step working towards achieving their individual goals.

The stars were out

A lovely stretch and chat back at Splashpoint Leisure Centre completed another Monday night for GoodGym Worthing

Next week we will be finshing our task and run with a visit to The Egremont pub situated just near Splashpoint at 32 Brighton road , BN11 3ED . This will be an informal ,fun ( and possibly pun finder ) hour where we welcome any current , past or potential GoodGym members and non members and their friends.

Have a great week everyone

Julia :)

A fabulous team of 21 ran to help Edible York at Greenfields Garden.

This was our second of three visits to Greenfields to help install a land drainage system under the guidance of Bill Eve (also known as Edible Bill), and one very lucky new runner came along on just the right night to join in with such a brilliant task - let's give a big Yorkshire cheer to Jenna.

The task involved:

• removing turf as neatly as possible
• digging a long trench to very precise depth specifications
• lining with gravel
• laying pipe
• filling with gravel
• topping with the turf

Phew!

Some of the gang had been to the previous trench-digging epic and led the way, with only 40 minutes on the clock, there wasn't time to hang about. Spade choice was also very important with some of the team favouring a pointy spade for scooping the depths of the trench.

Meanwhile Abi was spadeless, but made excellent use of her time by picking the very best blackberries and raspberries to sustain the rest of the crew.

There was lots of tape measuring throughout the task to ensure the trench was absolutely perfect. We discovered that when Ellie is knee-deep, that's ideal for the low end.

It's hard to get the depth bang on; when the middle section was 1cm too shallow, Abi used another method which was jumping in and stomping it down - much better than digging.

5 minutes to go!!!

With the heavy wheelbarrows of gravel whizzing back and forth, the good bits of turf were re-laid and soil filled all the cracks. It was sort of supposed to look like we'd never been there but I think it will look a bit like that at some point, maybe next year?

Anyway, the task was complete and we ran back to base to finish up with some balance and single leg exercises - the best way to celebrate a good deed done.