A bumper turnout this evening on one of our long runs to support our local NHS Hospital…the warm May sunshine also helped. It had been a while since we had been at Wexham Park Hospital so we knew areas of the carpark would need a good pick-me-up and it didn’t disappoint us!

With a 4km run out this evening we knew we had to run a tight ship with the welcome brief and warm up. It helped that I could not talk much today (sore throat and cough!...I know…lucky our task was at a hospital!). Thank you to Darren for taking the front runner role today… I knew my place was at the back

Refuse to give up

I probably should have stayed at home today with a cuppa coco but where would my Goodgym spirit be if I had done that. Not only me but Jenni and Sara, both holding injuries came out to join us today. This is the true beauty of Goodgym…we refuse to let any litter thing keep us down.....Well done Ladies And also it was return of the Mac…well of Michelle anyway! So good to have you back on a run with us.

Don’t let the Dr see your Butt

We’ve done enough hospital tasks now to know that the main cause of litter are those butts! Even though the hospital is a smoke free zone it makes litter difference. So with our sweepers and pickers in hand we split into pairs and systematically made our way around the grounds.

Pick Up Lines

The theme of todays task was to pick things up…be it coke cans, Mcdonalds boxes, cigarette butts, crisp packets or car park ticket stubs. So each pair were asked to come up with their cheesiest pick up line…the winning line would be the pun of the task

Oh the cheese! They really were bad… in no particular order, the worst of the worst were:

• Gotta Light?
• Are you French as Eiffel for you
• You light up my life
• As I said to Harry…I litter-alley have no pick up lines!

Told you they were bad

The best of the bunch were:

• You must be tired as you’ve been running through my mind all day (by Dreamy Darren)
• Is your name Google? Cos you’ve got everything I’ve been searching for (By Sexy Sara)

And the winning pick up line was from Jenni to her partner Ricky…

Did you just drop that litter cos you got FINE written all over you…Ricky just bagged himself a good one here

Pick up lines sorted for a future night out....we down tooled in time to take the group photo…another fine job done tonight…6 bags of rubbish collected

Breaking News!

• Huge congratulations to Sut Yee on her half marathon in Leeds on Sunday. She went, she conquered, she vowed to go back! Sign of a good race
• We did our 3rd mission last week – moving a sofa
• And had our 1st coach visit

You got a 50 dollar bill get your hands up!

Ricky’s got a 50 dollar bill….today is his 50th Good Deed! Well done Ricky…all that GG tourism has won you Slough’s first runner to achieve the 50th Good deeder certificate

I also achieved my 50th good deed recently however as I am not one for attention (ah-hem!)…I was blown away by the card and flowers the team got me for achieving this milestone! Thank you all so much

It’s so rewarding to know that with each deed we have helped someone..be it a community group via our Group Runs…a socially isolated older person via a Mission Run or helping our town via a Community Mission. I look forward to seeing more of our Slough runners achieve these milestones very soon!

Have a great week everyone…enjoy the sunshine and see you next Monday

This evening’s task was our first one with The Royal British Legion in Cippenham and we were down to paint their fence in some nice shade of harvest brown

The Royal British Legion aim to promote and fund-raisers for the Legion and have a number of upcoming events including a That That tribute group! It only takes a minute so have a look at their facebook page for more details. They have an amazing use of space for members/non-members to hire too at very reasonable rates too! Next social maybe?

https://www.facebook.com/cippenham.legion/

We welcomed a new runner today, Luke. Hope you enjoyed the session and well done for your initiation test at the end – pleased to tell you that you passed! After we did our welcome brief and warm up we headed out the 2.5km distance to Cippenham to do our fence painting task. Thank you to Ricky and Sut Yee for back marking this evening.

Sitting on the fence?

Loving the lighter and milder evenings. For those of you still sitting on the fence about joining us, maybe it’s time to brush off the cobwebs on those trainers and give us a go?

We really are a welcoming group and welcome runners of all abilities. One of the regular runners always volunteers to back mark so no-one is ever running alone at the back.

The great thing about all of the Goodgym tasks we do is that you really do feel good afterwards. Our run distances vary to cater for all runners and the tasks we do for the local community groups do make you leave with a smile on your face.

The Other Side

On arrival we were greeted by our task owners Tracy, Bridget and Paul. They gave us the roll down on the task which was to basically paint a really long fence. The paint had kindly been donated by Akzo Nobel so all The Royal British Legion needed were helpful hands to do the job.

Luckily, before we really got stuck in..Brigit kindly informed us we were on the wrong side of the fence..it was the other side that needed painting!

Got it Covered

Gloves donned, paint pots at the ready and off we went…to the right side!

Painting is very therapeutic…and its when we have a task like this that I see the challenge the runners set themselves… Sara and Ruth were literally not leaving tonight until the panels they were working on were painted!

Harry and Alistair…well actually just Alistair got more paint on his clothes than he did on the fence.

Super speedy Sut Yee worked her inner Ninja skills and used two brushes at the same time!

That’s how we roll

In 40 minutes we had the task done…well actually, it wasn’t as we still had 6 panels to go (we will be returning next Monday to finish these off).

One runner did have the gaul to ask me why I don’t get involved in the tasks….I told him not to take that tone with me…lucky no fence was taken

Easter Monday - Earn those Eggs!

Next week is a Bank holiday however we will still be running/doing good. We will in fact be returning to finish off these fence panels…there might be an egg or two at the session next week

https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/painting-fence-vs-fitness-session-with-litter-pick

She told me to walk this way…

On Monday 29th April we will be offering a walk option as well as our standard run option. The distance will be 2km and we will be going from our base location at Salt Hill Park to The Jubilee River Riverside Centre for an environmental clean-up task

Please do come and join us if running is not your thing but you want to experience the Goodgym good deed task

https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/jubilee-river-spruce-up

Aroo! I am Spartan!

Fancy a day of being Tarzan? Rolling around in mud? Climbing 10ft high obstacles? Crawling under wire nets? Great! Well then come and join a group of us who will soon be signing up to the Spartan Windsor Sprint Race (5km with 20 Obstacles). It’s on Sunday 6th October in the Bagshot area. We have a 20% discount code! Email me to confirm your place.

Have a great Easter everyone. If anyone is around on Friday, then please come and join me and other Goodgymers/Run With Active Slough runners for our annual Easter Egg Trail in Upton Court Park at 10am