A shout out to Catherine for completing her 20th Group Run this evening!

Who will be next to hit the 20 mark???

It was lovely to have Anna from BBC Radio Norfolk come and join us on her 1st GoodGym adventure this evening. She is doing an article on different exercise opportunities and I'm sure she was taken by surprise how much of an amazing community of runners we have created. Anna got to interview most of you throughout the evening so thank you for doing that and hopefully it will help make people more aware about GoodGym Norwich and want to join in with the fantastic things you all do in your community. I'll let you know once the article has been published

Tonight was our 1st of two visits to The Hamlet Charity, where this week we were cleaning the windows in preparation to paint them next week. It was supposed to be a 2km route each way... but what Google Maps forgot to tell me is that the route it had given me has its gates locked in the Cathedral grounds at dusk! Therefore, this meant the route was a little longer than 2km ;-)

So not only did we have a slightly longer route we then had to tackle the almighty Gas Hill to get to our destination (and everyone assumed it would be the only time we run up it this evening mwahahaha).

We then all arrived at The Hamlet Charity (with our jelly legs) and Claire greeted us and explained the jobs in hand and off the GoodGym-ers got to work. As well as cleaning the windows we gave the whole place a good clean over.

My favourite photo of the evening was one I took of Calum, Alex and Lizzie the other side of the window but looks like my head is on Alex's body (a very disturbing image haha).

Everyone knew I had something mean up my sleeve so I think they were secretly trying to delay the inevitable... I wasn't going to take them back down Gas Hill and on a straight forward route back to The Forum. So we ran around until we ended up at the bottom of Gas Hill (ta-da, it was magic) and up everyone went for a 2nd time in the evening... all the way to the very top.

In all fairness, its with great pride I watch everyone of you pushing yourselves to improve your running ability and it's great to do this type of training. Chloe especially, you've not been running long and not only was this probably one of your longest runs ever (we did 6.9kms in total) you also conquered the biggest hill in Norwich... TWICE!

I think we were all a little shattered once we got back so was nice to stretch it off.

We have the starter session this Saturday, which anyone can come along to.

Next Monday we're returning to The Hamlet Charity with a pub trip afterwards.

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 :)

Tonight we had our 1st indoor task at GoodGym Norwich and it was a very special one as we were heading to the Norwich Food Bank to date sort items.

Another fantastic turn out again and a big welcome to new runners Elizabeth, Tim, Poppy, Sophia, Graham, Tom & Calum. Although it was your 1st GoodGym experience, it felt like you settled in straight away and a big thank you to the other runners for making you feel at home.

Those of us that were able to make it to Catton Parkrun on Saturday bragged about our amazing breakfast at Cafe Brittania.

Dan decided to run in jeans this evening #lad and apparently my running bottoms caused a few topics to discuss... oops!

Laura and Carl were devoted back runners.

Simon had his docs checked so he can be DBS verified to go on our Coach and Mission runs.

It was nice route of just over 2 miles to The Norwich Foodbank, which saw us running down Grapes Hill (so yes it meant we had to run back up it at the end) and up the start of Bowthorpe Road... plus a few push-ups along the way.

We arrived at the task and was greeted by Pat who talked a little about what The Norwich Foodbank does and then explained what needed doing.

The GoodGym-ers split into 2 groups and one were date sorting beans and the other date sorting soup... it was like a Soup vs Bean war.

As I was going round doing a live Facebook feed and trying not to wind people up haha, Pat and myself were amazed how quickly everyone was working, so much that Pat had to find other food items for them to sort. In fact everyone did a great job that after about 25 minutes or so there was nothing left to sort!

Bill then tried to negotiate if he could donate some of his ever growing fresh produce (vegetables) to the organisation.

So we then headed back to The Forum with a mixed paced run back with a couple of re grouping spots. The stretch of Dereham Road I let the group loose and go at their own speed. Then it was tackling Grapes Hill again, which everyone smashed.

This week, Bill & Katy had some French beans and peppers to dish out to the group - it really is kind of you.

I think upon reflection of the task we did tonight, it does make you realise how fortunate a lot of us are to have food on the table, especially when Pat explained the situation of some people that is completely out of their control.

Please sign up to next week's task.