*Alpine Loop Hill Training 🏃‍♀️ *

Big welcome to Robert who attended his first GG session, and what a session to attend 🤣

A superb turn out from Woking GoodGym for a hill training session. I'm sure we would have changed our minds if we knew what we had in store. Wayne told us there were only a few hills but I counted at least 27. Up was hard going in the warm evening and on the gravel but going down was even worse😩 . There was a lot more walking than running, at least from me, but I think we were all glad to take a break to avoid the army trucks doing their driving training 🚚. We happily welcomed Robert to his first session with us and what a one to pick! Thank you to Anne for caring for everyone on the downhill 🗻sections and go Wayne for not getting us lost. Nadia did a great job with the warm up, safety briefing and keeping everyone together. 🪾 Well done to Katie, Alys, Melanie, Julie and Andy too for conquering the hills in good spirits. 🌳The company certainly made the hills more bearable. Lastly, a thank you to Julie for the puns in the report title.

James, Karen and Becky took a short pause from eating chocolate eggs to volunteer at Junior parkrun on a crisp easter morning.

With well over 100 juniors it was a busy parkrun. Must be the parents getting the kids out to burn some energy before a day of feasting on sugary treats.

James did a superb job as Run Director and did GoodGym proud, knowing most kids by first name, including lots of kids in the warm up crew and learning from the kids how to use the loud speaker.

Becky accurately did her job as time keeper, maybe for the first time ever, while Karen was a marshal on the course encouraging the kids and keeping them safe.

Certainly an eggcellent time had by all.

There was a great turnout this evening for some litter picking around the streets of Woking. 🚮

Upon everybody’s prompt arrival, and a brief chat, Anne uncovered the brand new litter pickers which everyone got very excited about.🗑

Then, passing the adventure park, the team noticed a lot of litter so in they went, but not to play! 🛝

The group turned off out of Woking Park and carried on up White Rose Lane then ended up at the central flats.

High up on the tally seemed to be beer cans, beer caps, and cigarette butts, so it was a good thing to remove these things which impact our environment and wildlife. Great job team!

The ladies finished off with a gentle run back to the park and finally bade their farewells for the night leaving Woking a cleaner place.

After all, we don't mess about!

St John's Lye Woodland

Todays task was the first of three Goodgym x WWF Workout In Nature tasks.

This morning Wayne, Anne, Luan, & Rebecca were joined by Lizeth from WWF on her first task (Big Welcome Lizeth) 😊

Wayne & Luan came staright from junior park run, while Anne ran to the task along the canal. Rebecca who is currently training for a mammoth bike ride up in Scotland cycled to the task to get some extra training in 🚲. We all met at the car park where Hayden from We Act 🌍 went through the risk assessment then Charlie went through what we were going to do, which was clear an area to expose the soil to see if it was good enough to grow some wild flowers 🌹.

We all set off along the scenic route deep into the woods (1O Min Walk) We arrived at a clearing which we cleared a few weeks ago. with a string we marked the area by creating a border and with tools in hand we started to turn over the soil. It was tough as there were many roots but we soon made light work of it.

Lizeth was really get stuck in and was really enjoying the task as was Luan who loves an outdoor task 😊. Rebecca was telling us about the up coming GG Shindig in the Midlands which will be her 2nd year going cant wait to hear all about it.

In no time we had cleared the area and planted the wild lowers these will be monitored by We Act 🌍 over the coming months.

Hopefully we will see more of Lizeth at more GG Tasks 😊