6 Goodgymers made their way to Saffron Acres, our first task under the supervision of Jack was to water their tomato plants, filling watering cans from the water butt.

The main task today was to start extending the allotment patch on the heath by cutting down all the weeds as tall as me. It was a prickly task but everyone got stuck in and made a huge dent in the over growth. Also moved a mound of compost that was moved undercover ready for the allotment growth.

A very productive morning and we still had time to chat about races. Mel and Dave had just taken part in 5km and 10km wolf runs, weldone both amazing achievement compelting a course like that, they both love a challenge!

Luckily after all the hard work Dave was on hand to make teas, delivered in a shopping basket!

Fantastic to see the allotment we helped dig and weed last time was bursting with growing veg, Saffron Acres are selling veg box's to the community to put the money back into the charity, we were all given a sample to try before we buy.

Weldone everyone a very worthy task where we will be re-visiting to finish the job, me and Sarah got some very strange looks running down the street carrying our beetroot and lettuce! Nice chatty 5km round trip.

Thank you so much to 26 Googymmers who braved the bitter cold to support our GoodGym Leicester's re-launch at Braunstone parkrun. A great number of them were new GoodGym members Justjules, Kelly, David, Heather, Thomas, Jimmy plus a few more to be added! Along with the original GoodGym team, we took on all the volunteer roles, a big running community reunion! David excelled as Run Director and everyone did a fantastic job for a smoothly run Parkrun. Although our re-launch was planned for today I was keen to get started with a very willing team of task force and run leaders we have been doing many community missions in our Leicester Community, attracting new members along the way. Today was Sarah10th good deed.

Let's keep GoodGym Leicester moving forwards helping charities and organisations, keeping ourselves fit at the same time, weldone Team.

10 goodgym Elves made their way to St Mathews Big Local, running 2 miles where we found lots of selection box's and games. Team Goodgym Leicester sprung into action all taking on Elf roles, working hard wrapping listening to Christmas tunes. Huw organised the fastest wrapper challenge, the team were all super speedy with everyone's competitive spirit, well you know me now, thanks Huw.

Just like magic all the presents were wrapped. Time for another game, pass the fitness parcel, each layer had an exercise like crunches or jumping Jack's, then the person holding the present when the music stopped had to role the dice to see the forfeit, 90 seconds was very popular so was 20 reps. You all did amazing doing 90 secs of squats, weldone to our winner Mel she showed another Elf skill 'sharing is caring' with her winning chocolates.

On route back we did a speedy anti clockwise and clockwise on the track, Huw was chasing down a crown. Next time we will see if we can beat our times on the track. Weldone all we did so much with our brilliant turn out. Thank you so much to the 3 new members (names all begin with A coincidentally) Andy,Aruna andAmanda thank you goodgymers for making everyone feel so welcome and looking after each other, plus Jimmy our back marker, grand job.

7 Goodgymmers made their way to Menphys Hub (4 of us running 3 miles in the rain!) to pump up footballs and wrap gift sets for children and young people with disabilities.

The team got stuck in working like quick Elves in the night, listening to Christmas songs and eating mince pies getting in the festive spirit!

Myself Sarah and Jimmy ran the same route back (more rain) with a hill rep to test us! Sarah joined us for her 2nd task she must have liked her 1st GoodGym experience! Weldone all fantastic team work!