18 GoodGym Coventry runners headed to the Foleshill Community Centre to paint again. Having started this task last week, we were this time greeted by Faye who helped us get straight on with the task in hand, painting shelving and walls.

Samosas again were proveded for sustainance and were very well received as again we had completed our fitness session of hills on the way to the task. Saul stormed to the front of the hill reps and the rest of the group powered on up the hills.

It was another great evening, everyone chatted, ran and painted- thanks team. See you next week. Liz x

Tonight saw 5 new GoodGym runners join the Coventry Group Kellie, Rebecca,Cîsu Saul and Kellie. It was great to see 19 runners at Drapers tonight. It was great to see some faces that we haven't seen for a few weeks too.

As we had been promised some refreshments and from experience, we knew that we were not good running back post food so we completed our hill sprints on the way out to the task. when we arrived, we were greeted by Ellie and split in to two groups, the large wall painting group and the shelving sanding and painting group. Without hesitation the two groups formed and attacked the tasks, as this was week 1 we knew that we would be back to complete the task next week. Samosas were consumed, wood sanded,walls painted and chatter rang through the building.

We will be back next week, thanks Ellie. see you all next week. Liz x

A muddy good time was had by all at the Green Leek 10.5k Run

Five GoodGym-ers descended upon Burton Green Primary School on a cold, wet Sunday morning for the start of the Green Leek 10.5k run. After a quick warmup the runners trudged en masse to the start on the Greenway where an impromptu disco broke out, in a desperate bid to stay warm.

At ten o’clock the signal was given to start and the cold was soon forgotten as runners made their way down the Greenway towards Kenilworth.

The going got considerably more interesting as the race emerged into the Abbey Fields and all memories of dry feet disappeared as we squelched across the grass towards Castle Farm. Once out of Kenilworth it soon turned into a mud bath and the battle between the wish to remain upright, gravity and lack of friction quickly ensued.

As the race rounded the final corner and back onto concrete paths, runners broke out into an involuntary sprint finish on the steep finishing straight, crossing the line to receive medals, bananas and thoroughly deserved cake!

The results (chip times) were as follows:

Saul Parry - 00:46:57

Nigel Mills - 00:49:55

Fiona Monk - 00:56:35

Katherine Mills - 01:01:51

Allan Mansfield - 01:04:39