❤️ It's been an emotional day - even the cake is in tiers! 😂

💪 Four years ago, in Lockdown, I bagged the role of Area Activator for @goodgymstockport

🥰 Little did I know that what started as a dream job, would turn into me also meeting the best bunch of friends there is! You are all ACE!

🏃‍♀️200 Tuesday evenings spent, come rain, shine or snow (mainly rain!) leading group runs, volunteering our time in the community and having the most laughs and fun times!

🥳 A rainy walk and cake in the carpark of @lifeleisureuk was the perfect send off! Thanks guys! 😘

Shout out to Hannah for the most delicious cake that was ever made!

What better way to spend a drizzly Tuesday evening than washing away the cobwebs with a rainy run, followed by an indoor and super fun GoodGym task.

Our run began at Life Leisure Romiley, and from there, we took a 'leisurely' stroll to our task venue The Guywood Centre. The Guywood was once a beautiful and picturesque old church school ( and retains all the original features) and is now a bustling community hub for parents, toddlers and teenagers.

Prampushers toddler group meet every Wednesday and have an incredible array of toys set out to allow parents to come and socialise, whilst their little ones can play in a fun, educational, and safe setting. And with such an ecletic mix of toys, Prampushers needed a helping hand to set for their busy Wednesday.

Simone and I laughed,.lifted and lugged, getting all the toys in position for the pitter patter of tiny feet to stampede in in the morning.

What a cheery Tuesday!

On Saturday 6th March, our GoodGym runners descended on Project Ravensgard - a supported living housing project - to help to tranform their overgrown grounds of a beautiful house into a safe haven for residents to enjoy over the spring and summer months.

They dug, they chopped and they shifted the earth to clear away the brambles and bushes and reveal a fantastic space that will soon become a BBQ, sensory and social area.

And all the spring sunshine!

For our first Zoom session we went all out and worked out 80s style with some of our GoodGym Trafford faves and some new faces from Stockport and Liverpool!

Great to see:

Hannah Jo Simone and Rob

And of course our old mucker John who we haven't seen for a while!

It was so lovely to see everyone and we chatted about what we had been doing to keep fit including running, HIIT sessions, cycling, walking and all manner of other things. Keep up the good work guys!

After that we did a funky warm up and burnt a load of calories working out to our shared 80s soundtrack blasting out. We conga-ed with Gloria, shimmied with Tiffany and smashed it to Eye of the Tiger!

that was brilliant fun and lovely to see you all!

Here's the team grooving to the Conga:

Once we had completed some more high octane workouts we did a hardcore abs circuit just to completely finish us off!

We closed with some new from Fi about her soon-to-be coach (that makes 6 in Trafford - yippee!) and how we can get involved both in missions for people in need and also Community Missions.

Fab fab fab to see you all! Thanks for coming and see you next time, lots of love

Kate xx

Tonight the crew met up and went for a 5km run around the town, we spotted so much, it was one of those lovely running nights, mid march, when your head has had enough of being cold, and you would rather be sat in front of the TV, curled up on the sofa under a blanket rather than out pounding the streets! But thats why Goodgym is a bit magic, we are a group of runners that enjoy meeting up, enjoy running and being kind...

Tonights run included running a 5km around the town, we spotted art deco buildings, L.S Lowrys inspirational stairs, the Plaza, the 1970s buildings that were used in the BBC drama 'a life on mars'. We found things each of us had never noticed.

After our run, we settled aback at the produce hall, to get woolly and creative and start some more crocheted blankets for the neo-natal unit at Stepping Hill, when we have had another crochet session and created more blankets we will be running up to the hospital in a few weeks time to drop them off.

Id like to say a massive thank you to tonights runners,you guys inspire me just as much at the scenes in Stockport inspired L.S.Lowry.

Have a wonderful week