Tonight was Jonny's running session, with Marcus the new area activator for Worcester joining us, along with Javis doing his 2nd GG session.

We warmed up running to Millenium Point our destination for our interval session. The session was a 'mixed pace workout' which was 4 x 30 second efforts, off 30 seconds rest, followed by 4 x 3 minute efforts off 1 min jog recoveries, then to finish 4 x 1 minute off 1 minute jog. Both Marcus and Javis certainly gave it the full beans!

Once done we went to the Carrs Lane Church to complete our litter pick before heading back to the Good Intent.

We had a great session at St. Martin’s Church, with 6 of us sanding and painting the lower ground corridor. It was brilliant to welcome Javis and Zoe, both doing their first mission with Goodgym! Some of us rolled the wider wall spaces, some brushed paint into those nooks and crannies, while others had the ceilings covered! Fantastic team effort with the whole corridor looking fresh with a full first coat of paint by the end of the mission. 😊

Tonight GG Brum were back on the hills! Yep it was the coached running session led by Jonny.

We ran around 1k to the Mailbox where we'd do a hill session. The session was some hill strides to start with to improve form, then it was into 10 minutes of Kenyan Hills. This was then followed with some lactic hill sprints! Both Eve and Emily worked very hard, going literally flat out on the hill sprints!

Once done we headed back to the Good Intent to collect the litter pickers for a quick litter pick around the Carrs Lane Church.

We had a lovely run for our traditional loop round the Bournville area, culminating at the famous tree!! Laura, Morwenna, Eve, Rich, Abigail and Veronika joined me on the run- with everyone else meeting in the pub afterwards for a Christmas bev and also to say goodbye to my gallbladder which will hopefully be removed tomorrow!

Thanks all for a fab send off!

Great task all set up and ready by Karen when I arrived! Lots of fun climbing ladders into the attic to help clear dust and bits of debris. I got going soon after 6pm and Thomas arrived for the second half, for his first ever Goodgym session!

Carpets were swept, odds and ends were cleared with litter pickers and roof panels were lightly vacuumed!

Fascinating building and such a welcoming team - lots to get stuck in with and it was great to help the team get started with this attic task.

Before the GoodGym Christmas social, 5 eager GGers headed to the Good Intent to pick up litter pickers and complete a 20 minute litter pick in the city centre. 2 bags full was good work and a well deserved social afterwards.