On a sunny Monday afternoon, two Goodgymers ran alongside local inspiration, Leodhais, as he completed his epic 128th marathon in 128 days.

The challenge was to raise awareness about suicide and its prevention, in honour of his brother who sadly took his life in 2018.

So, as you can imagine it was a very emotional day, as we strode along the North Tyneside coast. It was a great feeling to be a part of the journey, alongside so many people, and as well as raising over £70k for two great causes, hopefully it also made a real difference to a least one person's life.

Me and Louise helped move a bed to allow room for a new bed for some one coming out of hospital.

The friend who let us in was shocked that it was was 'two young lasses' and didn't think we would be strong enough to move the bed down the stairs. Louise was a bit concerned just how big and heavy this bed was but I knew we could do it!

We did do it whilst she was on the phone arranging for the bed to collected by bulky waste removal at a later date. It was pretty straight forward bending the mattress round the stairs, taking out the draws and spliting the bed base in half.

Bonus was getting to see two of her cats, unfortunately not pictured.

On a Sunday afternoon I did done gardening for Mr M so he could enjoy his garden. I started off by cut the grass. I then did my best with cutting a the bushes to improve access for his wheelchair but unfortunately the loppers where a bit blunt so I didn't make as much process as I would have liked. I then finished off with a little weeding out a frustration. The time flew by!

This morning I volunteered as marshal at the Mowbray Park junior parkrun. It was a beautiful day for a victory lap!

Great to see so many smiling faces and to continue on with some more cheering!

It was visit number five to Magret's plot at the Greenhill View Allotments. Those of you who have been to a session here before or have been following the reports will know that this is quite a big plot which was completely overgrown before our first visit two months ago. You may also remember that it's been warm with no rain since we started so it's been getting harder and harder to dig the weeds out and keep them down. Progress has definitely been slow over the last two sessions. Last night though, the long awaited rain came and what a difference it made! We were finally able to get to the far end of the plot. We also re-positioned some pieces of wood around the edges, so the plot looks complete! Task owner Sue seemed delighted when she returned and we hope Magret will be too. She's already begun planting some veg with the help of a friend. Hopefully the plot will now flourish!

Unfortunately my GoodGym IT gremlins persist so I have only been able to upload one photo. I'll share the rest in our WhatsApp and Facebook groups so hop over there to marvel at the difference we've made!

It was a day of meetings today. We met Marie who joined us for her first GoodGym task - welcome Marie! We also met task owner Sue and perhaps most importantly we met Magret who has been allocated the garden we were working on today. A delay in starting caused by a very reluctant, rarely used very large padlock allowed us to learn that Magret arrived in the UK from Zimbabwe around 14 years ago, worked for years as a carer for people with learning difficulties until her eyesight began to fail around five years ago. This is the reason that Magret needs our help with clearing the overgrown garden so that she can benefit from it. We discovered that Adam was able to say hello in one of the languages spoken in Zimbabwe! Together with Marie being French we had a lively conversation about learning different languages!

After a quick trip home, Sue came back with a can of WD40 which did the trick with the padlock so we were able to get started. Two hours in the spring sunshine, discussions about various TV programmes and lots of digging and raking later, and we had cleared the first section of Magret's garden. There’s a lot of work still to do and we’ll definitely arrange more sessions, but for now, Magret was very happy with the start we made and is looking forward to growing some onions! We look forward to seeing the progress in the garden. For now, marvel at our before and after photos!