Spotted while running the other side of the river, Nathan was concerned to see a lot of rubbish and abandoned shopping trolleys on the river bed of the Taff. With rain set to arrive on Sunday and stay for the week the Taff would rise, and all the rubbish set to be washed downstream. Nathan and Darren ran to the Taff trail, down to the river bed and quickly collected two bags of rubbish, to go with two trolleys and a car tyre. It wasn't a fully trashy afternoon as they spotted a kingfisher, heron and egret during the task.

Goodgym Cardiff Met as usual for our Tuesday group session, outside the Glassworks. Our destination was over to Sport Wales, where we would pick up anyone meeting at the task. Our task, a final farewell litterpick to the Summer, and boy did it get dark fast... Running lights needed next week.

We made our way into the depths of the park, over to the rugby car park, up to Western Avenue and back again to the start. It was quite a distance for the litterpick, but we cleaned up.

And Now

A quick ditty from Bugsy Malone,

We could've been anything
That we wanted to be
And I'm not saying we should
But if we tried it, we'd learn to abide it
We could be the best at being good
....

See you next time.

Keen to work up a thirst before a gin-centred social, GG Cardiff met for a litter pick of the local area

schools are back on Tuesday and over the summer rubbish had accumulated in the fences and roads around two local schools. a quick blitz of the area left it looking ready to welcome back the kids and families from their summer break.

GG cardiff then headed off for drinks and to catch up on their respective summers

Sunday morning of Love Trails 2025 saw Goodgym again team up with The Green Runners and Trash Free Trails to run to Whiteford Sands for a litter pick.

A breeze in the air was taking the edge off the heat, and five goodgymers were joined by 23 others to run 6km to Whiteford Sands for another seemingly beach clean.

With another three prizes provided for the best finds of the day, the group split into pairs to tackle another seemingly clean beach. After a 40 minute search to group gathered together to tally up the items of litter collected (1,503) and vote on the top 3 finds (1st - BB gun and plamobile man, 2nd - loafers, 3rd - goal posts).

With 10 full sacks of rubbish collected from what was at first glance a clean beach, the Goodgym run showcased the power of using your run for social good and the impact less than an hours volunteering can have en-masse.

Despite following his social media, attending his talk, and having tracked his Cape Town to London journey, run leader Nathan managed to miss that runner and activist Deo Kato had joined the run and chosen to spend some of his time off stage at the festival to join a Goodgym beach clean.

Due to circumstances out of our control our task for the evening had to cancel, and so we moved to the ever reliable litter pick. The weather was very changeable, and we had a yellow warning for rain and wind......quite a night for exercise.

We split into two groups, our walkers stayed in the City Centre and helped to clean it up, they even saw a duck or two. Who knew we had ducks in the City Centre....

The second group, the runners, made their way up to the alleys on Whitchurch road for a good clean. It was a nice run, followed by a walking litter pick, some interesting graffiti and items were seen. Unfortunately as we stopped for our group photo the rain started up again.

We ended extremely wet, but don't let that put you off coming back!

Last night, the GoodGym crew took to the streets near Roath Library for a litter pick that was anything but trashy! Our team of litter legends included Michael, Darren, Lucy, Jonny, Dave, and Martin, who were ready to clean up and have a wheely good time.

Jonathan stumbled upon a collection of empty cans, and we couldn't help but say he was can-do attitude personified.

By the end of the evening, the area around Roath Library was spotless, and our team felt like they had truly cleaned up their act. Thanks to everyone for making this litter pick a bin-credible success! Let's keep running and picking, GoodGym!