🙌 23 epic GoodGymmers met for our double-task group run this evening 🌃

🦸‍♀️🦸‍♂️ We had some brilliant achievements to celebrate, with Tay reaching 100 good deeds this evening and Lucy and Max both doing their 200th good deed this evening. Amazing 👏

💪 And if that wasn't enough, we also said a huge well done to everyone who ran the Yorkshire marathon/10 mile yesterday, and a massive thank you to everyone who cheered us on and helped on the water station. Incredible stuff 💦

👍 Nick quickly took a crack team of 5 to Heworth Without to do some hay-raking. Here's what he had to say:

👩‍🌾👨‍🌾 It was a nice little task raking up the grass cuttings and dragging them on tarps to dress the base of the trees in the field to give them nutrients and a mulch for the winter.

Good work everyone 👌

🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️Meanwhile, the rest of us ran (some of us cycled) to Mayfields Open Space to help with some footpath maintenance there 🚲

🌱 Malcolm had helpfully marked out where the path was meant to go so our job was to tidy up any grass that has strayed beyond the string ✂️

🌳 At the same time, we had a group cutting up branches that Malcolm had chopped down earlier. Malcolm was worried he might have been over-ambitious in his expectations - he needn't have worried as the team completed this job with time to spare ⌚

🥾 The footpath trimmers also did a superb job and some of them had trouble stopping when the time was up 🤔

🧁 Luckily, the allure of refreshments that Malcolm had kindly brought were enough to tempt most people into finishing their labour. Bakewell tarts and chocolate marshmallows were enjoyed with almost as much enthusiasm as we'd had for our task 😁

🥳 And for the few people for whom even that wasn't enough to drag them away from their labours, the arrival of Michal and his promise of him sprints did the trick 🗻

👀 Some of us sore-legged crew watched in awe from the bottom as everyone sped up and down the hill. We were particularly agog with David showing us how to do hill sprints the day after running a marathon (which he also made look remarkably easy) 😳

😎 We headed back to base where we were joined by Team Rake and heard how I had vastly over-estimated the distance to Heworth Without (only 3.6k each way, not 5k, sorry everyone). We heard about what's coming up this week, stretched out our tired muscles and parted ways 🎉

🤓 Well done everyone, great work and thank you for your equally epic efforts at getting fit AND doing good (and eating cake, obviously) 🎂

8 GG'ers helped the volunteers at the Mayfield Open Space. We were tasked with widening the gravel path which was being encroached with grass and weeds.

We were all pleasantly surprised when we arrived for two reasons:

1) Michal was there to greet us even though he wasn't signed up (he stayed to help out so definitely earned his good deed)! 2) We were all given our own trowels, mats for resting our knees and buckets for the weeds. We were spoilt rotten!

With our tools we quickly got to work and were making very good progress. Some people were having a great time on it:

I feel like I'm creating a Roman Road - Steve

After over an hours graft we made a good start on the path and will definitely be back soon to help out again!