The storm clouds have finally cleared leaving a crisp cool winter evening for us to get stuck into two tasks. After applauding the fantastic half marathon achievement of Amy and the parkrun pbs for Debs, Louise and Paul Kelly. We donned legendary fell running Lucy in her centurions cape. Make sure you head over to her profile and give her a massive cheer for her 💯 good deed!

Tasko Numero Uno

My task headed to Millthorpe School to help with the forest school there. Katie's eyes widened when she saw one of the tasks was to look after the bonfire.

The two other tasks were to do build a dead hedge. Which after some confusion initially quickly gathered pace with the hedge/fence/wall ballooning in size!

"How do you lichen my stick?" - a proud Carl showing off his punderful talent!

Secondly we were set upon the mystery soil that seems to endlessly spew broken glass. Some sort of scientific anomaly as the team were baffled to find glass no matter how deep they went.

"What a pain in the glass" - pretty much all of the diggers made this pun at least once.

Task all done we did some quick sprint reps up a small hill. Then quickly snuck back for some cheeky marshmallows on the bonfire before jogging home. Turned out the Fire Posse did too well at their task as the fire was almost too hot to roast our marshmallows.

Tasko Numeros Dos!

Team West Bank Park arrived to find Christina had tasks galore. The 20-ish GG folk (cheers Nick for the precise headcount) were split into 5 teams

First team were sent off with wooden stakes to look for vampires but instead chose to use them to build a dead hedge to stop dogs getting into the nature area

The second team were shoveling bark to cover mud caused by storms Ciara and Jorge

The third team were rotating compost from one bin to another whilst hoping not to disturb any hedgehogs

Team four were doing something very important with a metal grid, big tampers and some limestone - not sure what - all I know is it was very technical and Ed was telling Mitch off for putting stones on where he shouldn’t.

Team five were a liability - I returned from my rounds of checking on the other groups to find Michael 6 feet up a Yew Tree with a bow saw.

“I’ve done a dynamic risk assessment!” He shouted - he came to no harm fortunately

Which is more than be said for Egg who was appearing at tonight’s GoodGym Group run ‘Eggcommunicado’ and within 5 minutes had been whacked in the eye with a branch.

“There’s a reason I never did the tasks when I was trainer”

By some miracle we completed most of tasks (although we definitely need to go back to finish off the yew tree and bark tasks)but in the interests of time were forced to ditch Tim’s elaborate fitness task and run home

Just as well as the chances of completing it in one piece with this lot were minimal!

Another Monday Group Run well done cheers all!

GG Yorkies split into four teams to complete different tasks around the city!

Well, I say GG Yorkies, we had one GG tourist join us tonight all the way from Hammersmith & Fulham so a big welcome to Catriona, and also a big welcome to new runner Amy, who joined us for her first ever GoodGym run this evening - make sure you go and give them both a cheer.

We also had some celebrating to do tonight because Splendid Stef was running his 50th good deed and got to wear the Cape of Good Deeds.

Happy to wear the uniform - Stef

Our original task had been cancelled so we'd found lots of smaller tasks to keep us busy.

• A 2km run/walk to Millthorpe School to clear their allotment plots (led by Leanne, backmarked by John)
• A 4km run to Get Cycling to clean their exhibition trailer (led by Mitch, backmarked by Ed)
• 2 x 10km(ish) mystery routes to scout walking route instructions for YUMI (led by Becky and Paul)

Paul led a brilliant team warm up whilst I led the walking group (Ellie B) to Millthorpe School. We also had Gareth from Streets Ahead magazine taking some photos for an article so it was all going on. Each group had a specific rendezvous point and our goal was to meet back at Scarcroft Green for a little team fitness sesh at the end.

At the allotment we had 40 minutes to clear 4 overgrown vegetable beds.

Only ten minutes per bed, easy!

The team purposely tried not to work too quickly for fear of extra fitness, but they were making quick work of de-weeding and digging over whilst Beth relentlessly used a giant shovel to 'rake' everything smooth.

Becky and Paul's tasks involved their team following a set of written instructions to check accuracy for a community walking trail project called Fishergate Footprints. They also need to mark on their maps the locations of any benches and sitting points. Running whilst reading isn't always the best option though and Becky (winner: Most Accident Prone GG Yorkie 2017) did manage to trip over a paving slab and cut her knee.

Sorry I bled on the map...

A quick plaster repair and they were back in. A bit less drama on Paul's team though apparently someone did get chased by a big dog.

It was like a scene from Hound of the Baskervilles

Over at Get Cycling, Mitch's team didn't waste any time. They were straight on it with soapy sponges, scrubbing the muck off the old exhibition trailer. Katie and Freya were very excited at the prospect of using a jet cleaner but since it had a big leak in the pipe it wasn't quite as exciting as anticipated.

The allotment team finished ahead of schedule so we headed to Scarcroft Green for a bonus extra bit of fitness with loads of lunges and the team tyre challenge. Everyone was very relieved to see the other three groups coming in bang on time to save them!

We completed a short but tough bit of exercise with teams doing exercises in zones:

• The squatting zone
• The tricep press zone
• The press-up zone
• The lunging zone
• The hang zone
• The bonus burpee zone

It's like GoodGym does Crystal Maze!

..and with that, we had just enough time to gather for a big group pic before heading back to base.

8 of us met Emma at Forest School to help her clear an area of all brambles, grasses, roots and leaves so that it can be turned into a wildflower meadow.

John completed his 50th good deed so give him a big cheer too!

We wowed Emma with our extensive wildflower growing knowledge from all of our tasks helping the St Nicks meadowkeepers project too.

After the area was cleared with rakes, spades and a very broken fork, Emma got out the hot chocolate - a big treat on a cold day!