Tonight we welcomed Meera a regular from GoodGym Coventry. I hope you enjoyed it and that we will see you again soon.

For this week’s task we were back at Newlands Bishop Farm to help spruce up the entrance to the farm. This involved pulling out the weeds and planting some potted flowers in and under the tractor sign. Jess started by filling all the pots with compost while Chris, Rachel, Fiona and Meera pulled all the weeds out. Once this was done Fiona, Rachel and Meena got their green fingers busy, planting all the flowers. Check out the obligatory photo, complete with GoodGym logo!

This week’s training session involved sprint finishes. Everyone pushed themselves hard and managed to sprint uphill and all the way back to base.

Great to see everyone tonight and to welcome Meera from Coventry and Jess back from her very exciting holiday in Bali. This Saturday will be Chris’ 200th Parkrun (wow!) and it would be great to see as many of you there to support him, either running or cheering from the side!

Next week, we’ll be back at Tudor Grange Park to do some more litter picking.

Rob

We did it - Goodgym’s 50th group is officially launched!

31 runners ran 5km to Newlands Bishop Farm as part of the GoodGym Solihull launch. At the farm we met Dan, who showed us around and gave us an insight into the work they do, providing jobs for adults with learning difficulties and enabling them to gain new skills. We’ll be back in the summer months to help them out with digging, painting, gardening and much more!

Runners also took part in two mini fitness sessions, with high intensity training, reps and group activities. Everyone gave it their all and completed the session still smiling.

We then ran back to our start location, the Royal British Legion Club, where we cooled down with some stretches.

Thank you so much for attending and giving it your all, with the run, the fitness sessions and meeting new people. It was great to chat to lots of you and get the GoodGym ball rolling in Solihull!

It would be great to see you next week in Tudor Grange Park for our litter pick as part of the Great British Spring Clean.