Tonight’s task was meant to be Locke Park but Anne called to cancel just before the set-off time because of the weather. So a last minute change of task was required, plogging on the way up to Penny Pie Park. Thankfully GG Barnsley always has back-up equipment ready; gloves and purple rubbish bags from the BLP that can be left by the side of bins. It was a nice steady uphill on the way to the park with many stop-offs for sporadic picking.

‘The nuts and bolts of the operation’

Some interesting finds amongst the usual gubbins of wrappers, bottles and cans were about 20 dumped brass fence connecters and some large nuts and bolts. Upon arrival at Penny Pie the excellent exercise equipment with accompanying instructions and suggestions of repetitions were used. A circuit of all 4 pieces of equipment was completed before leaving the purple bags by the side of a bin on the road for collection. All that was left to do after this was to run back down the hill to Glasshouse to stretch off.

We’ll be up at Locke Park next week joining the team there.

Barnsley's second Community Mission saw the fab five meet at Shaw Lane and jog the mile to Penny Pie Park where we met Tim, and new goodgym Barnsley mascot Ginny, who enthusiastically got us to work on several tasks within the park.

Pruning back a stubborn tree stump, filling in some uneven ground and litter picking were all on the cards this evening as we enjoyed the glorious evening sunshine.

In no time we had finished off what needed to be done and had a chance to chat with Tim, who kindly provided some refreshments, and play fetch with Ginny before we headed back to our starting point.

We ended the evening with a ballet inspired stretch led by Kim with everyone looking forward to next week's Group Run.

9 runners headed to Penny Pie Park to widen the footpath!

We started by giving Josh a massive cheer as his 8 week parkrun PB streak continues, awesome work Josh!

Our task was to widen the fabulous recycled tyre path in the park. Since it was laid, the grass had started to grow over the path, making the walkway narrower for park users.

It wasn't until we started scraping back the sides of the path with spades that was realised how much had been lost. It was about 40-50cm on each side of the path! Sharon - back after a bit of a break - gave it some welly with a brilliant deep-squat digging technique.

Josh managed to create a brand new and innovative technique which was sort of, digging with a pair of loppers... and was surprisingly effective.

With everybody digging deep and working hard, it took us less than 30 minutes to widen the whole section of path on both sides. Jane, the Chair of the Penny Pie Park Community Group, was amazed at how quickly it had been done and was excited about what else she could get us to do in the future!

We ran back to Shaw Lane to complete a mega core fitness session including:

• balance exercises
• limb extension
• forward to back lunges
• plank variations
• side plank variations
• reverse plank
• partner plank and burpee challenge
• pair sit ups

....and we finished off with a press-up challenge just for Grace!

Another good deed done in Barnsley, excellent work team!