What a great evening! We met on Stafferton Way and did a few intervals along York Stream on our way to Maidenhead High Street, using speedy walk-leader Sheila as a moving target for stopping and starting our efforts. Thanks Sheila!

At the High Street we met injured GoodGymer Ankur and Tricia, Ruth and Dawn from The Autism Group, who needed help with moving to their new premises. We donned face masks and spread out over three flights of stairs, forming a human chain for bringing down flat-packed furniture, TVs, a microwave, rolls of flooring and lots of boxes of toys and craft supplies. We played a bit of Chinese whispers up the stairs, quickly filled up three cars and emptied the charity out of their old top floor home.

Then we were off to the other end of the High Street to do it all again in reverse. The cars would have the one way system to negotiate, so the runners had the challenge of taking a diversion to the Boy with the Boat statue and getting to the new location before the cars. We made it with time to spare for a quick fitness session - go team! Kudos also to Ankur, Georgeta and Sheila, who walked carrying the items that we couldn't squeeze into the cars.

When the cars arrived we emptied them into the hall of the new premises, and then made a human chain to whisk everything up the one flight of stairs. A passer-by kindly joined in and with 14 of us on the job we were finished in a flash, with 15 minutes to spare. Just as I was contemplating a second fitness session to fill the time, the group were saved by Tricia appearing with delicious cookies - such a treat!

Well done everyone who came along and helped us really blitz our task. Hope to see you all again soon!

We met at the Harmony Centre on Cordwallis Street (despite Hannah and Sophie getting the address wrong and knocking on the door of someones house in the next road!) and got straight to work, carrying things down the steep & narrow staircase and loading up the cars of the 3 lovely ladies at The Autism Group. The task was to help them move premises, so there were lots of bags, boxes, furniture and TVs!

Once the cars were loaded, Paul and Sophie ran just over 1km to the new premises on Maidenhead high street, whilst Hannah, Sheila and Kanika walked. It meant Paul and Sophie had to resist the temptation of the delicious smelling street food being cooked next door!

The walkers and cars arrived and we set to work in the form of an Olympic Gold relay team, passing things up the stairs to reach the new premises. Paul and Sophie covered the downstairs set of stairs moving things from ground level to half way up, whilst Hannah, Sheila and Kanika tackled the upper level and ensured everything was placed into their new home. The most challenging item was a pretty heavy shelving unit which was definitely a team effort!

We were rewarded with water and shortbread and all felt like we'd had a great workout! We felt like we had re-lay helped them out!