We had a mix of runners and walkers this week for a visit to Shri Guru Ravidass Sangat Gurdwara. The walkers headed straight there while the runners took a small diversion to run a couple of laps of Brantwood Park to add a bit of distance to the otherwise very short journey.

At the temple we were helping prepare for the weekend's festivities celebrating the Anniversary of the birth of the Guru, so we were giving the place a good deep clean upstairs and downstairs.

Vacuuming, wiping down surfaces, mopping floors, moving furniture, scrubbing the kitchen, we did it all working alongside some other helpers from the Gurdwara and the place was left spotless!

We had a big bunch of people out for the last Group Run of January, an excellent boost to our January total!

It was a special evening as we were to be joined by ITV news, filming us for an upcoming piece on the 6o'clock news! 🎥

First we had to get to the task, so Gill set off early with the walking group to make their way up the hill to the Luton General Cemetery.

Meanwhile the rest of us welcomed Joe to the team 👋 as he joined his first session, got ourselves warmed up and ran in pursuit of the walkers.

Our task at the cemetery was to sow yellow rattle seeds into the grassy banks, which involved roughing up the grass with rakes to expose some soil and scattering the seeds in. But of course with the camera rolling things didn't proceed quite as usual!

We did a good bit of shuttle running up and down to get nice footage and were filmed hard at work with rakes and brooms in the gloom and torchlight. While a few went off to be interviewed under a streetlight the rest of us got the job done by scattering the seeds, trampling them in and finishing up the sweeping job on the path.

Task and interviews all done the last job was being filmed running out from the cemetery gates as we made our way back down the hill into

it was the final session from this season's cooking and community sessions at the Gurudwara and once again Goodgymers were on hand to enable the success if the evening - welcoming, hosting, cooking and washing up alongside the women in the temple to provide and enjoy a delicious meal. The meal started with crispy cauliflower pakora which we all enjoyed, before getting stuck into the various tasks. There was chick pea curry to prepare, a vegetable pilau, and of course a larhe mountain of rotis which we are getting quite good at now. There were many guests from across the community including the High Sheriff of Bedfodshire. Well done team, it was a lovely evening for all. We shall miss our Monday nights...

12 of Goodgym Luton's team turned out to support the Shri Guru Ravidass Sangat temple with the 2nd curry cooking sessions of their current Near Neighbours funded project. Helping with prep, cooking and cleaning up the team really helped to make the evening run smoothly. We welcomed Mugahid to his first session and after some brief introductions, he got stuck in and showed he'll be a great member if our Team. Well done all. thanks for a great evening